The mysterious disappearance of Boeing 777 with hundreds of passengers on board: a secret that has not been solved for 10 years

A Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members disappeared without a trace exactly ten years ago.

The largest and most expensive search operation in the world lasted four years but to no avail. The BBC tells about the mystery that still cannot be solved.

What happened to the plane?

Ten years ago, on March 8, 2014, the pilot of a plane en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing said goodnight to Malaysian air traffic control.

The Boeing 777, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, was about to cross into Vietnamese airspace.

Then the plane abruptly changed direction and communication with it was lost. The plane turned back, first to Malaysia and then to the remote southern Indian Ocean. He had been flying for seven hours. Until it probably ran out of fuel.

The largest and most expensive search operation ever conducted in the world lasted four years. However, no trace of the missing airliner was found.

Thousands of oceanographers, aeronautical engineers, and amateur detectives studied the fragmentary flight data, trying to figure out where the plane ended its journey.

For the families of those on board, it has been 10 years of grief and struggle to continue the search. What they want to know most of all is what exactly happened to MH370 and why.

Versions of the plane's disappearance

The search for the plane lasted from March 2014 to January 2017. In early 2018, they were resumed for five months by a private American company called Ocean Infinity, using underwater drones to scan the seabed.

French journalist Florence de Changy wrote a research book on MH370. More than 100 such books have been published worldwide. According to her, the hypothesis that the plane turned around and flew south was falsified. She also says that the wreckage found did not come from MH370. She suggested that the plane could have been shot down by a US jet over the South China Sea because of the cargo.

As reported by TravelWise, the Lulutai Airlines plane that broke down in midair crashed into a cement block at the airport.