MH370

Netflix documentary MH370: The Disappeared Plane is ripe material for conspiracy theorists, with its three episodes dedicated entirely to laying out the ...

Immediately after this moment in the docu-series, we were shown footage from the official press conference which announced that the search of the South China sea would be coming to an end. Cyndi described how she compared her findings to schematics of a B77, and said that she believed she was looking at plane debris. As was explored in the documentary, debris appearing to be from a commercial airliner were found washed up along the coast of Africa and islands along the Indian Ocean. Inmarsat satellite communication data is said to have placed the plane somewhere over the southern Indian Ocean, although a precise location could never be calculated. It was said that the pieces were "almost certainly" from the missing plane (via [BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26716572), the airline communicated to the families of the 239 people on board that it was assumed "beyond reasonable doubt" that there were no survivors.

How does a plane vanish? Netflix's new doc, "MH370: The Plane that Disappeared,” investigates the aviation mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

“After six hours of flight, the engines stop running, he pushes the nose down, and he starts to slide into a dive.” He suggests that after ending contact with air traffic controllers in Kuala Lumpur, but before establishing contact with Vietnam, Shah thinks of a reason to get his co-pilot out of the cockpit and then locks the door. Shah then disables the electronics that make the plane visible on radar. Wise presents a timeline of supposed events in “MH370” that even he doubts. investigators can't determine if a human shut down the transmissions or if it was an "act of piracy," meaning a takeover. Both acknowledge these are far-fetched, and the theories are written off by aviation expert Mike Exner. The last signal on radar from the plane was received as it transferred into Vietnamese airspace above Cau Mau province. The plane remains on course. It was set to arrive in Beijing on the morning of March 8, 2014, after departing from Kuala Lumpur. The plane carried 239 passengers and crew members. – The transponder that transmits location and altitude shuts down. – The plane's data reporting system shuts down.

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and was en route to Beijing ...

However, Voice370, a group representing the families of those onboard, has reported that Ocean Infinity plans to launch a new search as early as this summer. As per a report on IANS, they have demanded action from the authorities in Kuala Lumpur to launch a new search for the missing aircraft. After years of searching, debris was found, confirmed or believed to be from the MH370 aircraft washed up along the African coast and on islands in the Indian Ocean. It remains the deadliest and most enigmatic incident in the history of aviation involving a Boeing 777. Despite extensive search operations and tireless efforts by countless individuals, the plane has never been found. Although debris was discovered several years later, it has failed to provide any conclusive evidence about the fate of the aircraft or the passengers on board.

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared offers three hours of conspiracy theories, and little else.

De Changy posits that the AWACS ordered Shah to land the plane, and when he refused to alter his route, the United States took drastic measures “to stop the plane and its precious cargo from arriving in Beijing,” either through a “missile strike, or a midair collision.” Blaine Gibson, who has found various plane parts confirmed to have come from MH370, insists de Changy’s claim “denies all the evidence that there is,” like the Inmarsat data and the U-turn discovered by the Malaysian military, and would require a half-dozen countries to collaborate on a massive conspiracy. But by far the most outlandish, far-reaching conspiracy theory comes in Episode 3, “The Intercept,” in which French journalist (again, be wary of that term) Florence de Changy details a global cover-up orchestrated by the U.S. Episode 2, “The Hijack,” calls into question Inmarsat satellite data — the only data set to offer a somewhat-clear picture of the plane’s trajectory after its communications went down — that found MH370 headed south into the Indian Ocean after turning back over the Malay Peninsula. Furthermore, says Sharuji, “It is impossible to fly the aircraft from the avionics compartment,” a statement that invalidates Wise’s entire theory. Hendry claims to have found satellite images of debris in the South China Sea, but when she compares them to photos of the plane, the images are far too blurry to show anything conclusive. Between his Inmarsat doubts and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down by Russian forces on July 17, 2014, Wise came to conclude that the Russians were involved in MH370’s disappearance, as well. Wise claims “the overwhelming body of evidence pointed strongly to [this] theory,” but offers no actual data beyond a claim that the pilot’s decades of experience meant he “would know all the angles” and therefore “be able to conceive of something as complicated as this.” In perhaps its lone moment of thoughtfulness, The Plane That Disappeared ultimately backs away from this theory and exonerates Shah. Even more irresponsibly, the docuseries offers a lengthy reenactment of this theory, which Wise describes as “a final, decisive picture of what happened that night.” A dramatization shows Shah locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, cutting the plane’s communication systems, and depressurizing the cabin, killing the 227 passengers and 11 other crew members on board. Six hours later, when the plane runs out of fuel, Wise posits, “He pushes the nose down, and he starts to slide into a dive.” It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know exactly what happened aboard MH370, but without any evidence, this scenario is pure fantasy. [“just asking questions”](https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/12/17/no-youre-not-just-asking-questions-youre-spreading-disinformation/) pervades Netflix’s MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, a three-part documentary series about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Carrying mainly Chinese passengers, the Boeing 777's destination was Beijing. 38 minutes after takeoff, the plane stopped communicating with Air Traffic Control ...

