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Disappearance of MH370

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  Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing five years today, yet its fate remains a mystery and it has spawned countless conspiracy theories.   A final report from the Malaysian authorities published last autumn failed to provide any concrete conclusions about the reasons why the plane disappeared or any indication where the wreckage might be. MH370 vanished on 8 March 2014 with 239 people – mostly Chinese nationals – on board, during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing.Its disappearance prompted one of the biggest search missions in history, yet a four-year multi-million dollar joint operation by Australian, Malaysian and Chinese investigators failed to find any sign of the plane.   What happened to flight MH370 has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The huge gap in reliable information about the aircraft’s fate has been filled with suggestions from armchair sleuths, aviation experts, authors and conspiracy theorists. Here are some