I will today focus on  aircraft that just disappeared , with an in-depth analysis on Malaysian Air 370, a Boeing 777-200ER, that vanished on 8March2014.   There have been  242 incidents  when a flying object with at least one passenger disappeared, going back to 1857.  There is a Cuban expression,  Voló como Matías Pérez , meaning he flew like Matias Perez, which became popular since Matías Pérez in a hot air balloon over the North Atlantic Ocean never was found. A particularly notable loss was the Lockheed Electra 10E with Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937 over the Central Pacific Ocean. They were on an around-the-world flight. The U.S. government searched for 16 days with nine vessels and around 4000 crew members, including the aircraft carrier Lexington, and 66 aircraft. Several films were produced: 1943 with Rosalind Russell as Earhart, 1976 with Susan Clark, 1994 with Diane Keaton and 2009 with Hilary Swank. There have been numerous private a...

   Here is a video sent to me hailing the incredibly quick development of the vaccine for COVID-19: How wonderful that while it took more than 3000 years for medical science to develop the vaccine for Small Pox and Polio, it took only  four months  to accomplish this task for COVID-19.  Watch that video. Well, I then thought something was missing.  On 7March2021 I had a posting entitled,  HOW EASILY WE FORGET .  To summarize: In the 1957-8 period, there was a pandemic from the H2N2 Asian Avian Flu. The origin was Guizhou, China, about 600 miles from Wuhan. Up to 4 million died ( note that COVID-19 has not quite reached 4 million yet ). The world population then was 2.9 billion, so on a per capita basis, that 4 million of today would be nearly 10.6 million.   It is reasonably safe to say that the total world deaths from COVID-19 will not reach that number when the pandemic is deemed over. The threat was to those UNDER 50 years of age. The...