It has been a dreadful week of mounting anguish, despair and frustration for the families and friends of the 239 passengers, most of them Chinese, on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing since the early hours of March 8th. The last contact with the Boeing 777 was as it crossed into Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea on a scheduled flight from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. As The Economist went to press, not a trace had been found, though on March 13th China released satellite images taken three days earlier of apparent debris on the sea not far from where the plane disappeared.
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