TWO years ago, around an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared. The plane was laden with 239 passengers and crew. Its last recorded position was close to Phuket, a Thai island.
As distraught relatives of those on board huddled in airport terminals awaiting news, hard facts proved elusive. So it remained. In the following months, wild speculation inevitably filled the vacuum. The plane was brought down by terrorists; the pilot had committed a heinous act of murder-suicide, purposefully plunging the jet into the ocean; the flight was hijacked by Russia and landed in a secret location in Kazakhstan at the behest of Vladimir Putin.
On the second anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, things are a little clearer, though not much. Despite an Australian-led search team scouring the Indian Ocean for the past two years, no plane—or the black boxes that might hold the secrets of its final hours—has ever been found. Perhaps they never will. But there have been tantalising clues. In July 2015 a piece of the wing...Continue reading
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