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I am not sure that intriguing goes anywhere near covering what is/has happened. There are probably not enough adjectives to go around.

I am the sort of person who always wants to understand how things work or why things happen, without imposing on others, just a curious sort of individual.

What has happened with MH370 is mind boggling and way beyond comprehension for me.

I have done a fair bit of flying, mostly in Australia, in jets, turbo props and small aircraft. I have also flown, very badly, a Boeing 737 simulator and have great respect for the skill of pilots.

What perplexes me most is how could MH370 "disappear". I can understand that the cabin crew, or high jackers, could turn the radar transponder off, thus making the plane "invisible" to Malaysian radar.

The thing that intrigues me the most is that I heard on radio on Monday, Geoffrey Thomas, an aviation expert who has articles in the West Australian newspaper occasionally say that these planes have data live streaming that are collected by satellite and so the ground crew can know before the flight crew if there is a problem with the plane. This system can't be turned off by the flight crew. Qantas runs this system 24/7 worldwide.

So the questions for me are was this system running. If not was it authorised by Malaysian Airlines not to be running or was it turned off by ground crew before the flight departed. There is another question that flows from this and that is if the system was turned off by Malaysian Airlines why was it.

When this is all done and dusted there may be answers, but in the mean time we can only feel for the loved ones of those lost.