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Finding MH370: The Quest to Solve Aviation’s Biggest Mystery
Rephrased Intro:
In the dark and unexplored depths of the Indian Ocean lies the wreckage of an aircraft, whose disappearance has puzzled the world for a whole decade. This isn’t just any aircraft mystery—it’s a haunting story involving a Malaysian Airline flight and two hundred and thirty nine passengers and crew members, who suddenly vanished into thin air on an ordinary night. What new revelations have emerged from this disturbing incident? Get ready for a deep dive, as an underwater drone finally revealed the location of Malaysia airline flight MH Three Seventy..
Intro One:
There are mysteries that may never be solved, and the disappearance of Malaysian Flight Three Seventy is one of them. Ten years after this infamous incident that left the world in utter shock, a cloud of confusion continues to hover around this story, as investigators explore the deep ocean in the hope of finding the remains of the doomed aircraft. But could this recent finding change everything we’ve been told about this incident? Get ready for a deep dive, as an underwater drone finally revealed the location of Malaysian Flight Three Seventy.
Intro Two;
Since mankind first learnt to fly, stories of horrifying crashes have emerged from the world of aviation, but none could be as disturbing as the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Flight Three Seventy. This wasn’t just any crash, but the most captivating aviation mystery involving a depressed pilot, a possible hijacking, and a dozen more conspiracy theories. But could this new finding hold the truth the world has been searching for for over a decade? Join us on this epic adventure, as an underwater drone finally revealed the location of Malaysian Flight Three Seventy.
The Day The World Stood Still..
Around midnight on March eighth, twenty fourteen, flight MH-Three-Seventy took off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia with two hundred and twenty seven passengers from different nationalities, along with twelve crew members. Behind this plane was Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid; two men with years of flying experience under their belt. The destination was the Beijing Capital International Airport in China, and the expected arrival time was six thirty AM local time. However, no one expected this to be the aircraft’s final flight. At around one oh seven AM, the plane’s communications system sent out what would be the last transmission, showing a normal routing all the way to Beijing, and at that point, nothing seemed out of place. Then at one nineteen AM, someone in the cockpit made a voice check-in with air traffic control, announcing the flight’s transition from Malaysian airspace to Vietnamese airspace. “All right, goodnight” said the co pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, and while this might sound like an eerie final message, it was actually a standard radio parlance used by pilots when executing a handover from one airspace to another. However, everything changed just two minutes after this message, as the plane suddenly vanished from the air traffic radar system. The aircraft’s transponder, which transmits the plane’s altitude, speed, and direction appeared to have been turned off from inside the cockpit, so the plane was flying blind from the ground’s point of view. Why was the transponder of a commercial aircraft turned off mid-flight? Had it been hijacked? Was there a system failure? Or did the pilot just kickstart his sinister plan? These questions ran through the minds of the air traffic controllers, as they scrambled to get flight MH-Three-Seventy back online. According to later reports, a Thai military radar located in the Surat Thani Province of Thailand, was also studying the airspace at the time and was able to pick up signals from the Boeing Seven Seven Seven even though the transponder was off. But that only lasted for a minute before the plane disappeared again at one twenty two AM. At one twenty eight, flight three seventy reappeared on the Thai military radar, but now with a new course different from its initial direction. In addition to this Thai radar system, a civilian radar in Subang, just outside Kuala Lumpur also spotted what appeared to be flight three seventy for a while, following a new path before it mysteriously vanished over the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and Vietnam. By one thirty seven, another half-hour update from the plane’s communications system was expected to be transmitted, but when nothing showed up, officials knew something was seriously wrong. This was because unlike the transponder which can be easily disabled, turning off the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System requires special expertise and knowledge of aircraft mechanics, because the system reports anything being done to the plane directly to satellites. So turning it off reduces the possibility of tracking the flight. However, even with the major tracking system cut off, the Malaysian military radar systems were still able to detect the plane around two fifteen AM, flying over the small island of Pulau Perak in the Strait of Malacca. At this point, flight MH-Three-Seventy was already hundreds of miles off-course, far away on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. It was also at this point that the plane vanished totally from all civilian and military radar, and shortly after, a code red alert was issued from the Malaysian airport, officially declaring the plane missing. By sixty thirty AM when the plane was expected to land in Beijing, China, nothing showed up, and about an hour later, Malaysia Airlines finally informed the public about the mysterious disappearance. But that’s not where it ends, because around eight eleven AM, satellite orbiters high above the ocean detected the plane for the last time as it attempted a series of electric connections known as “handshakes” with the aircraft. Under normal conditions, the signals sent from the satellites should have received a response equivalent to “There’s a plane; Hello, hello, hello? Do you have anything for us?” But even though nothing was heard from the other side, this detection confirmed that the plane was still in the air around eight AM, although the conditions of the passengers and crew members couldn’t be confirmed since the communication link was broken. This would mark the beginning of the biggest search operation in the history of aviation, as experts and volunteers from all around the world banded together to solve a mystery that may never be solved..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-timeline
The Search; A Dive into the Unknown..
