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       MH370 Disappeared a Decade Ago. Here’s What We Know Today.

       The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight has remained one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. A new search may begin soon.

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       Family members and relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lit candles during a 10th anniversary event near Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Credit...Fl Wong/Associated Press

       By Derrick Bryson Taylor

       March 6, 2024Updated 12:00 p.m. ET

       On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was heading from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, to Beijing, when it deviated from its scheduled path, turning west across the Malay Peninsula.

       The plane, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from 15 countries, is believed to have veered off course and flown south for several hours after radar contact was lost. Some officials believe it may have crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean after running out of fuel, but expansive search efforts over years have returned no answers, no victims, and no plane.

       The reason the plane went off course and its exact location today remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. This week, officials suggested a renewed search operation might be undertaken.

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       Here’s a brief look at what we know about the plane’s disappearance 10 years later.

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       Rayan Gharazeddine, of the Royal Australian Air Force, scanning the water in the southern Indian Ocean during a search flight for the missing plane in 2014. Credit...Associated Press

       Investigators searched by air and sea. The first phase of the search lasted 52 days and was conducted largely from the air, covering 1.7 million square miles and involving 334 search flights.

       In January 2017, the governments of Australia, Malaysia and China officially called off the underwater search for the plane after combing more than 46,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean floor. That effort cost $150 million.

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       Derrick Bryson Taylor is a general assignment reporter. He previously worked at The New York Post’s PageSix.com and Essence magazine. More about Derrick Bryson Taylor

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