Flight 370 Was Linking With Satellites for Seven Hours After Zohari Signed Off

The fact that the plane was linking with satellites well into the morning means that flight 370 probably didn't experience some sort of mid-air disaster just after leaving Malaysian airspace. The search does end up being fruitless until over a year later in July of 2015, this is when airplane debris starts washing up on coasts and beaches of the Indian Ocean. These aren't small pieces of the wreckage either. At one point, a six foot long piece of an airplane's wing shows up on beaches of the French island of reunion. It's later managed to be linked to flight 370 by a serial number.