Courtney Love thought she might have unlocked the mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, posting her findings over Facebook.
The rock singer joined millions of others across the globe on crowdsourcer Tomnod in scanning publicly available satellite imagery in hopes of finding Flight 370. The Hole frontwoman posted her educated guess Monday on Facebook, where it's currently received more than 13,000 likes and just about as many shares from more than 300,000 Facebook fans.
"I'm no expert but up close this does look like a plane and an oil slick ... prayers go out to the families #MH370 and its [sic] like a mile away [from] Pulau Perak, where they 'last' tracked it 5°39'08.5″N 98°50'38.0″E ... but what do I know?" she wrote on her Facebook page.
Kurt Cobain's widow admits that she's no aviation expert, but that did not stop media from jumping all over her, broadcasting facetious headlines like "Did Courtney Love find the missing plane?"
Other Facebook followers couldn't resist making snarky responses.
"What are the odds though that it would land right next to a red sign saying plane let alone next to the arrow?" Craig Hobson commented.
The Malaysia Airlines flight and its 239 passengers vanished from radar while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. The Tomnod website, managed by DigitalGlobe, asks anyone to identify from the provided satellite imagery signs of oil slick, wreckage, rafts or other miscellaneous clues as to the plane's location.
The site has reportedly gotten help from more than 3 million participants, with some 200 million map views since the disappearance - but no luck yet.
When Love was asked if she found the spot herself, she told the Daily Intelligencer, "Yeah I went to the satellite site and just uploaded tons and tons of pictures. I really doubt aliens took it. It's got to be somewhere. I'm a little obsessive."
Unfortunately for the rocker chick, Tomnod ruled out the spot, telling The Wall Street Journal, "sometimes our eyes see what we want them to see."
But Love had good intentions, simply wanting to do her part and get involved.
"I hope they find the plane, I pray they're still alive, it's sad and my heart goes out to all those involved," she said. "It's the least I can do."
