Flight MH370

 Flight MH370:

An inexplicable disappearance

I chose to talk about an accurate fact that made me wonder a lot.

Many planes vanish all around the world in a year but this one defies the laws of nature.

The 8^th March 2014, a plane from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing took off at 00:41 am with 237 passengers and the crew. They came from Iran, the USA, Canada, Indonesia, and so forth but mainly from China and Malaysia. After sending several signals apprising Malaysia Airlines everything was all right, less than an hour after the takeoff, the contact was lost.

Many researches were made to find the plane or at least the wreckage of it but nothing relevant. Logically, a black box which enables the searchers to locate the machine, should have been detected but unfortunately it has not. The searchers were facing up to a big problem because the batteries of black boxes are used up within a month. After this period, there were less luck to find the plane and to save lives, if there remain any. A search area was delineated and then changed near the west coast of Australia. Special equipment has been used but all of this was unsuccessful. Even a sort of robot, which had sonars, was dived to check whether there was something weird detected. But again it was fruitless. The research ceased...

However, supprisingly, seven months after the crash of the flight MH370, at the start of October, the ICAO decided to launch the research again so to send three boats the Fugro Equator, the Fugro Discovery and the GO Phoenix. They will comb the search area with their powerful sonars. Nevertheless, this research is really lavish, it cost about 100 million dollars and therefore it causes a big polemic about it. This aviation case is the most intriguing that people have heard of for decades.

On the one hand, this is a waste of money because wherever the plane is, it won't change anything. The boats are probably not to find people who are starving for seven months. ICAO hired people to search in the boats in hard conditions to pinpoint a machine, if it was for lives it would be comprehensible but in this case it is not.

On the other hand, even though the likelihood to find someone alive are low, from the point of view of a victim's family it could change a lot of things to be aware of the fact that someone has survived. But only time will tell...

Amina Bouféra