MH370 disappeared five years ago (Image: GETTY)
MH370 disappeared on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 people. This information casts doubt on certain theories, such as the idea MH370 was on autopilot. But why would hijackers want to fly in circles?
Jeff Wise, author of the Plane That Wasn’t There, explained that it is the Burst Frequency Offset (BFO) data that indicates the aircraft flew in circles.
The data comes from British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat.
Inmarsat had a satellite called 3F1 which made contact with the plane in the hours after it went missing, via intermittent ‘handshakes’.
BFO data is a measure of the relative motion of the satellite and the aeroplane.
Chinese relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 take
