On March 8th 2014 at 12.41am Malaysia Airways flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, China with 239 passengers and crew on board. Forty minutes later the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, transmitted his last message to Malaysia trafiic control as the aircraft left their area and was due to enter Vietnamese air space, “Good night Malaysian three seven zero.”
Then the plane disappeared. It never entered Vietnamese air space. No further word was heard from any of the crew and all communcation systems were shut down.
Based on modern satellite technology, theory says that the aircraft then headed back over Malaysia before turning south, out over the Southern Indian Ocean, where it is assumed it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
Despite many long searches, it has never been found.
It is now eleven years since the aircraft went missing and a new search of the Southern Indian Ocean is about to get underway. There are lots of clues to suggest it is somewhere deep down in that turbulent ocean….
…but suppose…just suppose…. it isn’t there at all….?