Current media is reporting the aircraft as "officially" hijacked.
It is interesting to note that there is an expectation for it to be put to ground at
an airport. The hijackers may have taken great care to bring it off the grid and to
a new course, but they may not care how the plane comes back to ground.
To them a crash landing in jungle, or the ocean may be as good an option as
holding any passengers hostage. As no credible claims of action, or demands have
been made, it is a very disturbing type of intimidation that has been introduced.
People can cope with the loss of friends and family, when the loss can be resolved, and
some sort of requiem can be made. However to lose someone and perhaps never know
what happened, will be forever hard on the families.
If this aircraft was intentionally "disappeared", that one question may never be answered, "Why?"