Despite all of our advances in technology worldwide, it is still possible to get lost. Particularly in the ocean. Our understanding of the world is much better now than it was even 50 years ago, but it is by no means complete.

The airplane was probably unlucky enough to hit a spot the satellites could not reach before or as it crashed.

Hoping that this story will turn out like the stories of extreme survival in Ripley's Believe It or Not or like Castaway or Gilligan's Island; that there were survivors marooned somewhere but they haven't been able to contact the rest of the world. Yet at the same time, I understand that the chances are slim and for the loved ones, the not-knowing can be just as agonizing as finding out the passengers have died.

Please, please let this be a future entry in Ripley's Believe It or Not about fortuitous survival.