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MH370: The plane that vanished

The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries.

On 8 March 2014, a plane carrying 239 passengers and crew disappeared.

What happened to missing flight MH370 remains one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries.

Ghyslain Wattrelos鈥� wife Laurence and teenage children Ambre and Hadrien were on the plane, which was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

He was on a different flight at the time and only found out the plane was missing when he landed.

A decade on, Ghyslain tells Vicky Farncombe how he鈥檚 no closer to knowing what happened to his family.

鈥淚 am exactly at the same point that I was 10 years ago. We don't know anything at all.鈥�

(Photo: Ghyslain Wattrelos. Credit: Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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