9 possible causes behind the mystery of Malaysia Airlines disappearance

Even after 30 hours of dedicated search and investigation, no sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight could be spotted. The Beijing bound Boeing 777 Dreamliner with 239 lives onboard went missing on

Saturday after it took-off from Kuala Lumpur.

As per speculations, there are a number of possibilities that led to the catastrophic incident of the Malaysia Airlines flight. Airline industry experts were amazed as the pilot of the plane didn’t even issue a “distress call”. The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles above the earth.

 
Air and sea rescue teams have been searching an area of the South China Sea south of Vietnam for more than 30 hours, but there have been no definite sightings of wreckage.

Late on Sunday, the Vietnamese authorities said a navy aircraft had spotted “an object” suspected of belonging to the missing plane, but officials said it was too dark to be certain.
At present, there are more than 40 ships and 34 aircraft from 9 different countries searching the missing plane.

 
According to William Wedlock, an accident investigation teacher, the absence of the distress call suggests that something very sudden and violent might have happened.
There are various possibilities that were cited by various sources. Here is a small wrap up of all the possibilities that led to the disastrous accident:

 
1. Bad weather: Although planes are designed to fly through most severe storms, there is a possibility that some sudden and violent climatic change occurred. Although the latest reports suggest that the flight experienced moderate climate with clear skies all through.

2. Pilot disorientation: Some of the experts suspect the pilots may have put the flight on auto-pilot mode and may have realized when it was too late. Although the anti-theory suggests, even then the plane would have been picked up by radar somewhere.

 
3. Structural Failure: Aluminum being the least susceptible to corrosion over time is used as the structural material for aircraft. However, the Malaysia Airlines plane may have faced a severe structural failure that led to the disaster. A major rupture is although least possible in this case.

 
4. Engine failure: Some of the experts say that the Boeing 777 may have faced a dual engine failure where both the engines may have lost thrust. Although, the pilot must have communicated the engine failure if such a case had occurred.

 
5. Bomb: Who knows what has happened to the flight, like some cases that no one could ever comprehend in the past. Experts fear the possibility of a bomb or some explosives. The mystery of the four unidentified passengers spurs more theories of bomb or explosion of the flight in air.

 
6. Hijacking: Although that would follow some demand from the hijackers, there is still a chance of traditional hijacking where the pilots were forced to take the plane to a deserted island or place by terrorists.

 
7. Accidental Shoot-down: There were cases when US Navy once shot down an Iraqi civilian aircraft killing all 290 passengers in 1988. However, such a probablity is also pretty less, given the world air-traffic transparency.

 
8. Pilot suicide: In history it happened, although the governments never declared. But, experts still believe that there is a possibility of pilots’ suicide and crashing the plane in the South China Sea.

9. Reality vs. Fiction: Although there is no science that would support this cause, there can be a possibility of some extra-terrestrial intuition. There are millions of things that go unexplained in the universe. Did the aircraft face one such incident?

 
The search team and the family members along with the entire humanity are waiting for the exact reason of this catastrophic incident. Although there is hardly any chance of survivors, expectations and prayers are still piling havoc.

 
Travel and Tour World offer deepest condolences to all the missing passengers and their families.