It will soon be exactly one year since the mysterious disappearance of a Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia Airlines passenger plane. Communication with flight MH370 was lost on 8 March 2014.
Until now, not only the place of the fall, but even the direction of the aircraft has not been established. According to all documents, the airliner flew from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Assuming that the Boeing did not deviate from its course, then its wreckage with a high degree of probability should have already been found.
The New Zealand Herald has published one version. Experts, after analyzing satellite data, decided that the plane, for an unknown reason, headed towards Antarctica, a continent located in the very south of the Earth. After the communication with the aircraft was lost, the plane remained in the air for several more hours.
Experts have established that during this time the airliner made three maneuvers. First, the plane turned west, and then flew south - towards Antarctica. Expert Malcolm Brenner (Malcolm Brenner) believes that all this resembles a planned action. By the way, on March 8, National Geographic will present a film in which this version will be considered in more detail.
The presented version is just one of many. Someone says that the plane was hijacked and, given the amount of fuel on board, it could fly to the countries of Central Asia. According to another version, the crash was the result of a mental disorder of the aircraft commander (they say that it was a suicide). There is also a version that the plane went off course due to an unknown natural anomaly that disabled its equipment.
Be that as it may, now 239 passengers on board are reported dead. Most of them (152 people) were from China, and another 50 were citizens of Malaysia. It should be said that the Boeing 777 is considered one of the most reliable aircraft in its class, and until 2014 it had almost no major accidents. In July 2014, the same Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down by one of the parties to the conflict in the skies over Ukraine.