Highlights: This March 8, 2024, it is ten years to the day that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from radar screens after 40 minutes of flight with 239 people. An update on these ten years of systematically disappointed hopes for families with Florence de Changy, author of a long investigation into this affair. Three successive underwater search campaigns have also found nothing at the bottom of the sea. There is no reason to believe that a fourth search campaign will not locate the debris field of Flight MH370 and its 239 passengers.

This March 8, 2024, it is ten years to the day that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777, departing from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens after 40 minutes of flight with 239 people...

Flight MH370: ten years of mysteries, controversies and dashed hopes

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim spoke of resuming research “

in the event of convincing evidence

”.

An update on these ten years of systematically disappointed hopes for families with Florence de Changy, author of a long investigation into this affair (

Flight MH370, the disappearance

, Editions Les Arènes).

Relatives of those missing from flight MH370 during a memorial ceremony in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, March 3, 2024. REUTERS - Hasnoor Hussain

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Hong Kong

Florence de Changy

In March 2014, Anwar Ibrahim was about to return to prison for yet another political conviction.

During an interview at his party headquarters, a few days after the disappearance of the plane, the Malaysian politician was offended by the fact that his country claimed not to know what had happened to flight

MH370

He notably mentioned the sophisticated Thales radars for which he had himself signed the order.

Also read Flight MH370: ten years later, relatives of the victims call for new research

But since 2014, the roles have been reversed.

Anwar Ibrahim became Prime Minister, while the former incumbent, Najib Razak, is in prison, facing dozens of charges of massive corruption.

Najib Razak had been the spokesperson for the official version which claimed that the plane turned around and finally crashed in the Indian Ocean, based solely on data provided by the British satellite communications company Inmarsat. .

But not a single country on the planet has been able to provide the slightest radar or satellite image corroborating this scenario, and no debris has been spotted either on the surface of the ocean or at the bottom of the sea, the time of the crash.

Three successive underwater search campaigns have also found nothing at the bottom of the sea. There is no reason to believe that a fourth search campaign will not locate the debris field of flight MH370 and its 239 passengers.

Also read “Flight MH370, the disappearance”, revelations on the enigma with Florence de Changy

Flight MH370: ten years of mysteries, controversies and dashed hopes

Flight MH370: ten years of mysteries, controversies and dashed hopes

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