Why Did Flight MH370 Disappear?

"Shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members left Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia on what was supposed to be a routine, five-and-a-half-hour flight to Beijing. An hour later, it dropped off air traffic control screens and was never sighted again. In the following days, dozens of planes and ships from multiple countries searched hundreds of miles for MH370, but found nothing."

"He has received more attention because at the time of the flight, his wife had moved out of the family's main house and was living in a second house. Also, he was in charge of radio communication, which ceased for no apparent reason after an hour. In addition, he spent many of his off-hours on a flight simulator program, and afterward, police found on it the exact route MH370 is thought to have taken."

A Boeing 777 departed Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, bound for Beijing and disappeared from air traffic control an hour after takeoff. Multinational air and sea searches covered hundreds of miles but found no trace of the aircraft or its occupants. The first officer was a 27-year-old on his final training flight and was reportedly flying while the captain served as pilot-in-charge. The captain experienced recent household tensions and spent extensive time on a flight simulator; police later found the suspected MH370 route on his simulator. Radar analysis indicates an abrupt U-turn and a continued flight toward the Indian Ocean, prompting speculation of a planned pilot suicide.

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