“It’s been seven weeks,” announced Sam’s brother, Simon, quite needlessly as far as Sam was concerned. He could quote the length of time Henry had been missing to the minute.
“Did you read about the reports on the ‘black boxes’?” continued Simon. “All recordings just came to a sudden stop shortly after the last signal was received from the transponder.”
“Don’t you think it’s still too early to downgrade the search, though? Should they really end the surface search?” asked Sam’s mother.
“No, it’s not too early,” replied Simon. “As much as we hate to give up hope, we have to be reasonable. They found all of that luggage and those pieces from both the front and the back of the plane right where they expected to find debris, down-current from where the last signal was sent from the transpon
