What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

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Updated at 10:25 a.m. ET on June 17, 2019. At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet.