Boeing with a mystery in the ocean: the almost three-year search for missing flight MH370 has been stopped. Missing Malaysian Boeing, someone turned around a malaysia airlines Boeing 777

Meanwhile, the investigation, which was carried out by Malaysia along with seven other countries - the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became inaccessible to radar, it spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After approximately 40 minutes, communications with ground services were lost, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to arrive from the on-board terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that the Boeing changed course over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu and crossed Malaysia for the second time in southwest direction and headed south. Presumably the flight ended in the southern part Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The black box signals were never recorded.

A Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, flying jointly with the Chinese China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), (March 7, 22.40 Moscow time), without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course. The last message from the plane was: “Everything is fine, good night.”

At the moment of last contact - literally a minute before entering the air control zone of Vietnam - the airliner was 220 kilometers from east coast Malaysia. The weather in the area of the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

On board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three US citizens, two each New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one resident each from Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, the real nationality of at least two of those on board was then called into question due to evidence that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians were traveling on the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to the international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were heading to Europe as illegal migrants.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorolla, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing was carrying not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named. transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

The transportation of the unknown cargo was carried out by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, but another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, had to pick up the delivered goods on its behalf.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China participating in the search operation doubled the search, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (more than 50 thousand square kilometers) had been surveyed. However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from a number of governments, by that time there was no sign of the aircraft.

The first in 16 months as part of the investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines was a fragment of a wing (flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 at French island Reunion in the Indian Ocean is thousands of kilometers from the area of the main exploration work being carried out near Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After the found fragment of the plane, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, as well as the French prosecutor's office, believed that it belonged to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015 there were search areas. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

Summer 2016. In July, media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, had taken a simulator flight into the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane allegedly disappeared in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, said that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrolled crash. According to the automatic signals that the airliner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - “first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one.”

On January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China lost the Malaysian Boeing MH370, which lasted more than two years. According to the joint statement of the three states, despite all efforts made, the use latest technologies, modeling methods and consultations with highly qualified and best-in-class specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Conducting searches for the missing MH370 Malaysia for individuals and organizations.

At the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 debris had been confirmed. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with African countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side pledged to help recover any likely debris that might wash up on its shores.

Team investigating the disappearance of the aircraft, which will be published within a year.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti

TALLINN, March 7 – Sputnik. The Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Boeing 777-200 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, flying jointly with China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), disappeared from radar screens at 02:40 Malaysian time on March 8, 2014 (March 7, 22:40 Moscow time), without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course. The last message from the plane was: “Everything is fine, good night.”

At the time of last contact - literally a minute before entering Vietnam's air control zone - the airliner was over the South China Sea, 220 kilometers from the eastern coast of Malaysia. The weather in the area of the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorola, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing carried not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named in the transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

The transportation of the unknown cargo was ordered by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, but another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, had to pick up the delivered goods on its behalf.

The investigation into the fate of MH370 is being carried out by an independent body led by Malaysia, the state of registry and operator of the aircraft, with assistance from seven countries: the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.

According to the investigation, the airliner remained in flight for several hours after air traffic controllers lost contact with it, and made three turns, one of them to the left. As a result, the plane headed west, and then south, towards Antarctica.

Experts reconstructed the plane's route using military radar records. Means of objective control (radar of the Royal Air Force base at west coast Malacca Peninsula) recorded that flight MH370 did not fly for long in the direction of Beijing. Over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, located near the coast of the South China Sea, the liner changed course and crossed Malaysia for the second time in the opposite, southwestern direction. Radars lost it over the Gulf of Malacca, south of the city Kuala Lumpur.

About 40 minutes into the flight, someone turned off the plane's navigation instruments, communications with ground services, even the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) system, which is accessible only from the cockpit.

Almost at the same time, the airliner strayed from its intended course, remaining unnoticed in air traffic control zones.

The board indicated its existence in space only by electronic messages to Inmarsat satellites. According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, after the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200, Inmarsat telecommunications satellites received electronic pulses from the on-board terminal for another seven hours, informing about the status of the aircraft's systems. Later, based on analysis of satellite information, Inmarsat concluded that the flight could have ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

Signals from the missing plane's black boxes were not recorded. Meanwhile, under favorable circumstances, they should have been heard several hundred miles away.

A full-scale search and rescue operation was organized to search for the missing airliner. 26 countries took part in it, including Russia.

A massive multinational search and rescue operation was carried out sequentially, first in the South China Sea, then in the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea, and when results could not be achieved there, searchers focused on a wide area in the southern Indian Ocean. The joint actions of almost 80 ships and aircraft from 15 countries of the world, dozens of satellites, hundreds of fishing vessels, ground monitoring stations, hundreds of thousands of “cyber volunteers” and even sorcerers on the anniversary of the tragedy did not produce the slightest result: not even the tiniest fragment of the missing airliner was found and drops of fuel from its tanks.

At the end of January 2015, the department civil aviation Malaysia officially declared everyone on board the airliner dead and what happened to the plane as an accident.

