Lost MH370 jet may very well be discovered with new radio expertise 10 years after catastrophe
It was virtually 10 yeas in the past that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 passengers and crew on board.
It despatched no emergency misery calls. The plane was by no means heard from once more, however startling proof quickly emerged that the Boeing 777 had turned off its scheduled flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and continued flying on an unknown heading for an extra seven hours.
What precisely occurred that fateful day on March 8, 2014 stays the best unsolved thriller in aviation as specialists query what may have induced the airplane to divert so drastically astray.
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Was it struck by a catastrophic technical failure? Or was it hijacked – and in that case, who by?
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Answers to those questions could also be locked contained in the airplane’s black field flight recorders, now misplaced someplace on the seabed, greater than three miles underwater within the distant and storm-ridden Southern Indian Ocean.
But to mark a decade for the reason that catastrophe, a brand new BBC documentary sheds mild on whether or not new radio expertise could lastly assist find the lacking plane and asks what classes may be realized to make aviation safer.
The programme additionally hears from relations of the lacking passengers and crew. It options interviews with aviation specialists, former Malaysian Airlines workers, and former pilots in a bid to unpick what could have actually occurred to MH370 which was commanded by senior pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and first officer, Fariq Hamid.
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As new proof emerges of MH370’s doable location by way of pioneering radio expertise, which has by no means been used to find a lacking airplane earlier than, the documentary hears from scientists on the University of Liverpool who’re endeavor a serious new examine to confirm how viable the expertise is, and what this might imply for finding the plane.
It additionally explores different instances of lacking plane to look at what classes may be realized to make the aviation trade safer and investigates latest instances of mass-murder suicide by pilots.
It asks what may be finished to enhance the psychological well being of flight crew who’re chargeable for the lives of 10 million individuals who fly on daily basis.
* Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370 airs on on BBC One on Wednesday 6 March at 8pm.
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