Multiple reports now indicate that a weather-battered aircraft section found earlier today on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is part of a flaperon — a control surface that acts both as a flap and an aileron — from a Boeing 777. The only Boeing 777 that is presently unaccounted for is Malaysia Airlines 370, which has been missing since it disappeared from radar in March of 2014 with 239 […]
Australian experts believe those on board the doomed flight are likely to have suffocated, and the plane crashed while on autopilot Experts investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 believe the passengers and crew on board probably died from suffocation, before the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean while flying on autopilot. Those are the conclusions of the latest report into the baffling aviation mystery, by investigators working at […]
When authorities confirmed last month that four “pings” heard in the southern Indian Ocean had nothing to do with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, it was a devastating blow for those involved in the investigation, the families of those on board the missing jet, and the countless number of people around the world who had become captivated by the mystery surrounding the plane’s disappearance. What was described as “the most promising […]
After seven weeks of an intense but fruitless search, the international air effort to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is over. Some ships will, however, stay on the Indian Ocean to gather any debris that might surface. More than 600 military personnel from at least seven countries solemnly posed in front of their planes Tuesday for a commemorative photo. Some traded military patches and mulled over their disappointment in not […]
After a month of searching, investigators now have their “most promising” lead yet in finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. A pinger locator in the Indian Ocean has detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Center said Monday. The sounds were heard at a depth of 4,500 meters (about 14,764 feet), retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said. “We’ve got a […]
A pinger locator sits on an Australian ship in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the black box of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Photograph: ReutersA Chinese ship has detected an electronic pulse close to where the missing Malaysian Airlines plane is believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, state media announced late on Saturday. “Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 searching for flight MH370 discovered […]
Without any confirmed sighting, the mystery of what happened to MH370 is very much unresolved. So what happens next? In Pic :Najib Razak delivers his statement on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Kuala Lumpur. Photograph: Mohd Rasfan /AFP/Getty Images The announcement by Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak that MH370 is assumed to have crashed into the southern Indian ocean, with no survivors, had a degree of finality to […]
Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot spoke to Parliament on Thursday saying a search team had been sent off the country’s coast to investigate new evidence found on satellite imagery concerning Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. According to CNN, Abbot believes that this new evidence is “credible,” but stressed that it would take time to pinpoint the exact location. There have been a wide variety of theories concerning the disappearance and location […]
