THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes with more than 200 people aboard – 2014

Via History.com

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, loses contact with air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur then veers off course and disappears. Most of the plane, and everyone on board, are never seen again.

The plane departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Beijing Capital International Airport at 6:30 a.m. local time. However, at 1:07 a.m., the aircraft’s last automated position report was sent, and at 1:19 a.m. what turned out to be the final voice transmission from the cockpit of the doomed jetliner was relayed to air traffic controllers: “Good night Malaysian three seven zero,” a message that suggested nothing out of the ordinary. About an hour after Flight 370 was scheduled to land in Beijing, Malaysia Airlines announced it was missing. Prior to the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance, it had been flying seemingly without incident. There were no distress signals from the plane or reports of bad weather or technical problems.

The ensuing search for Flight 370 initially was centered on the Gulf of Thailand, where the plane was traveling when radar contact was lost. Investigators looked into the possibility of terrorist involvement in the plane’s disappearance after it was discovered that two passengers had been using stolen passports; however, this theory, at least in relation to the two men, soon was determined to be unlikely. (The people onboard Flight 370 represented 15 nations, with more than half the passengers from China and three from the United States) Then, on March 15, investigators said that satellite transmissions indicated Flight 370 had turned sharply off its assigned course and flown west over the Indian Ocean, operating on its own for five hours or more. On March 24, Malaysia’s prime minister announced the flight was presumed lost somewhere in the Indian Ocean, with no survivors. As the search for the aircraft continued, with more than two dozen nations, including the United States, participating in the effort, the mystery of how a commercial jetliner could vanish without a trace received global media attention.

In June 2014, Australian officials involved in the investigation said radar records suggested Flight 370 likely was flying on autopilot for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. The officials did not publicly speculate about who put the plane on autopilot after it veered off course or why, although they did indicate it was possible the crew and passengers had become unresponsive due to hypoxia, or oxygen loss, sometime before the plane crashed. No explanation for what might have caused the oxygen deprivation was provided by the officials.

Meanwhile, other authorities suggested one of the pilots of Flight 370 could have deliberately flown the aircraft into the Indian Ocean on a suicide mission, although there was no conclusive evidence to support this theory.

Throughout 2015 and 2016, debris from the aircraft washed ashore on the western Indian Ocean, but the fate of Flight 370 remains a mystery.

On July 17, 2014, four months after Flight 370 vanished, tragedy struck again for Malaysia Airlines, when one of its planes was shot down over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. All 298 people aboard the aircraft, also a Boeing 777, perished. European and American officials believe Flight 17, which took off from Amsterdam and was en route to Kuala Lumpur, was downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists battling the Ukrainian government. The rebel leaders and President Vladimir Putin of Russia denied any responsibility for the incident.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
March 8, 2024 8:22 am

State Of The Nation must have a fascinatin’ take on this. What does SOTN consider a proper pooping schedule, BTW?

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
March 8, 2024 9:17 am

Lost in the Ukranian Triangle, no doubt.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 8, 2024 12:57 pm

Malaysian Titanic story.

kiwi
kiwi
March 8, 2024 12:58 pm

anyone who reads jim stone knows what happened to this plane, he showed proof the flight MH17 was cancelled minutes before it was due to depart,the plane ‘shot’ down over Ukraine was the ‘missing’ MH370 with dead and decaying passengers, which was also proven, every time this info gets posted it is removed by jewtube, the Dutch ‘inquiry’ is on going, long enough now that people have only faint memories of this conspiracy, nothing to see hear move along.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  kiwi
March 8, 2024 6:39 pm

Show links.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 8, 2024 9:40 pm

No way did a door fall off of these airplanes made by Boeing.
Boeing.
Which makes aircraft with doors that fall off.
What if the doors were deliberately left loose on these flights, including the recent one that did not crash?
What if a competitor is sabatoging Boeing planes?
What if our own gov is doing it?