Finding the Plane

There was some optimism (an odd word in the context of the loss of more than two hundred precious human lives) that debris seen by people on overflying aircraft and on images from satellites may be pieces from the doomed flight. Even if they are, that does not necessarily mean that where the wooden pallet is floating is where the plane went down. Currents could have carried the flotsam literally hundreds of miles from where the impact occurred. Will Flight 370 ever be recovered? Probably, in the fullness of time, yes, but can you imagine the agony of relatives just not knowing the fate of their loved ones? We know the search is costly, but the world needs to know what happened to prevent it from happening again and the bereaved deserve closure.