What happened to Flight 370 to Malaysia?
What happened to Flight 370 to Malaysia?
On March 24 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that, based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had concluded that the flight crashed in a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia.
Have they found pieces of Flight 370?
MH370, a Boeing 777, with 239 passengers and crew aboard disappeared on a flight from KL to Beijing on March 8, 2014. A total of 33 pieces of debris – confirmed and suspected from MH370 – have been recovered by 16 different people unrelated to each other in six different countries.
Who were the passengers on MH370?
They had 227 passengers to care for, including five children. Most of the passengers were Chinese; of the rest, 38 were Malaysian, and in descending order the others came from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan.
Was MH370 ever located?
Despite air and sea searches of vast stretches of the Indian Ocean, the aircraft and its passengers has never been found. A recent memorial reminds that MH370 is not the only missing aircraft out there.
Why did the phone keep ringing on MH370?
A MH370 theory which claimed the doomed jet could not have sunk underwater because the victims’ phones kept ringing after the crash has been debunked by experts. The Malaysian Airlines jet vanished on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumper killing 239 people on board – with officials believing it crashed into the sea.
What was the cause of the disappearance of Flight MH370?
A book called Flight MH370 – The Mystery also suggested that it had been shot down accidentally by US-Thai joint jet fighters during a military exercise and covered it up. Malaysia police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar suggested the disappearance could have been the result of a suicide.
Why is my cell phone ringing in the ocean?
The phone being tracked must have a GPS in it and this feature must be turned on. If all these requirements are met then they could locate the phone, but if its at the bottom of the ocean and the ringing is caused only by the network carrier, then it will be almost impossible to track its location.