Kuala Lumpur International Airport is home to one of the busiest terminal complexes in Southeast Asia and handles almost 40 million passengers a year. Boarding the chartered Boeing 777 at around midnight, the 239 passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 would have believed they were headed for Beijing, China, along a routine flight path on one of the safest commercial jets in operation. But just 40 minutes after takeoff, the pilots made their last contact with air traffic control and all signals from the aircraft were lost. The flight was never heard from again.
It seems unthinkable that a passenger jet could vanish into thin air, especially when technology such as GPS and satellite communications are available. Aircraft are fitted with GPS systems, which pilots use for navigation. However, relaying this location data to air traffic control would be prohibitively expensive, so many aviation authorities rely on a different tracking
