[virgil]

Earhart was just 2 people. This is well over 200.

[LukeL]

Single engine general aviation planes go missing all the time. Alaska is peppered in with yet to be found plane wreckage. However commercial and commuter airliners have so many navigation systems in them that it is basically impossible for them to go missing.

[rdl6989]

Exactly, in the modern era with all of the communications, ATC radar, the avionics etc and with spy satellites, search planes, and all other equipment, how does this plane elude the world for a week?