What happened to the Malaysian plane that went missing?
On March 24 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that, based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had concluded that the flight crashed in a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia.
What happened TWA Flight 800?
On the scene of the TWA Flight 800 crash The Paris-bound plane exploded minutes after taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people on board. The plane’s wreckage fell into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Long Island.
What happened to the Malaysian plane?
The plane, however, continued to fly on autopilot for hours. It eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into a field. It’s possible this happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , especially given the news that the jet’s engines continued to send data for four more hours after the last contact.
What happened to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
The $160 million search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended in January after a deep-sea sonar scan of 46,000 square miles of ocean floor southwest of Australia failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014. But research has continued in an effort to refine a possible new search.
Where did MH370 disappear?
The vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is one of the most confusing, mysterious and tragic events in recent memory. On 8 March 2014, the flight – carrying 239 people – simply disappeared between its origin airport in Kuala Lumpur and its destination Beijing.
What happened to MH370 theory?
The official theory, adopted by both the Malaysian government and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau , is that the passengers and crew of MH370 were incapacitated by an unknown “unresponsive crew/ hypoxia event”. Hypoxia is a deficiency of oxygen. MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.