Four hours after all communications was lost with Flight MH-Three-Seventy, the Kuala Lumpur Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre was activated by the watch supervisor at the Control Centre, as the initial phase of the Search and Rescue operation was kicked into high gear. By the time the public got to know about it the following morning, the experts were already analysing the satellite and radar data available, in an attempt to figure out what exactly happened to the aircraft. By March ninth, the Chief General of the Royal Malaysian Air Force would reveal that the flight may have taken a detour towards the Andaman Sea during the trip, adding a new layer of confusion to the whole incident. At the same time, reports began pouring in about sightings of the plane’s debris, but no actual debris was discovered at any one of the spots reported. Added to this, a couple of images from China’s Gaofen One satellite was released on a Chinese website showing three unidentified objects floating in the sea, but after thoroughly searching the coordinates, officials also found nothing. By the end of March ninth, twenty fourteen, what started as a small search had grown into a massive operation, with forty aircraft and dozens of vessels from several nations scouring the length and breadth of the ocean in search of clues or the actual wreckage of the plane. On March eleventh, China kicked things up a notch; activating the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, and lending their satellite imagery for the search. More information would later come in the following days, as the operation shifted to the Andaman Sea. By this time, all major agencies in the Malaysian government including the civil aviation department, the Air Force, navy, and Maritime Enforcement Agency were all involved in the mission to locate the wreckage. Twenty six other nations soon joined in the search, including Australia, France, India, Indonesia, the United States, the United Kingdom and more, all bringing their most advanced technology and trained personnel to the table. To keep track of the progress, a coordination centre was established at the National Disaster Control Centre in Pulau Meranti, Cyberjaya, dedicated solely to finding Flight MH-Three-Seventy. In the first two weeks of April twenty fourteen, the search operation focused on locating the black boxes, as aircraft and ships deployed equipment designed to pick up signals from its underwater locator beacons. Four signals were detected between April sixth and eighth, just around the same time the beacon’s batteries were expected to die out. However, none of them was ever confirmed to be from Flight Three seventy, and the black box remains lost at sea till today. A robotic submarine was also deployed to the seabed, but would later come up with no debris and no bodies. By March seventeenth, an agreement had been reached to hand over the operation to Australia, as the search extended beyond the previously stipulated territory. Coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, with help from New Zealand and the United States, this new area encompassed about two hundred thousand square miles between Australia and the Kerguelen Islands, about one thousand nine hundred miles north of Perth. The biggest problem, however, was that this was literally the middle of nowhere; an area covered mostly by miles and miles of water with no end in sight, known for strong winds, inhospitable climate, terrible seas, and extremely deep ocean floors. These factors, coupled with the uncertainty that surrounded the wreckage’s possible location made the operation extremely difficult. But even with hundreds of debris captured by satellites and intense efforts by the search party, none of the finds were actually from Flight MH-Three Seventy. By April twenty eight, the chances of finding debris on the water surface had become highly unlikely, and the surface search was officially called off. According to the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, any debris from the crash would have become waterlogged and sunk to the bottom of the ocean, so it only made sense for all resources to be pulled back. But while all of this was going on, a couple of stories began to surface online and in the news about people who had seen the airplane flying over after disappearing from the radars, taking this horror story to a whole new level..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
Sighting One: Kota Bharu, Malaysia..
