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The Times of India
The Times of India
World
Anushree Sinha

MH370 – twelve years on: The Boeing 777 that slipped every tracker on Earth

In the early hours of 8 March 2014, flight MH370 took off like any other, but it never landed, and its disappearance shocked the world. The Malaysia Airlines flight lifted off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, carrying 239 people — families, business travellers, children, and crew — bound for Beijing. Less than an hour later, the plane vanished. No distress call. No signals to air traffic control. Nothing.

In an age when satellites track planes across continents, and radar can monitor aircraft in real time, how could a massive Boeing 777 simply disappear? For hours, it flew somewhere nobody could see. For days, weeks, and now more than a decade, the world has waited for answers that never came. Families of the missing are still desperate for closure.

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