10 Years Of Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: The Biggest Mystery In Aviation History

On March 8, 2014, it was a just routine 6-hour flight for the 227 passengers and 12 crew members of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 when it took off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing, China.

But it was not to be... and ten years on the world is still searching for answers and remains of the Boeing 777 that vanished into thin air, or the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

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The flight that disappeared

Less than 40 minutes after the MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur it disappeared from the radars and has never been seen or heard again.

A massive multinational search in the southern Indian Ocean, where the jet was initially believed to have crashed, found nothing. Apart from some small fragments that later washed ashore, no bodies or wreckage have ever been found.

Even after ten years and the most expensive search in the history of aviation, what happened to MH370 or where it ended up remains a big mystery.

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MH370 conspiracy theories

The unimaginable disappearance of a Boeing 777 and 239 people on board it has puzzled aviation experts and also given rise to several, often wild conspiracy theories.

This includes: -- shot down by the US, shot down by the Russians, hijacked, alien abduction, swept into a blackhole, engine malfunction, and murder-suicide by the pilot.

Families wait for their loved ones

While the proponents of these wild theories argue that their assumption is foolproof, none of them have been able to console the 239 grieving families who are waiting for answers, ten years on.

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Most of them haven't performed the last rites of their loved ones and some even believe that they are still alive, out there lost on a remote island like Robinson Crusoe.

They argue the mystery must be resolved, not just for personal closure but also to prevent future disasters.

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