What Happened to Malaysia Flight 370? A Mystery? Or is the Answer Obvious?

 Surfing on Youtube this week I was struck to discover that a dozen years after the disappearance of Malaysian flight 370 (8 March 2014), a veritable cottage industry of videos and podcasts has emerged  promising to reveal the "truth" about what happened.  And yet, we still don't know.

I am often lured out of my lane (my areas of expertise in langue and literature) when I notice that there is an obvious fact that both legacy and social media are either ignoring or at least playing down.  The obvious fact about the disappearance of MH370 is that it happened over the South China Sea.  The fact is obvious, undisputed and highly significant, and is,  in fact, the obvious answer to "the mystery" because in March 2014. the South China Sea was a war zone. The major combatants were the USA and China, but there were also minor antagonists such as the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The war that was happening was somewhere between a cold war and a hot war, and might sound like science fiction to the uninitiated (like me):  an electronic war.  Here for our mutual erudition is a description of "electronic warfare."

And so, MH370 flew into the middle of an electronic war-zone and was blasted by an electromagnetic spectrum  which wiped out its navigation and communications systems, and fouled its electronics.  Do I have proof?  Obviously not.  This (my conclusion) is simply an obvious and logical explanation for what might have happened to flight MH 370 based on the available evidence.  

Who would have reason to target a commercial jet on its way to Beijing?  No-one.  So we can safely assume that we are talking about an accident.  Call it "friendly fire" or "collateral damage" if you will.

A likely, more specific candidate for who (or what) targeted MH370 on March 8, 2014, is the EA-6B Prowler, flown by the US Navy.  

Much as I would like to provide solace and closure to the loved ones of the 390 passengers and crew who lost their lies on fight MH 370, we will never know for sure what happened on that fateful night in March, 2014.  The stakes are simply too high.  Imagine the costs and repercussions if it is ever proven, as I have speculated here, that flight MH 370 was brought down by a US Navy plane:  the cost of reimbursing  the Malaysian government and others for the most expensive search and rescue operation ever conducted, the law suits of family members of the 390 people who were killed, even potential criminal or court-marshall proceedings against anyone considered directly responsible for the downing of MH370 or of participating in a cover-up.  The cost of the truth would be enormous.  A mystery costs nothing.