On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), a Boeing 777 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, vanished from civilian radar screens just an hour into its flight. The disappearance became the greatest aviation mystery of the modern era after its communication systems were intentionally shut down, and military radar revealed the plane had executed a sharp turn, flying westward back across the Malay Peninsula and then south into the remote Indian Ocean.
Despite the most extensive and expensive search in history, only scattered debris—including a wing flaperon confirmed to be from MH370—was found washed ashore on distant coasts in the western Indian Ocean, offering little more than confirmation of its catastrophic end. Years later, with the main wreckage and the crucial flight recorders still missing, theories ranging from catastrophic system failure to a deliberate act by one of the pilots continue to fuel speculation and deny the victims' families the definitive answers they desperately seek.
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