On 19 March 2014 the New York Post said that residents of Kudahuvadhoo reported having seen a low-flying airplane travelling north to southeast towards Addu ( the southern tip of the Maldives ) resembling the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , which disappeared in midflight to Beijing from Malaysia on 8 March 2014 . This lent credence to one of the theories that the flight had been commandeered by someone who intended to land the plane in a remote area . Kudahuvadhoo had no airstrip at that time . The Malé International Airport north-northeast of Kudahuvadhoo was one that the pilot had practised landing on , using his homemade flight simulator . The claim that the sighted jet was MH370 was subsequently rejected by Malaysia 's minister of transport and defence
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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