Only a few fragments of the jet have been found, all on western Indian Ocean shores, and search efforts ended last year.
KUALA LUMPUR - On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, triggering the biggest hunt in aviation history.
The idea of a so-called "mass hypoxia event" - "hypoxia" refers to a lack of oxygen - has been supported by a number of analysts. Unconfirmed reports said he may have been distraught over marital woes or the controversial conviction of Malaysia's then opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on sodomy charges just hours before MH370 took off.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been among those who backed the idea. In a bizarre tweet soon after the plane disappeared, he suggested it was "stolen" and "effectively hidden, perhaps in Northern Pakistan, like Bin Laden". According to reports, Boeing was in 2006 awarded a US patent for a system that, once activated, could take control of a commercial aircraft away from the pilot or flight crew in the event of a hijacking.
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