The BBC headlined
The people still searching for the missing MH370 – and why the mystery is so hard to solve
A decade after the disappearance of MH370, are we any closer to finding the missing plane? Amateur investigators are convinced they know its location.
Ten years ago, on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing with 239 people on board – and was never seen again. A decade later, the fate of the plane remains unsolved, and its tragic disappearance has become one of the biggest and most intriguing aviation mysteries since Amelia Earhart’s.
The disappearance of MH370 sparked a massive four-year, multi-million dollar search. Even after the official search efforts ended, amateur investigators continued to try to locate the doomed plane, which disappeared from radar less than 40 minutes after take-off.
But are we any closer to solving the mystery of what happened to Flight 370 after a decade? Or at least, are we any closer to solving the mystery of where the plane’s wreckage is? Some researchers who have been trying to solve the case for the past decade say yes.
Richard Godfrey, a retired British aerospace engineer and founder of the MH370 search website, which has devoted much of the past decade to answering the question, believes it will almost certainly take one more search in the right location to find MH370.
The Independent headlined
What happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370? Five theories evaluated
Ten years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared in 2014 with 239 people on board, the plane remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke revealed on Tuesday that the government is considering launching a new search off Western Australia based on a “credible” proposal from US marine exploration firm Ocean Infinity.
Pilot-assisted suicide
Many have focused on the pilot, Captain Zaharie Shah. He was 53 when he took control of MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were 227 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
A popular theory is that Captain Shah prevented the first officer from entering the cockpit. He turned off the communications systems designed to keep the plane in contact with air traffic controllers; put on an oxygen mask; and depressurized the plane. At an altitude higher than Mount Everest, the other passengers and crew would soon die from hypoxia (lack of oxygen).
Pilot hijacked the plane with the intent to land, survive, and escape
While it is difficult to find any precedent for this theory, it is possible that one of the pilots intended to land or ditch the plane in a survivable condition, but failed and was incapacitated by hypoxia along with the others on board. However, it is difficult to imagine a possible motive behind this daring mission.
