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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's been nine years since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The flight, which went off radar on March 8, 2014, had 12 Malaysian crew ...

(Barely a minute in the episode) why isn’t anyone talking about the girl who received a call from her dad? [#MH370] [pic.twitter.com/CTxAWjuQtZ] [March 8, 2023] [March 8, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/ksNWdatcxg] [March 8, 2023] [#MH370] [March 8, 2023] I lost a friend and colleague on that flight. [March 9, 2023] [@netflix]’s [#MH370]documentary makes me sick to my stomach. [#MH370]on netflix, all i can say the theory is ridiculous. Someone who I regularly went to lunch with and chatted about stuff. The defamation toward the pilot is unfair [March 8, 2023]

On March 8, 2014 — nine years and one day from the day of this article's publication — a flight from Malaysian Airlines, MH370, disappeared without a trace.

In the midst of her panic, she asked authorities to advise her on what to do, as she was the first to receive any sort of communication from someone on the flight. Finally, I’d like to share my biggest takeaway from what I have seen of the show: Even when in doubt, pick up the phone. This flight had also come from the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia. The suspicion of what happened to this aircraft ranges from theories surrounding the pilots to the Malaysian and Vietnamese authorities to even the civilian passengers. As the plane approached the end of the Malaysian aircraft surveillance and entered that of Vietnam, all of the plane’s means of communication with satellite or radar cut off entirely. The most shocking one relates to the passengers’ cell phones.

Exactly nine years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, a Netflix documentary on the bizarre incident has rehashed theories on its.

company will likely end in June, as families of ... After the MH370 flight disappeared from civilian air traffic control radar, it continued to appear on military radar. “Ocean Infinity, over the last 12 months have made real progress working with many people to further understand... [Malaysia ready to back firms in finding missing flight MH370](https://english.alarabiya.net/variety/2019/03/03/Malaysia-ready-to-back-firms-in-finding-missing-flight-MH370) [MH370, 4 years on: Malaysia says search to end in June](https://english.alarabiya.net/variety/2018/03/03/MH370-4-years-on-Malaysia-says-search-to-end-in-June) [Report on MH370 finds ‘initially similar’ route on pilot’s flight simulator](https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2017/10/03/Report-on-MH370-finds-initially-similar-route-on-pilot-s-flight-simulator) local time, and was expected to enter Vietnamese airspace moments later. MH370, 4 years on: Malaysia says search to end in JuneA Malaysian official said Saturday that the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. [ended its final search](https://english.alarabiya.net/variety/2018/03/03/MH370-4-years-on-Malaysia-says-search-to-end-in-June) for the missing plane in 2017 after the $135.36 million underwater hunt was unfruitful. Malaysia ready to back firms in finding missing flight MH370Malaysia will consider resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 if companies interested in the hunt come forward with viable ... On March 5, 2023, the families of those on board the Malaysia Airlines flight called on the Malaysian government to allow US seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity to launch a new search for the missing plane. [Zaharie’s home flight simulator](https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2017/10/03/Report-on-MH370-finds-initially-similar-route-on-pilot-s-flight-simulator) had mapped a similar path over the Indian Ocean that satellite data indicated the MH370 took the night it disappeared. [Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370](https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2016/07/26/MH370-As-search-suspended-cold-case-file-awaits) went missing, a Netflix documentary on the bizarre incident has rehashed theories on its disappearance. However, the Netflix documentary goes on to say that Zaharie never left a note or message to explain a possible motive.

Theories of what happened to flight MH370: The Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared. Did it crash, was the pilot was involved, hijaking, fire?

In the documentary on Netflix, the incident is referred to as an “unsolved mass-murder” and it’s questioned if it could have been an act of war. [could have been because of a cyber attack](https://www.ibtimes.com/new-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-cyber-hijack-theory-emerges-after-vulnerabilities-found-inflight). There are theories surrounding the crew of MH370, too. Claims of domestic problems have always been denied by the family. The “phantom cellphone theory” states family members of the passengers recalled being able to hear ringing when they tried to phone their relatives, after the disappearance. Shortly after the plane disappeared, it was claimed it may have been an act of terrorism, possibly a jihadist attack. It’s also been considered hijackers may have taken the plane to a remote island. Conspiracy theorists have suggested MH370 was captured by the United States and then flown to the United States’ military base. This has raised questions as to whether this could have been a suicide or hijack attempt, carried out by a crew member. According to reports, there was a lot going on in the private life of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah in the weeks prior to the plane going missing. All crew and passengers have been presumed dead, and never in history have 239 people been declared dead on the basis of mathematics alone. Initially, it was simply thought the plane crashed.

"MH370: The Plane that Disappeared," a new Netflix documentary that is currently streaming, explores the unsolved aviation mystery.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Family members of MH370 passengers assemble at the airport at 11 a.m. Both agree that these are absurd, and aviation expert [Mike Exner](/topic/mike-exner)dismisses the hypotheses. Due to the significant number of technology on board, journalist [Florence de Changy](/topic/florence-de-changy)speculates that MH370 may have been contacted by a U.S. On the morning of March 8, 2014, it was scheduled to arrive in Beijing after leaving Kuala Lumpur. He claims that Shah thinks of an excuse to get his co-pilot out of the cockpit and then locks the door after breaking off communication with Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers but before making contact with Vietnam. [Jeff Wise](/topic/jeff-wise), it's conceivable that a Russian passenger infiltrated the electronics area and took control of the aircraft. investigators are unable to identify whether a person or an "act of piracy," or takeover, shut off the feeds. 239 passengers and staff members were on board the aircraft. The transponder that communicates location and altitude turns off around 1:21 in the morning. The idea that the flight's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, hijacked the aircraft has also been ruled out. The aircraft keeps its route.

