I’m thinking that we are now past the time that even the most remote villages and smallest fishing vessels could have relayed a message about seeing a plane crash by now.
Chinese media reports several of the passengers’ mobile phones were connecting when called by relatives, but the calls were not picked up.
“This morning, around 11:40 [am], I called my older brother’s number twice, and I got the ringing tone,” said Bian Liangwei, sister of one of the passengers. At 2:00 pm, Bian called again and heard it ringing again.
“If I could get through, the police could locate the position, and there’s a chance he could still be alive.”
She has passed on the number to Malaysia Airlines and the Chinese police.
Unfortunately, these days the widespread mentality often exists that someone else knows about and is doing something about something like this - you know, the liberal mindset.
So it’s possible that in that remote village or on that small fishing vessel, someone may have seen it, but won’t relay any message until word gets back to them that no one knows where the plane crashed.