Accident or terror attack? When Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from civilian radar screens over the sea, it reappeared in public consciousness as an ‘unknown quantity’, a ghost aircraft, the object of rumour, speculation and prayers. What is astonishing is that it has breached the informal yardstick used by disaster response teams – the one that says an ‘unknown quantity’ lasts only 72 hours before it gives up its secret. It is well over a week since MH370 vanished and still no one knows what happened. This is a long time in terms of the 24 hours news cycle. As a media event, MH370 is already so comparatively ancient that it has generated its own distinct epochs of interpretation. It has even begun to recede into the realms of pop myth. See this strange mix of reported fact and predictive fiction: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/370076/Malaysian-plane-mystery-copies-comic-story-of-hijacked-jet-which-landed-on-remote-island