MH370 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with the loss of all 239 people on board on March 8, 2014 FAZRY ISMAIL/EPAA new report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 suggested that it was most probably hijacked and its controls were deliberately manipulated. The 1,500-page report released by the Malaysian government today states that the Beijing-bound aircraft’s sudden course reversal shortly after it took off from Kuala Lumpur was “difficult to attribute” to a system failure. It does not, however, offer a definitive explanation for the aircraft’s disappearance, which took the lives of 239 passengers and crew. In the official air accident report, Malaysian, Australian, US, UK and Chinese aviation experts concluded that when MH370 turned south off its northeasterly flight path to Beijing only 37 minutes after taking off on March 8, 2014, it was being flown manually, not by the autopilot.

Source: The Times July 30, 2018 11:02 UTC