Flight MH370 search solves 140-year-old mystery of vanishing ships

Flight MH370 search solves 140-year-old mystery of vanishing ships


Sonar search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane uncovered two lost shipwrecks in Indian Ocean
Four years on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, much is still unknown about what caused the aircraft to seemingly vanish over the South China Sea.

However, the colossal search for evidence carried out in the depths of the Indian Ocean may have inadvertently provided answers in regard to two mysteries that have remained unsolved for 140 years.

Unprecedented sonar searches of the seabed for the Boeing 777, which was lost in 2014 with 239 people aboard, uncovered the wreckages of two 19th-century sailing ships
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