You'd think, considering how many internet-based conspiracy theories pertain to Courtney Love killing then-husband Kurt Cobain, that she'd be reticent to get involved in another one. However, late last night, the riot grrrl thought she might be onto something as her Google Earth studies seemed to indicate that she'd found the missing flight MH370.
The plane, which took off from Kuala Lumpur on the 8th of March was meant to land in Beijing later that day. However, it went missing with 239 people on board. Ever since, there's been international efforts to find it. And a lot of theories as to where it could be.
Using Tomnod, a website full of satellite images (where three million other people are 'helping' in trying to crowdsource the plane) Courtney managed to find an image which looked distinctly like the a plane in the water, right near an oil slick, in the middle of absolute nowhere.
, she added the caption: 'I’m no expert but up close this does look like a plane and an oil slick.'Prayers go out to the families #MH370 and it’s like a mile away Pulau Perak, where they 'last' tracked it 5°39’08.5°N 98°50’38.0°E but what do I know?'
When asked by New York Magazine if she found the image herself, she responded: 'Yeah, I went to the satellite site and just uploaded tons and tons of pictures. I really doubt aliens took it. It’s got to be somewhere. I’m a little obsessive.'
While this spot in the middle of the Malacca Strait is where the Malaysian authorities think the plane was last spottedand despite other users citing the same satellite image as the location of the plane, Tomnod ruled it out, saying 'sometimes our eyes see what we want them to see.'
But who the eff is Tomnod anyway? It would certainly be interesting if any of the authorities sent a helicopter over to the spot to give it the once-over.
We haven't previously written about the missing aircraft. Despite the co-operation of several countries, the involvement of Interpol, the deployment of hundreds of windsocks and thousands more vigilante nerds scanning every page of Google maps with their square eyes, no-one has yet managed to find the missing plane. So anything we would have written would be absolute nonsense, conjecture and waffle. Or insensitive, if we dared make you a list of all the conspiracy theories doing the round right now.
But now a celebrity has waded in, it gives us licence to talk about the plane, because it's a very bizarre spin on a story that otherwise has no tangible facts attributed to it. Yes, Courtney Love is the most reliable part of this story. Our thoughts go out to the families of the people on board the plane.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.