Trim up
Even in this surveillance, gps and tagged world some things will get under our guard. We can stare at thin air and speculate for maybe for 40 years until some one will come across ME. Maybe never.
Closure? In the wars we had folk going missing in action and families accepted that better than having the distressing gory details.
Just accept for now they are gone.
AF and MH are not the first or the last but we try to learn from each if we can. Maybe develop a truly global flight path external tracking system that is definitive and transparent.
If that is possible.