Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing nearly 10 years ago with 239 people on board. 40 minutes later I didn’t hear from them again.
“I think this is certainly the biggest mystery of modern aviation,” leading aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey told Fox News.
The plane went way off course. Telemetry has stopped. Several pings were received by satellites that tracked it to the southern Indian Ocean. And then it disappeared.
“No one can understand how a modern airplane like a Boeing 777, with all its electronics and communications capabilities, could disappear without a trace,” Godfrey said.
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MH370 victim Philip Wood and his partner Sarah Bak. (Sarah Bike)
People at the Chinese airport could only wonder, including Sarah Beich from Michigan, who was waiting for her boyfriend, Philip Wood, from Texas, who was on the plane. They were planning to start a new life together abroad.
“He didn’t come and he never came,” she told Fox. “You know, it was like, ‘How could this happen? How could this be possible?'” There was no evidence of a collision. ”
Greg Palcott on Reunion Island where debris from MH370 plane was discovered, July 2015. (Fox News)
The disappearance triggered a multi-year, multi-national air, sea and underwater search, the largest in history. And there are very few things that it came up with.
Except for a few pieces of the plane that washed up on a distant shore, including part of a wing that was discovered on Reunion Island in 2015.
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Sarah Baik and Philip Wood were about to start a new life together abroad. (Sarah Bike)
Relatives of the victims will gather for a memorial service this week, but theories about the cause of the accident continue to emerge.
Theories range from mechanical failure to evil acts by the pilots to broader political intrigue.
Sarah said: “How come it’s been 10 years and we still don’t know what actually happened. That’s the biggest trauma.”
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Six years after the last expedition, there is new hope for answers to aviation mysteries.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was quoted as saying this week that he would support the reopening of all investigations into Flight MH370.
Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based marine robotics company, has previously tried to find the plane, but this time it is using state-of-the-art underwater equipment and wants to try again.
Map showing possible locations of MH370 using new WSPR technology. (Richard Godfrey)
In a statement provided to Fox News, the company said it hoped to “narrow the search to areas with the potential for success.”
Experts led by aerospace scientist Godfrey have devised a clever way to track a plane’s path. You can determine your location minute by minute by simply looking for small disturbances in the radio waves.
“I think we only need one more search,” Godfrey said confidently. “If you’re looking in the right place, you’ll find it.”
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This is encouraging news for the flying public, as understanding what happened could lead to new safety systems to prevent this type of tragedy from happening again.
“Ten million of us fly on airplanes every day, and they want to know if they can get to their destination safely,” Godfrey said.
It’s also encouraging news for those still grieving, including Bazik, who is trying to find solace at Camaronscito Eco Resort & Beach, the place she and her new husband founded in Panama.
A French police officer takes a photo of debris during the search for missing flight MH370 east of Sainte-Suzanne, France’s Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on August 11, 2015. (Richard Bouhe/AFP via Getty Images)
“Of course I have a wish,” she said. “We all want a solution. Leaving it alone is like a wound that never fully heals.”
After years of the MH370 mystery, everyone is hoping that recovery from this disaster can really begin.
