On March 8, 2014, flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur Airport on route to Beijing, China, with 239 people on board. Captain Zaharie Shah was in control of the plane when it last communicated with air traffic control at 1:19am over the South China Sea. However, moments later, the plane vanished from civilian radar screens following a routine handover from Malaysian to Vietnamese channels.
Radar and satellite data shows how the jet suddenly changed course and flew back across Malaysia before turning south of Penang and then towards the southern Indian Ocean.
Captain Zaharie Shah has come under scrutiny over the years amid claims he went on a suicide mission and took his passengers with him.
This was fuelled in 2016 when Australian officials confirmed Mr Shah had practiced a route where the plane is said to have vanished using an in-flight simulator he built at home.
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