The mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 hit the one-year mark on March 8, 2015 and to date, no official explanation has been given on what truly happened to the Boeing 777 which had 227 passengers and 12 crew members flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
There have been a lot of theories on what happened. Among them included pilot errors and terrorism plots. But the latest update pins the blame on whoever was at the controls of flight MH370. According to the latest interim reports, the one behind the controls purposely did not want to be detected.
A transcript of conversations revealed that Malaysia Airlines had initially insisted that the aircraft was flying over Cambodia. Strangely, the claim was later on changed and bared that MH370 flew over the east coast of Vietnam.
MH370 was supposed to be flying 35,000 feet and should have made contact with Ho Chi Minh City. However with the transponder turned off, communication and visibility became virtually impossible.
The transcripts with air traffic controllers are appendices to the events that had transpired during the early hours of March 8, 2014 after the captain signed off with the words "Goodnight Malaysian Three Seven Zero" at about 1:19 local time.
That was the last that traffic controllers were able to communicate with flight MH370 and despite sending messages to the flight's pilots to contact Ho Chi Ming ATC, no response came.
Various theories have come out in connection with the appearance. Aside from hijack angles, the latest update is now being blamed on expired batteries of the underwater locator beacon of the "black box". It was something seen as a failure of Malaysia Airlines as far as properly updating their computer system.
Despite the seemingly bleak outlook a year after the said debacle, hope still floats on what truly happened to flight MH370. The three countries who are in the midst of the search efforts, China, Malaysia and Australia plan to meet next month to regroup and possibly seek viable solutions in the search efforts for flight MH370.
