Key MH370 data remains unknown

One year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown— fuelling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.

An information vacuum has nourished a cottage industry of experts and amateurs in cyberspace who continue to pick the case apart in a bid to find out what happened to the plane and its 239 passengers and crew.

The resulting theories range from the wild — alien abduction, MH370 and its doomed fleetmate MH17 were the same plane — to sober, science-based arguments that the plane is in the southern Indian Ocean, but not necessarily in the current search area.