The pilot of flight MH370 that disappeared seven years ago made numerous turns to avoid detection before the passenger jet took its final, fatal course, a new study found. MH370 vanished in March, 2014, with Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah dying alongside 238 passengers and crew, including six Australians. The research by aerospace engineer…
Aviation experts probing the mystery of flight MH370 have identified a probable crash site that they say warrants a new search of the ocean floor. They believe the Malaysia Airlines jet flew 2,700 miles past Indonesia before crashing into the South Indian Ocean near to the coordinates of S34.2342 and E93.7875. Victor Iannello, who assisted…
The search for the flight MH370 has seen a new twist after media reports said pieces of a plane had washed ashore recently on a beach in Queensland, Australia. The debris was discovered by Mick Elcoate, who was fishing in the area on 5 October. Elcoate told The Australian newspaper that he initially thought that…
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft A320 near Jinnah international airport Karachi. PIA spokesperson Abdul Sattar confirmed the crash and added that Flight 8303 was carrying 90 passengers and 8 crew members from Lahore to Karachi. Please upload for updates… UPDATE Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of PIA A320 have been…
The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was in control of the plane “until the end”, French investigators reportedly suspect, after gaining access to “crucial” flight data. The readouts “lend weight” to suspicions that he crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide, they were cited as saying. The revelations based on Boeing data came days…
Malaysia’s transport minister said Sunday that the government is open to new proposals from U.S. technology firm Ocean Infinity or any other companies to resume the hunt for Flight 370, as families of passengers marked the fifth anniversary of the jet’s mysterious disappearance. Ocean Infinity mounted a “no cure, no fee” search for the plane…
A safety report into the disappearance of flight MH370 has concluded that the plane was manually turned around mid-air, rather than being under the control of autopilot, and that “unlawful interference by a third party” could not be ruled out. It also disproved theories that had suggested the pilot and first officer brought the plane…
The search for MH370 by Seabed Constructor appears to be still underway, even though the official search ended this week. ABC Australia reports that several scientists and aviation buffs that have been following the Seabed Constructor’s search on twitter have noticed that the vessel has moved to a new location and have re-deployed it’s undersea…
The four-year hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has ended with the latest, privately funded search coming to a close. US-based Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to survey a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean. But it found nothing and Malaysia’s government says it has no plans to begin any new…
Malaysia’s new transport minister said the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by a private U.S. firm will end on Tuesday next week and there will be no more extensions. Houston-based Ocean Infinity has been searching for the aircraft that disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people…
60 Minutes Australia has conducted a special investigation into the disappearance of MH370. The show brought together experts including John Dolan, the former Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy, former Senior Investigator with the Transport Safety Board of Canada, Larry Vance, aviation safety expert Captain John Cox…
Nearly 80,000 square kilometres have been searched since January without finding any sign of the wreckage as the latest search enters its final days. The search enters its final phase this week, more than four years after the jet went down. This comes despite earlier hopes that a 25,000-square-kilometre area most likely to contain the…
