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Sorry I'll be more precise, we've explored, as in we've mapped, investigated, scanned, etc. 5-7% of the entire ocean floor.

We've explored approx. 5 - 7% of the entire ocean floor, and about 0.5% of the entire ocean itself. So I wouldn't be too certain it could be found anytime soon.

This all comes down to one of my previous posts - we're really not as clever as people believe. You're talking about a tiny object photographed from space in a split second in an ocean of chaotic variable currents, tides, winds etc. It really was always going to be the proverbial needle in a...

I sometimes think that film,fiction and propaganda lead us to believe that we have such advanced technical capabilities that we cannot comprehend that a disappearance of this kind can happen. My own thoughts are that our perception of our technical abilities is actually above and beyond what we...

Yes, they've really got it pinpointed haven't they.

Maybe not completely impossible afterall... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-may-deliberately-flown-west-hijacked

It was normal to have a captain and 2 co-pilots for these flights, so the captain going for a nap was perfectly normal. What they'd never been trained for was realising the speed sensors were unreliable beyond a certain altitude. They just didn't have the experience to deal with split second...

It wasn't icing on the wings, it was icing of the pitot tubes (pressure sensors) that led to the autopilot being switched off that in turn led to the pilots (probably in an emotionally charged panicked state) making some fatal corrections that caused the plane to climb, eventually stall, then...

It's not a sci fi book. It is fiction though, so yes it could well be impossible, or even completely impossible if impossible isn't impossible enough.

Neal Stephenson's book - 'Reamde' has a plot line in which a terrorist hijacks a plane and through a controlled dive and doubling back at the point at which one air traffic control passes the plane onto another, the plane effectively disappears. In the story they crash land in a remote location...