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Mystery behind lost MH370 plane could be solved with new technology 10 years after disaster

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Published 18:20 29 Feb 2024 GMT

Mystery behind lost MH370 plane could be solved with new technology 10 years after disaster

Next week will mark 10 years since the flight went missing

Joshua Nair

Joshua Nair

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It's been almost 10 years since one of the most famous aviation mysteries in history took place.

Flight MH370 was planned to make the journey from Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Chinese capital Beijing on 8 March 2014.

Instead, it veered off course and disappeared without a trace.

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Aboard the plane were 227 passengers and 12 crew members, who have all been presumed dead following the incident.

The aircraft sent no distress calls and the plane was never heard from again, though it was later found that the Boeing 777 turned off its flight path and flew on an unknown path for an additional seven hours.

Despite experts initially thinking that they may have come closer to finding the location of the plane thanks to new evidence, there has ultimately been little progress in uncovering the wreckage or overall remains.

Nobody knows for sure what happened on that fateful day in 2014, remaining as the single greatest unsolved mystery in aviation history.

For all we know, the answers may be on the plane's black box flight recorders, which have been searched for since it disappeared, though they are probably somewhere along the seabed of the Indian Ocean.

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But here, at the ten year mark, a new BBC documentary is set to be brought to our screens called Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370, which will aim to discover if new radio technology can help to locate the missing aircraft once and for all.

It will also look at the lessons learned, and how aviation travel can be made safer to avoid situations like this.

The doc will feature interviews from family members of the missing passengers and crew, aviation experts, former Malaysian Airline employees and former pilots.

All of this new information will be used to determine what could have happened to the plane. which was commanded by senior pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and first officer Fariq Hamid.

New evidence that has emerged of MH370's possible location due to pioneering radio technology, which has never been used before to locate a missing aircraft.

Adli Ghazali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Scientists from the University of Liverpool, who are undertaking a huge study to see how legitimate the technology can be in this situation, will also be contributing to the doc, explaining how influential it can be in uncovering the mystery.

In addition to the MH370, other missing aircraft cases are covered to see what can be learned from the occurrences, and even looks at cases of mass-murder suicide by pilots.

The piece will also explore what can be done to improve the mental health of flight crew, who are responsible for the millions of plan passengers who travel each day.

Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370 will air on BBC One on 6 March.

Featured Image Credit: Pexels/Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images

Topics: Science, World News

Joshua Nair
Joshua Nair

Joshua Nair is a journalist at LADbible. Born in Malaysia and raised in Dubai, he has always been interested in writing about a range of subjects, from sports to trending pop culture news. After graduating from Oxford Brookes University with a BA in Media, Journalism and Publishing, he got a job freelance writing for SPORTbible while working in marketing before landing a full-time role at LADbible. Unfortunately, he's unhealthily obsessed with Manchester United, which takes its toll on his mental and physical health. Daily.

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