‘We know’: Expert’s huge MH370 call

News.com.au - 22/03
It has been 11 years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 signed off from Malaysian air traffic control with the now-infamous words: “Good night Malaysia three seven zero” as the Boeing 777 crossed into Vietnamese airspace.

It has been 11 years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 signed off from Malaysian air traffic control with the now-infamous words: “Good night Malaysia three seven zero” as the Boeing 777 crossed into Vietnamese airspace.

The plane, which was travelling from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing in China carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on March 8, 2014, was never heard from again.

Two minutes after that final message from the plane’s Malaysian pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the aircraft vanished from radar screens.

Despite the plane “going dark”, Malaysian military aircraft trackers were still able to follow MH370, and noticed the plane suddenly turn sharply to the left, crossing back into Malaysian airspace before flying another seven hours into the middle of the Indian Ocean where it is presumed to have run out of fuel and crashed.

A number of searches were launched following the disappearance of Flight MH370, including by Australia, which searched for three years covering 120 square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean in a desperate bid to find the plane and passengers, which included eight Australians.

In 2017, however, the Australian authorities called off the search.

“Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and...
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