At least one mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been solved. The two men carrying the stolen passports have been identified as Iranians, Pouri Nour Mohammadi and Delavar Seyed Mohammed Reza. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said that based on investigations, these men were probably not terrorists. Mohammadi was apparently trying to fly to Europe to seek for an asylum.
The fact that the pilot didn’t send any distress signals suggests a sudden and possible catastrophic event. Malaysia Airlines said in a statement “Search and rescue teams have expanded the scope beyond the flight path to the West Peninsula of Malaysia at the Straits of Malacca." It has been reported that the waters between Malaysia and Vietnam are shallow and this can mean problems. Usually tides and currents are stronger and debris can be scattered more quickly. It can also confuse sonar and sound waves used to find objects on the ocean floor.
"I always like to think that we need to start by finding the haystack, and then we can look for the bits of the needle in that haystack and in this case the haystack is huge because we just don't have the clues," said David Gallo, an oceanographer that led the search for Air France flight 447 in 2009.
They are looking in to the possibility that the plane might have attempted to turn back to Kuala Lumpur, but it is weird that it didn’t continue to show on the radar while flying back. The whereabouts and what happened to this aircraft still remains an unsolved mystery.
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