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Check out the details of the disappearance of the flight with 239 passengers, which remains a great mystery. However, there are now chances of finding the missing plane from flight MH370.
10 years ago, in the early hours of March 8, 2014, the flight Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared just 40 minutes after takeoff, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Weather conditions were good at the time when the aircraft simply disappeared from radar. The case of the disappearance of the flight with 239 passengers is considered one of the greatest mysteries in world aviation.
Better understand the case of the missing plane from flight MH370
In total, 239 people, including 227 passengers, largely Chinese, and 12 crew members, were on board the Boeing 777, which was destined for the city of Beijing, before becoming one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
Even so long after the disappearance of the flight with 239 passengers, and despite some debris having reached the east African coast and islands in the Indian Ocean, the exact location of the missing plane's crash remains a mystery. In the days following the disappearance of flight MH370, the search area extended from Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, to Antarctica.
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The region has only been narrowed down based on satellite data, radar tracking and analysis of ocean currents. On January 29, 2015, almost a year after the incident, authorities officially declared that everyone on board the missing plane should be considered dead.
The measure paved the way for the payment of compensation to families. Two years later, in 2017, the search for the MH370 plane was officially ended. This was one of the most expensive operations of its kind ever carried out to date.
A last hope for relatives impacted by the aviation mystery
However, a last ray of hope took hold among the relatives and friends of the victims. Last week, Malaysia's Transport Minister, Anthony Loke, promised to invite the maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity, based in Texas, to hear a proposal on carrying out a new search operation for the disappearance of the Flight with 239 passengers.
Work would focus on the southern Indian Ocean. According to the minister, if the evidence presented by the company is credible, it will be possible to request approval from the Cabinet for a new contract to resume searches.
It is worth noting that, after the disappearance of flight MH370, many relatives of victims accused the airline and the Malaysian government of hiding information about the case.
There are several theories of what could have actually happened. They range from the hypothesis that the plane was shot down because of a sensitive load or a person on board, to reasons such as electrical failure, fire, sudden depressurization of the cabin, kidnapping, terrorism, suicide, fight and spatial disorientation. However, nothing has been officially confirmed.
The police officers even searched the houses of the co-pilot and commander, without finding any suspicious signs. Even the food served on the missing plane and the aircraft's loading were investigated, however, the mystery continues to this day, being the biggest in aviation.
Barnacles could identify what happened to flight MH379
Researchers from the University of South Florida, in the USA, were responsible for work, published in AGU Advances magazine.
In the study, they highlight that the chemical structure of each layer of a barnacle, a crustacean that forms a type of white plate on rocks, is determined by the temperature of the water at the time it was formed.
Taking this into account, scientists believe that chemical analysis can provide details, with some degree of precision, about the location of the plane crash in the Indian Ocean. The idea arose when photographs were analyzed of the wreckage of the missing plane, which was washed by the tide to the coast of Africa, a year after the accident.
