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Brenna Cooper
Here are the final recorded words from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's pilots captured just moments before the aircraft - and all those onboard - vanished.
MH370 had departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport in the early hours of 8 March 2014 en route to Beijing, China. The flight was scheduled to land in the Chinese capital five hours and 34 minutes.
However, the flight would never make it.
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MH370 last made contact with air traffic control while flying over the South China Sea, with investigators believing the flight likely crashed somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean, around 2,500km west of the Australian city of Perth.
Minor fragments of the aircraft have since been recovered by investigators, confirming that MH370 likely crashed around 08:19 and 09:15 on 8 March due to fuel exhaustion.
All 239 passengers onboard are believed to have died.
Extensive searches have continued to take place in the Southern Indian Ocean, while a number of conspiracy theories have regarding what had 'really' happened to MH370 have circulated online over the years.
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Final contact was made with the aircraft at around 1:19am, with Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah sending the following transmission about 38 minutes after take-off.
"Good night, Malaysian three seven zero," he said in the transmission, moments before the plane entered Vietnamese air space.
Sky News added that the plane's transponder was turned off shortly after the message was sent, meaning that it could not easily be tracked.
Military radars out later show that MH370 had veered off of its flight path and begun to head back towards Malaysia. The flight would exit Malaysian military radar range around 230 miles northwest of Penang Island in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia.
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The recording was released more than 50 days after the flight vanished during a briefing with the families of the missing passengers. 150 of those onboard were Chinese nationals alongside 50 Malaysians and citizens of France, Australia, Indonesia, India, the United States, Ukraine and Canada (via Reuters).
While we may never know what exactly happened inside the cabin of MH370 on that fateful night, investigators may be closer than ever to recovering the plane's debris.
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Back in February, it was revealed that Southampton-based company Ocean Infinity was using an ocean support vessel to comb the seabed of the seabed of the Indian Ocean in search of clues.
The Telegraph added that the search had been backed by the Malaysian government, who'd previously agreed to a 'no find, no fee' deal with the robotics company at the end of last year. However it is unclear if a deal was since been reached by the two parties.