[saywhatagain]

Experts?

More like Garuda Indonesia flight 421

Sad indeed

[billorites]

CNN’s prayers have been answered.

[Tupelo]

I wonder just how close QZ8501 came to Diego Garcia?

[shove_it]

Black hole?

[GLDNGUN]

The similarity I see is that both flights originated in Muslim majority nations. In fact, Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, at over 85%; Malaysia's state religion is Islam with over 60% of the population Muslim.

I still say the most likely scenario that explains everything that happened with flight MH370 is that the Chinese took action after learning that Muslim extremists had got a WMD on the plane headed for Beijing. Whether Muslim terrorists have anything to do with AirAsia flight QZ8501's disappearance remains to be seen, but what Indonesia and Malaysia have in common is Muslim majority populations including extremist elements that have committed acts of terrorism in the past.