What really happened Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, and remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew members on board. However, less than an hour after takeoff, the plane disappeared from radar screens and communication was lost.

The crew of the Boeing 777-200ER, registered as 9M-MRO, last communicated with air traffic control (ATC) around 38 minutes after takeoff, while the plane was flying over the South China Sea.

The plane vanished from ATC radar screens minutes later, but it was tracked by military radar for another hour, deviating westward from its planned flight path and crossing the Malay Peninsula and the Andaman Sea.

It flew out of radar range 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) northwest of Penang Island in Malaysia’s northwestern Peninsular.

The disappearance of Flight 370 was the deadliest incident involving a Boeing 777 and the deadliest in Malaysia Airlines history until it was surpassed in both categories four months later on 17 July 2014 by Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down while flying over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine.

The final investigative report issued by Malaysian civil aviation authorities provides no conclusive communications, navigation, or surveillance-based evidence as to what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to disappear in March 2014.