MH370 Is Back in the News: The Search Has a New Deadline, But the Plane Is Still Missing
MH370 Is Back in the News: The Search Has a New Deadline, But the Plane Is Still Missing Some mysteries survive because nobody has enough evidence. MH370 is different: it survives because investigators have too much evidence pointing in different directions, and the one object that could connect it all—the aircraft itself—has still not been found. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It carried 227 passengers and 12 crew members. The aircraft was a Boeing 777, one of the world’s most recognizable long-haul passenger jets, moving through a heavily monitored era of satellite communication, radar, and global tracking. Yet the plane vanished into one of the planet’s largest and most difficult search environments. Now the case has a fresh hook. Malaysia has extended its agreement with the deep-sea exploration company Ocean Infinity, giving the search a new 12-month window from July 2026 to June 2027. The search is not a vi...