THE MYSTERY
On March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that had departed from Koala Lumpur was bound for Beijing, China, when the captain got the radio handoff from Malaysian air traffic control to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Min Center. The captain of the 777 replied simply, “Good night. Malaysia Three Seven Zero.”
Those were the last words anyone ever heard from anyone aboard the flight. Soon after that final radio call, Malaysia 370 changed course, turning from a northerly heading to the southwest, continuing across the Malaysia peninsula and then west, and then south, out over the vast, empty Indian Ocean, where it rests today, based on analysis of satellite data. We have found some wreckage, verified pieces of the 777 that have floated ashore on distant islands. But…
