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10 Years Later: Malaysia To Resume Hunt For Flight MH370 (reuters.com) 15

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

[...] MH370's last transmission was about 40 minutes after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. The pilots signed off as the plane entered Vietnamese air space over the Gulf of Thailand and soon after its transponder was turned off.
"Our responsibility and obligation and commitment is to the next of kin," Transport Minister Anthony Loke told a press conference. "We hope this time will be positive, that the wreckage will be found and give closure to the families."

Further reading: Could Sea Explosions Finally Locate the 2014 Crash Site of Flight MH370?

10 Years Later: Malaysia To Resume Hunt For Flight MH370

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  • Suggestions (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Rubinhood ( 977039 ) on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:05PM (#65030065)

    Can they maybe start by explaining why the "murder/suicide by pilot" theory was so quickly ruled out earlier, despite pretty consistent signs:
    - pilot flew that exact route over the Indian Ocean on his simulator a month earlier
    - tracking info was most likely turned off manually
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#Murder/suicide_by_pilot

  • I think that they made a TV series about this. It was called "Lost." Unfortunately, the ending was really pathetic. Just remember 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42! But I think they got it wrong because 4815162341 is the 734,468,718th position of pi.

  • by denelson83 ( 841254 ) on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:56AM (#65030197)

    The plane is in several million pieces scattered over several thousand square kilometres of potentially mountainous ocean floor, like what happened with SwissAir Flight 111, only in much deeper water.

  • How is finding pieces of the wreckage going to provide any kind of closure ?

    Does anyone seriously believe some passengers survived ? Some sort of Cast away situation ?

    Oh, and since i mentioned that movie, obligatory fuck to FedEx.
    No package takes them less than 10 days to deliver . I have one take over a month through 14 states, some twice.

    • by jaa101 ( 627731 )

      If they miraculously recover the cockpit voice recorder and/or flight data recorder, there could be many more clues. After that long they'll need another miracle to access any of the data.

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