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Biggest Mystery in Aviation | Whathappened to MH370 Flight?
At 12:42 in the morning, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur. This flight
was headed to Beijing. There were 227 passengers on this flight, 10 flight attendants, and 2
pilots flying this plane. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah reported that the aircraft was at 35,000
feet. Everything was running normally. About 11 minutes later, the aeroplane entered the
jurisdiction of Vietnamese Air Traffic. The Air Traffic Control in Kuala Lumpur didn't notice this,
and when they do, they think the plane had flown out of the range of their radar. Vietnamese
controllers informed Kuala Lumpur that MH 370 had disappeared suddenly. A search operation
began in the South China Sea to look for the plane that morning. But there was no trace of the
plane. A new piece of evidence was discovered from satellite data. It was found that the plane
was trying to automatically communicate with a satellite. The satellite was simply aware that this
plane tried to communicate but nothing more about where it actually was. The plane tried to
establish communication with the satellite 7 times. That's why you can see 7 different circles in
white colour. These are known as Satellite Handshakes. Every circle shows the time when the
plane tries to communicate with the satellite. The last circle, the 7th circle, shows the latest time
the plane could have been. This was the last point it tried to communicate. And it was really
surprising because this circle was huge. It covers a lot of areas from Kazakhstan to China to
Australia.
In 2018, the American company Ocean Infinity signed a new contract with the Malaysian
government. They wanted to conduct the search operations and if they aren't able to find the
plane, they wouldn't charge any fees. After these investigations, some theories came forward
about what could have happened to the plane exactly. The official in charge of this search
operation completely denied this theory. He said that this couldn't have happened because
there are many counter-arguments too. The second afloat theory is that there must be some
hijackers on the plane. This theory of terror was rejected because other than these stolen
passports, there was no proof that they were actually terrorists intending to carry out a terror
attack. The third theory is that the passengers and the crew on MH370 fainted because of
oxygen deficiency. Richard Godfrey, a retired aerospace engineer, claims that he had found out
the secret of this mystery. He used the reflections of radio waves to predict the path of the
plane. He says he has been tracking back data from British Inmarsat Satellite, figures from
Boeing and Australian oceanographers.
The MH370 lies on top of the 7th Arc and is 4 km underwater. Under the ocean, there are many
cliffs and underwater volcanoes. The most expensive search operation conducted by Australia
was already searched. But they may have missed it somehow. Richard has proposed that a
new search operation should be conducted within a radius of 40 Nautical Miles and they would
find it.
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