Flight MH370 | The Plane That Disappeared

This story starts on March 8, 2014, in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 this is the plane that disappeared from the radar along with the 239 souls that were on board.

Everything was completely routine about this flight 41 mins past midnight the plane takes off, it’s a clear night everything is very calm the plane climbs to cruising altitude as it heads out over the South China Sea. Shortly after 1 o’clock in the morning is when things start to get strange. The plane is about to leave Malaysian airspace they’re going to be handed over to the next set of air traffic controllers in Vietnam. So the air traffic controller from Malaysia said “Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh 120, decimal 9, good night”. As the plane approaches the limits of Malaysian airspace, the captain of the flight Zaharie Ahmad Shah gets on the radio and says “Uh good night, Malaysian 370” and then 90 seconds later the plane suddenly goes electronically dark. It vanishes from the radar and that is basically where the mystery begins.

There are a million different theories going around and only one of them is right which one?
At this time we don’t know which theory is correct.

There are theories of hijacking, mechanical failure, meteorite hitting the plane, and Pilot suicide but the mystery still remains to this day.

The aircraft, a Boeing 777 operated by Malaysia Airlines, last made voice contact with ATC at 01:19 MYT, 8 March (17:19 UTC, 7 March) when it was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff. It disappeared from ATC radar screens at 01:22 MYT, but was still tracked on military radar as it turned sharply away from its original northeastern course to head west and cross the Malay Peninsula, continuing that course until leaving the range of the military radar at 02:22 while over the Andaman Sea, 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) northwest of Penang Island in northwestern Malaysia.

Crew

All 12 crew members—two pilots and 10 cabin crew—were Malaysian citizens.[33]

The pilot in command was 53-year-old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah from Penang. He had been a type-rating instructor and a type-rating examiner since 2007. Zaharie had a total of 18,365 hours of flying experience.

The co-pilot was 27-year-old First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid. He joined Malaysia Airlines as a cadet pilot in 2007, Flight 370 was his final training flight, and he was scheduled to be examined on his next flight. Fariq had accumulated 2,763 hours of flying experience.

Passengers

Of the 227 passengers, 153 were Chinese citizens, including a group of 19 artists with six family members and four staff returning from a calligraphy exhibition of their work in Kuala Lumpur; 38 passengers were Malaysian. The remaining passengers were from 12 different countries. Twenty passengers, 12 of whom were from Malaysia and eight from China, were employees of Freescale Semiconductor. 

Flight 370 was a scheduled flight in the early morning of Saturday, 8 March 2014, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China.
Flight 370 was carrying 23,823 lb of cargo, of which four unit load devices (standardized cargo containers) of mangosteens (a tropical fruit) 10,066 lb) and 487 lb of lithium-ion batteries. The mangosteens were loaded into the aft cargo bay of the aircraft at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and inspected by officials from Malaysia’s Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority before being loaded onto Flight 370. According to the head of Malaysian police, Khalid Abu Bakar, the people who handled the mangosteens and the Chinese importers were questioned to rule out sabotage.

The fact that a modern aircraft could disappear in a digitally connected world was met with surprise and disbelief by the public. While changes in the aviation industry often take years to be implemented, airlines and air transport authorities responded swiftly to take action on several measures to reduce the likelihood of a similar incident.

Aviation journalist Jeff Wise stated that this story has its hooks in him. He became part of the group called “The Independent Group” where they did not make claims but theories on how this seemed to be done by somebody who knew what they were doing and the spotlight was on the pilots. Jeff writes up a piece that is published in Slate Magazine called “How to Disappear a Jetliner” which gets a lot of attention.
There was also a group called the Tomnoders, whom they invited internet sleuths to go to their platform called Tomnod and view the hi-res pictures of the area where the missing plane might have gone down.
Cyndi Hendry was one of those volunteers that went to the Tomnod platform. After looking at the area she found what looked to be the wreckage of a plane that was in the flight path of MH370. Then on March 12th, 7 days after the last contact, the Malaysia Prime Minister confirmed based on satellite communication that MH370 had made a sharp turn and flew back across the Malaysia peninsula which ended the operations in the South China Sea and redeploying the assets elsewhere. Cyndi was upset because she had found debris and they were not going to search that area any longer in the South China Sea. She reached out to everyone she could with this information and it was ignored.
New information came to light about the satellite communication service called Inmarsat which had equipment aboard the plane that was communicating with a satellite that was located above the central Indian Ocean.
When a plane is over the open ocean it communicates with satellites with this data from Inmarsat it was confirmed that the satellite was pinging the satellite terminal on the aircraft up to 6 hours after the last contact. But there is nothing in the data to give any positional information such as GSP coordinates. The only data given is how far the satellite terminal is away from the satellite and whether it was flying north or south.

Then things turned when MH370 became a criminal investigation as authorities now suspected that this was deliberate and not an accident it was believed that the Pilots hijacked the plane.
Malaysian police raided the home of Captian Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

March 24th 16 days since the last contact. The Malaysia Prime Minister reported to the press that Inmarsat and the AAIB had concluded that MH370 had flown south and concluded that flight MH370 ended its flight in the Southern Indian Ocean.

Jeff Wise stated that there was no physical evidence for this conclusion only satellite data and essentially the prime minister was telling the loved ones of the passengers and crew that their loved ones are dead because of math. Never in human history has 239 people been declared dead on mathematics alone.
Jeff Wise’s theory was clear to him based on the overwhelming evidence that the pilot decided to commit mass murder-suicide.