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The Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance, also known as MH370 disappearance, refers to the event when a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet disappeared on March 8, 2014, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur🇲🇾to Beijing🇨🇳. The plane took off at 12:41 AM local time and reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 ft (10,700 m) at 1:01 AM. As the plane was about to enter Vietnamese airspace🇻🇳, its transponder was turned off.
The Malaysian military and civilian radar started tracking the plane when it made a U-turn and flew southwest over the Malay Peninsula, then northwest over the Strait of Malacca. At 2:22 AM, Malaysian radar📶🛜lost contact with the plane over the Andaman Sea. The Inmarsat satellite🛰️, located in geostationary orbit above the Indian Ocean, received signals from Flight 370 hourly and last detected the plane at 8:11 AM.
On March 24, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K.'s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that the flight had crashed in a remote area of the Indian Ocean 🌊 , approximately 2,500 km (1,500 mi) southwest of Australia🇦🇺. The search for wreckage was challenging due to the remote location of the crash site.
Starting in 2015, pieces of wreckage indicating that the plane had broken up were found washed ashore in Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean. In 2018, the Malaysian government determined that the change in the flight path had been made manually from inside the plane, but the reason behind the plane's disappearance remained a mystery!
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