![]() ![]() ![]() (The official Malaysian accident report, released in July 2018, offered no definitive conclusions and did not rule out “unlawful interference by a third party”.) It’s also supported by the fact that debris attributed to MH370 has been found on the coasts of Réunion, Madagascar and Mozambique. It’s the one cogently argued by American aviation writer William Langewiesche in a 2019 report for the Atlantic, which supposed that the Malaysian government, rife with corruption and not known for transparency, knew more about Zaharie’s personal life than it let on. That is the “official” narrative, at least – one largely supported by a collection of aviation experts and scientists known as the Independent Group and Australian investigators, who led a futile, years-long search for MH370 in a remote slice of the Indian Ocean. Whoever was flying the plane – most point to Zaharie, who had the expertise to execute such a maneuver though no known motive – probably depressurized the cabin early on, killing everyone on board hours before MH370 dropped into the sea. Data from these seven electronic blips indicated, according to Inmarsat and several independent experts who appear in the series, that MH370 turned southward once it reached the Andaman Sea, flew straight for hours until it ran out of fuel, and plunged into the southern Indian Ocean, somewhere between south-western Australia and Antarctica. It banked around the island of Penang, flew north-west up the Strait of Malacca, and headed out over the Andaman Sea, where it dropped off radar.īut MH370 did continue to link up periodically, over the course of six hours, with a geostationary Indian Ocean satellite operated by the London-based company Inmarsat. Primary radar – as in, conventional radar that pings off objects in the sky – from the Malaysian air force indicated that following MH370’s entry into Vietnamese airspace, the flight made a sharp left turn and headed back, in a south-western direction, over the Malay peninsula. The three-part Netflix series attempts to piece together the timeline based on evidence that emerged in the weeks and years following the disappearance. “This is a world where we have mobile phones and radar and satellites and tracking, and so to be nearly nine years down the line … and still have so little is extraordinary.” “It’s the greatest aviation mystery of all time,” said Louise Malkinson, the director of MH370: The Plane That Disappeared. And speculation, as aviation experts, engineers, data scientists, journalists, hobbyists and more tried for years to piece together a confounding puzzle of evidence into an explanation for the disappearance of MH370. Devastation, as next of kin suffered through hours, then days, then weeks, months and years of question marks and inconclusive searches. Obsession, as the disappearance transfixed international audiences and prompted armchair theories for a seemingly impossible mystery. Shock, as officials scrambled to find the aircraft and loved ones waited in Beijing for a flight that never arrived. ![]() What followed, as recounted in a new Netflix series on the disappearance, was delayed confusion, on the part of Malaysian controllers and the airline. Commercial airplanes are supposed to be reachable at all times, known and tracked, but MH370 was gone. All subsequent attempts to contact it were unsuccessful. Seconds after it crossed into Vietnamese airspace, MH370 disappeared from radar. Zaharie never checked in with Vietnamese controllers. It was the last anyone heard from the flight. Malaysian three-seven-zero” – he didn’t repeat the frequency, but not unusual. Malaysian air traffic control radioed to pass the flight off to Ho Chi Minh. At 1.19am, MH370 approached the end of Malaysian airspace. The first 40 minutes of the flight were unremarkable. ![]()
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