Passengers were ‘cleared?’
Does that include the 2 IRANIAN passengers using STOLEN passports who had a nice IRANIAN MAN pay for their tickets in CASH?
Bigfoot, UFOs and the paranormal make for great programming but 777s just don't disappear out of the sky. If it crashed into the ocean someone would have found a floating suitcase, a piece of the plane or something.
I think it's scattered over a jungle in one of the two mentioned countries above and they're embarrassed to come out and admit it.