After three years, the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is now over. MH370 has been missing since it’s route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 along with 239 passengers.
Chinese, Australian, and Malaysian officials made the statement, “Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modeling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft.”
“The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness.” They added.
A support group for family members about the flight, Voice370, released their own statement showing their disappointment. “Commercial planes cannot be allowed to just disappear without a trace,” the statement said. “Stopping at this stage is nothing short of irresponsible, and betrays a shocking lack of faith, tools, and recommendations of an array of official experts assembled by the authorities themselves.”
This disappearance remains to be one of the greatest aviation mysteries in modern history, so along with that, there are theories as to what happened to the missing plane.
The first conspiracy theory is that North Korea took MH370. Shortly after the disappearance, North Korea was dragged into the situation, with people throwing out allegations that North Korea had something to do with the disappearance. Just three days before, South Korea made a claim that North Korea almost took out a Chinese plane carrying 220 passengers. Then, just three days after, MH370 mysteriously disappeared.
Now, this “theory” I found to be quiet odd and humorous, despite the situation. Just three weeks after the plane went missing, the Sunday Sport announced that the plane had been found on the moon, of all places. Now, this was obviously fake and complete with a doctored photograph. The Sunday Sport is no strange to these odd articles that aren’t always true or believable
Lastly, people believe MH370 was shot down by the US military. A former French airline director who had been investigating the disappearance claimed that the missing plane was in fact shot down by American fighter jets who feared that it had been hijacked and would be used to attack the US military base on the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia.
Marc Dugain, who once ran the French airline Proteus, said that he had been warned not to look so closely into the disappearance of MH370 by a British intelligence officer who told him he was taking risks, according to France Inter.
Dugain had traveled to the Maldives and interviewed witnesses who reportedly told him that they had seen “a huge plane flying at a really low altitude’ towards the island bearing the Malaysian Airline colors”, The Independent reported.
Though there are many more theories involving the disappearance of MH370, some can be found to be quite believable, and some not so much (refer back to the plane being found on the moon.)
But, nevertheless, the suspension of the search for MH370 is saddening, and I wish nothing but the best for the family members with children, spouses, parents, and grandparents that are still missing.
