A decade has passed and we’ve yet to learn how MH370 came to its end. The truth is likely simpler—and scarier—than countless conspiracy theories would have you believe
Fear of the deep. It is, at once, a very modern form of horror and a very ancient one. In this case it begins more than six miles high in the sky and ends more than three miles beneath the surface of the ocean.
Ten years ago, early in the evening of March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 began, like thousands of others every day and night, as a routine part of how the world moves easily between nations and continents, heading from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Around 38 minutes after takeoff the crew talked to air traffic control, confirming their route north toward China. That was the last human contact from the Boeing 777. Three minutes later the transponder, automatically reporting the flight’s position, stopped transmitting. [...]