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    I wonder if the Malaysian flight disappearance can be a case of the means of production, i.e., international passenger flight, expanding faster than the relations of production, i.e., national boundaries, national authorities, national control over searches for the flight, etc.

    The plane, the Boeing 777, and the AirBus, are both essentially products of international, monopolistic enterprises. Yet the operators of the airlines are private, for profit, national airlines.

    And now, the national airlines, navies, and search organizations are competing with one another, rather than coordinating the search, to find the airplane.

    Even the satellite which is supposed to have picked up signals from the airplane is a private, for-profit company (Insat, I think.) Its relation of production, private/profit, cannot keep pace with the internationalization of air travel.
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    wait, what?
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    There is more than one possibility.

    Honestly I don't think this has much to do with the means of production. And I do believe the companies are working together fine, they're prolly just incompetent.
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    Means of production = international airline passenger flight. the relations, ownership of airline property, is national. The next step is for an International Safety Transport Board to be created.
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    There is more than one possibility.

    Honestly I don't think this has much to do with the means of production. And I do believe the companies are working together fine, they're prolly just incompetent.

    The Onion article is funny, but it reflects an inability to understand a scientific event. Therefore the Onion says there is no explanation other than some mystical breakdown of the cosmos. In other words it looks for a metaphysical explanation instead of a materialist one.

    I would say that the companies are working together as nationalist entities in what is essentially an international situation; therefore, the relations of production cannot control the means of production.
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    I think that Onion article is more so making fun of how some officials have been concocting seemingly mystical reasoning on how the plane disappeared, leading to much unnecessary ideas being thrown out actually stalling from looking for the plane more.
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