article_snippet: (CNN)A year later, it still sounds impossible: A sophisticated $270 million airliner carrying 239 people disappears, leaving very few clues about where A sophisticated $270 million airliner carrying 239 people went.
article_snippet: But did the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 really have to be such a mystery?
article_snippet: Lingering questions -- and the trauma experienced by friends and family of passengers and crew of the Boeing 777-200ER -- all might have been avoided if already proven technology had been put into place.
article_snippet: Flight 370 had eight ways to communicate with the ground while in flight: .
article_snippet: In a nutshell, here's the electronic communication from Flight 370 after it left Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014: .
article_snippet: This provides evidence that Flight MH370 ended somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
article_snippet: All of these clues offer us only a few scraps of information that leave investigators with very little to go on.
article_snippet: It leads investigators to an almost inescapable conclusion: Whatever happened on Flight MH370 was likely deliberate, experts say.
article_snippet: We might know more if the plane's transponders had remained active.
article_snippet: Would any of these improvements in airline communication technology have helped the world learn what happened to Flight 370?
article_snippet: Unfortunately, we may never know for sure.
article_snippet: Although technology continues to shrink the planet in terms of communication, the tragedy offers a bitter reminder of how easy the tragedy still is to lose an entire airliner full of people.