The search is continuing in the southern Indian Ocean, but it is now purely an underwater search as any chance of debris on the surface of the water has all but disappeared.
Here's our guide to some of the best - and craziest - conspiracy theories surrounding missing flight MH370.
Plane was shot down during military ops
A shocking new book claims that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have been accidentally shot down and the search for survivors covered up.
‘Flight
MH370: The Mystery ’ makes the incredible allegation that the airline
was shot down by US-Thai strike fighters as part of a training drill
that went horribly wrong.
But just 71 days after the Boeing 777
vanished carrying 239 people from 14 nations relatives say the UK
published work is ‘too soon’ and ‘too insensitive’.
The book says the drill was to involve mock warfare on land, in water and in the air, and would include live-fire exercises.
It
adds: “Say a participant accidentally shot down Flight MH370. Such
things do happen. No one wants another Lockerbie, so those involved
would have every reason to keep quiet about it.”
Rapper "predicted loss of plane"
Rapper Pitbull predicted that Flight MH370 would go missing two YEARS ago, it has been suggested.
Conspiracy
theorists have been drawing comparisons between the lyrics of his 2012
track Get It Started and the circumstances surrounding the disappearance
of the plane on March 8.
Lines in the song, which features a
guest appearance from Colombian singer Shakira, include: "Now it's off
to Malaysia" and "Two passports, three cities, two countries, one day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q5SG7U76tls
Viewers on YouTube are convinced the two passports is a reference to
the stolen Austrian and Italian passports used by two Iranians to board
MH370.
They also believe the three cities refer to the capital
cities of Malaysia, China and Vietnam and the two countries are Malaysia
and Vietnam.
Ex-PM joins conspiracy theorists
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad recently accused the CIA of known the whereabouts of flight MH370.
He
said in a blog that someone was hide something because if the plane's
GPS system failed then Boeing or the US government agency would know
why.
In his latest blog, the 88-year-old suggests that in the
event of the jet being hijacked, then control of the aircraft could have
been remotely activated elsewhere.
He said: "Clearly Boeing and
certain agencies have the capacity to take over uninterruptible control
of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one.
He added: "Someone is hiding something. It is not fair that MAS and Malaysia should take the blame."
A
military source reportedly told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper:
"Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers
was hijacked.
"Pilots are not guilty; the plane was
hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist
who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch.
"The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan."
Others
have since gone on to indicate that the passengers have been divided
into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food.
MH370 'hid' behind another plane
Early in the search it was suggested that the plane may have hidden from detection under another plane.
Blogger
Keith Ledgerwood suggested: "It is my belief that MH370 likely flew in
the shadow of [Singapore Airlines flight] 68 through India and
Afghanistan airspace.
"As MH370 was flying 'dar' without a
transponder, SIA 68 would have had no knowledge that MH370 was anywhere
around as it entered Indian airspace, it would have shown up as one
single blip on the radar with only the transponder information of SIA68
lighting up ATC and military radar screens".
This theory was described as feasible but the planes would have to be within 3,300ft of each other.
Alien abduction
Social media users have jumped on the possibility of extraterrestrial life having something to do with the missing plane.
One
user wrote: "After an extensive conversation with my father & his
partner, we have come to the conclusion that the only explanation is
#aliens mh370."
Another added: "I secretly believe that plane is abducted by aliens.. I know I’m not the only one.."
And one user even said there were only two possibilities for its disappearance, aliens or a DB Cooper-style heist.
He
wrote: "This Malaysian airlines flight has the potential to be either
the greatest heist since DB Cooper, or alien abduction. I vote aliens."
Khalid
Abu Bakar addressed the world last month to provide an update on the
investigation and revealed authorities were exploring every single
avenue - no matter how remote.
"Maybe somebody on the
flight has bought a huge sum of insurance, who wants family to gain
from it or somebody who has owed somebody so much money, you know, we
are looking at all possibilities," he said.
The authorities' investigations extend to examining every detail of the passengers for any clues as to what may have happened.
"We
are looking very closely at the video footage taken at the KLIA (Kuala
Lumpur International Airport), we are studying the behavioural pattern
of all the passengers," he added.
The Illuminati
Reddit users have seemingly taken a keen interest in the disappearance.
One,
known only as i-am-SHER-locked apparently uncovered that the Boeing 777
in question was the 404th such aircraft to be produced.
"An
HTTP 404 error means not found," they wrote. "Which in this case is
oddly appropriate for the status of the aircraft, or just a coincidence.
"Coincidence, I think not."
Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden
There were early suggestions 20 employees from the Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor were on board the flight.
So Reddit user Dark_Spectre has put two and two together and come up with, well, you decide.
"So
we have the American IBM Technical Storage Executive for Malaysia, a
man working in mass storage aggregation for the company implicated by
the Snowden papers for providing their services to assist the National
Security Agency in surveilling the Chinese," he wrote.
"And
now this bunch of US chip guys working for a global leader in embedded
processing solutions (embedded smart phone tech and defense contracting)
all together..on a plane..And disappeared.. Coincidence??"
He goes on to that the plane itself was kidnapped by Chinese authorities to uncover more about Snowden's revelations.
