Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport did not immediately respond to the AP’s request for comment Tuesday, but there has been no recent news of any breakthroughs in the case. technology firm called Ocean Infinity also conducted a search that ended in May 2018 without any answers on where the plane is. Its a relatively recent case, and it was headline news about two years ago. An official search by Malaysia, Australia and China was suspended in 2016 and the countries agreed that an official search would only resume if there was credible evidence that identified a location, according to AP reporting. It crashed into the Indian Ocean and none of it is recovered. The Malaysian Airlines flight vanished on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Hoelzer had taken similar photos of the same plane fo r his Instagram page. The plane was out of service and parked at nearby King Hussein International Airport for several years before the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority purchased the aircraft and sank it to become a destination for divers.īrett Hoelzer, who works with Deep Blue Dive Center as a photographer and a dive master, confirmed to The Associated Press over Instagram that the image shared online was the Tristar.
The plane is an old Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar plane, according to Aqaba’s official tourism page. Deep Blue Dive Center did not immediately respond to the AP’s request for comment.įACT FOCUS: Fake image of Pentagon explosion briefly sends jitters through stock market The company noted on the post that the plane was scuttled, or deliberately sunk, in 2019, and has become an artificial reef. “Tristar Airplane Wreck Red Sea, Aqaba JO,” reads the caption. Experts and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed the wreckage was from MH370, but some journalists and family members are skeptical for reasons. The original video also matches the other shots of the plane that were in the Facebook post. The image comes from an Instagram video posted on April 6 by the Deep Blue Dive Center, a company that offers scuba diving lessons and other underwater activities in the Gulf of Aqaba. It shows an abandoned plane that was sunk off the coast of Jordan to create an artificial reef. The image was also shared on Facebook, alongside several others of the side of the sunken plane and the seats inside, with the same claim it showed the Malaysian aircraft.īut the photo doesn’t show Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which remains missing. The plane had 239 passengers on board.” The post had more than 61,000 likes as of Tuesday evening. THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing photos of an old, abandoned plane at the bottom of the sea, falsely claiming it shows the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing since it went down in 2014 with 239 people aboard.Ī post on Twitter shows a photo of the front of a rusty airplane covered in algae and reads: The “Malaysia Airplane MH370 that disappeared 9 years ago has been found under the ocean with no human skeleton. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished in 2014 remains missing. An Inmarsat satellite in geostationary orbit over the Indian Ocean received hourly signals from flight 370 and detected the plane for the final. The image comes from a video posted online by the Deep Blue Dive Center, a scuba diving company in Aqaba, Jordan. The photo shows an old Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar airplane in the Red Sea.
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Series director Louise Malkinson said the families want the people to keep talking about the flight's disappearance.CLAIM: A photo of a plane underwater shows the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has finally been found.ĪP’S ASSESSMENT: False. In all, 153 of the 240 people on board were Chinese nationals.
The series features scientists, reporters and family members of victims who were on the plane. Chinese relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 take part in a prayer service at the Metro Park Hotel in Beijing on April 8, 2014. The second episode dives into conspiracy theories about the plane's disappearance, and the final episode deals with the ongoing search for answers by some journalists and family members. The first 90-minute episode of the docuseries deals with the first few days after the Boeing 777 vanished. The day marked nine years since the plane went missing on March 8, 2014, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The streaming giant launched "MH370: The Plane that Disappeared" on Wednesday. Searchers spent around $160 million in the hunt for the plane - and found only some debris from the flight. The investigation searched nearly 50,000-square miles of sea floor. An Australian led-hunt for the plane ended in 2017 and a private firm's search ended the following year.
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