MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Seven days later, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak held a press conference and made a bold announcement. He said: “The Malaysian Airforce primary radar data showed that an aircraft which was believed, but not confirmed, to be MH370 did indeed turn back.”
Mr Razak made a further statement about the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) on MH370.
ACARS allows computers on the plane to relay technical information about its condition to computers on the ground.
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