Quote from oldoberon:
"...let us hope they find cvr & fdr and can throw some light on the why and kill the remaining conspiracy theories."
Amen to that! If I may be permitted a brief aside, however, the case of MH370 has resulted in a rather unusual situation in respect of conspiracy theory. Conspiracists abound on PPRuNe, and are generally vilified or ignored by most of us. Think of AF447, for example... Yet the current, conventional explanation for this disappearance - as summarised by
Ian W a few days ago - involves actions that look very like a conspiracy.
But a conspiracy requires more than one person to conspire, and we've been led to believe that only one person was involved, so perhaps it should be referred to simply as a plot. We are also told that the perpetrator was in all probability the aircraft's commander, who happens to be a political dissident in his own country.
Written as a work of fiction, the long, incredible scenario currently accepted by right-thinking people would be regarded by most of them as improbable sensationalism. Yet anyone who challenges all or part of it risks being dismissed - or even censored - as a conspiracist. Suggestions such as an exploding flight-crew oxygen bottle (for example) are just ignored.