Peninsula once past the island of Penang

06:10
the plane took another turn to fly into
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the Indian Ocean and then took another
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turn south at flew for over five hours
06:16
straight across that ocean before it
06:18
probably finally ran out of fuel and
06:20
crashed somewhere west of Australia in
06:22
the middle of nowhere the search for the
06:24
plane and the 239 people on board began
06:27
almost immediately the hunt initially
06:29
began in Southeast Asia as it was
06:30
believed early on that the plane
06:32
probably went down around here but as
06:34
more information came out about the
06:35
actual path a flight took the search was
06:37
changed to the Indian Ocean between
06:39
March 18th and April 28th 19 & 345
06:43
sorties by military aircraft searched an
06:45
area over 4.6 million square kilometers
06:47
in size larger than the entire country
06:50
of India and found nothing a sonar
06:52
search of the seafloor was also
06:54
conducted about 1,800 kilometers west of
06:56
Perth Australia but also didn't find
06:58
anything nothing at all was actually
07:00
discovered until over a year after the
07:02
plane vanished when in July 2015 a piece
07:04
of wreckage was discovered washed up on
07:06
the beach of Reunion 4,000 kilometers
07:08
west of the main search area the piece
07:10
was a wing flapper on this part on a
07:12
plane and was confirmed to have come
07:14
from mh370 its analysis showed that the
07:16
landing flaps of the plane were not
07:18
extended when it crashed which kind of
07:20
terrifyingly supports the theory that
07:21
when the plane crashed in the ocean it
07:23
did so by entering into a vertical dive
07:25
a few more pieces of wreckage were later
07:27
discovered across the coast of East
07:29
Africa but by January 17th 2017 nearly
07:32
three years after the planes
07:34
disappearance the official search for
07:36
the flight was suspended after
07:37
discovering no other evidence for the
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