The search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is now said to be as big as Australia.  What’s out there is a lot of opinion, conjecture, guesses, and conspiracy theories.  What’s still missing is Flight MH370 with its 239 souls including six Australians.

America’s NBC news reported that the Flight Management System (FMS) on the 777-200 was reprogrammed to turn to the west some 12 minutes before 27-year old co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid said “All right, good night,” the last audio transmission from the aircraft.  But that is not proof of nefarious intent.

“Some pilots program an alternate flight plan in the event of an emergency,” said former National Transportation Safety Board crash investigator Greg Feith, “We don’t know if this was an alternate plan to go back to Kuala Lumpur or if this was to take the plane from some place other than Beijing.”

And now for some guesses and conjecture, in the absence of facts.

This guy in India jumped in on the international crowd sourcing effort to try and find some sign of the missing flight on high-def satellite images, and found what he says looks like a low-flying 777 just over the treetops on the Andaman Islands on Saturday, 8 March.  But the way things are going, this could be discounted by the time your CareerSpot senior correspondent hits the “return” key and files this story.

Some fishermen thousands of kilometers further west in the Maldives Islands swear they saw and heard a low flying airplane, lower and louder than anything they’ve heard before.  

Remember Courtney Love?  She was married to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and sang lead in her own band, Hole.  She was messing around with the crowdsource map detectives and wondered if some anomalies she saw in the Malacca Strait was a downed plane.  Probably not, but in her defense she did not “claim to find” MH370 as many spitefully-written news items claimed.  She did disclaim it with the “I’m no expert” line.  I mean, Kurt’s death was 20 freaking years ago in a couple of weeks, and it wasn’t her fault.  Let it go, already.

20 years?  OMG.