On March 8, 2015, on the anniversary of the tragedy, an expert report was published on the results of a year-long investigation into the disappearance of the airliner, conducted by order of the Malaysian Ministry of Transport. It contained many technical details, such as the fact that the power source for the underwater acoustic beacon had expired a year before the plane disappeared, but it is not clear whether this fact had any impact on the investigation. In addition, in the published report, experts came to the conclusion that there were no technical anomalies on board and that the aircraft crew had nothing to blame. Experts noted that the 580-page report is interim and technical, since it is the most massive and expensive in world history search operation has not yet led to success.

By that time, the Malaysian authorities alone had spent about 20 million euros searching for the missing airliner.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China, participating in the search operation, announced a decision to double the search area, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (more than 50 thousand square kilometers) had been surveyed. However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from the governments of a number of countries, by that time no traces of the aircraft could be found. The first discovery in 16 months as part of the investigation into the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines was a fragment of a wing (a flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean - thousands of kilometers from the main area. exploration work ongoing in Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After studying the found fragment of the plane, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and the French prosecutor's office confirmed that it belongs to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015, 80 thousand square kilometers of the search area were surveyed. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

In the summer of 2016, new versions of the plane crash appeared. In July, media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, had taken a simulator flight into the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane allegedly disappeared in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, reported that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrolled crash. According to the automatic signals that the airliner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - "first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one."

On January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China agreed to suspend the search for the missing Malaysian Boeing MH370, which had been going on for more than two years. According to a joint statement of the three states, despite all efforts made, the use of the latest technologies, modeling techniques and consultations of highly qualified and best-in-class specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Malaysia has allowed individuals and organizations to conduct the search for the missing MH370.

The team investigating the disappearance of the plane is preparing a final report, which will be published within a year.

Pilot and flight instructor Simon Hardy told Australia's 9 Now that the commander of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, Zachariah Ahmad Shah, was trying to confuse air traffic controllers. He turned off the detection systems and flew the plane on the border of the Malaysian and Thai areas of responsibility. This area is a blind spot.

Hardy is confident that the pilot's actions were deliberate, and points out that Ahmad Shah made an unnecessary detour near the Malaysian state of Penang, where he was born. According to Hardy, this is how the pilot said goodbye to his home.

Former head of Canada's Transportation Safety Bureau, Larry Vance, who was also present at the program, expressed the opinion that the pilot was planning suicide, and killed all the passengers along with him.

He believes that the ship's commander could have depressurized the cabin so that passengers and crew members would lose consciousness, while he himself had first put on an oxygen mask.

“He was going to kill himself. Unfortunately, he killed all the passengers along with himself. This was intentional,” Vance said.

Experts disagreed on whether the plane was directed into the sea by the pilot, or whether Shah piloted it until it ran out of fuel, at which point it crashed. According to research, the Boeing did not prepare for landing and landing on water because its flaps were not extended. Thus, this confirms the hypothesis that the plane was not controlled by the pilots before the actual crash.

A Malaysian National Airlines airliner with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, making a joint flight with China Southern Airlines from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course .

According to established data, the weather in the area of the disappearance was good, the plane was controlled by experienced pilots. The captain, 53-year-old Malaysian citizen Zachary Ahmad Shah, has worked at MAS since 1981, his flight time reached almost 18.5 thousand hours, 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid has flown almost three thousand hours. The aircraft had undergone a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

It was initially reported that on board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 citizens of Malaysia, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three US citizens, two New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians each, one resident of Russia and Italy , the Netherlands and Austria. However, it quickly became known that two who were originally on the list of passengers on the flight - Austrian Christian Kozil and Italian Luigi Maraldi - reported the theft of their passports while in Thailand and did not fly anywhere.

Malaysian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the terrorist attack, which was allegedly carried out by terrorists who boarded the plane using someone else's passports.

However, Kuala Lumpur is major center transportation of illegal migrants using stolen passports to Europe, and therefore it is possible that the presence of two people on board with fake passports is not directly related to the disappearance of the plane.

An explosion on board has long remained one of the most common versions, since it is difficult to imagine anything else capable of destroying a modern airliner at once. According to experts, it was either an explosion, a lightning strike, or rapid decompression. However, the Boeing 777 is capable of continuing to fly even after a lightning strike, and even after a sharp decompression, but after an explosion there is no longer a chance, experts say.

Over the course of three years, the wreckage of the plane was found in South Africa, Tanzania, and Thailand, however exact location The crash was never determined. The last officially confirmed remains of a Boeing 777 were found on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. According to an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Authority, the debris found was part of the trailing edge of the plane's wing.

In 2017, Australia officially stopped any efforts to find the plane or investigate the incident.

However, the Search Agency Coordination Center (JACC) continues to work closely with the Malaysian government to share information on the case and support the families dead passengers and crew members.

Currently, the wreckage of the missing liner is being recovered by a private American company, Ocean Infinity. In January of this year, the Malaysian government promised search engines to pay $70 million if the plane or its black boxes were discovered.