Back when this happened, me and a friend spent some time coming up with the most ridiculous conspiracy theories about how the plane disappeared , just for fun.

Back when this happened, me and a friend spent some time coming up with the most ridiculous conspiracy theories about how the plane disappeared , just for fun. The best one that I could invent with was that MH370 flew right next to another plane in order to appear as a single, really big plane on the radar. A few weeks later my stupid conspiracy theory was all over the media thanks to a blogger who proposed the same thing (but not as a joke, apparently) [1][2][3] [1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-mh370-have-hidden-radar-next-another-plane https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-19/reality-check-could-m... [2] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malaysia-flight-370-theories.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/5-not-so-crazy-malays... [3] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26609687