Late in the evening on March 7, 2014, passengers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, began boarding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 ...

But in the case of MH370, since the aircraft has never been recovered, neither has the black box. The episode even features simulated images of how the plane might have made impact with the ocean’s surface, shattering into millions of pieces before sinking to the depths of the ocean. The black box saves information from instruments in the cockpit and even records the last two hours of conversations inside the cockpit. Some believe Captain Shah intentionally ditched the airliner in a murder-suicide plot, while others believe aliens abducted the plane. Three of the pieces have been classified as “highly likely,” though no absolute identification has been made. As of December 2022, 36 pieces of debris and possible aircraft parts from a Boeing 777-200ER have been found on beaches and shorelines since the disappearance, but even those have only been classified as “not likely” or “likely” to be from MH370. The search area encompassed nearly 2.9 million square miles, each of which turned out to be empty ocean. Many believe, based on information from Inmarsat, the British satellite communications company that provides phone and data services around the globe thanks to several geostationary satellites thousands of miles above the earth, that MH370 continued flying due south for hours after its final communication, finally crashing or being ditched by someone aboard the aircraft, into the southern Indian Ocean. local time, as the passenger jet cruised over the South China Sea en route to Beijing, Malaysian air traffic control radioed the aircraft and passed it off to Vietnamese air traffic controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. Multiple attempts to contact the airliner were unsuccessful, as the aircraft’s transponders and ACARS (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System) had been rendered non-functional. The plane had a capacity for as many as 314 passengers and could fly a maximum distance of just over 7,500 nautical miles without being refueled. Investigations into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have returned more questions than answers.

Netflix just released a new series: “MH370 The Plane That Disappeared,“ renewing interest in one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time.

[a piece of debris](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/6-big-questions-raised-by-the-debris-suspected-to-be-from-mh370/?itid=lk_inline_manual_53) — similar to a wing part found on jets like the Malaysia Airlines plane — washed up on Reunion, a small island in the Indian Ocean. “Accordingly, we believe that it is a matter of paramount importance that the search for MH370 is carried out to its completion.” An estimated $150 million was spent on the sprawling investigation, which searched more than 120,000 square kilometers (over 46,000 square miles) of sea floor. A handful of personal belongings have since been found, washed up on beaches in places like Madagascar. ... We must now accept [that] all evidence suggests the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.” “There were no transmissions received from the aircraft after the first 38 minutes of the flight,” said A private search led by a U.S. Several wild conspiracy theories have also percolated through the years. However, it highlighted failings by Malaysia’s air traffic control, causing the country’s civil aviation chief to announce his resignation. [hours after it ceased communications with air traffic control](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/14/heres-how-we-know-mh-370-kept-flying-for-hours/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21). Soon afterward, at 1:21 a.m., as the plane was about to enter Vietnamese airspace, the aircraft’s transponder stopped sending location data. It also became shorthand for the particular Boeing 777-200 airliner that disappeared on March 8, 2014.

"MH370: The Plane that Disappeared," a new Netflix documentary that is currently streaming, explores the unsolved aviation mystery. The Feed.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Family members of MH370 passengers assemble at the airport at 11 a.m. Both agree that these are absurd, and aviation expert [Mike Exner](/topic/mike-exner)dismisses the hypotheses. Due to the significant number of technology on board, journalist [Florence de Changy](/topic/florence-de-changy)speculates that MH370 may have been contacted by a U.S. On the morning of March 8, 2014, it was scheduled to arrive in Beijing after leaving Kuala Lumpur. He claims that Shah thinks of an excuse to get his co-pilot out of the cockpit and then locks the door after breaking off communication with Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers but before making contact with Vietnam. [Jeff Wise](/topic/jeff-wise), it's conceivable that a Russian passenger infiltrated the electronics area and took control of the aircraft. investigators are unable to identify whether a person or an "act of piracy," or takeover, shut off the feeds. 239 passengers and staff members were on board the aircraft. The transponder that communicates location and altitude turns off around 1:21 in the morning. The idea that the flight's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, hijacked the aircraft has also been ruled out. The aircraft keeps its route.

The new Netflix documentary MH370: The Plane That Disappeared revisited the plane's disappearance but left out some crucial information.

[Unfortunately, the MH370 documentary](https://screenrant.com/gunthers-millions-true-crime-documentary-secretly/) doesn't dive into the information that has come out in more recent years, like everything Godfrey has investigated. This is not enough information to come to the consensus that Zaharie was behind When it comes to MH370's debris, the documentary dives into Blaine Gibson's mission to find the debris, which he accomplished. [scene of the Netflix documentary](https://screenrant.com/netflix-ted-bundy-tapes-documentary-reveals/), Jiang Hui, the son of an MH370 passenger, mentions that while waiting for answers, a girl came running up to him, showing that she was receiving a phone call from her father, who was on the plane. The Netflix documentary does showcase the frustration of citizens waiting for answers that never came, but with all the theories it presents, it never fully dives into the Malaysian government. [One theory in the Netflix documentary](https://screenrant.com/taylor-swift-miss-americana-documentary-netflix-leaves-out-explained/) that is heavily emphasized is Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's involvement. [that the Netflix documentary does not cover](https://screenrant.com/britney-spears-netflix-framing-documentaries-comparison-better/), and had it, the series would have had a lot more to offer. Many who were close to the captain confirmed that he'd confessed to being lonely and sad. The MH370 documentary dives into many different aspects of the story, but a key component it ignores is the Malaysian government's role. The government was likely trying to keep citizens calm and save themselves from looking bad after what happened to the plane. For example, Wise raises the theory that the pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was responsible for the flight's disappearance, while others shared theories of Russian involvement or interference from the American Government. Where the plane went and what caused its disappearance has remained a mystery for nearly a decade.