ABSTRACT
The plane vanished, seemingly out of thin air, shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 had just taken off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and was cruising into the night bound for the Chinese capital of Beijing. The Boeing 777 aircraft was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. The sudden disappearance of the airliner triggered the largest search and rescue effort in history. A multinational air-sea search involving more than 100 ships, planes, and helicopters from at least 14 countries was launched.1 My colleague Luke Barrington was following the news from Colorado. And when several more days went by with no sign of Flight 370, he decided to take the search and rescue efforts online. Luke and his team at Tomnod launched what would become the largest digital search and rescue efforts ever.2
