Sri Lanka, March 27 -- The 10th anniversary of the Malaysian MH370's disappearance fell a few weeks back. This is aviation's biggest mystery and reams have been written about it.

But what has not been explored is the cultural context within which the bizzaire events took place.

No military jets were scrambled even though there was a wayward aircraft that had so obviously deviated from its flight path. The excuse was that various militaries in the South East Asian region were aware that there was a civilian aircraft that cannot be accounted for on their radars, but decided the airline was innocuous and was returning to another country after having momentarily lost its way.

The problem seemed to be that these militaries had a different c...