I think our modern era of instant communication, Google Earth, and being able to travel halfway around the Earth in <24 hours has given people (me included) an artificially shrunken perspective on how big the world really is, and how much info we have about it at any one time.
My first reaction when this went down was "how do you lose a freakin' jetliner???" My thinking now is that it's a bloody technological miracle that we don't lose more of them.
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