On the night Malaysian Airlines Flight Three-Seventy disappeared into thin air, two fishermen were casting their nets near the Malaysia-Thailand border when they saw a plane flying unusually low over the South China Sea. This was around one thirty AM; the same period when the plane vanished from air traffic control radar. The fisherman, identified as Azid Ibrahim, and his friend had taken some unidentified people on a fishing trip off the coast of Kota Bharu that night, when he looked up to see the low-flying plane. For an aircraft that would normally fly at thirty thousand feet in the sky, this particular plane was touching the clouds, which came as a shock to Ibrahim. “It was really low. I saw the lights; they looked like the size of a coconut,” he said in his report. Seeing something this suspicious, Ibrahim decided not to keep it to himself, and instead contacted the police to reveal his find. However, his story was never confirmed by the Malaysian officials, and experts remain unsure whether the aircraft sighted by the fisherman was actually Flight MH-Three-Seventy. However, Ibrahim wasn’t the only one who saw something..
Sighting Two: Vietnamese Oil Rig..
Close by in Vietnam, a New Zealand man identified as Mike McKay was working on the Songa-Mercur oil rig, about one hundred and eighty six miles Southwest of Vung Tau, when he spotted a burning object in the sky, just hours after the plane had taken off. In an email to a New Zealand news outlet, McKay detailed his experience, saying; “I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines flight come down. The timing is right.” He then revealed how he initially saw the plane burning one piece, before the flames died out some ten to fifteen seconds later. “There was no literal movement so it was either falling toward our position or going away from our location”, McKay concluded, providing the coordinates where the aircraft may have crashed into. The report kickstarted a side search operation from Vietnamese authorities, but even after the Vietnamese Navy launched a deep search of the area, they found nothing..
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-ground-witnesses/index.html
Sighting Three: Maldives Island..
Shortly after this news became public, a new story emerged from a remote island in the Maldives, where residents claimed to have seen a low-flying jumbo jet soaring through the skies the same morning the Malaysian plane disappeared. Locals living on the isle of KudaHuvadhoo in the Dhaalu Atoll gave a near-accurate description of a white plane with red stripes, which matched the commercial airliners. According to these locals, the jet was flying at an altitude so low that they could even make out the doors on the plane clearly. But while the testimony of a single resident may be considered unreliable, it turns out most of the island’s inhabitants heard the thunderous noise of the Boeing Seven Seven Seven flying so low and came out to investigate, so most of them caught a glimpse of the plane before it disappeared again. However, this story was soon debunked by the Malaysian officials and the Maldives Coast Guard, who claimed to have seen nothing of such nature. With more confirmation from the Malaysian Transport Minister and the Ministry of Defence that the reports were falsified, the Maldives story gradually died out, but then another also emerged..
Sighting Four: Off the Coast of Indonesia..
On the morning of March Ninth, over twenty four hours after Flight Three Seventy disappeared, a group of Indonesian fishermen were cruising on the straits of Malacca when they reportedly saw an airplane crash into the ocean, believing it to be the missing plane. Located between Indonesia and Malaysia, the Strait of Malacca was far from where anyone expected the plane to be, but the fishermen claimed they saw a white plane crossing and circling as smoke billowed from its right rear portion. After circling twice and tilting slightly to the left, the plane apparently began flying lower before it fell out of their sight. “We suspect the plane crashed into the sea,” they said. But while their curiosity pushed them to go check it out, the large waves on the sea, and the fact that they didn’t have enough fuel made that practically impossible. However, there are a few holes in this particular story. First was the fact the sighting took place over twenty fours after the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur, and then there’s the fact that Indonesian military officers claimed their radar didn’t spot Flight Three Seventy..
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-ground-witnesses/index.html
he also claimed to have seen two other planes going in the other direction, and concluded that they would have reported any incident to the appropriate authorities. But it wasn’t until March tenth when Tee and her
Sighting Five: Indian Ocean..
