"We officially declare Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident," Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation has announced, The Independent reported.
This does not mean, however, that the greatest mystery in aviation history has solved. In the early hours of March 8, 2014, the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 aircraft with 227 passengers and 10 crew members on board disappeared while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
Initially, the aircraft was presumed to have been lost in the South China Sea until investigators concluded that it crashed in the Indian Ocean west of Australia after running out of fuel after a ground-breaking analysis of automated "pings" from the aircraft.
In 2014, India rejected the theory that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was hijacked 9/11 style on the same day when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind defended Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden.
External Affairs Minister of India Salman Khurshid rejected the theory that the missing Boeing 777 jet was hijacked by a group of Islamists from Malaysia in a 9/11-style attack. Before this, the investigation was refocused on the two pilots of the missing jet.
Indian authorities, who were helping Malaysian officials in the on-going hunt for the Boeing 777, believed that the vanished jet was very unlikely to have fallen victim into terrorists similar to the 9/11 attacks while it was on its way to Delhi, India, IB Times reported.
Also, reports on 9/11 resurfaced when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed denied the allegations that Bin Laden's spokesman, who also happens to be his son-in-law, played a role in the historical terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.