Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Where did it go?
Over the last fifty or sixty years, there
have been scattered reports of planes and other aircraft simply vanishing
without a trace. While you would imagine that this is pretty hard to do, as a
plane is a fairly large object, it has happened before and it looks to have
happened again.
On the 8th March 2014, Malaysia
Airlines Flight 370 vanished into thin air. It was en route between Kuala
Lumpur and Beijing International Airports. It’s last noted contact with any
form of traffic control is less than an hour after it took off.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
The plane, which carried 12 crew and 227
passengers made up from fourteen nations, has been subject to the largest
search and rescue effort in human history. This S&R mission took place
across the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea. The search has since been
expanded to the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean.
Around a week later, on the 15th
March, it was believed by experts that the plane had carried across the Malay
Peninsula, and then headed north or south for roughly seven hours. The next
day, the 16th, saw satellite images pick up debris in the southern
Indian Ocean. Following additional searching and activity, the Malaysian
government confirmed that the Air Accidents Investigation Branch had concluded
beyond “any reasonable doubt” that the plane had crashed into this part of the
Indian ocean.
Further searches in the area, as of the 30th
March, have shown additional debris show up across satellites from different
nations. However, nothing has yet to be positively, 100% confirmed as the
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On the 28th March, the search area was
moved 1,100 kilometers north-west of the previous site.
The last words heard spoken were “All
right, good night” from the co-pilot. While the search continues, and
speculation arises about what may or may not have happened, it’s certainly
difficult to pinpoint any more information than what is currently out there.
Facts change daily as more information
comes out and images and footage is either heard or seen for the first time.
Unfortunately, it looks as if all crew members and passengers have tragically
been lost, as the grieving families search for answers
through the media.
While there have been mysterious plane
disappearances in the recent and distant past, few have as much mystique about
them as the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