Remember Mike McKay, the oil rig worker who claimed to have seen the plane burning in the sky, well turns out he wasn’t the only one who saw a burning plane. Katherine Tee, a forty one year old British sailor from Liverpool was on a thirteen-month trip across the ocean with her husband when she also spotted a flaming object streaking across the night sky. According to Tee, she was on night watch at the time of the sighting, while her husband and a crew member were asleep on deck when the burning piece appeared in the skies. “I could see the outline of the plane, it looked longer than planes usually do. There was what appeared to be black smoke streaming from behind it.” Shusband arrived in the city of Phuket, Thailand before she realised the significance of her sighting. Unfortunately, her memory was already a bit fuzzy at this point, so she was sceptical about reporting it to the authorities. But by June twenty fourteen, the sailor and her husband finally filed a report to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in charge of the search operation, explaining what she saw that night, while maintaining that she wasn’t sure that the plane she saw was Flight Three Seventy. But even with the number of sightings reported, the location of the plane’s wreckage still remained a mystery until a year later when debris from the plane started showing up on beaches..
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/world/british-sailor-may-have-seen-missing-mh370-on-fire?amp=1
Before we reveal more shocking revelations, here’s our subscribers pick for today..
A news article recently appeared online, claiming that an underwater drone finally revealed the location of Malaysian flight three seventy, but the validity of this information remains uncertain. In the aftermath of the incident, government agencies and private investigators embarked on a mission to locate whatever remained of the doomed plane, diving into the depths of the ocean with advanced drones, capable of going thousands of feet underwater beyond human diving capabilities. At a point during the search, a private firm claimed they had more than a dozen drones searching several parts of the ocean, however, all underwater explorations turned out to be unsuccessful, and as time goes by, the search gradually came to halt. That was until recently when another unknown private firm announced their latest discovery, accompanied by a picture showing divers checking out what could be the wreckage of Flight three seventy. Unfortunately, this photograph only briefly appeared online before it was eventually taken offline for undisclosed reasons. Now, the big question remains; is this the real MH-Three-Seventy or just another massive hoax? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section down below. Now, let’s get back to the video..
New Clues: How New Debris Changes the Story..
After months of scouring the ocean in an attempt to recover remains of the fallen plane, the first of many debris was eventually found on July1 twenty fifteen on a beach in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island. This was the plane’s flaperone; a section of the right wing which controls speed and position. The flaperone was carefully examined by experts to determine its authenticity, and in September twenty fifteen, French judicial authorities finally confirmed that it did come from the MH-Three-seventy. The next piece of debris was found by a French tourist vacationing at Goose Island Mauritius back in twenty sixteen, and was classified as a non-metal piece from the aircraft’s right wing. After spotting the strange object on the beach, the unidentified tourist delivered it to the National Coast Guard, who then handed it over to investigators for confirmation. By studying the debris intensively, it was discovered that the parts were uniquely made for Malaysia Airlines and incorporated into the MH-Three-Seventy plane, bringing one step closer to solving this mystery. Then again in June twenty sixteen, a part of the aircraft was found on Pemba Island, far away in Tanzania. Authorities believe this piece was from the plane’s outboard wing flap, although there’s still little explanation as to how the piece got so far away from the supposed crash site. The next one was found back in twenty seventeen when a fisherman named Tataly from Madagascar discovered the aircraft undercarriage doors on the beach, three years after the plane crashed. But without realising how valuable his find was, Tataly took the strange object home and began using it as a laundry and ironing board. It took five years for the fisherman to finally realise this could be a piece of the missing plane and decided to hand it over to investigators, who confirmed that the mysterious object was from flight MH-Three-Seventy. But that’s not all. After studying this piece, investigators began considering the possibility that the plane may have been intentionally sunk. You see, as soon as the plane disappeared in twenty fourteen, theories began to emerge about what could have happened that night, including claims that the captain had intentionally crashed the plane. A deep dive into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's private affairs revealed a tumultuous life filled with marital troubles and personal struggles. While on the outside, the captain appears as a pious, dedicated, and relatively happy person, it turns out his marriage was on the verge of collapse at the time. Just days before the infamous flight, Captain Shah’s wife reportedly announced she wanted a divorce as a consequence of his infidelity, and