Nine years ago, a Malaysian airliner carrying 239 passengers and crew vanished from air traffic control screens over the South China Sea. Search officials were never able to locate the plane or those aboard. For the family members of the disappeared, it was a tragedy all the more painful for remaining unexplained; for investigators, it was a riddle unlike any they had ever encountered.
But the disappearance of MH370 is just the start of the story. Because in the years that have followed, another dimension of the mystery has opened up. It’s become evident that the scant clues available in the case have somehow led investigators astray. It isn’t just that we don’t know where the plane is. We don’t know why we don’t know.
Why does this matter now, nearly a decade after the event and five years after the Malaysian government closed its investigation? Planes as large and modern as MH370 don’t just disappear. Consider the case of TWA800, which blew up off the coast of Long Island in 1996. At the time, it was a mystery as baffling as that of MH370, and American investigators spent years collecting every scrap of debris from the ocean floor and painstakingly piecing it together in an empty hangar. By the time they were done, they had reassembled the fuselage from hundreds of jagged fragments. And in doing so, they were able to solve the mystery: The plane had suffered an accidental fuel-tank explosion. Planes built since then has incorporated safety measures to make sure the same accident doesn’t happen again.
If we can’t figure out what happened to MH370, we can’t say that something like it won’t happen again. The entire commercial aviation industry has an asterisk next to it.
To the casual observer, it’s not surprising that investigators didn’t find the plane. The ocean is a big place, after all. But the failure of the search actually is surprising. The reason why requires some mathematical heavy lifting to fully understand, as I explain in my 2019 book, The Taking of MH370. But the upshot is simple: the fact that the plane hasn’t been found means that investigators must have made a major error. In my estimation, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared is the first documentary to clearly and compellingly explain what we know about the Boeing 777 and what might have happened to it. My hope is that, with the renewed attention around the tragedy, the officials responsible for the search will finally reassess their conduct of the investigation and make a serious effort to understand where they went wrong.
The basics of the case are simple enough. MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014 for a scheduled red-eye to Beijing. It flew out over the South China Sea and then, just seconds after it passed the last waypoint in Malaysian airspace, the plane’s communication systems were switched off. Still being observed by Malaysian military radar, the plane pulled a U-turn, flew back over the Malay Peninsula, then back up the Strait of Malacca towards India. It then flew out of radar range and disappeared again.
At this point the plane was more or less invisible to the rest of the world. Whoever took the plane could have flown it wherever they wanted to in secrecy. But that’s not what happened. Instead, something bizarre and inexplicable took place. A component of the plane’s satellite communication system called the SDU (Satellite Data Unit) came back to life three minutes after the plane vanished from radar. Why is this strange? Because 777 pilots are not trained how to turn the SDU on, and there’s no plausible way it could have come on accidentally. But come on it did, leaving the plane in an electrical configuration that no 777 has ever been in before or since.
It’s important to understand that the satellite communication data didn’t transmit coordinates, like a GPS. Rather, it allowed investigators to simulate flight paths the plane might have taken and compare the signals those paths would have generated with the signals actually recorded. The investigators generated millions of possible routes, then threw out all the ones that didn’t match the data. What they were left with was a patch in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane might have come to rest.
At this point, the authorities conducting the search were confident they would find the plane. Officials from Australia, China and Malaysia vowed that they would keep searching until the plane was found. Over the next few years, these governments funded a search of unprecedented difficulty, scanning a region of seabed the size of Great Britain at depths of up to three miles deep, until all the plane’s plausible end points were exhausted.
To their bafflement, the plane was nowhere to be found. And they couldn’t explain why. So the search officials broke their pledge to the public, and gave up. The last search ship left the area in 2018.
It very much looks like the plane didn’t actually go into the southern Indian Ocean. How could this be?
One possible explanation is that the SDU was tampered with, which would have changed where officials would have looked. Even now, no one has been able to come up with a reasonable explanation how it could have been turned on, either accidentally or through benign intention.
No one should think that attitude is acceptable. The case is too important to just let go. It requires a total commitment.
Nine years is a long time, but it’s still important that we solve this mystery. We don’t just owe it to future airline travelers. We owe it to the victims and their family members who expressed their despair and frustration about the unresolved mystery. They feel that they are not being told the full truth and that the authorities haven’t made a wholehearted effort to explain what happened. I happen to agree with them. I hope that MH370: The Plane That Disappeared will encourage the public to demand a full and complete reassessment of investigators’ past efforts.
