MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF FLIGHT MH370

Maitri Roy

Class-9 Section-A

2^nd May, KOLKATA:

“All right Good Night” was satisfactory message sent by the co-pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to their air traffic control on the ground little, did anyone guess at the time, that massage wasn't wrongly interpreted and minutes after this massage, this flight would become a world News.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday,8^th of March and was scheduled to arrive in Bejing at 6:30PM(22.30GMT).It was carrying more about 239 passengers among which there were seven children. The flight was led by pilots Captain Zaharis Ahmed Shah, age 53 and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, age 27.Everything about this Boeing was normal until the flight lost contact with the ground, about an hour after it’s take off. The last communication between the plane and Malaysian Air traffic control took place about 12 minute later. At first initial investigations revealed the co-pilot had sent a normal massage which read “All right, Good Night”. But later, Malaysian authorities confirmed the last words heard from the plane spoken either by the pilot or co-pilot were in fact “GOOD NIGHT MALAYSIAN 370”.

This massage sets out very clearly that the jet was deliberately diverted by someone by board. Suspicion at first naturally falls on the two pilots-Zaharie and Fariq. But investigation revealed that nothing   absurd had been found against them. In fact none of them had specifically requested to be placed in the same flight. Both of them were very passionate and serious about their work. Malaysian authorities confirmed that the plane’s tracking devices were switched off in the cockpit, the communication systems were deliberately disabled, and the aircraft knowingly steered off its route. Officials are inquiring about the pilot’s family life and connections and also focusing on their psychological profiles. More than 100 people are interviewed who were in any way connected to people on board but still nothing significant has been derived. A few minutes after the last massage at 1.19am the plane’s transponder which communicates with the ground radar was shut down as the aircraft crashed from Malaysian air traffic control into Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea. The plane also failed to check in as scheduled at 1.21am with air traffic control in Hochi Mirth City, after 55 minutes at 2.15 Malaysian Military radar .The flight at a peat south of Phuket Island in the Strait of Malacca, west of its known location. Thai military radar logs also confirmed that the plane turned west and then north over the Andaman Sea, seven hours after the contact the connection was lost. A satellite above the Indian Ocean picked up data from the plane in form of an automatic Handshake between the aircraft and the ground station. After a week of the mysterious disappearance, the satellite above the Indian Ocean suggested the jet was in one of two flight corridors are stretching north between Thailand and Kazakhstan, the other south between Indonesia and the southern Indian Ocean. At 9.15am, the next day of the flight’s departure the next authentic contact was scheduled but there was still no response from the aircraft.

The plane planned route would have taken it north eastwards, over Cambodia and Vietnam. But it was found that the plane had suddenly changed from its northerly coast to head west ward.so, dozens of ships and planes switched to the sea west of Malaysian in a traffic search for the plane around this time baffled by the mysterious disappearance of the flight, the search was expanded dramatically to nearly three million square miles from Kazakhstan in the north to west areas of the remote southern Indian ocean. Australian search teams had also sent sighting made by the satellites. The Malaysian Prime Minister announced that the plane has undoubtedly gone down in the Indian Ocean.

After weeks of distress Australian and Chinese Vessel using underwater listening equipment detected ultrasonic signals from the plane’s black box flight recorders. This appears to be the most promising lead so far.Air Chief Marshal Augus Houston, Who is leading the search, said that further proceeding would be difficult and would take some time. The search, operation is in a race against time as the flight recorder batteries are due to run out sharing signals would no longer be `awaited. The batteries usually die in 30 days.

Regarding the passengers, these were many regiment personalities on board. Two Iranian men were found to be travelling with false passports but investigations revealed that they had no apparent links to terrorist groups. Four passengers had also checked in but did not show up at the airport. The family members of those on board were informed by phone and by tent massage on 24^th March that they must slowly give up hope.

The disappearance of flight MH370 was indeed mysterious. Malaysian authorities, assisted by international aviation and satellite exports, are new battling to piece together the plane’s final hours in the hope that they can find it’s wreckage explain what had happened to its 239 passengers. It is indeed difficult to imagine that an international airline which is exposed to so advanced technologies could just disappear into the thin air. It is a very shocking when one realizes how several innocent people old and young. Who had boarded the flight with different aspirations lie buried in the deep water of Indian Ocean. The world’s best forces are at work, frantically searching for the best flight and hopefully this mystery which has baffled the whole world will get solved soon.