Malaysian Flight MH370

Malaysian Flight MH370

By: Isaiah Huffman

        The Malaysian Flight MH370, a missing airplane that brought with it a huge mystery, was wrecked and lost due to a mechanical fault. According to Ong Hwee Hwee, an assistant news editor, "It emerged on Sunday that the plane had made an unusual U-turn attempt in the final moments before radar contact was broken off, triggering speculation that it could have turned back because of mechanical fault," in the article "Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: 5 theories on what could have happened to MH370." When you have a mechanical difficulty the plain has to routinely turn around and come back to the original airportthat the plane belongs to. Thus, having a mechanical difficulty, this could have been just added on top of the fact that the plane was simply malfunctional. In the article, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said, "When there is an air turn-back, the pilot would be unable to proceed as planned." Meaning that this plane would have turned around in this ATB (air turn-back) with no probable way to make it to the destination. Hence, this flight was too far for the damaged plane and was canceled. Opposing this, "