Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
- Status
- Cold Case
- Event began
- Mar 8, 2014
- Theories tracked
- 7
- Last updated
- May 22, 2026, 9:00 AM
Theory Briefing
- On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished mid-flight with 239 aboard — transponder severed, path deliberately reversed, main wreckage never found.
- Seven Inmarsat satellite 'handshakes' reconstructed the flight path into the remote southern Indian Ocean, but the search area has yielded only scattered debris washed ashore years later.
- The evidence pattern — deliberate system shutdowns, a calculated left turn, sustained controlled flight — rules out accident far more cleanly than it identifies a perpetrator.
- The leading theory is deliberate diversion by the captain; pilot suicide is a close second. Both remain unproven without the flight data recorder.
- MH370 is a case study in how information vacuums spawn competing narratives — the absence of a definitive answer keeps every theory, from mechanical failure to directed-energy weapons, technically alive.

