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Today (8/3/2024), it has been 10 years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 or MH370 mysteriously disappeared without a trace with 239 people on board. Photo/The Sun
KUALA LUMPUR – Today (8/3/2024), it's been 10 years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 or MH370 mysteriously disappeared without a trace with 239 people on board.
The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur airport, Malaysia and was heading for Beijing, China, on March 8 2014. However, the flight never arrived at its destination, becoming one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.
Investigators still don't know for sure what happened to the plane and its 239 passengers.
But the Malaysian government on Sunday said it would resume the search for MH370 after the US marine robotics company that tried to find the plane in 2018 proposed a new search.
A massive multinational search in the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have crashed, turned up nothing.
Apart from a few small fragments that later washed up on the beach, no bodies or debris were found.
5 Things You Need to Know about the MH370 Airplane Tragedy
1. What is Known about the Disappearance of MH370?
The Boeing 777 disappeared from air control radar 39 minutes after leaving Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The pilot sent a final radio call to Kuala Lumpur before leaving Malaysia – “Good Night Malaysian Three Seven Zero” – but failed to contact air traffic controllers in Ho Chi Minh City when the plane crossed Vietnamese airspace.
Minutes later, the plane's transponder—the communications system that transmits the plane's location to air traffic controllers—was turned off.