Comment Why bother? (Score 1) 90
I know that humans, being a curious species, whose only close competitor in that genre being the common pussycat, love a mystery but I really wonder why good money is being thrown after bad in trying to find the wreckage of this plane. There is no rational reason for it.
First, we know that the plane was destroyed on impact with the Indian Ocean given that parts have washed up on beaches.
Second, the people on that plane are dead, will remain dead, and their bodies will, almost certainly, be not retrievable if any are indeed intact and have not decayed away completely. Anyone who believes that somehow they could still be alive are nutcases of the tin foil hat variety.
Third, any investigation that results in the discovery of the wreckage will almost certainly yield nothing because we know the plane was in the air, intact, and undamaged for hours before impact. Any information on the flight and data recorders, where any definitive information about why the plane diverged from its planned course could be found, would have been long overwritten.
Fourth, in the case of that Air France A330 flight that disappeared in the Atlantic about 15 years ago, it crashed in an easy-to-deduce area given that wreckage was quickly found on the surface. MH370, on the other hand, disappeared in a much larger area and there is no way to pin down more precisely where it went down.
The only thing that could be achieved by the discovery of the wreckage is some closure for the family members, a tenuous psychological state but frankly unachievable goal in this case. Of course, if the wreckage is indeed found, relatives may have the opportunity to take a boat to the location and drop wreaths into the water but that is all. Some family members may continue to doubt whether their loved ones are really dead since there will be no bodies to retrieve, identify, and bury. Any remaining questions will remain unresolved forever. The reality is that these people are dead and have been dead for ten years and there is almost no chance anything new can or will be learned about the flight and its disappearance. Is the existence of a very slim chance of learning about the reason for the crash worth the money? I doubt it. Some mysteries are never resolved and this is almost certainly one of them.