A team of mathematicians from Texas A&M University at Qatar worked together to calculate wind velocity with aerodynamics in order to figure out what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 that disappeared carrying 239 passengers and crew on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The disappearance in March 2014 has always been shrouded in mystery with speculation and a number of conspiracy theories.

The research, published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, used computer simulations to hypothesize what could have happened to the missing flight. It is suggested that the plane nosedived into the Indian ocean at a 90 degree angle causing it to sink to the bottom in under 60 seconds. The speed of the nosedive explains why there was no debris or oil found.