MH-370 Mystery of a Missing Aircraft
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappearance departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport for Beijing Capital International Airport with 239 people on board.
About 40 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft stopped communicating with air traffic control. Its transponder was switched off, and military radar later showed it turning back across the Malay Peninsula before heading south over the southern Indian Ocean.
The aircraft has not been found. However, investigators believe it most likely crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean based on satellite communications ("handshakes") between the aircraft and satellite systems.
Several pieces of debris that washed ashore on islands and the east coast of Africa were confirmed or identified as highly likely to have come from MH370, including a wing flap called a flaperon, supporting the conclusion that the aircraft ended up in the Indian Ocean.
The search for MH370 has been one of the largest and most expensive in history.
Investigators have considered several possibilities:
There is no conclusive evidence proving exactly what happened, and no official final cause has been established.
Without finding the main wreckage or the flight recorders (the "black boxes"), investigators cannot determine with certainty:
More than 12 years after its disappearance, MH370 remains one of aviation's greatest unsolved mysteries.
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