![]() ![]() The plane's black boxes - the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder that contain information critical for investigations - were never found.ĭozens of pieces of debris from the aircraft have since washed ashore, most of them appearing to support the theory that it went down in the southern Indian Ocean. Yet they were perfectly routine, said aviation experts. The pilot's final recorded words to the control tower seemed almost prescient. The search was resumed in January 2018 by Ocean Infinity in the southern Indian Ocean, but ended in June the same year without success.Īudio clips from the cockpit failed to shed any light. The search in the choppy waters of the vast Indian Ocean was called off in January 2017. MH370's transponder - a transmitter in the cockpit that allows the aircraft to be tracked by ground radar - was disabled at some point, he said.īased on data from British commercial satellite firm Inmarsat and Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the plane is presumed to have crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.įor nearly three years, underwater search efforts were conducted some 2,500km south-west of Perth. Malaysia and countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, India, China, France and the United States took part in the operations.Īreas near Vietnam in the South China Sea and near Penang in the Strait of Malacca were combed in the initial days after the incident, until a week later, on March 15, when Malaysia's then Prime Minister Najib Razak revealed that data showed the flight had changed course and headed towards the Indian Ocean. An Australian-led underwater search covered 120,000 sq km at an estimated cost of about A$200 million (S$202 million) before it was suspended almost three years later. The search for MH370 was one of the largest surface and underwater hunts in aviation history. There were two pilots, 10 flight attendants and five children. Of the 239 people on board, 153 were China nationals 38 were Malaysian and the rest from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan. There was no distress call from the cockpit or from passengers on their mobile phones. Its final known sighting on military radar was at 2.22am. It last made contact with air traffic control at 1.19am over the South China Sea, with the words: "Good Night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero". We must find MH370 this time around." The factsįlight MH370, bound for Beijing, departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.42am on March 8, 2014. "There is no risk for the Malaysian government if they agree (to Ocean Infinity's offer). Mr Peter Foley, who was ATSB's director of operations for the Australia-led search from 2014 to 2017, said the search was ended "prematurely" and that finding MH370 is crucial for the safety of future commercial flights. It is building remotely controlled ships for ocean surveys which will be ready by then, Mr Plunkett said, describing them as "probably the most modern, cutting-edge ships in the entire world". ![]() ![]() Ocean Infinity has offered to resume the search early next year or in 2024. Some experts claim that debris from the flight could be as far as 4,000 meters under water.Mr Oliver Plunkett, group chief executive of Ocean Infinity, a private seabed exploration company which had previously searched for the plane on a "no-win, no-fee" basis, said at the event that it was "worthwhile" to conduct another search based on the new findings. This search is far smaller than any previous attempt to find the aircraft, which was supposed to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. He changed his flight due to a sudden change in his work schedule, narrowly avoiding death. Godfrey became interested in searching for planes lost at sea after a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which he was meant to be on, never reached its final destination. Thanks to Godfrey’s research, a proposal for a new search within a 40 nautical miles radius has been submitted. Previously, there have been two extensive searches of the Indian Ocean for MH370, but both were unable to find any trace of the lost aircraft. Using different data sets, Godfrey calculated that the Boeing 777 crashed into the Indian Ocean 2,000 km west of Perth, Western Australia. The flight was of high interest in China as 122 Chinese nationals were on board. The flight, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew, is one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries after it disappeared from radar signals during flight in March 2014. British aeronautical engineer Richard Godfrey told the BBC that he may have found the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. ![]()
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