Malaysian Three-Seven-Zero.’” It’s by far the most complete and engaging article regarding Malaysian Airlines 370. NOTE: We are drawing from several sources here, but the chief document we’re using is The Atlantic’s “What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane,” written by William Langewiesche and originally published in the July 2019 issue as “‘Good Night. With that in mind, we thought you might appreciate this rundown of elements that Netflix’s MH370 doc leaves out or doesn’t quite get right. While it’s hard to say that MH370: The Plane That Disappeared is acting in bad faith (its first episode is quite good and its second episode at least makes an attempt to support the implausible with evidence), it does allow its subjects to omit and misrepresent a lot of the MH370 story. If that final theory sounds a bit specious to you, then congratulations: you process reality in a more discerning fashion than a Netflix documentary. By episode three, “The Intercept,” it is in full on Ancient Aliens territory by presenting a conspiracy that the American government destroyed the flight so that the Chinese couldn’t have some toys. But in episode two, “The Hijack,” it enters into the realm of the speculative with an ill-supported theory involving the Russian government. The doc wisely opens with the most plausible theory – that of pilot murder/suicide. MH370: The Plane That Disappeared does its viewers a disservice by presenting three different theories of the plane’s crash that range from “possible” to “completely batshit” while never properly clarifying what is supported by proper evidence and what isn’t. Some explanations are quite simply far more likely than others. While it’s true that MH370’s disappearance lacks any definitive answer, that doesn’t mean that every attempt at explaining its disappearance is created equally. This doc, directed by Louise Malkinson, commits the sin of pretending that all theories deserve equal time and equal weight. The ATSB previously stated that out of the possible scenarios, an unresponsive crew or hypoxia event – where depressurisation causes those on board to lose consciousness – “best fit the available evidence”.Enter Netflix‘s latest ill-advised attempt at crafting a buzzworthy three-episode docuseries – MH370: The Plane That Disappeared. In its final report, the ATSB identified an area of less than 25,000sq km “which has the highest likelihood of containing MH370”. The mission scoured more than 120,000sq km of Indian Ocean floor using high-resolution sonar between 2014 to 2017, unfortunately with no luck.Ī second search sponsored by the Malaysian government also came up empty. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau coordinated a $200 million, three-year search operation for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean after offering assistance to the Malaysian Government shortly after the plane went missing. These, along with aircraft performance data and sea drift analysis, formed the basis for determining the plane’s likely arc. One of the pilots acknowledged an instruction from Vietnamese air traffic control, saying, “Good night Malaysia three-seven-zero.”Īutomatic satellite pings continued for seven hours. The last recorded transmission came 38 minutes after takeoff while over the South China Sea. It eventually left radar range around 370km northwest of Penang Island. Various pieces of MH370 debris have washed up over the years in southern Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean, with leading theories suggesting the plane crashed in the remote waters west of Australia. Not long after takeoff, the plane made an unexplained U-turn, turning westwards from its planned flight path and heading back across the Malay Peninsula and the Malacca Strait. The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014, bound for Beijing carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers.Ībout 85 per cent of those on board were Chinese or Malaysian residents, with others coming from Indonesia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, France, India, Iran, Ukraine, Russia, and the Netherlands. Gu Naijun and Li Yuan from Sydney were also on board. Three Australian couples were on MH370 when it vanished, including Brisbane residents Rod and Mary Burrows, and Robert and Catherine Lawton. I’m still open if the authorities want to reveal more information that they may have.” And I can only say that that’s my current theory. It was an act of terrorism in my view,” Mr Godfrey said. Mr Godfrey told Sunrise his theory that the crash was essentially a terrorist attack carrier out by one of the pilots – a theory that has been rejected by Australian experts. British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey says he's tracked down missing flight MH370 after nearly eight years.
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