MH, 370 disappearance, an article by Umar Malek

 MH, 370 disappearance by Umar Malek

On March 8, 2014, six hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, creating one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of aviation. The aircraft departed from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m., traveling to Beijing with a total of 239 people on board. About twenty minutes into the flight, at the time it was going to reach the cruising altitude, its telecommunications turned off. At 1:21 a.m., in Vietnamese airspace, the plane's transponder went offline.

After the plane's sudden change of direction to the west, a military radar had followed the aircraft for a distance. Over the Malay Peninsula, it flew westward towards the Strait of Malacca after making the sharp turn as it was heading northwest.

At 2:22 a.m., the radar lost the aircraft's trail in the Andaman Sea. A satellite positioned over the Indian Ocean, however, kept receiving the signal from the plane until 8:11 a.m.

As a result of the disappearance, a gigantic global search was initiated. At the beginning, the South China Sea was the focus of the investigators. They changed their focus to the remote Indian Ocean after the data indicated that the plane had deviated from its route; this place was about 1550 miles southwest of Australia.

They found it very hard to execute the search due to the remoteness of that area. As a result, the findings of the airplane have been very sparse despite all the efforts that were made.

Only the right flaperon of the wing, which had been washed on Réunion Island, was found from the wreckage until July 2015. In the subsequent years, the parts have been found in spots such as Tanzania, South Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius.

There have been three pieces identified, which are parts of the MH370, and the other fragments are likely from the same plane.

In 2018, the Malaysian government inferred from the evidence onboard the aircraft that someone inside the plane had intentionally done the act of redirecting the plane.

However, it is still a mystery as to why the plane disappeared even after making that discovery. Theorizing about things like pilot suicide, hijacking, and mechanical failure, but these are not established facts.

The questions about what happened to MH370 are the same today as they were over ten years ago, and it remains the biggest mystery in modern aviation history.

Gregersen, Erik. “Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disappearance.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 1 Mar. 2019, www.britannica.com/event/Malaysia-Airlines-flight-370-disappearance.