Zero phone calls or social media posts from MH370

More than a week since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 disappeared en route to Beijing, investigators are still in the dark about the fate of the plane and the 239 people on board. Many were left puzzled about the absence of communication: there have been no calls or social media posts from anyone aboard the plane since it was diverted. Citing experts and analysts, The New York Times said the plane may have been flying too high for passengers’ cellphones to connect to base stations on the ground. If someone deliberately disabled communications equipment – as investigators theorized – then air phones built into the plane’s entertainment system would also not work. 25 countries are now involved in the massive hunt for the plane, with the search operations concentrating on two huge arcs: one stretching north from Malaysia up to central Asia, and the other south, deep into the Indian Ocean towards Australia.

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