{"id":342545,"date":"2018-01-06T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trapped-in-zurich-and-waiting-for-belgrade\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T00:35:19","slug":"trapped-in-zurich-and-waiting-for-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trapped-in-zurich-and-waiting-for-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in Zurich and Waiting for Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The stick insect with pale lips, a jaunty manner, and the sense of still being attached to mummy gave a definitive statement of Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle.\u00a0 \u201cThe plane cannot be located.\u201d\u00a0 It had a name; it had an identity. It was even registered on the screens of Zurich airport.\u00a0 But everything else was, quite literally, up in the air.\u00a0 In this day and age, a multi-million dollar commercial aircraft doing its rounds is bound to turn up on some scene, to urge itself into commercial and tangible existence.\u00a0 Not so for Herr Stick Insect, who seemed determined to excite and concern his inquirers with dedication.<\/p>\n<p>And what of this ephemeral, invisible flight?\u00a0 Instant fears are fired in the imagination: did the plane vanish into a legend, forever trapped in the gurgling fantasies of a deluded culture?\u00a0 Did it suffer a terrible demise at the end of a faulty missile strike?<\/p>\n<p>Humble flight JU 373 of Air Serbia was not going to disappear into the annals of flight martyrdom or conspiratorial mayhem.\u00a0 There was nothing of the jitteriness of Malaysia Airlines here, the tragic doom, the murderous calamity.\u00a0 No rocket was aimed; no mythological creature had made its presence felt. It was simply being incorrigible.<\/p>\n<p>There were, however, initial reasons of concern.\u00a0 It had rerouted to Stuttgart in a manner that seemed erratic, and had not, as it were, told the personnel at Zurich why.\u00a0 This is the Serbian magic; remaining very much an enthusiast of Europe, it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/trapped-in-zurich-and-waiting-for-belgrade\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stick insect with pale lips, a jaunty manner, and the sense of still being attached to mummy gave a definitive statement of Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle.\u00a0 \u201cThe plane cannot be located.\u201d\u00a0 It had a name; it had an identity. It was even registered on the screens of Zurich airport.\u00a0 But everything else was, quite literally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}