was hell bent on taking the kids and leaving the house. A friend of the captain, who also works with Malaysian Airlines also revealed that Shah had confided in him about his marital issues just before flying that day. During a raid on his home, investigators also confiscated a flight simulator, which showed that Shah had practised flying across the Indian Ocean just like the MH-Three-Seventy did. Could it be possible that the Captain was so overwhelmed by his problems that he chose to end his life that fateful night, taking two hundred and thirty eight people along? According to experts who studied the Madagascar piece, a component of it was missing, which meant that the pilots may have lowered the plane’s tyres just before it fell into the ocean. The fusion of the full-speed effect intended to smash up the plane, as well as the elongated landing gear, were clear indications that Captain Shah had intended to plunge the plane as quickly as possible, to conceal evidence of the crash. From all indications, it appears the Boeing Seven Seven Seven was thrown into a high speed dive, with the intention of breaking it into as many fragments as possible. Not surprisingly, it worked. However, this wasn’t the only missing piece found in Madagascar, as in June of twenty seventeen, a fragment of the cabin interior panel was also found, although the authenticity remains unconfirmed. Earlier in March twenty sixteen, a portion of the plane’s Rolls Royce engine was also spotted on Mossel Bay in South Africa. However, since there was no unique identifier linking the engine with flight Three Seventy, the only confirmation remained that the plane was the only Boeing lost in the Indian Ocean, so it could have only come from it. In addition to the previously mentioned, there was a flap track fairing found on a Mozambique beach earlier in December twenty fifteen, a horizontal stabiliser found on a beach in Mozambique back in February twenty sixteen, and another piece with the words “Caution No Step” stencilled on it found on Kangaroo Island, Australia in June twenty sixteen. Each of these fragments, scattered across several regions reveals the gravity of the crash, but one particular debris could change the plot yet again, and maybe confirm some strange conspiracy theories..
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37820122.amp
Fire on Board?..
Since twenty fourteen when the plane first crashed, an independent investigator known as Blaine Gibson has dedicated his time to locating the washed-up fragments of the plane, and through his efforts, twenty two of these missing pieces have been located and identified. However, his most famous find would be this particular fragment also found on a beach in Madagascar, which showed signs of exposure to heat or fire. The piece, which was initially found by fishermen and handed over to Gibson, hinted at the possibility of the plane burning up, either in the air or after it crashed. This would confirm the accounts of the New Zealand oil rig worker, and the British sailor who claimed to have seen a plane burning in the skies. According to Gibson’s analysis, the piece was either part of the cabin or cargo area, rather than the part involved in flying, such as the wing. This piece, along with other parts of the plane found by Gibson was sent to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for proper identification and inspection, but as for the fire theory, investigators are still unsure whether to take this charred piece as confirmation, or keep considering the other possibilities..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37437651.amp
Strange Passengers, Russian Spies, and Conspiracy Theories..
After flight MH-Three-Seventy’s mysterious disappearance, most people initially believed that the incident was linked to terrorism, and as the investigators studied the passengers list, they found two Iranian men who appeared to have travelled with stolen passports. Nineteen year old Nour Mohammad and twenty nine year old Seyed Mohammed Rezar Delawar were two friends seeking asylum in Europe from their home country. On this fateful day, Nour had been travelling with an Austrian passport with the hope of reaching Germany and reuniting with his mother, while Delawar was apparently using a stolen Italian passport. Following a deep investigation by Interpol, it was concluded that the two had no links to any terror group, and were simply two young men at the wrong place at the wrong time. But that wasn’t the only terrorist theory. Others believe the plane was hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists, who forced the Captain to fly the plane and its passengers to Afghanistan, where they are still being held captive till today. Then there are those who believe the plane was also shot down by terrorists in an attempt to stir up trouble with the West. An even wilder theory blames Russia for the disappearance, claiming the plane was hijacked by Russian spies, while others believe the plane was actually shot down by the United States, after misidentifying it as a threat. Then there are those who believe the plane is currently sitting in a US Air Base located on the Island of Diego Garcia, and some who claim the incident was orchestrated by a malicious hacking group, who hijacked the plane remotely and either crashed it or flew it to an unknown location. While each of these theories have been disproved, especially with the discovery of debris, many questions about this strange incident remain unanswered, most of which will never be solved forever..
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