on march eighth two thousand and fourteen malaysia flight three seventy departed kuala lumpur at twelve forty two am bound for beijing with two hundred thirty nine people on board about forty five minutes into the flight it veered sharply off course and shortly thereafter disappeared from radar with so few clues the largest aviation manhunt in history kicked off just really a spearheaded the international search team eventually developing a hypothesis the cabin accidently depressurize knocking everyone onboard unconscious the plane then ran out of fuel and took a steep dive into the sea. automatic satellite communication suggested the jet went down somewhere in the southern indian ocean off australia. the. debris from the plane was eventually confirmed to be found on the french island of rio neon in the indian ocean and later up and down the east african coast