MH370

In a new three-part docuseries for Netflix, filmmaker Louise Malkinson offers up increasingly conspiratorial theories about what really happened to ...

MH370: The Plane that Disappeared is therefore as much about how we process loss, and mysteries, as it is about reasonable suppositions. In the absence of conclusive truth, that vacuum is filled by all manner of make-believe designed to give comforting answers to outstanding questions. In the first, the finger is pointed at Captain Shah, the most obvious suspect since he had control of the plane and, as investigators eventually learned, had charted a course on his home flight-training simulator that was eerily similar to the southward trajectory presented by Inmarsat. Wise’s reputation took a hit in the press for this, as does his credibility here. No one could detect its final course, determine a nearby airport where it might have landed, or locate debris in the South China Sea that would indicate a fatal crash. The possible explanations it dispenses, however, don’t seem likely to bring this case to a close—and, in some instances, reveal the dangerous and depressing conspiratorial thinking that arises when concrete facts are in short supply.

New Netflix documentary series "MH370: The Plane That Disappeared" delves into three theories surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight ...

"He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately," said Larry Vance, a Canadian air crash investigator. Dolan rejected the possibility that a terrorist group was behind the incident. Despite extensive searches, the jet has yet to be found, and the incident has been plagued with conspiracy theories since day one—three of which are explored in MH370: The Plane That Disappeared. "If this had been a terrorist event, it's almost invariable that a terrorist organization will claim credit for the event. But shortly after takeoff, the flight vanished from radar screens and was never seen again. [appeared on Australia's 60 Minutes](https://www.newsweek.com/mh370-malaysia-airlines-captain-deliberately-evaded-radar-crashed-plane-murder-924371) to claim that Shah "deliberately evaded radar" and crashed the plane in a murder-suicide.

The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is explored in a new Netflix documentary.

Since 2015, several pieces of debris confirmed as from the aircraft have washed up on the coast of Africa and on Indian Ocean islands. I’m not going to say who said what to whom, but let me reiterate, I want to be absolutely crystal clear, it was understood at the highest levels that this was almost certainly murder-suicide by the pilot.” MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board, made up of 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 14 different nations. On March 24, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed that investigators had concluded the aircraft crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Speaking in a Sky News documentary, Abbott – who was PM when the aircraft disappeared – said high-ranking Malaysian officials believed veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, deliberately downed the jet. An Australian-led search scoured 46,000 square miles of the southern Indian Ocean and cost 200m Australian dollars (£100m). The pilot’s family has long denied he was suicidal. But what exactly happened to MH370 and when did it disappear? The aircraft, presumed crashed, sparked a huge search that became the most expensive in aviation history. A private hunt by Texas-based company Ocean Infinity later searched more than 37,000 square miles of sea. Released on Wednesday (March 8) to coincide with the ninth anniversary, At 1.22am – around 40 minutes after takeoff – the Boeing 777 suddenly disappeared from Air Traffic Control radar.

Sakinab Shah, the sister of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, has recently made headlines for her involvement in the search for the missing plane; Sakinab, who lives in ...

They are hopeful that someday, the mystery of MH370 will be solved, and they will finally have the closure they need to move forward. She has joined forces with a group of experts and advocates who are pushing for a new search for the missing plane. Instead, she suggests that there may have been some kind of mechanical failure or other unforeseeable event that caused the plane to crash. Now, nearly a decade after the tragedy, a new name has emerged in the search for answers. Among the crew was Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of the ill-fated flight. The disappearance of the plane, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew, remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries in history.

The Boeing 777 vanished nine years ago - why or how it happened is still unknown.

[60 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbO8VUpwY0) that the ATSB’s investigation was flawed. Malaysia’s government at the time stated that it would resume the search if more credible evidence came to light. A new, three-part [Netflix](https://www.express.co.uk/latest/netflix) docuseries, [MH370: The Plane That Disappeared](https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81307163), is now exploring what could have happened to the flight and its 239 passengers, including the theory that the captain is to blame. The report did not, however, rule out “unlawful interference by a third party”. [Malaysia Airlines Flight 370](/latest/mh370) took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. As it flew over the Indian Ocean on March 8, it vanished and sparked one of the biggest aviation mysteries in history.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people on-board took off into the night's sky from Kuala Lumpur, never to be seen or heard from ...

If either pilot wanted to crash the plane, why turn it around? It was not known whether Malaysia Airlines had carried out the change. Some believe the mystery cargo to be the remains of a drone downed in Pakistan, or military equipment captured by the Taliban. She didn't know about the search that had been started for MH370. Debris has been found across the Indian Ocean since the crash Two Russians and a Ukrainian were found guilty in November last year of murdering all 298 people on board by shooting it down. Of the 49 people on board, just 39 were returned two months later. The most expensive search in the history of aviation was launched. Shah pressed a button above his head to turn off the cabin's pressurisation system forcing it into a rapid decompression. Investigating the cargo, de Changy writes that it had not undergone the proper security screening. She says on the Being-777's cargo was 2.5 tonnes of 'poorly documented Motorola electronics equipment,' she says. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people on-board took off into the night's sky from Kuala Lumpur, never to be seen or heard from again.

We reviewed the Netflix documentary series MH370: The Plane That Disappeared. The documentary series was released on March 8, 2023.

The docuseries keeps the new and helpful trend of using a visual and variable timeline to help guide the viewer through a labyrinth of timelines. While you are privy to the human element, this balances the show since you are handed over and cycled through a band of citizen detective investigators trying to solve the case. Also, you hear from the men from the airline and the Malaysian government, who dragged their feet and offered no answers. After nearly nine years, the three most popular theories are — (1) the pilot chose to commit suicide in the Southern Indian ocean, (2) the plane was hijacked, hacked, and moved into Russian airspace, and (3) the plane blew up over the South China Sea. The search cost over 200 million dollars and lasted over three years, covering over 40,000 square miles of ocean. Remarkably, experts and published writers’ attitudes towards the most prominent theory lean towards the wildest ones.

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.

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 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.

EERIE satellite images show how MH370 might have crashed in the South China Sea - thousands of miles from the main search area.Satellite sleuth Cyndi.

"I knew I had evidence in the South China Sea. "The Cathay pilots said they saw a large debris field. Cyndi said: "I told her what I had. "I already had notified Tomnod that this debris existed. Because I knew that was part of the plane. "At that point, I already had contacted Malaysia Airlines. I feel certain that this is where MH370 ended up, off of Vietnam. It was just the blackness of the sea. I feel certain that this is where MH370 ended up, off of VietnamCyndi Hendry Something that looked like the tail. Something that looked like the fuselage. She said: "The satellite images were empty.

Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer for now-defunct satellite imagery company Tomnod, found what looked like plane debris in the South China Sea only days after the ...

Something that looked like the tail. I feel certain that this is where MH370 ended up, off of Vietnam. Something that looked like the fuselage. And I was able to identify a piece as the nose cone. There's the airplane'. There's a piece of debris.

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.