About ten years have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. There are more mysteries than answers surrounding the sad occurrence despite several investigations, searches, and ideas. The flight, also known as MH370, has been the focus of podcasts, served as the basis for a television show (Manifest), and served as the basis for a number of documentaries, including “MH370: The Aircraft That Disappeared,” which debuted on Netflix on March 8.
In “MH370: The Aircraft That Disappeared,” the mystery surrounding the flight’s disappearance is explored, along with data that points to a number of oversights during the first investigation and a number of theories that aim to explain the tragedy. Here is the actual account of the mysteriously vanished MH370 airplane.A Boeing 777 aircraft named MH370, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport early on March 8, 2014.
The aircraft took off at 12:42 in the morning and was bound for Beijing Capital International Airport. According to The Atlantic, the pilot in command (PIC), Zaharie Ahmad Shah, reported to air traffic control (ATC) a second time at 1:08 a.m. that the plane had leveled off at 35,000 feet. This was an unusual statement given that altitude information is typically provided when a plane is leaving a certain level.
The following communication was sent to Shah and his co-pilot, Fariq Hamid, 11 minutes after MH370 was seen on radar over the South China Sea: “Malaysian three-seven-zero, contact Ho Chi Minh one-two-zero-decimal-nine.” According to CNN, Shah said “Good night Malaysian three seven zero” to the controller at 1:19 a.m. This was the last recorded communication between ATC and MH370, which stopped transmitting its position to ATC and vanished from view on the main radar at 1:21 a.m.
Although virtually dissipating into thin air, MH370 was tracked throughout its flight on the morning of March 8 at several places.ATC in Vietnam noticed the plane in their airspace, but it quickly disappeared off the radar. At this time, controllers made several attempts to get in contact with MH370, all of which were unsuccessful. When Vietnamese ATC notified controllers in Kuala Lumpur, 18 minutes had passed. Military radar across different countries, including Malaysia and Thailand, tracked MH370 at various points, and the plane’s last known coordinates were somewhere over the Indian Ocean, per The Guardian. At 6:32 a.m., an emergency search-and-rescue effort was launched, and the search for the missing plane began.
