[atroyn]

I like to think it's become popular because people have a hard time accepting that we can just 'lose' a plane in our era.

The incident runs counter to the carefully managed, or at least well understood framing that people apply to the world at large through their lived experience, so seeking a 'human' explanation is somehow more comforting.

[meric]

The frame: There's an app to find your lost $1000 iphone, how can you lose a $100m plane?

[atroyn]

Exactly. Even people who fly a lot (like me) are in the confines of what feels like a very controlled system. If I can get three connecting flights across two continents with only two hours of layover, how can we just lose a plane?

It's easy to forget the world is really big, and that technology does break.