What do you think happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370?
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.
What really happened to Malaysia Airline?
Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane, which was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, vanished from the ATC radars minutes after the takeoff. All passengers and crew members on board the plane have been presumed dead.
When did the Malaysian airline crash?
July 17, 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Crash dates
Malaysia Airlines flight 17, also called Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, flight of a passenger airliner that crashed and burned in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board, most of whom were citizens of the Netherlands, died in the crash.
Has MH370 wreckage been found?
Flight MH370 disappeared carrying 239 passengers and crew on 8 March 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. A piece of the plane’s wing, washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, is so far the only confirmed fragment of the plane to be discovered.
Who was the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?
The plane, a Boeing 777, was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, and the flight was scheduled to take six hours. It left on time at 12.42 am. 40 minutes into the flight, the plane diverted from its scheduled route and flew towards the southern Indian Ocean.
Why is the disappearance of MH370 still regarded as an unsolved mystery?
If after nearly five years the disappearance of MH370 is still regarded as an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) mystery, that’s because something that happened in the course of MH370’s vanishing is generally talked about as if it were unremarkable when in fact it is ridiculously unprecedented to the point of being virtually impossible.
What type of Internet service did the MH370 use?
MH370 used a satcom service called Classic Aero. If it used a newer, higher grade of service called SwiftBroadband, the transmissions between the plane and the satellite would have included position information.