The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared ten years ago, is being revived. A new search is likely to take place in the southern region of the Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have crashed. The Malaysian government is also interested, with US technology company Ocean Infinity volunteering for the new search. The story of the Malaysian airliner is complicated. This event, which shocked the world aviation industry, is entering its 10th anniversary.
On the night of March 8, 2014, Boeing MH370 of Malaysia Airlines took off from the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and started its journey towards Beijing, China. The plane was controlled by an experienced pilot named Zahari Ahmed Shah. There was a co-pilot, 10 flight attendants and 227 passengers. A total of 239 people. There were 5 Indians in it. The plane rose to 35,000 feet at 1:00 am and sent a message to the Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control Station at 1.07 am. However, the plane approached Vietnamese airspace but did not report there.
Attempts by Vietnamese air traffic control personnel to contact the plane's pilot were also unsuccessful. The plane had changed direction in the South China Sea. Malaysian military radars detected the plane, which flew over Malaysia, then headed towards the Straits of Malacca and from there in a northwesterly direction towards the Andaman Sea. At 2.22 the plane disappeared from the range of military radar. At 2:30, top aviation authorities intervened in the matter. Four hours later, a vigorous search for the plane began. The beginning of one of the greatest searches in world history. No matter how hard they searched, the plane could not be found.
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In the first phase, the sea area between Malaysia and Vietnam was mainly searched. 34 ships and 28 aircraft were assigned for this purpose. Seven countries have joined the search. Government and non-government agencies were heavily involved in the subsequent search. In 2018, all official searches for the mysterious plane were terminated. Later, Malaysia reported that it crashed somewhere 2500 km off the southwest coast of Australia.
In 2015, part of the plane's wing was found on a beach on Reunion Island, off the East African coast. Later, twenty-seven aircraft wreckage parts were found from the shores of Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius. It has been confirmed that 3 parts belong to MH370.
Various theories
One theory is that MH370 experienced a lack of oxygen (hypoxia) and as a result passengers, pilots and other crew members became unconscious.
Historian Norman Davies theorized that the crash was caused by an error in the autopilot due to hacking of MH370's cyber systems. In 2018, a new famous argument about this was raised by the name of Cambodia Theory.
∙ British video maker Ian Wilson caused excitement around the world when he used Google Maps images to find a plane lying in a forest in Cambodia. There were also pictures. But Cambodia rejected the argument.
∙ Outlandish theories such as that a black hole captured the plane, that the plane went straight to the moon, and that it might not have been hijacked by aliens have been floated.
∙ There were other arguments that North Korea had captured the plane and that the US Air Force had shot down the plane bound for San Diego.