Malaysian PM: 'According to This New Data, Flight MH370 Ended in S. Indian Ocean'

[marions ghost]

65. Everybody knows the odds

of surviving a plane crash are small. Duh. Nobody officially in charge of the investigation needed to tell the families that. Better to leave that hard reality check to counselors and psychologists and other family and friends. People who can console and deal with grief.

Without real evidence and such conflicting stories about what happened, the families were going to hang on any shred of doubt for as long as they could. Trying to convince them otherwise at that point would certainly not have "lessened the torture."

But with this announcement today, which I think is based on evidence of the plane's location or the PM would not have made it, the families can begin to accept. I think there will be enough evidence for them not to hold out further hope, unless they are severely delusional. This definitive announcement today came at the right time IMO.