Off topic - Malaysia Airlines

It is so terrible with the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. How can a thing like this happen today? How come it is even possible to turn off all the systems for a planes position? I feel for the passangers relaitves. I can't even imagine how stressfull it must be to lack any sorts of information on what happened. Unemployed and should be searching for jobs - I spend time looking at sattelite images on tomnod.com instead. I don't know how much it's worth but can I do anything, even the smallest contribution in this search, I will. //MMR