MalayMail/Bernama-March 7
“Good Night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero” — that was the radio message sent from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at 1.09am, March 8, 2014.
A decade has passed since that fateful night, and nothing has been heard of the 239 souls onboard the Boeing 777 aircraft that disappeared without a trace after departing from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at 12.42am. Even though the aircraft was tracked going through the airspace between Vietnam and Malaysia at around 1.30am, no mayday message or distress signal was sent, sparking questions that still remain unanswered to this day. The disappearance of MH370 would go down in Malaysia’s history as the country’s darkest hour in aviation, and the mystery soon captured global attention, with various aviation investigation bodies and experts assisting and offering their opinions. The exhaustive search effort became the most expensive and biggest operation undertaken in the history of the country, with a total of 82 aircraft and 84 vessels from 26 countries participating during the 1,169 days of scouring the ocean floor, covering an area of 232,040 square kilometers. The little evidence the search turned up did little to shed light on the disappearance, with only three pieces of debris known as flaperons found on a beach in the Indian Ocean positively identified as coming from MH370. As we commemorate the 10-year anniversary of MH370’s disappearance, the question on everyone’s mind is whether there will ever be an appropriate close to this sad meaningless tragedy. Read more at: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2024/03/07/a-decade-after-mh370-hopes-of-a-new-search-to-end-all-speculation/121941
