CNN Host Asks: Could a 'Black Hole' Explain MH370's Mystery? (2023)

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What were the last words from Flight 370? ›

Malaysia's transport ministry released a transcript today of voice transmission from the plane's cockpit, with the final words, “Good night Malaysian three-seven-zero.”The government had previously said the final words were “All right, good night.”

Speculation has mounted about the possibility that hijackers took the plane to a remote island, although no group has claimed responsibility; unofficial researchers have identified more than 600 possible runways at which the plane was capable of landing. No confirmation has been received from Malaysian officials.

On March 24 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that, based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had concluded that the flight crashed in a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia.

“Good Night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero” was the last recording of the MH370 by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah as the plane left the Malaysian airspace and later turned off course. Since then the cause of one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries has never been solved.

He detailed that the aircraft would have had to be flying at speeds of under 150mph in order for passengers to make or receive calls. Most planes cruise at roughly 450 to 500mph, which would make the possibility of making a call impossible.

In 2014, all the families of passengers and crew on board MH370 were offered interim payments of US$50,000 (RM163,817), which some accepted.

While four pieces of debris thought to belong to the missing airliner have been discovered on the same beach, the door is the first to offer real clues into the 2014 crash. Nineteen pieces of wreckage have so far washed ashore in Madagascar and have been handed to the authorities.

The facts. Flight MH370, bound for Beijing, departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.42am on March 8, 2014. It last made contact with air traffic control at 1.19am over the South China Sea, with the words: "Good Night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero". Its final known sighting on military radar was at 2.22am.

Altogether 19 items of debris probably originating from MH370 have been found washed ashore in Madagascar, which is situated in the Indian Ocean at the latitudes where the South Equatorial Current interacts with the island.

On 17 November 2022, following a trial in absentia in the Netherlands, two Russians and a Ukrainian separatist were found guilty of murdering all 298 people on board flight MH17 by shooting it down. The Dutch court also ruled that Russia was in control of the separatist forces fighting in eastern Ukraine at the time.

Did they ever find Malaysia 370? ›

Numerous sightings of possible debris were made, but no debris from Flight 370 was discovered.

In a dramatic development, Ocean Infinity has committed to finding MH370 with a new search in early 2023 or 2024.

A) missing his holiday.

In the last seven decades, nearly 90 commercial airliners have gone missing — without a single piece of wreckage ever located.

The Boeing 777 was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Officials believe the plane ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the far southern Indian Ocean.

Since MH370's disappearance on March 8, 2014, families and friends of the aircraft's missing passengers have fought for information from Malaysia Airlines and the country's government.

An investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing more on a suspicion of foul play, as evidence suggests it was diverted hundreds of kilometres off course, sources familiar with the Malaysian probe say.

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Authorities say this piece of debris has been confirmed to be from MH370. It was found in June on Pemba Island, in the Indian Ocean near the mainland.

The underwater search for flight MH370 has ended, with no trace of the Malaysian Airlines plane being found. While the search has been going on, more than 20 pieces of possible debris have been found by members of the public, on the African coast and islands in the Indian Ocean.

Three Americans were on the flight. Other passengers were from Australia (6), Canada (2), France (4), Hong Kong (1), India (5), Indonesia (7), Iran (2), the Netherlands (1), Russia (1), Taiwan (1) and Ukraine (2). The manifest released by Malaysia Airlines included an Austrian and an Italian.

When was the last piece of MH370 found? ›

Three years after the jet carrying 239 passengers on board vanished in March 2014, Tataly, a fisherman, discovered the paneling in 2017.

MH370 was interrogated every hour by an Inmarsat satellite over the Indian Ocean and the communication was relayed via a receiving station in Gnangara to the UK.

US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – and kept it a secret for 50 years. Royce Williams was a real-life “Top Gun” 10 years before Tom Cruise was even born. On a cold November day in 1952, Williams shot down four Soviet fighter jets – and became a legend no one would hear about for more than 50 years.

The largest plane in the world -- Ukraine's Antonov-225 cargo plane -- was destroyed by Russian strikes outside Kyiv on the fourth day of Moscow's invasion, Ukraine's state-owned Ukroboronprom group said Sunday.

After ruling out bad weather, pilot error, mechanical failure, or onboard fire or explosion, they concluded that the crash was caused by the detonation of a warhead from a radar-guided missile fired from a Buk (also called SA-11) surface-to-air system that was more than capable of reaching the cruising altitude of ...

Four years ago Malaysia Airlines MH370 went missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane left its programmed flight path and headed south towards the Indian Ocean. During the last five years, several search teams have tried to locate the missing plane, but up to now, it hasn't been found.

Later that day, the Man in Black, as the monster, rips the pilot (Greg Grunberg) from the cockpit of the plane and kills him, leaving his mangled body in a tree; the pilot's corpse is found by Jack, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), and Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan).

Answer: The woman in the control room was shocked when the writer asked about another aero plane because there was no such plane flying in the sky that night as she saw on the radar.

When the pilot was lost in the storm, he saw another aeroplane. This was a ray of hope for him. He was pleased to see another pilot's face and willingness to help him escape the storm. He felt that the other pilot was very kind as he was helping and guiding him to get out of the storm.

What is the biggest mystery in aviation? ›

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart continues to be one of the most talked-about missing plane mysteries in history. On July 2, 1937, the world-famous American aviator and her partner, Fred Noonan, disappeared in her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is officially the flight with the most missing people (239 missing), although possible remains of the plane have been found in the Indian Ocean.

The recent discovery suggests that the landing gear was down when it hit the ocean and it indicates that the plane which suddenly disappeared was in fact deliberately drowned. The Flight MH370 crash in 2014 claimed 239 lives.

As part of a new documentary, experts say the plane almost certainly ran out of fuel after flying in the wrong direction over the Indian Ocean for six hours.

Several pieces of marine debris found on the coast of Africa and on Indian Ocean islands off the coast of Africa—the first discovered on 29 July 2015 on Réunion—have been confirmed as pieces of Flight 370. The bulk of the aircraft has not been located, prompting many theories about its disappearance.

Amelia Earhart's last confirmed words were spoken at 8:43 a.m. on July 2, 1937. She said, “We are on the line 157-337 flying north and south.” Earlier she had spoken the fatal words, “We are on you but cannot see you.” She was in trouble, and she knew it.

Many explanations for the disappearance have been floated, from an in-flight fire similar to that of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998 to the bizarre claim that the jet had been flown to a US military base on Diego Garcia, among others. Despite extensive searches across the Indian Ocean, the jet has yet to be has been found.

Flight MH370 debris suggests pilot lowered plane's landing gear and crashed deliberately, report says.

A United States marine robotics company has kickstarted a search for the missing MH370 aircraft, announced on the eighth anniversary of one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

Did they find Amelia Earhart's bones? ›

DNA testing may determine whether newly discovered bones from an island in the Pacific are those of Amelia Earhart – and perhaps shed light on what happened to the pioneering aviator after she disappeared. The bones were found on Nikumaroro, a remote island in the western Pacific Ocean, in 1940.

41 years (1897–1939)

Amelia Earhart / Age at death

Claims made in a US documentary that the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart crash-landed on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean and was taken prisoner by the Japanese appear to have been proved false by a photograph unearthed in a travel book.

In June 2014, Australian officials involved in the investigation said radar records suggested Flight 370 likely was flying on autopilot for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian controlled forces on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed.