{"id":62373,"date":"2024-03-06T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mh370-anniversary-10-years-malaysia-airlines-flight-plane-search-mystery-unsolved"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:31:59","slug":"mh370-one-of-aviations-biggest-mysteries-remains-unsolved-10-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62373","title":{"rendered":"MH370: one of aviation\u2019s biggest mysteries remains unsolved 10 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of passengers lost onboard ill-fated flight wonder whether a repeat disaster could happen, and if they will get an answer in their lifetime<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mh370-search-timeline-malaysia-airlines-flight-missing-plane-disappearance-visual-guide\">Timeline of the search for MH370 \u2013 a visual guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/mar\/06\/mh370-key-moments-in-the-search-for-missing-malaysian-flight-video\">MH370: key moments in the search for missing Malaysian flight \u2013 video<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shortly after midnight on 8 March 2014, a Boeing 777 heaved into the air from Kuala Lumpur and climbed steadily to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000ft. After being instructed to switch frequencies to Vietnamese air traffic control, the pilot replied in the polite but methodical manner that is common in radio calls: \u201cGood night, Malaysian three seven zero.\u201d It was the last message that would ever be received from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.<\/p>\n<p>A decade has passed since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/08\/malaysia-airlines-loses-contact-plane\">the plane veered wildly off course<\/a> during a routine flight to Beijing and disappeared but, despite one of the largest and most expensive multinational searches in history, one of aviation\u2019s greatest mysteries remains unsolved.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mh370-anniversary-10-years-malaysia-airlines-flight-plane-search-mystery-unsolved\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of passengers lost onboard ill-fated flight wonder whether a repeat disaster could happen, and if they will get an answer in their lifetimeTimeline of the search for MH370 \u2013 a visual guideMH370: key moments in the search for missing Malaysian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,41,50,70,2366,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-malaysia","category-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370","category-plane-crashes"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62374,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62373\/revisions\/62374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}