Flight 370 on march 8 2014 departed from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, the plane took off at 12:41 AM local time and reached a cruising altitude of 10,700 metres (35,000 feet) at 1:01 AM. The Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which transmitted data about the aircraft’s performance, sent its last transmission at 1:07 AM and was subsequently switched off. The last voice communication from the crew occurred at 1:19 AM, and at 1:21 AM the plane’s transponder, which communicated with air-traffic control, was switched off, just as the plane was about to enter Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea. At 1:30 AM Malaysian military and civilian radar began tracking the plane as it turned around and then flew southwest over the Malay Peninsula and then northwest over the Strait of Malacca. At 2:22 AM Malaysian military radar lost contact with the plane over the Andaman Sea. An Inmarsat satellite in geostationary orbit over the Indian Ocean received hourly signals from flight 370 and last detected the plane at 8:11 AM.

Initial searches for the plane concentrated on the South China Sea. After it was determined that flight 370 had turned to the west shortly after the transponder was switched off, search efforts moved to the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea. On March 15, a week after the plane had disappeared, the Inmarsat contact was disclosed. Analysis of the signal could not locate the plane precisely but did determine that the plane might have been anywhere on two arcs, one stretching from Java southward into the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia and the other stretching northward across Asia from Vietnam to Turkmenistan. The search area was then expanded to the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia on the southern arc and Southeast Asia, western China, the Indian subcontinent, and Central Asia on the northern arc. On March 24 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that, based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had concluded that the flight crashed in a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia. Thus, it was extremely unlikely that anyone on board survived.
The search for wreckage was hampered by the remote location of the crash site. Beginning on April 6, an Australian ship detected several acoustic pings possibly from the Boeing 777’s flight recorder (or “black box”) about 2,000 km (1,200 miles) northwest of Perth, Western Australia. Further analysis by the AAIB of the Inmarsat data also found a partial signal from the plane at 8:19 AM consistent with the location of the acoustic pings, the last of which were heard on April 8. If the signals were from flight 370, the flight recorder was likely at the end of its battery life. Further searches were conducted using a robotic submarine. However, the pings had been spread over a wide area, the submarine found no debris, and tests found that a faulty cable in the acoustic equipment could have produced the pings
Debris discovery
The first piece of debris was not found until July 29, 2015, when the right wing flaperon was discovered on a beach on the French island of Réunion, about 3,700 km (2,300 miles) west of the Indian Ocean area that was being searched by Australian authorities. Over the next year and a half, 26 more pieces of debris were found on the shores of Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius. Three of the 27 pieces were positively identified as coming from flight 370, and 17 were thought to have likely come from the plane. Two pieces came from the cabin interior, suggesting that the plane had broken up, but whether the plane broke up in the air or on impact with the ocean could not be determined. Study of the Réunion wing flaperon and a piece of the right wing flap found in Tanzania showed that the plane had not undergone a controlled descent; that is, the plane had not been guided to a water landing. Some researchers note that flight 370 could have struck the water vertically, a possibility in which the results of one modeling study conducted before the flaperon’s discovery suggests could explain the dearth of physical evidence. The debris locations were used to narrow the search area in the Indian Ocean, since some possible crash sites would have been unlikely to produce debris that would have drifted to Africa

The governments of Malaysia, Australia, and China called off the search for flight 370 in January 2017. An American company, Ocean Infinity, received permission from the Malaysian government to continue searching until May 2017, when the Malaysian Transport ministry announced that it would call off that search. In July 2018 the Malaysian government issued its final report on flight 370’s disappearance. Mechanical malfunction was deemed extremely unlikely, and “the change in flight path likely resulted from manual inputs,” but the investigators could not determine why flight 370 disappeared.

Na wa o. And I read it all!

joe4christ:
Na wa o. And I read it all!

please summarise

What a tragic event! Mysterious too.

Na only half I read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2KEHvK-q8&t=483s

God!

I actually did today as I read about the Bermuda Triangle.

dondigi:
I actually did today as I read about the Bermuda Triangle.

Thanks

Good job Op, I've followed the progress since e the disappearance of the flight MH370. A very sad and mysterious occurence

Well done OP

OP dem don later see the plane after its disappearance

The pilot committed suicide. Killed all his passengers for nothing.

BuddhaPalm:
The pilot committed suicide. Killed all his passengers for nothing.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

aieromon:


Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

Watched a related documentary sometime ago.

But here's a link from a quick Google search: https://amp.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3051211/malaysian-government-said-mh370-was-murder-suicide-pilot

Pilot suicided.

Won't be the first time though but will it be the last?

BuddhaPalm:


Watched a related documentary sometime ago.

But here's a link from a quick Google search: https://amp.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3051211/malaysian-government-said-mh370-was-murder-suicide-pilot

Only a personal claim/conspiracy theory and not an official report.

Official murder suicide reports

Germanwings 9525

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nI-GMmHMHs&t=477s

Pacific Southwest Airlines 1771

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y0f-XJd3nE&t=690s

Not having the right answers to what actually happened to the plane will never give closure to the numerous families of the people in the plane, the airline owners, the govt and even we the followers of the story. Despite the pains, the right answers will fully close the case.

Bermuda triangle will be jealous....

On a serious note, passengers should be handed emergency transmitters too in cases like these, for example, at 53,000ft altitude where the emergency oxygen masks were released, the transmitters would automatically request to transmit location tracking for the next few hours. Or an independent, battery powered engine status transmitter. Life is precious.

So sad

oz4real83:
Not having the right answers to what actually happened to the plane will never give closure to the numerous families of the people in the plane, the airline owners, the govt and even we the followers of the story. Despite the pains, the right answers will fully close the case.

I quite agree with you. In fact, murder suicide pilots prefer to crash into the ocean to wipeout any form of evidence. The murder suicide theory is strengthened by the fact that the plane changed flight trajectory and didn't inform airport traffic control. The Malaysian military command also delayed in sharing this information when search efforts had already begun in the wrong location.

Nobody would have known the cause of Pan Am Flight 103 aka Lockerbie bombing if it had crashed into the ocean as planned.

aieromon:

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

What about the co_pilot aren't there supposed to be 2 pilot?

I still believe the plane carried high level stuff and was hijack, the hijackers got what they wanted and escaped while plunging the aircraft vertically to the deep.

Explosion in air would have scattered the debris and the area would have been pinpoint, but vertical plunge would rest the plane at the depth of ocean

Air Crash Investigation on National Geographic and Mysteries of the Missing on Discovery World.... Watched the documentary about the Missing Plane

aieromon:


Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

don't mind him,na so prison d hungry him

ITbomb:
I still believe the plane carried high level stuff and was hijack, the hijackers got what they wanted and escaped while plunging the aircraft vertically to the deep.

Explosion in air would have scattered the debris and the area would have been pinpoint, but vertical plunge would rest the plane at the depth of ocean

6hrs in the air along an uncharted ocean line and no resistance from any of the passengers? This is very unlikely.

Everything points to the pilot but nothing can be confirmed until they retrieve the flight recorder.