Where did the Boeing 777 plane go?

There are some realities that defy logic and often surpass fiction!

March 8, 2024 is approaching, and the enigma of the plane vanished with its 370 passengers missing and without any trace will now be ten years to the day, to be one of the greatest mysteries of civil aviation of our current century .

And for the families of the victims, these are ten years of mourning and unbearable affliction.

That a Boeing 777 plane, which is one of the safest planes in the world, could disappear without a trace and without ever finding either the bodies of the passengers or any debris from the aircraft, remains a challenge and a never-solved enigma. despite all the technological, security and satellite advances.

What could be so dangerous and so valuable in this matter that such a plane would have to disappear and not be heard from again?

This is what we are going to discover together dear friends in this article.

Fasten your seat belts and let’s go on an adventure!

The affair of flight MH370 intrigued the entire planet; governments, official institutions, airlines, media as well as tens of thousands of detectives, journalists and amateurs who have looked into this very doubtful and intriguing disappearance.

However, no one could have any certainty about what really happened that night.

All probable and imaginary avenues were mentioned in official reports and in the investigations of specialized journalists without leading to a credible or verifiable thesis on this crash.

It was March 8, 2014, when flight MH 370 was flying over the Indian Ocean before suddenly disappearing from radar without a trace and the truth being lost forever.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 took off on March 8, 2014 at 12:41 a.m. local time from Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia bound for Beijing airport in China, with 227 passengers on board in addition to the 12 members of its crew.

Its landing in China was scheduled for 6:30 a.m. local time. No reports of climatic or meteorological disturbances were then on the menu.

And upon reaching 35,000 feet (10,700 m) altitude at 1:19 a.m., the plane left Malaysian airspace to begin its entry into Vietnamese airspace, just above the Gulf of Thailand.

The last radar contact with the plane was recorded 40 minutes after takeoff at 1:21 a.m. sharp, and a minute later, all connection with the aircraft's transponder was cut from then until today.

And at 1:30 a.m., in an attempt to reconnect with the plane, Vietnamese air traffic control asked a plane flying in the area to try voice contact with the Boeing, but in vain and without any response.

A military radar also followed the Boeing's tracks for an hour crossing the Malaysian Peninsula and the Andaman Sea, until reaching the limit of its range 370 kilometers northwest of the island of Penang.

The aircraft's automated communications (ACARS) continued to communicate via satellite for seven hours. Analysis of this data by the British company Inmarsat indicates that the plane continued its route to the southern Indian Ocean.

ACARS for Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System, and which is nevertheless a radio communication and monitoring system used by civil aviation and which allows automatic control of the state of the aircraft in flight, and transmits to the center of maintenance of the airline that owns the plane, all operational and logistical communications, but also its condition, possible breakdowns and the probable interventions to be carried out even before the plane lands.

International experts have described this research as the most expensive in the history of aviation.

Research which initially focused on the South China Sea and the Andaman Sea, before shifting focus to the southern Indian Ocean on the basis of data analyzed by Inmarsat, which led the research to focus off the coast of Australia for three years, over a maritime area of 120,000 km2, without any results.

During all these years of research, numerous marine debris washed up here and there in the Western Indian Ocean have been identified as coming from the plane.

But after the official search stopped in January 2017, nothing seemed decisive, neither the debris nor the fate of the plane, and it was the turn of a private campaign started in January 2018 by the company Ocean Infinity which also failed. after six months of investigations.

As the research and investigations progressed, several hypotheses and scenarios of the disaster were put forward; including those of the hijacking or even the crew being affected by an attack of hypoxia (which is a reduction in the oxygen level in the blood) followed by asphyxiation and loss of consciousness; hypothesis announced by the Australian authorities who declared that the plane had gone into autopilot and abruptly changed course an hour after takeoff, ceasing all communication with the air traffic controllers, otherwise it would not have traced the very trajectory. regular pattern identified by satellite data.

And probably according to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, the plane continued its trajectory on autopilot following a depressurization of the crew, until it ran out of fuel and crashes in the Indian Ocean and turns into a ghost plane.

The absence of definitive explanations and the lack of official information after the tragic disappearance have reignited criticism from Chinese public opinion and in particular from relatives of the passengers, the majority of whom were Chinese nationals.

Only the recommendations and safety regulations of the air transport companies continued to mention Flight 370 with the aim of avoiding the repetition of such misfortune and the circumstances which led to the tragedy, by planning to innovate in particular in a lasting longer life of batteries for underwater location beacons, or even the extension of the duration of flight recorders, and above all the establishment of new standards concerning the position control of aircraft flying over the oceans.