As investigators try to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that mysteriously vanished without a trace last weekend, pundits are also at a loss as they try to come up with theories to satisfy their editors and producers. Since the flight went missing on Saturday, talking heads and writers have desperately tried drawing parallels between this incident and the 2009 crash of Air France 447, but the two events are likely unrelated aside from the fact that both happened over water.

Just before 8PM Eastern, the AP released a wire report that Malaysia Airlines reports that one of its Boeing 777-200 aircraft flying on the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route as flight number 370 went "missing," as the airline lost contact with the aircraft and it never arrived in Beijing. The airline says that there are 239 people aboard the flight — 227 passengers and 12 crew members.