But a week later, tracking data released by Malaysian authorities revealed the plane had flown up to eight hours in the opposite direction before crashing in the Southern Indian Ocean of the coast of Western Australia.
But this is where Lieutenant Commander John McCain splashed down terribly wounded after a surface to air missile hit his plane during a bombing run in 1967.
The 737 Max is Boeing's bestselling jet, but U.S. regulators grounded the model in March of 2019 after computer problems caused two of the planes to crash killing 356 people.