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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew that left Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing. The plane never arrived at its destination. An international search effort was conducted along several potential routes, but neither the plane, nor any debris from the plane has been found.

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26 Jun, 2014

Plane likely on autopilot

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The search for the missing flight moves further south in the Indian Ocean.  A report about the change in the search area states the crew may have been unresponsive due to a lack of oxygen, a state known as hypoxia. The report states the assumption was:

made for the purposes of defining a search area and there is no suggestion that the investigation authority will make similar assumptions.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says:

It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot, otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings