What happened to the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014?

In our article, we have compiled information about what happened to the Boeing 777 passenger plane of Malaysia Airlines, which disappeared on March 8, 2014.

On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, disappeared from radar shortly after 1:30am with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard. The last known radar contact with the plane was over the South China Sea, 120 nautical miles off the east coast of Malaysia. The plane had just passed from Malaysian to Vietnamese airspace when air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane. No distress signal was ever received. The aircraft's transponder and Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) were also turned off, preventing any further contact. An international search effort was launched in the South China Sea, but no wreckage or other debris was found. After a few weeks, the focus of the search shifted to the southern Indian Ocean, based on analysis of satellite data. In July 2015, a piece of the plane's wing was found on the French island of Réunion, confirming that the plane had indeed crashed in the Indian Ocean. The search for the main wreckage and flight data recorder continued for another two years, until a piece of the fuselage was discovered off the coast of South Africa in October 2017.