The fate of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 remains one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries

The controls of the doomed Flight MH370 that disappeared four years ago were deliberately “manipulated” before it crashed into the sea, an international investigation has concluded.

The findings, released yesterday by the Malaysian government, stated that the Beijing-bound aircraft’s sudden change of course 37 minutes after it took off from Kuala Lumpur was “difficult to attribute” to a system failure.

The fate of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on March 8, 2014, remains one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The aircraft, carrying 239 passengers and crew, vanished from air traffic radar 230 miles from the island of Penang in northwestern Malaysia. Investigators found that its communication system may have been manually disabled. No one survived the flight, which was carrying passengers of 14 nationalities