‘Gone, but still here’: how vanished flight MH370 is reflected in a father’s dementia

All Right. Good Night. performed in Berlin in 2021. Photograph: Merlin Nadj-Torma

On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur airport. Somewhere over the Indian Ocean the plane, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished from air traffic radar.

Though the subsequent search was the biggest in aviation history, the mystery of what happened to the passengers and crew has never been solved. The families have been left in a state of uncertainty, their questions unanswered.