In the history of China's air crash, the most memorable is the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370, in a blink of an eye, it has been ten years since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370, until today, people have still not found its traces, it is like a visiting alien spacecraft, so disappeared from people's field of vision, in the past ten years, there are many suspicions about the disappearance of MH370, some people blame this incident on alien civilizations, saying that alien civilizations invited them over, Some people thought of conspiracy theories, saying that because there were Chinese high-tech talents on the plane, in order to prevent the talents from returning to Chinese mainland, the United States made this ruthless move to make the plane disappear. Most people believe that this is an unprecedented disaster, and the plane must have disappeared into the vast sea, but the sea is too vast, and some deep-water waters have not been set foot in humans, so it is undoubtedly as difficult to find the missing MH370 in the sea.
Although ten years have passed since the incident, we can still clearly remember every detail before the plane disappeared, in the early morning of March 8, 2014, MH370 planned to fly from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, after the boarding was completed, MH370 slid onto the runway and waited for the take-off order, according to the original plan, MH370 will arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport at 6:30 in the morning, the whole flight time lasted 5 hours and 34 minutes, as the American Boeing 777 aircraft MH370, It has been in service for 12 years before this, and there are a total of 227 passengers on board this voyage, including 154 Chinese passengers, and a total of 12 crew members, including the captain, the captain is 53-year-old Zahari Ahmad Shah, who has more than 18,365 hours of flight experience, and is a very experienced veteran pilot, and the co-pilot is 27-year-old Fahid Ali Hamid, who has about 2,763 hours of flight experience, so to speak, The captain and co-pilot are very good pilots. The voyage also carried 31,517 pounds of cargo.
At 0:42 a.m., after Captain Zahari communicated with air traffic control, he took off from runway 32R on time, and raised the altitude to 18,000 feet in accordance with the requirements of air traffic control, and at 0:46, the plane was raised to 35,000 feet again according to the requirements of air traffic control. After that, MH370 also flew in the direction of Beijing as usual, and most of the passengers on the plane fell into dreams, and some of them may have dreamed of the beautiful sunrise in the early morning of Beijing. However, after 37 minutes of normal flight, when the plane was about to enter Vietnamese airspace, Captain Zahari also had a final communication with Kuala Lumpur air traffic control, and the content of the call was translated into Chinese, to the effect that the plane was maintaining an altitude of 35,000 feet, planned to rise to 37,000 feet, and the plane was about to enter the airspace of neighboring countries.
At 1:20:31 a.m., the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control can still observe the normal navigation route of MH370 on the radar, but at 1:21 a.m., the signal of MH370 suddenly disappeared from the radar of the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control, and at the same time, the signal of MH370 also disappeared from the air traffic control radar in Ho Chi Minh City. The working principle of auxiliary radar is to rely on the transponder configured on the aircraft, when the auxiliary radar sends information to the transponder, the transponder will actively feedback the information, report some flight data and destinations, etc., but after 1:21 a.m., the MH370 signal disappeared from the radar at the same time, the transponder on the aircraft also stopped responding, according to the data received by the transponder at the last time from the air traffic control center, the aircraft was flying normally at the specified flight altitude of 35,000 feet, and the flight speed was 471 knots, The remaining fuel is 91,500 pounds, which is enough fuel to fly for more than six hours, depending on the fuel consumption of the aircraft.
In the case that the above means failed, the air traffic control center asked the Malaysian military for help, hoping to search for traces of MH370 with the help of military radar, and the Malaysian military found through military radar that MH370 first turned to the right, and then suddenly turned to the left, came to a big turn of more than 300 degrees, and then flew to the southwest, and finally turned right again on Penang Island, and then flew in a straight line, until it disappeared in the monitoring range of the military radar, according to the data on the military radar, The MH370 quickly gained altitude after losing contact, reaching a maximum of 58,000 feet, well above the aircraft's 43,000-foot flight altitude limit, before rapidly decreasing to 4,800 feet, flying over the Malay Peninsula and north-west, crossing Perak before disappearing from Malaysian military radar.
The disappearance of MH370 shocked people at home and abroad, and multiple witnesses later confirmed that they saw a passenger plane flying at low altitude at around 1:30 a.m. on March 8, 2014. After MH370 was lost, Malaysia launched a search and rescue work in Southeast Asia, this unprecedented search and rescue work, assisted by many countries, a total of 27 countries and regions, more than 30 aircraft and 60 ships participated in the joint search and rescue operation, but still clueless. Although the scope of the search and rescue was once expanded to 120,000 square kilometers in the subsequent search and rescue process, it was still like looking for a needle in a haystack to no avail. On January 29, 2015, after 10 months of search and rescue efforts, representatives of the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia officially confirmed the crash of flight MH370 and confirmed that all 239 people on board were killed.
On July 29, 2015, it was claimed that a piece of plane wreckage had been found on Liuliwan Island, but it was covered with shells, apparently the result of a long period of immersion in water. This wreckage has been identified by experts and determined to be part of the wing of the Boeing 777 model of the United States, and the only crash of the Boeing 777 aircraft is MH370, and later the aviation technology center has carefully checked the serial number and mark on the wing, and finally determined that the wing wreckage is on the MH370 wing, and the wreckage of the wing found is on Liuliwan Island, which is almost 4,000 kilometers away from the initial search and rescue area, and later experts have deduced the calculation model, which does not contradict the fact that the wreckage of the plane after a crash has been moving for a long time in the waves and finally floats here. However, the final crash site of MH370 has not been confirmed. In July 2016, Malaysia, Australia, and China jointly decided to temporarily suspend the search for MH370 aircraft. After more than 2 years of searching, it took a total of 1$500 million, still unable to determine the final location of the MH370 aircraft, the disappearance of MH370 has become the most expensive air crash search and rescue in aviation history.
To this day, the missing air crash is still an unsolved mystery, and it disappeared without a trace like a bubble that suddenly disappeared from our eyes, but it was a devastating blow to the families of those who suffered this air crash. So, I sometimes wonder which will come first, the accident or tomorrow? Who knows? Cherish the present and cherish the people in front of us, so that we can see the clouds and enjoy a beautiful life, right?