The airplane takes off from Kuala Lumpoor for China, makes a few wriggles on its course, then turns and flies towards Antarctica until it runs out of fuel. It crashed into the Indian Ocean and none of it is recovered.
It's a relatively recent case, and it was headline news about two years ago. Unfortunately, nobody has a clear idea of what went wrong but, as usual, the investigators eliminate possibilities one by one. It wasn't the weather. It wasn't a terrorist bomb. It wasn't sudden decompression. The two methods of communication with the outside world -- one by radio and one by satellite -- were both cut off at about the same time but they run on different circuits and are independent of one another.
Conclusion: Sherlock Holmes said it first. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (Actually Conan-Doyle ripped it off from Edgar Allan Poe's detective, August Dupin.) No matter. The only reasonable guess left was that the captain had isolated himself in the cabin, deliberately flew into an area not covered by radar, and committed suicide, taking everyone else with him.
It's a relatively recent case, and it was headline news about two years ago. Unfortunately, nobody has a clear idea of what went wrong but, as usual, the investigators eliminate possibilities one by one. It wasn't the weather. It wasn't a terrorist bomb. It wasn't sudden decompression. The two methods of communication with the outside world -- one by radio and one by satellite -- were both cut off at about the same time but they run on different circuits and are independent of one another.
Conclusion: Sherlock Holmes said it first. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (Actually Conan-Doyle ripped it off from Edgar Allan Poe's detective, August Dupin.) No matter. The only reasonable guess left was that the captain had isolated himself in the cabin, deliberately flew into an area not covered by radar, and committed suicide, taking everyone else with him.