The mystery of Malaysian Airlines flight Mh370 disappeared two years ago, on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board remains a mystery for now. The authorities of Kuala Lumpur published this morning the second report of the investigation into the biggest mystery in the history of civil aviation. Three thin pages to say that the Boeing 777 tragedy does not yet have an explanation. “As of today,” said the communiqué, “the jet wreck was not found. Except for a piece of wing recovered a year ago on the island of Reunion that actually belongs to the plane “. The investigators – the note goes on – are analyzing eight critical areas: the reason for the change of course, the air controls, the crew profiles, jet maintenance, satellite communications, impact and fall, the Malaysian authorities’ work at land and cargo.

A meeting to decide on research

Australia, China and Malaysia have also agreed on a meeting in the coming days to decide how to continue the research. The work of the four ships that are scanning the 120 thousand square kilometers of Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have fallen should be concluded in July. An area as large as Belgium is still to be monitored. “It is likely that in the end the wreck is located,” the operation manager said. But if it doesn’t happen in July the work of sonar and underwater drones could be suspended. Family members of the victims have recently launched an appeal through the Voice370 Blog asking them not to throw in the towel and continue to look for an answer to their questions. Not even the 20 petabytes of data collected by the investigators – ten times the size of the US Congress library – were enough to shed light on the mysteries of the phantom flight of the Mh 370. The first question is always the same. How can an airplane with a wingspan of 71 meters disappear into thin air in a world where every smartphone can be tracked at any time? Flight Mh370, inexplicably, succeeded. “Goodnight, Malaysian 370” announced the cockpit at 01.19 on 8 March 2014. Then the darkness. Someone on board turned off the communication systems. A military radar intercepted the Boeing off course south of Phuket for six minutes. Then the only sign of life were seven electronic “pings” detected by a satellite. The last, at 08.19, a message to indicate the absence of power.

The pilot in the crosshairs

“The most likely hypothesis is that the aircraft was hijacked by the pilot – supports the December 2015 report of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau -. And 6 thousand km has fallen. further south due to running out of fuel. First the right engine was turned off, a quarter of an hour after the opposite one. So, the plane is towed to the left and crashed into the ocean with a screw “. Where is it? In the seventh arc, they calculated the mathematical models, that segment of the Indian Ocean 2,000 km west of Perth where research is concentrated. It should be extended by many kilometers, experts say, because an experienced pilot is able to glide an airplane with engines off for cultured kilometers

The mysteries of the seventh arc

Even the wreck hunt is surrounded by mysteries. Why did the military authorities collaborate in flashes? How come at the beginning, despite the radars having certified the detour to the south, have the searches been done elsewhere? The 150 million spent to fathom the ocean were of little use: only a sunken ship a century ago was found on the seabed. No trace of the plane. “It’s likely to be within July,” optimists say in Sydney. Sara. However, the sea only returned a piece of the Mh370 wing. He could tell a lot about what happened (speed of impact with water, whether the plane exploded in flight or not) but no information was made public. In recent days another piece of Boeing was recovered in Mozambique and sent to Australia to see if it is from the Malaysian jet. No other debris – not even the life jackets that should have floated – was ever found. The mystery, in short, is always dense. And the absence of explanations reduces the legal margins for the families of the victims (the cases must be filed by today). Malaysian reimbursed the heirs with $ 160,000 per passenger, paid by the insurer Allianz. But if there is no evidence to prove Boeing’s and company’s guilt, there are very few margins for court success. Families have asked through their Blog Voice370 to “not throw in the towel and continue the research”. Lessons in the Mh370 on security are of little use: the new black boxes will have to last 90 days (and not 30 as now) and the planes will be obliged to report their position every 15 minutes when they are out of radar range. But the obligation will start only from the beginning of 2018.