On March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines flight carrying 239 vanished over the Indian Ocean without a trace, leaving the world baffled.
Now, a 440 page “final” document on the mystery has been released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) – the main body investigating the mystery – which said that the captain of MH370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had used a flight simulator weeks before that was an “initially similar” route to the one taken – suggesting that he went off route intentionally.
The simulator shows that Captain Shah flew up the Strait of Malacca, with a left-hand turn and track into the southern Indian Ocean – similar to satellite data tracking MH370.
The report from ATSB said: “By the last data point the aircraft had flown approximately 4,200 nautical miles.
“This was further than was possible with the fuel loaded on board the aircraft for flight MH370.”
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The ATSB has described the loss as “inconceivable” and “unacceptable”.
More than three years later, experts are no closer to solving the mystery and have given up on the search, despite the report stating that it believes with “unprecedented precision and certainty” that the plane crashed northeast of the search zone.
The document from ATSB adds: “The understanding of where MH370 may be located is better now than it has ever been.
“The underwater search has eliminated most of the high probability areas.”
“We deeply regret that we have not been able to locate the aircraft, nor those 239 souls on board that remain missing.
“It is almost inconceivable and certainly societally unacceptable in the modern aviation era… for a large commercial aircraft to be missing and for the world not to know with certainty what became of the aircraft and those on board.
“Despite the extraordinary efforts of hundreds of people involved in the search from around the world, the aircraft has not been located.”