Showing posts with label Malaysia Airlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia Airlines. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

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.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

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Friday, September 5, 2014

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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