It is not conspiracy insanity to suggest that NO TRACE could mean that it did NOT crash/blow up/disintegrate, etc.
It is the lesser likelihood, but it is in the realm of the possible. If, as everyone says, we shouldn’t ignore any possibility, then that is a possibility that’s on the list of possibilities that should not be ignored.
A point that I haven’t seen discussed is that radar will continue to follow a “passive” target, even if every electronic device is disabled. The plane would not just disappear from the screen, only all its ident and altitude information. Has anybody seen a report of anybody asking about this?
The idea that the plane might have been flown to Banda Ache (sp?) is crazy conspiracy stuff BUT it just might have happened. In today’s world, the line between fact and fantasy isn’t all that clear. ;-)