Planes vanishing in midair, never to be found, seemed like the kind of thing that only happened in movies until last year. When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, everything looked like business as usual until it disappeared from radar less than an hour into its flight to Beijing. The 239 people who were on board are now all presumed dead, although not a shred of debris has ever been recovered. In the early days the media made such a big deal out of it being a race to find the wreckage before the battery on the locator pings wore out. An explosive new report claims that, in fact, the battery on the locator for MH370 had expired a year before the flight was lost.
According to a report by the Associated Press, "The significance of the expired battery in the beacon of the plane's flight data recorder was not immediately apparent, except indicating that searchers would have had lesser chance of locating the aircraft in the Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed, even if they were in its vicinity. However, the report said the battery in the locator beacon of the cockpit voice recorder was working," said a source.
We now know that the locator beacon died more than a year before MH370 disappeared, so the chance of ever actually finding the missing plane with that technology was nonexistent. Now, one year later, the families of those aboard the doomed flight still are not sure exactly what happened.
Aviation experts all seem to lay the blame on the shoulders of the pilot do to a series of intentional actions that were taken and moves that were made. While it is widely accepted that he must have purposely flown the plane into one of the deepest parts of the ocean, other conspiracy theories abound.
While it sounds crazy to think that the plane might have actually been stolen and landed elsewhere by terrorists, the fact that this plane just disappeared without a trace is equally unreal. What do you think happened to MH370? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.
