Was MH370 debris found in the China sea?

Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer for now-defunct satellite imagery company Tomnod, found what looked like plane debris in the South China Sea only days after the plane vanished on March 8, 2014. She said her discovery was ignored at the time when it was thought to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.



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The piece of debris was found by the fisherman named Tataly in 2017, after it washed up on the Madagascar shore in 2017 in the wake of tropical storm Fernando. He kept the landing gear door at his home for five years and wasn't aware of its significance. The fisherman's wife was using the door as a washing board.

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The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished in 2014 remains missing. THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing photos of an old, abandoned plane at the bottom of the sea, falsely claiming it shows the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing since it went down in 2014 with 239 people aboard.

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Possible causes of the aircraft's disappearance That the signals had likely been switched off from inside the aircraft suggested suicide by one of the crew, but nothing obviously suspicious was found in the behaviour of the captain, the first officer, or the cabin crew immediately prior to the flight.

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How much did the search cost? In 2014, Australia committed $90 million to the search for MH370, including $60 million to support the underwater search activities. The People's Republic of China committed $20 million in the form of funding and equipment.

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But significant aspects of the case remained unexplained, including the plane's ultimate resting place, and search officials have long since given up trying to determine what happened. Officially, MH370 is a cold case.

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Dutch prosecutors said that there are strong indications that the Russian president decided on supplying a Buk missile system — the weapon that downed MH17 — to Ukrainian separatists.

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Yet such disappearances are not that uncommon: according to records assembled by the Aviation Safety Network, 100 aircraft have gone missing in flight and never been recovered since 1948.

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Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. MH370 was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day. The flight was carrying a total number of 227 passengers (including 2 infants), 12 crew members.

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Disappearance (8 March 2014) Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:42 local time (MYT; UTC+08:00) en route to Beijing Capital International Airport, where it was expected to arrive at 6:30 local time (CST; UTC+08:00).

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Not only did this confirm the plane was not intact, but modelling of ocean currents concluded that MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean near Western Australia, and ocean currents then transported debris to Africa a year later.

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Several other planes have disappeared in the region including five US bombers that vanished in 1945, but in spite of massive air and sea searches, no trace of the bodies or aircraft was ever found. In 2009 a flight from Rio De Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228 passengers and crew.

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In 2014 all the families of passengers and crew on board MH370 were offered interim payments of US$50,000, non-conditional and regardless of any legal action, which some accepted.

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Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off in a Lockheed Electra 10E from Lae, New Guinea, on July 2nd, 1937. But the Lockheed Electra vanished over the Pacific, and the pioneering pilot vanished without a trace.

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The barnacles attached to the already-recovered Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 debris offer up partial clues. Scientists hope that the largest barnacles from the debris become available for research to determine a complete debris path.

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