Noise? Or signal? Only time will tell! On crashed Air France flight 447, "two names on the passenger list are also on highly-classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic." Now, statistically speaking, surely at least a few people were on some government's list for something....

Agh. WaPo: "Air Force Finds Signs of Plane Wreckage About 375 Miles Off Coast." Including... seats.

I've spent a long time telling the airplane-phobic that no cruising-level trans-Atlantic flight has ever just suddenly crashed, but that apparently has now changed with Air France's now-missing flight from Rio to Paris.