Flight 626 is Missing

And days after the tragic plane crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Comoros, it goes missing. Where are you, Airbus? Where did you go? No, literally speaking, it went down at 11° 18′ 59.34″ S, 43° 19′ 37.15″ E.

But after surfing major news sites around the web, I’ve noticed that Flight 626 is no longer part of the headlines. Actually, Flight 626 isn’t even in some of these sites’ top five stories. By no means is this a measuring contest, but for weeks, Air France Flight 447 top the headlines. We get titles from “Black box not found” to “Black box continuously not being found.” Yeah, that sort of coverage. I understand that we can never construct a full image on how the plane went down, but from that three week span, anyone with information about anything will make news. “Passenger #123 took a coffee break days before disastrous flight, stay tuned for more.”

I guess the people are just interested in the mysterious aspect of Flight 447. “Are there survivors?” “How did it crash.” “Anyone want to make LOST references?” It sells, at the cost of 228 lives.

And let’s go back to Flight 626 that happened just a few days ago. “Oh hum, they recovered the vitals of the plane, carry on.” Look. Just because the story is no longer a scavenger hunt doesn’t mean that it is any less important. There’s 152 dead and a scarred-for-life little girl. Nothing to see here folks, mystery solved! Of course, I beg to differ.

And while Flight 626 disappears from the headlines (I hear N. Korean is trying to be friends with the United States these days), I will bank money that it will make a comeback. Whether it will be days from now where they’ll say “black box found,” to the month’s “more bodies recovered,” to the year’s “anniversary of plane crash,” Flight 626 will surface again. When it’s relevant.