Sally Leivesley, a former scientific advisor to the British government, suggested that the plane may have been downed by a cyberattack. A rumour on social media suggested that the plane had been hijacked and flown to North Korea, as had happened to Korean Airlines YS-11 in 1969. Others say that the plane was deliberately brought down as it was feared it was going to be used as a weapon in a 9/11-style attack on the Diego Garcia military base. Russian media, meanwhile, floated the idea that terrorists had flown the plane to Afghanistan and were holding its passengers and crew hostage. When parts of Flight MH370 began washing up a year after the plane vanished, the idea that it had been hijacked and flown to an unknown location became highly unlikely. Hijacking was suggested as a possible cause almost immediately after the plane disappeared.

The three-part documentary looks at one of the biggest mysteries in airspace history – but what happened to missing flight MH370?

For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to [The Radio Times Podcast](https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/podcasts/). [Sign up for Netflix from £4.99 a month](https://www.netflix.com/gb/). In 2014, Shah was rumoured to have been the main suspect in the Malaysian police's investigation. Aviate, navigate, and lastly, communicate is the mantra in such situations." If they pulled the busses, the plane would go silent. However, a military radar tracked the plane, which appeared to head west away from its original course. [Documentaries](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/) coverage or visit our [TV Guide](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/) and [Streaming Guide](https://www.radiotimes.com/streaming-guide/) to see what's on tonight. What planes don't do is vanish off the face of the Earth," aviation journalist Jeff Wise says in the documentary. Malaysian 370." [aircraft wing](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33794012) from MH370 was found on Reunion Island, while a year later, the transport ministers of both Australia and Malaysia announced that debris found in Mozambique was ["almost certainly"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35888405) from MH370, with two parts being "consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airline Boeing 777 aircraft". [biggest and most expensive in aviation history](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?id=489797&clickref=radiotimes-1797104&awinmid=1478&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fasia%2Fmalaysia%2F10863605%2FMH370-search-becomes-most-expensive-aviation-hunt-in-history-yet-still-no-clues.html), with authorities looking in the Gulf of Thailand – where the plane's radar was last spotted – and in Andaman Sea, which is where the military signal last tracked it. [terms and conditions](https://www.immediate.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/) and [privacy policy](https://policies.immediate.co.uk/privacy/).

unsolved mysteries 2:25 P.M.. MH370 Is a Cold Case. But It Can Still Be Solved. By Jeff Wise.

