Even after two years, the mystery of the missing MH370 continues to baffle the world

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing on 8 March, 2014, as it was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing - there were 239 passengers and crew aboard. The plane suddenly vanished and the mysterious disappearance continues to baffle the whole world. Debris ave been retrieved from time to time from different locations and have been sent for analysis to establish links to MH370 - the latest in this is the debris found on the coast of Mozambique. This will also be sent to Australia to determine whether it belongs to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 3 March 2016.

The latest discovery is by an American blogger who reportedly discovered the three-foot-long debris fragment on the east African coast earlier this week. It has, since, been handed over to the authorities as confirmed by the president of Mozambique's Civil Aviation Institute'. The find is believed to be part of an aircraft's tail known as a horizontal stabilizer.
Malaysia's Transport Minister has opined that initial indications suggest there is a "high possibility" it came from a Boeing 777, the same model of aircraft as MH370. Australia's Transport Minister also feels that the location of the possible find is consistent with oceanic drift models that are used to search for signs of the missing plane.
It may be recalled that in July a wing fragment was found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, with experts later determining that it came from MH370. That was the only confirmed find of debris during a two-year investigation into the missing plane.
In the opinion of experts MH370 might have veered sharply off course to the far-southern Indian Ocean before crashing into the sea.


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United States and Australia warn about possible terror attack in Kuala Lumpur

Jalan Alor is a popular hawker street in Kuala Lumpur frequented by tourists and foreigners and the U.S. and Australian embassies have warned the authorities about a possible terror attack at a popular hawker street in the city.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 25 September 2015.

Taking cognizance of the warnings, the Malaysian police have detained three men, including two foreigners, for questioning. They are a Malaysian, an Indonesian and a Syrian, aged between 30 and 51 years. They were picked as part of an ongoing counter terrorism operation.
One of them often visited Yemen and had entered Malaysia a few days ago. Investigation is on to determine if they are involved in any plans to launch attacks in Malaysia.
In view of the threat, police have intensified security in popular public places and other strategic locations.
The US had warned people to avoid Alor Street which is located in a shopping belt in the city center and its immediate surrounding areas. Terrorist organizations had, in the past, planned attacks to coincide with significant dates.
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Parts of lost plane MH370 of Malaysia Airline washes up on Reunion Island

It has been confirmed by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak that the debris that have washed up on the beaches of Reunion Island belong to the Boeing of flight MH370 that had gone missing 17 months back as it was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 6 August 2015.

There were 239 passengers and crew on board and relatives and family members of the missing are demanding that the matter cannot be treated as closed but that the search must go on to find the bodies - some are refusing to believe that their relatives were dead.
Australia is coordinating the search operations and PM Tony Abbott has said that it is vital for the truth to be unearthed because it concerns the safety of future air passengers.
He has also assured that the finding of the debris on Reunion Island will not affect the sonar search of a 46,000-square-mile expanse of seabed more than 2,500 miles east of Reunion Island. That search had begun in October last, has covered almost half that area without finding any clues.
A portion of the debris that looked like a portion of the wing was flown to France and its analysis has begun in Toulouse.
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Dutch report on MH17 crash attributes it to being struck by shrapnel

Dutch experts are finalizing the report on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that broke up in mid-air in July after being hit by "objects" that "pierced the plane at high velocity" bbc.com.
This would be in accordance with evidence of images that shows the skin being pierced in a number of places by sharp objects - this matches claims that MH17 was hit by missile shrapnel.
All 298 people on board, most of them from the Netherlands, died when the plane was reportedly shot down by. The plane was en-route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed in rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
There were no emergencies on board, no mechanical problems, and the pilots did not make any mistakes, hence, the report rules out any technical or human error. The conclusion is based on cockpit data, air traffic control and images because the site of the crash in eastern Ukraine was too dangerous to access amid fighting between government troops and rebels.
The nature of marks noticed on the skin of the aircraft is consistent with how the BUK missile system works (that's the system many suspect was responsible) – they do not actually hit the target but explode in the vicinity and pepper it with shrapnel to attain maximum damage.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has welcomed the report and said that it "leads to the strong suspicion that a surface-to-air missile brought MH17 down".
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Six months have passed and still the disappearance of MH370 remains a mystery

It is now six months past that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 flight MH370 vanished into thin air with 239 people on board while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing - 154 of them were Chinese passengers theguardian.com. The mystery is whether MH370 was hijacked, sabotaged, or disappeared due to some sort of personal or psychological problems of someone on-board the flight. Even now the wreckage of the Boeing has not been located and in spite of latest technologies available, no one has any clue. Obviously, questions arise - in an age when individuals can be tracked to a street by their smartphones, how can a huge Boeing-777 simply vanish en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and fly on for hours, without anyone noticing? The search had once involved 26 countries and is now focusing on 60,000 sq km of the southern Indian Ocean seabed off the west coast of Australia – the cost is expected to be in the region of tens of millions of pounds. In the opinion of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the most likely scenario was that the flight coasted into the ocean on autopilot, with all 239 people on board – the pilots were unresponsive because of hypoxia which is often caused by depressurization. That theory leaves many gaps – it does not shed any light on the plane's unexplained deviation from its route. It had turned back across the Malaysian peninsula and then headed south. Investigators believe that it was deliberate because the communications systems appeared to have been disabled just as it left the country's airspace, moments before its sudden diversion.
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