KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — Then-Malaysia Airlines chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said on March 8 last year, shortly after Flight MH370 disappeared, that all contact with the plane had been lost.
Today, one year later, the world still has not made any contact with or found a trace of the aircraft that had carried 239 people on what was meant to be a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China.
In what is regarded as one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries, experts crunched numbers and analysed technical details of scant evidence amid an “unprecedented” search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane that has yet to yield any wreckage or bodies.
At the heart of the human tragedy are desperate family members who still cling on to the hope that their loved ones on the jet are somehow alive, despite Putrajaya’s declaration that all those aboard the plane are presumed dead.
Here are 10 quotes at key moments of the puzzling disappearance of Flight MH370:
