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MH370 pilot's final message before plane disappeared

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MH370 pilot’s final message before Malaysia Airlines plane mysteriously vanished

The final words of a pilot onboard the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that went missing ten years ago have been revealed in a new documentary.

First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, who was a co-pilot with Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, spoke the final words to ground controllers in Malaysia before the plane vanished into Vietnamese airspace, the BBC documentary Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370, shows.

Mr Fariq said “alright, goodnight” 12 minutes after the initial communication system went offline, and just two minutes before the final transponder was deactivated.

Today marks 10 years to the day (8 March) the aircraft with 227 passengers and 12 crew members disappeared.

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