Quote:Wait for the punchline though. Phillip Wood is indeed on the passenger manifest. So were the other 20 or so high ranking employees. They did have a breakthrough piece of technology, in which a US patent was applied for by, I believe, 5 of them, collectively. 4 of them were on that flight. Those are all undisputed facts.

 

IBM encourages it's employees to apply for patents, and helps them pay the fees associated with them.  That way, they can keep their innovations "in-house."  So, you could say this about any flight that has a hand full of IBMers on board (which is a common occurrence for half a dozen or more of them to travel together when working on IT projects.)

 

It's pretty easy to look up the names of people and who they work for (Phillip's information was one of the first shared in US outlets due to his citizenship), then concoct a wild story over a month after the disappearance.  I'm leaning more sick joke on this one than breakthrough journalism.

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