Meteors and mysteries and threats

Read this 1997 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article on what would happen if meteors struck passenger airliners ..

I offer it up to argue the case that this could have been what happened to flight 370—could have.
So far, anyone I spoke of this theory to laughed at me to my face..
I don’t think it’s a tin foil hat concept like others think..

And with the lack of any answers, shouldn’t we consider any possibility ?
But this…

Hijacked and hidden? US counter-terror officials fear plane could have been captured after debris spotted by Chinese is ruled out and new data reveals it was airborne FOUR hours after vanishing »

This report is being downplayed to some degree by officials in Malaysia.. However it certainly adds yet more mystery and intrigue to the missing flight..
Regardless, families must be emotionally wrecked at this point, and I cannot fathom what that feels like..