March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 from Malaysian Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur. The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing in China. 227 passengers and 12 crew members were on board. When MH370 departed that night at 12:41 am, nothing seemed wrong or out of the ordinary. The flight was at the edge of Malaysian airspace and the air control said goodnight, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot is waiting to be contacted by Vietnamese air control. The flight was almost at the end of Malaysian airspace when it suddenly falls off the map. Neither the Vietnamese nor the Malaysian air control see flight 370 on their radar. This happened at about 1:07 am.
There are many theories about what happened to MH370.
The official report from the Malaysian government was that the flight took a hard left and headed back to Malaysia, which is unusual because the pilot had taken this trip several times. Then the aircraft leaves the Malaysian peninsula and enters the southern part of the Indian Ocean, and that is where the trail runs cold. The official report was backed up by satellite information that showed 5 hours after last contact that the plane was heading for the middle of the Indian Ocean. Never in aviation history has anyone been told that their family died because of mathematics, since they have always found debris or bodies.
The Malaysian Airline had told the media that the plane only had 7 hours’ worth of fuel, just enough for the aircraft to make it to the airport in Beijing. Which leaves the question, how far could the flight have gone? Three years are spent scouring the possible places that the flight could have crashed; 12 different countries send their boats and planes to the Indian ocean with the same goal in mind to find the plane. In those three years nothing has been found in the Indian Ocean.
4 years after the last contact Malaysian Airlines made a safety report before closing the case. The report said that nothing was wrong with the pilot and that he had been trained properly, the report explained that the aircraft had taken much longer journeys and never experienced being taken off the map. To conclude the report was a short sentence that said, “In conclusion, the team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of MH370.” It seemed strange to be searching the Indian Ocean and any other of the possible crashing sites for three years and still come up with no debris.
The case was closed after the safety report was introduced to mainstream media. The families were furious, how could they not have a body to bury? How did they not have any idea about where the plane was? How could they not find any debris?
Three main theories where created:
The pilot
Hijackers
Intercept
Each theory had many loose strings, but they were all possible and still they could not be proven because of the missing debris.
To conclude, MH370 fell off the map on March 8, 2014. The pilot turned the plane around and headed back to Malaysia, the plane passed the Malaysian peninsula and headed straight for the southern part of the Indian Ocean. Then the satellite lost the signal of the aircraft. No debris has ever been found of MH370, and it remains the biggest mystery in aviation history.