Electronic warfare experiment
A theory suggesting the plane was hidden as part of an experiment has circulated.
Citizens
news site Beforeitsnews.com reported: "It is conceivable that the
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is 'cloaked', hiding with hi-tech
electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used.
"In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale, that has 20 employees on board the missing flight."
It also sparked theories the plane could have been taken by North Korea for similarly unknown purposes.
A
reddit user wrote: “There’s no telling what crazy logic they [North
Korea] might have for taking a plane. They literally have no grasp of
reality and have been caught red handed kidnapping foreigners, making
s**t up and generally being d****es.”
Fire
One of the most widely
held theories is that there was a fire on board that killed all on
board but burned out before damaging the exterior of the plane.
This would explain why the aircraft, on auto-pilot, would fly such a long distance off course.
An
aviation source said that if this was the case, it would have hit the
water at around 600mph after gliding down from 35,000ft.
The
source said: “The plane would not have dropped like a stone, it would
have glided down from 35,000ft for around 10-12 minutes after it had
exhausted its fuel.
“It would have hit the water with
a massive impact - as though the plane had landed on concrete. Nobody
could have survived that.
“There would have been a
huge explosion with the wings ripped off and the fuselage would probably
have plummeted straight down.”
A military take out or secret weapon at work
Conspiracy theory and scientific site Natural News, run by Mike Adams, has another theory.
Adams
said: “If we never find the debris, it means some entirely new,
mysterious and powerful force is at work on our planet, which can pluck
airplanes out of the sky without leaving behind even a shred of
evidence."
He added: “If there does exist a weapon with such
capabilities, whoever controls it already has the ability to dominate
all of Earth's nations with a fearsome military weapon of unimaginable
power."
He believes the plane fell into an area "outside the search zone" and could lead to a very dark end for Earth.
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Risman Siregar (L) comforts his wife Erlina Panjaitan (C),
parents of Firman Chandra Siregar, a 24 year-old passenger of Malaysia
Airlines flight 370 that went missing on March 8, in Medan on March 9,
2014
Pilot suicide
One explanation for the sudden disappearance, according to some, could be pilot suicide.
But
so far no evidence has come to light to suggest either captain Zaharie
Ahmad Shah or co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid had such intentions.
John
Brennan, head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), told the
Daily Mail, when asked if it was a possibility: "I think you cannot
discount any theory."
Malaysian police have attempted
to investigate whether any passengers or crew on the plane had personal
or psychological problems that might shed light on the mystery.
Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said at a news conference: "We are looking at all possibilities."
Other theorists have claimed the pilot or crew could have hijacked the plane themselves.
"There
have been absolutely no implications that we are aware of that there
was anything untoward in either his behaviour or attitude," Dunleavy
told Reuters in an interview.
"We have no reason to
believe that there was anything, any actions, internally by the crew
that caused the disappearance of this aircraft."
Cracks in the aircraft
Six
months before the plane went down, the U.S. aviation watchdog warned
airlines of a problem with cracks in Boeing 777s that could lead to a
mid-air break up or a catastrophic drop in pressure.
The
Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert in September last year
giving airlines until April 9 to detect and correct cracking in the
fuselage skin on Boeing 777s.
The FAA warned that
failure to do so would leave the aircraft vulnerable to ‘a rapid
decompression and loss of structural integrity’.
The
organisation issued a final directive just two days before the Malaysia
Airlines plane took off and said one airline had found a 16-in crack in
the fuselage skin of a 14-year-old plane.
However,
Boeing said that the FAA alert did not apply to the missing jet because
it did not have the same antenna as the rest of the Boeing 777s.
It's in an Asian Bermuda triangle
The idea there could be a second Bermuda Triangle seems a popular one on social media.
Its
sudden and unexplained disappearance from radar could have several
explanations, whether it be a sudden explosion or mid-air
disintegration, or even a mechanical failure.
But some theorists believe it simply means the plane has entered another Devil's Triangle.
Boats
and planes have been known to disappear in the patch of sea in the
North Atlantic Ocean, known as the Bermuda Triangle, including Flight 19
in 1945, when five torpedo bombers mysteriously vanished.
But could there really be another one?
One Twitter user wrote: "So...what is up with this Malaysian airplane thing? Is there an Asian version of the Bermuda Triangle?"
Another added: "Maybe there's such thing as Asian bermuda triangle. #Malaysia #MalaysiaAirlines."
Terrorists crashed it into the sea
So
far no terrorist groups have claimed responsibility for the missing
flight, but that hasn't stopped theorists claiming it's the only
explanation. The two passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports really triggered this possibility, with many believing they must be part of a huge cover up to sink the plane.
Pilot
David Learmount, who is operations and safety editor of Flight Global
magazine, said: “Something happened and the pilots did not tell anyone.
Why? It’s a good question.
“It’s extraordinary the
pilots failed to call because they had plenty of time to. Unless there
was a bomb on board but there has been no evidence of that.”
Other groups, however, have claimed responsibility over the last few days, including an unknown Chinese group.
An email was sent to various journalists in China, saying: “You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as payback.”
But officials in Malaysia have said they believe the group's claim could be a hoax.
The email did not explain what had happened to the plane.
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