On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, but it never arrived. Instead, the MH370 disappeared into thin air and was never located. Even nine years after it vanished without a trace, no one has any idea what happened to it. The possible outcomes of the plane’s disappearance and all the speculations surrounding MH370’s strange disappearance are now the subjects of a Netflix documentary. ‘MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, a Netflix documentary, examines theories and information that were purportedly disregarded.
At 12:41 a.m. local time, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 passengers took off from Kuala Lumpur. Three minutes later, it completely lost contact with the radar used by air traffic control. According to officials, either the pilot or the co-pilot turned off the plane’s transponder while it was over the South China Sea. It was still being followed by military radar, and data showed that it abruptly changed direction, leaving its northeastern course and beginning to fly west towards the Malay peninsula.
At 2:22 am, around 230 miles from Penang, the final vocal contact—which occurred at 1:19 am Malaysian Standard Time—disappeared. The biggest aviation mystery sparked a massive search effort that lasted for years without producing any definitive results. The MH370 was never located despite intensive search efforts. There have been sporadic reports of pieces of MH370 washing up on the shore, but there has never been any solid proof of those reports. Both the plane’s black box and any dead corpses were not located. Experts were “unable to pinpoint the real cause for the disappearance,” according to the final panel report. Moreover, the crash site was never verified.
The Netflix documentary covers three theories in three episodes
In the Netflix series, Cyndi Hendry, a former employee of the satellite imagery company Tomnod, claims that Tomnod allocated her satellite imagery at random. She claims to have seen what she believes to be the MH370 debris kilometers away from the search area in the South China Sea. She rapidly compared the shapes to a Boeing 777’s structure. Hendry informed Malaysia Airlines and others of her discovery, but they seemed unconcerned. “The satellite images were empty. It was just the blackness of the sea. Then you press next, more black scans. So much black. And then finally, there’s something white,” she said.
The Netflix documentary covers three theories in three episodes. According to journalist Jeff Wise, who is reputed to be known for his contentious hypotheses, three Russian passengers who were sitting next to an electrical hatch may have been able to create a distraction so they could enter the deck and take control of the aircraft. After that, they flew to Kazakhstan, an ex-Soviet nation. Fuad Sharuji, a former crisis manager for Malaysia Airlines, doesn’t think the notion has any merit. “Anyone who gets into the hatch can disable the transponder and disable the communications systems,” Sharuji said. “But it is impossible to fly the aircraft from the avionics compartment.”
Some claim that MH370 was shot down when the US military was conducting training exercises in the South China Sea
According to this idea, MH370 was caught by the Americans because it was carrying a significant amount of electronics. Some claim that MH370 was shot down when the US military was conducting training exercises in the South China Sea at the time. French journalist Florence de Changy says MH370 had 2.5 tonnes of electronic devices on board. “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. “This could be at the heart of what happened to MH370.”
According to De Changy, America had two radar-blocking aircraft nearby at the exact moment that MH370 took off. She claims that is why the jet vanished off the radar. Shah was then told to make a landing, but he disregarded the order. “MH370 met its demise either through a missile strike or a midair collision,” said De Changy.
According to the argument, Shah intentionally crashed the aircraft into the Indian Ocean in order to execute a double homicide. The evidence uncovered in Shah’s residence gave the theory credence. Data from a flight simulator at Shah’s house that was used to fly a similar deviated course a month before the incident was found by researchers. The flight path into the Southern Ocean and simulated landing on an island with a short runway were displayed in the simulator. Some claim that Shah had been acting “strangely” prior to the flight. According to sources, he was unhappy, which some attribute to rumors that his wife and three children had left his home the day before the abduction.
The final report found no evidence to blame Shah
Journalist Wise’s proposed timeline of events suggests that Shah ended contact with air traffic control and later established contact with Vietnam. 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. He then begins de-pressurizing the cabin. “He turns the plane to the south and he flies straight into the darkness, waiting for his fuel to run out,” says Wise. “After six hours of flight, the engines stop running, he pushes the nose down, and he starts to slide into a dive.”
However, the final report found no evidence to blame Shah. Harry Hewland, the producer of the Netflix documentary on MH370, says, “More than anything, we want to pull the hidden truths about MH370 out from the carpet under which they’ve been swept, and remind people that this is still a story with no ending, a mystery that hasn’t been solved, that somebody out there knows more than the world has been told.” Then there were events like meteor strikes, black holes, and even alien abductions, but they all died out far too quickly.