The Mystery of Flight MH-370

The Beijing bound Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370 from Kaula Lumpur was on schedule when it took off as usual at 00.41 MYT on March 8^th, 2014 form the Kaula Lumpur International Airport and was scheduled to land at the Beijing Capital International Airport at 6.30 local time, Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid were on board along with 237 crew and passengers, the flight was flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet and with a  speed of 471 knots when it suddenly disappeared at around 1.20 MYT and all signals were lost. The mystery was that there were no distress calls made from the Flight and everything seemed right and going on schedule and all of a sudden the plane disappears; the flight was last seen flying over the Gulf of Thailand flying towards the Strait of Malacca.  After the flight was announced missing by the Malaysian Airlines widespread search operations were taken up by the Malaysian Government but to no avail, there were varied reports of the flight being spotted by the Vietnamese turning back westwards, and the Chinese, Thailand, Indian, Pakistan and the Kazakhstan government claiming that had the aircraft flown into their airspace their military radars would have picked up the signals.

After receiving few pings on the satellite the flight was also expected to be flying closer to Perth in Western Australia, and also reports of debris being spotted by a Satellite close to the Indian ocean made the Malaysian government widen the search involving the countries of Unites States, Australia, New Zealand, France Japan, China, Korea, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Myanmar and Thailand also in the search operations. Even after widespread and thoroughly searching the area using 40 ships and 30 aircrafts the debris of the Flight MH-370 was not found. On 24^th March the Prime Minister of Malaysia also issued a statement that the plane MH-370 went down in the India Ocean. The best bet to find the missing aircraft was detecting the pings picked up by satellites from the black box of the missing flight, but with the batteries of the black box expected to be in working condition for only 30 days, and with no sign of the missing flight till April 7^th 2014 the day the batteries of the black box expired, the Malaysian authorities drew a blank with the extensive search operations.

There were mixed reports and even sabotage of the plane was also considered as two passengers on the missing flight were travelling on stolen passports, the homes of the Pilot and the Co-Pilot were also searched and after stumbling upon a flight stimulator in the home of the Pilot Zaharie, the involvement of the Pilot in a sabotage was also doing rounds, but with no evidence and no trace of any debris of the aircraft being found all reports were baseless. Adding further fuel to all the conflicting reports about the missing plane was the release of a book on 19^th May, 2014 that the Malaysian plane was shot down into the Chinese sea during a military practice drill between the US and Thailand forces and that they were trying to cover up the facts regarding the missing plane. The latest search operation on the missing plane was to send a Chinese ship to map the sea bed in the Western coast of Australia in a bid to find the missing plane. Will the mystery of the Missing MH-370 plane ever unravel, only time can tell and all we can do is keep our fingers crossed and wait and watch?