All the same, though, the range of possibilities is not infinite. Second, we can pressure the Malaysian government to finally release all the evidence in its possession, including the full set of military radar returns showing the plane’s last known track. [eight years ago](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html), if hijackers tampered with the SDU to create a false electronic trail for investigators, then the implication would be that the plane didn’t go south after all, but rather north to Kazakhstan. A distinctive aspect of the flight is that it got progressively weirder as it went along. To many people, the failure of the search seemed unsurprising. Yet this inexplicable eventuality gave rise to the signals that the whole seabed search rested on. To me, the great underappreciated red flag of the case is the fact that the satcom was turned back on. Yet after spending years searching the area, and far beyond, they found no trace of the fuselage on the seabed, a turn of events they labeled in their final report as “almost inconceivable.” I dove deep into the evidence for a [2019 book](https://www.amazon.com/Taking-MH370-Jeff-Wise/dp/1798750910/ref=sr_1_1), and then spent several years working with the producers of a three-part [Netflix documentary series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDg0m2Q3H8c), which debuts this week. The implication was that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmen Shah, must have taken the aircraft. The urgency of solving the mystery remains, though. But significant aspects of the case remained unexplained, including the plane’s ultimate resting place, and search officials have long since given up trying to determine what happened.

Just before 12.45am on March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took flight, with pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah at the helm.

“But it is impossible to fly the aircraft from the avionics compartment.” This meant they could have created a distraction and then accessed below deck to control the plane. Inmarsat data could confirm the plane was in the air but not the exact location. “I don’t think taking the simulator data by itself proves a whole lot. It could, however, report the distance from the satellite. These pings continued for up to six hours after last contact,” Inmarsat representative Mark Dickinson said in one of the episodes. This has been supported by data found on a flight simulator at Shah’s home, which had been used to fly a similar diverted course just one month prior. Nobody was listening to me,” she said. A new Netflix docuseries, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, looks to examine these explanations and separate fact from fiction. The Boeing 777 was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China but, as we know, it never reached its destination. This has not stopped dozens of experts and pundits from proposing theories. And then finally, there’s something white,” she said.

Netflix's latest true-crime docuseries MH370: The Plane That Disappeared investigates what director Louise Malkinson calls “the greatest aviation mystery of ...

“Some of the next of kin that we have spoken to do believe that there are people or that there’s information out there that they don’t have. “But the next of kin that we speak to are desperate for them to search again. “It’s interesting, because we also have in the series Fuad Sharuji, who was the former crisis director [at Malaysia Airlines], and Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, who was the head of the Civil Aviation [Authority] at the time, and the task that they had was enormous. Fuad would say that they had — from the moment that plane went missing, because it was all across the internet — they were getting reports that it landed in the jungles of Java, or that it had been sighted over Cambodia,” Malkinson said. There are so many people that got involved that genuinely just wanted to help, and Cyndi had seen these images of these poor families on the screens and was just wanting to try and help find the plane. “We know where people are because of their phones, we know where people are because of satellites and radar.

Malaysian flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014, but never landed. The MH370, instead, vanished into thin air and was never ...

“He turns the plane to the south and he flies straight into the darkness, waiting for his fuel to run out,” says Wise. Shah was then ordered to land the plane but ignored the instructions. He then gets his co-pilot to leave the cockpit on some pretext, locks the door and disables electronics to make the plane disappear on the radar. “This could be at the heart of what happened to MH370.” Now a Netflix documentary tries to explore what might have happened to the plane and all the theories about the mysterious disappearance of MH370. This theory suggests that the Americans intercepted MH370 as it was carrying a huge amount of electronics. “But it is impossible to fly the aircraft from the avionics compartment.” “It’s public knowledge that China was very eager to acquire highly sensitive US technology in the field of surveillance, stealth, drone technology,” she said. She says that she saw what supposedly was the MH370 debris in the South China Sea, miles from the search area. What happened to the plane? A military radar still tracked it and according to data, it took a sudden diversion from the route and leaving its northeastern course, it started heading to the west towards the Malay peninsula. The Netflix documentary, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, looks at theories and discoveries that were reportedly brushed aside.