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The search for answers to a tragedy like the one suffered by Malaysia Airlines, the passengers of flight 370, and of course their families, is imperative, in fact, obligatory, both in legal and emotional and spiritual terms, especially when after all these years, nothing is still known about the whereabouts of the aircraft, nor of its 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
It was back on March 8, 2014, when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was lost in the vastness of the Indian Ocean, hours after giving an alert to Malaysian air traffic control when it was flying over Vietnamese airspace on its route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
After Malaysian pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah's warning, his plane disappeared from radar screens, but it could still be seen that it made a sharp left turn to begin heading out into the ocean, never to return.
'Official version' against all kinds of theories
The official version is that the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, but the reasons for this are unknown. However, in the absence of information after several searches in the following days and weeks, such as that of Australian experts in 75 square miles of ocean,attempts at explanation began to emerge that drew on the most outlandish theories such as that the MH370 was hijacked by aliens, swallowed by a black hole, or had disappeared in the middle of a plot involving several governments, according to retired aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey.
Godfrey also mentions that others think that MH370 was hijacked by the Chinese, Russians or Americans, and that if it was the latter, they would have shot down MH370, or would have allowed it to land at Diego Garcia, an island in the British Indian Ocean Territory where the United States has a military base for fear of a hijacking of the aircraft and its consequent security risk.
The only certainty today is a new search
The Malaysian government has given the go-ahead to a Texas-based marine robotics company to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
Cabinet ministers agreed the terms and conditions of a "no find, no fee" contract with Texas-based Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation at a new 15,000-square-kilometer (5,800-square-mile) site in the ocean, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Wednesday. Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million only if the wreckage is found.*With information from Lapresse