Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The plane deviated from its planned flight path and disappeared from radar over the South China Sea. Despite extensive search efforts, the cause of the disappearance and fate of the plane remain unknown. Various conspiracy theories have been proposed to explain what happened, including that it was hijacked, shot down by the military, or disappeared deliberately by the pilot, but there is no conclusive evidence for any of these scenarios. The investigation into what occurred is still ongoing.
2. STARTING OF THE STORY
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was a
scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on Saturday, 8
March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International
Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport, China.
• Flight 370 last made voice contact with air traffic control at
01:19 MYT (17:19 UTC, 7 March) when it was over the South China Sea, less
than an hour after takeoff, and the aircraft disappeared from air traffic
controllers' radar screens at 01:21 MYT (17:21 UTC).
3. CONTD……
• Malaysian military radar continued to track Flight 370 as it deviated from its
planned flight path and crossed the Malay Peninsula; Flight 370 left the range
of Malaysian military radar at 02:15 MYT while over the Andaman Sea, 200
nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) northwest of Penang in northwestern
Malaysia.
• Neither the crew nor the aircraft's communication systems relayed a distress
signal, indications of bad weather, or technical problems before the aircraft
vanished. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was carrying 12 Malaysian crew
members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
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6. INTRODUCTION
• Various unofficial theories have been proposed to explain the cause of the
disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) in March 2014. The
disappearance remains unexplained and is under investigation. Many critics
and experts have questioned several aspects of the Malaysian government's
statements.
7. As long as the flight remains under investigation, alternative theories of varying
credibility are expected. Although Najib Razak,Malaysia's Prime Minister, has
stated publicly that the aircraft's flight ended somewhere in the Indian Ocean,
no explanation for why this occurred has yet emerged.In light of this, many
explanations for its disappearance have been proposed.Some of these
alternative theories have been described as conspiracy theories.
Internet sites like EyeOpen.info claim that the official statement that the
plane crashed into the Indian Ocean makes no sense.[9] They note that
a Boeing 777 does not have the structural integrity to survive crashing into
the ocean, and that it would be like hitting a cement wall at terminal
velocity. If Flight 370 hit the ocean, they say, it would have been broken into
tens of thousands of pieces, many of which float on water (such as the seat
cushions) and would be witnessed washing up on regional shores or easily
spotted by search teams
8. HIJACKING
• The possibility of a simple hijacking has been brought up by various news
outlets, including ABC News and the Los Angeles Times. Speculation has
mounted about the possibility that hijackers took the plane to a remote
island, although no group has stepped forward to confirm that it was
them; however, unofficial researchers have identified more than 600 possible
runways at which the plane was capable of landing. No confirmation has
been received from Malaysian officials.
9. TERRORIST AATACK
• Shortly after the aircraft disappeared, some news agencies reported that it may have
been an act of terrorism,[20] possibly a Jihad attack.[21][22][23][24] Between 9 and 14
March 2014, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweeted that Flight 370's disappearance
"confirms jihadists turning to make trouble for China [sic]." He later suggested the
flight might have been hidden in northern Pakistan, "like Bin Laden". These
remarks have not been confirmed, and were characterized as conspiracy theories by
Shiv Malik in The Guardian.[25]The following month, the Russian
newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets endorsed a similar theory, claiming that "unknown
terrorists" had hijacked the plane, flown it toAfghanistan, and then held the crew
and passengers hostage
10. CONTD……
A story circulated on Reddit that MH370 had sufficient fuel to be hijacked
to North Korea as was done in 1969 with Korean Air Lines YS-11
Giving a new twist to the MH370 missing story, a former French airline boss has
claimed that the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down by the US military near a
U.S. military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
11. CELLPHONE HYPOTHESIS
• Some have speculated that the passengers are still alive but cannot answer
their cellphones—sometimes known as the "phantom cellphone theory".
This was based on early reports that family members of Flight 370
passengers heard the passengers' phones ring after the plane
disappeared.[38] This, however, has been rejected by Jeff Kagan, a wireless
analyst, who in an email to NBC News explained that the network may still
produce "ringbacks" as it searches for a connection, even if the cellphone
has been destroyed.
12. CONTD….
• Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had made no commitments for culture events,
family or friend meetings or other private or work commitments whatsoever,
for the time after the plane disappearance. All other crew members had such
plans. The Mirror reported that the captain had trained landing on an Indian
Ocean island with short runway, using a flight simulator in his home
computer.[41] This was disproved by the final report about the analysis of this
flight simulator made by FBI, which qualified The Mirror article of being
"unsubstantiated and unsourced
13. BOOKS PUBLISHED
• A book Goodnight Malaysian 370 was published by New Zealanders Geoff
Taylor and Ewan Wilson blaming a deliberate act of the pilot for the aircraft
disappearance but admitted they were not able to "provide any conclusive
evidence to support his theory" nor any motive
14. RELATION OF SAME INCIDENT
• On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine.
Because it, like Flight 370, was also a Boeing 777, some conspiracy theorists
have suggested that the plane that crashed in Ukraine was actually Flight 370.
This is based in part on photographs of the crash scene, which conspiracy
theorists claim show that the plane that crashed in Ukraine had structural
differences from MH17. Experts have dismissed this theory and argued that
it is merely coincidental that both planes involved belonged to the same
airline
15. When AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared on December 28, 2014, various similarities with MH370 were
noted, including that both airlines were Malaysian-owned, and that both planes lost contact with air
traffic control. There was also a reported conspiracy theory involving an alleged prediction on
December 15, 2014 (and possibly repeated on December 16 and 17), by a user nicknamed 'Landlord'
of the Chinese website Tianya Club, warning Chinese people to stay away from AirAsia as it would be
attacked, as MH370 and MH17 allegedly had been (according to Landlord), as part of a conspiracy by
a "black hand" or "despicable international bully" to harm Malaysian-owned airlines. Other online
posters suggested that Landlord was either a Chinese intelligence official or a hacker who had come
across secret information. Some skeptics suggested Landlord's posts or posting dates may have been
retrospectively changed to create the false or exagerated impression of a successful prediction