It has been four years since Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared, and even now, the fate of
the boeing 777 remains a mystery.
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions.
I am Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What Really Happened to Flight MH370.
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So, here is what we know for sure.
On the 8th of March 2014, a international passenger flight took off from Kuala Lumpur
Airport in Malaysia.
The flight was bound for Beijing in China, however, less than one hour into the flight
operated by Malaysia Airlines, the aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar,
as a result of the planes transponder being turned off.
The plane then showed up on military radar, seemingly 200 miles off the coast of Penang
– which would have been a wild deviation from its course.
The planes last known location was the strait if Malacca, some 7 hours after take off.
So what happened?
Why did 227 passengers and 12 crew never make it to Beijing?
Why 4 years later do we still not know the answer to this question?
There are a lot of theories about MH370 floating around, ranging from the most probable to
the ridiculous.
The main topic of conversation seems to surround a possible hijacking, although comparatists
are divided between whether or not they think the plane actually landed or not…some think
it was taken, the transponder was turned off and the aircraft smuggled to another country
by a terrorist group.
Others think the plane was hijacked and purposefully crashed.
A crash seems like the most likely scenario, as Debris has been found on beaches along
the Indian ocean, including the flaperon in Reunion Island, which washed ashore in July
2015.
Of course there are some conspiracies who believe the debris is fake, and to be honest,
officials identifying the parts tend to say things like “very likely” and “high
degree of confidence” when discussing the wreck, which is a touch on the murky side.
Other parts of the plane have reportedly washed up in Mauritius and Pemba Island, if these
are 100 percent from the plane then there is no doubt it crashed into the Southern Indian
ocean, but why, and who was behind it.
Well…some discuss a missing passenger.
The plane’s official manifest claimed there were 239 people aboard, however there were
only supposed to be 226 passengers and 12 crew, totalling 238.
Who is the mystery extra guest, what were they doing on the plane and could their presence
have anything to do with the disappearance?
Of course, if the plane was hijacked, why didn’t any passengers use their phones to
contact relatives?
This seems to suggest that the people onboard were unaware of their situation.
We’ll get back to that.
What about the piolets, then?
These days it is pretty difficult to storm a cockpit, so perhaps the piolets had some
kind of dark plan.
The 53 year old Captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah from Penang had been flying since 1981 and
had 18,365 house of flying experience, and his co-piolet was 27 year old Fariq Abdul
Hamid, who had been flying for 7 years with 2,763 hours of flying experience.
Since the disappearance, reports have unearthed that the Captain had a flight simulator at
home and had practiced making a trip over the Indian Ocean.
A lot of conspiracists think Shah was to blame, and that he raised the altitude of the plane
to knock out the passengers oxygen supply, rendering them unconscious, which is perhaps
why nobody made a call.
Then, many think he simply flew the plane until it ran out of fuel, after which it violently
plummeted into the ocean, where the plane is now resting at the bottom of the seabed,
thousands of feet down and difficult to find by search teams.
Somewhat more ridiculous theories include North Korea stealing it, the United States
Military shooting it down, The illuminati hiding it, aliens abducting it…oh, and my
favourite, it was flown to the moon.
In reality, though, the likelihood is it, and the 239 missing souls, are trapped in
a watery grave, deep in the middle of the ocean.
The question is though, why?
Well… that is one Life’s Biggest Question that will hopefully become clearer over time.