Things really are different in the third world.
Just last week they suggested there may be survivors. “Miracles happen”.
Malaysia is a first world Chinese minority living amongst a third world Malay Muslim majority. That's why they build spectacular modern cities and have largely preserved the British political/judicial systems in place during colonial days, but can't evolve to where Singapore is in staving off both political corruption and "witch doctor"-level public sensibility.
And Malaysian government corruption is 100% responsible for the missing and misleading information the world has been getting about MH370.