Disappearance of Flight MH 370

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On 17 March 2014, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority took charge of coordinating the search efforts, when the new satellite data from Inmarsat suggested that Flight 370 changed the course from west to south after flying past Sumatra island. The area of interest became the southern part of the Indian Ocean. On 24 March, the Malaysian government confirmed independent analysis by the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and Inmarsat, which concluded that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

The efforts to find the debris were under the bigger and bigger pressure, especially since the black box of the aircraft would be active only for about a month since the crash (it would actively send the signals making it easier to find even in the deep ocean). The Australian Navy, including several submarines, were involved in searching the area in order to detect the signals. Four unconfirmed signals were recorded between 6 and 8 April, but after that time the batteries of the beacons were believed to be dead. The search continued in the area of the signals using a robotic submarine, but after 28 May they were abandoned.

There has been no confirmation of any flight debris linked to Flight 370. Analysis of communication between the aircraft and a satellite over the Indian Ocean concluded that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean. Australia continued efforts to find any sign of Flight MH 370 in the Southern Indian Ocean for almost 2 years, which unfortunately provided no new information.

Another theory, conceived after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine by the Russian forces, was even more far-fetched. According to some journalists three of the passengers were of Russian origin, so they might have been planted there to kidnap the plane and land it in Kazakhstan. While the theory was based on taking over control of the central computer of the plane, which could be possible, the lack of back-check of the Russians aboard (not to mention only one passenger was using Russian passport) puts that theory among urban legends.

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