Malaysian Flight #MH370 Ten years after disappearance, mystery unresolved

What happened to Malaysian flight #MH370 ten years after disappearance

What is the update of the Malaysian flight #MH370 ten years after disappearance, but the mystery of MH370 is still unresolved. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) departed Kuala Lumpur for Beijing just after 12:40 am (00:40) local time. It never reached its destination. A tragic plane crash (MH 370) had been reported. None of the 239 passengers were believed to be alive. The families of the passengers rushed to the accident site. Hoped, the wreckage would be recovered by the plane, if somehow a miracle happened.

The miracle did happen in the end, but in an entirely unexpected way. The whole plane disappeared forever (Mystery). The world has never seen such an event. Even though the joint efforts of several countries have been searching for a long time, not a single piece of the plane has been found. Accidental passengers, wreckage, and even the black box — the entire plane seems to have disappeared. The whole world was shocked by the extreme mystery. Roughly 40 minutes after the took-off, the plane vanished from airport radar and took an unexpected U-turn, flying over the Malay peninsula, then over the Andaman Sea next to Thailand.

It was supposed to reach Beijing at 6:30 in the morning. But just one hour after the took off, all communication with the control office was lost. But the strange thing is, there was no warning signal or special message till then. Rather, it was revealed that the last message came from the co-pilot at 1:19 p.m. He said, “It’s all right, good night.”

The last communication

“Good Night. Malaysian Three Seven Zero.”

Those six words were the last radio transmission from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Air traffic control lost all contact with the plane after it entered Camau airspace in southern Vietnam at 1:21 p.m, just two minutes after the co-pilot’s message. At that time the plane was at an altitude of 35 thousand feet. Until the disconnection there was no message or signal sent to the control room. Which in a way confirms that, there was no mechanical fault in the plane till then.

The passengers and crew

At 12:41 PM on March 8, MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur Airport with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The passengers included 153 Chinese, 3 Americans, 6 Australians, 2 Canadians, 4 French, 2 Ukrainians, 5 Indians, 7 Indonesians, 2 Iranians and 1 each from Russia, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Normally, when an accident is suspected or a danger is perceived, the pilot sends a ‘May Day’ signal to the control room if there is no time to communicate. In aviation terms, this May Day signal means, ‘Help Wanted’. Even no such emergency signal came from MH370.

The pilot who was flying the plane

The pilot of the plane on the day was 53-year-old Zahare Ahmad Shah. He had a successful flight experience of 18 thousand hours. 

He has been flying since 1981. He was a very skilled pilot. A 27-year-old young pilot Fariq Hamid was with him as co-pilot on that day. He had been a pilot since 2007. He had 2800 hours of flying experience. The existing evidence strongly suggests that the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, intricately planned a mass murder-suicide. Still there is no substantial evidence to justify this. The secret of what happened in the final moments of the ill-fated flight and the motive behind it all probably died with its passengers and pilot.

Search operation for MH370

America, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam- so many countries have sent their best teams to search for the missing MH370.

An international search fleet surveyed 710,000 square kilometers of seabed, peppered with trenches and peaks, before the hunt was called off in 2017. More than 12 countries jointly tried to find the plane. Virtual comb searches were conducted throughout the Straits of Malacca and the China Sea. Still, it found no trace of MH370. The search, which cost about A$200 million ($143 million), was called off after two years in January 2017 with no traces of the plane found. With this the mystery remain unsolved till date.