How the mystery of flight MH370 unfolded over 38 catastrophic minutes

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Ten years on from the disappearance of Malaysian airlines Flight MH370, more questions remain than answers about the fate of the plane.

On March 8, 2014, 227 passengers and 12 crew members embarked on a plane headed to Beijing, but never made it to their destination –Malaysia, along with Australia and China, ended in January 2017 a two-year, $130-million underwater hunt for the aircraft, with no answers.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport said of the signal: ‘It showed nothing unusual. The 1:07 a.m. transmission showed a normal routing all the way to Beijing.’Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah is thought to have been the one to sign off At 1:30am, civilian radar lost contact with the plane as it flew over the Gulf of Thailand, between Malaysia and Vietnam.The mystery has baffled experts for a decade

Then around 8:11am, a satellite tracked the plane more than seven hours after takeoff, but experts concur the plane seemed to fly towards the Indian Ocean.The search began shortly after the plane was marked as disappeared Just a year later, the Malaysian government began another search with Ocean Infinity – but that search ended after a few months with no signs of the plane.In the chaos following the plane’s disappearance, countless theories – some verging on the absurd – emerged about what could have happened to the flight.

 

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