Nine years after the disappearance of the flight MH370 of malaysian airlines the truth remains unknown. No trace of the 239 passengers who were on board or the plane. What have turned up are some loose components of the Boeing 777. But there is still a most pending search. The one that was announced precisely a year ago from the American company ocean infinitywhich already analyzed in 2020 an area of ​​about 112,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean without significant results.

Oliver PlunkettCEO of the company, assured then that they were fine-tuning the two machines that would work remotely in search of the missing Boeing 777. Not before contacting the Malaysian and Australian government because of the difficulty in obtaining permits for these boats to operate without any person inside. “But, it is our hope and I wish to return to continue the search at some point, certainly, for the first half of 2023“, he expressed. They will search in areas delimited by groups of external experts but also in the surroundings.

Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. | PS

Until then the unknown remains. It is unknown what happened on the aircraft when it lost contact with the air traffic control systems and he disappeared March 8, 2014when he was doing the journey from beijing to kuala lumpur. He flight disappeared from radar in the early hours of Saturday, 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, after reaching the cruising altitude of 35,000 feet (10,670 meters).

At least 40 ships and dozens of planes from seven countries were involved in rescue efforts in the seas around Malaysia and southern Vietnam in the days after the disappearance. Meanwhile, theories were beginning to circulate. The experts pointed to a sudden catastrophic failure or explosion due to the lack of distress signal. But the Malaysian air force chief said radar suggested the plane may have turned and diverted from its intended route before disappearing. Two of the flight crew members who used the stolen passports of an Italian citizen and an Austrian citizen also began to be investigated.

Among all the information that circulated that week, there is a certainty that remains today. The one pronounced by the head of the Malaysian Civil Aviation Authority, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, two days after the disappearance: “It is an unprecedented mystery.” So far, only a section of the trailing edge of one of the wings of the Boeing 777 – found in 2017 off the coast of Mauritius – and a piece of the wing, which was found in July 2016 in Réunion, have appeared. But no trace of the plane and no explanation as to why it suddenly disappeared from radar.