The families deserve better. We all do.
This story originally ran on Tudum on March 8, 2023.
Laura, to be clear, that area was searched quite intensively, and nothing was found.
Hi Robert,
Do you mean, will there be another Ocean Infinity search? I’m not in the loop on that, I haven’t heard of any plans to conduct another one.
As for Richard Godfrey’s radio-wave theory, I think it’s nonsense.
Thanks Jeff for putting yourself out there, it takes courage when we all know so many will have nasty comments. The rest of the population, that also cares, wants answers & continued searching/investigating & especially feel deep compassion for those who lost loved ones. Grief is tough enough, but not knowing why, where, how or who, makes it unbearable. Thank you & Netflix for this 3 part series, keep this “out there” actively thought of & cared about & not shoved back in the corner of life, so it becomes yet just another obscure mystery only remembered on the yearly anniversary.
I’ve seen other posts here & agree, that a few things stuck out, & really need to be invested with more depth & persistence.
Shutting down all tracking on the plane & the ease & ability to access those controls by lifting a rug & panel definitely points to the theory that someone on board physically did that. Anyone with effort can learn anatomy of a plane, information is easy to obtain if one searches for it.
The military doing “exercises” in that area…what military of what countries doing what exercises? Where Maylasian airspace ends…going forward within seconds of flying from that airspace is when the problem began. That’s not coincidence. Is that Vietnamese airspace they were flying into? Who else was in or who else watches that area? What about the 2 US radar planes, the AWACS, what were they doing? Military airspace…military exercises…we all know military keep information confidential, so that kind of investigating is most often like a closed door.
What about the phone call a passenger’s loved one got from her dad’s cell phone, from the plane? What time did that phone ring? After that plane was supposed to have crashed? Where were the cell signal pings? Has anyone investigated that at all?
The Florida woman that saw a plane in the water, why was that never followed up on? Someone’s plane is there, it’s worth finding out who crashed, even if it isn’t MH370.
I find the most compelling facts were that the pilot Zaharie Shah did have an eerily similar flight plan on his simulator, plus Other sources (not yours) mentioned he & his wife had been separated & he was deeply depressed at the time. One could theorize he committed murder suicide, Or that someone else planted that ominous flight plan in the simulator after they confiscated it, to frame him, & shut down further investigating to hide what really may have happened. So who would do that? What is so important to hide? Did AWACS jam the plane’s electronics & location? Did military exercises “accidentally” down the plane later after the signal was initially lost? Did the plane turn around because they lost their communications? Yes, more crazy theories but in reality Everything after the plane had no signal could be fabricated lies. A plane was seen flying after a sharp turn…really? If there was a plane, how do they know what plane it was? They don’t.
An oil rig worker as well as fishermen did see what appeared to be a plane on fire & going down…where did that happen? Any follow up on that?
So many possible scenarios.
It’s easier to blame the pilot, easier to get that faster resolution & feeling of closure. It might be what happened, it might not be. Keep looking, keep investigating.
Omg I was so excited to see the new MH370 documentary on Netflix and to see Jeff on it.
The victims families deserve answers and to be able to bury their loved ones, or at least know where 100% where they are resting.
Thank you for keeping this story alive Jeff.
Thank you Laura! Really appreciate all your support.
Thank you, Liz. These are all interesting questions and have been discussed over the years. It’s such a sprawling topic that I’ve tried to keep the focus on the hardest evidence and the explanations that are the most technically plausible.
Jeff, I just finished watching the Netflix documentary, it is so interesting!! Thank you for all your work, maybe everyone does not agree with your teories but at least you are trying ! I’m sad that the lady in Florida and her discoveries didnt get the attention needed, and if the phones did rang why did nobody made researches in that direction?
There are soooo many questions about this case…
I Hope you will find the answers!
Thank you Océana! I’m hoping that the show will revive enough interest in the case that the public will demand a more thorough investigation.
Everyone on board MH370 have been locked up to keep their mouths sealed. They are not dead.
Well executed documentary and certainly interesting as far as plausible theories are concerned.
Curious to hear what you think of Florence De Changy’s theory about U.S. interference? Given the Florida researcher who saw images of wreckage, the Cathay Pacific pilot and oil rig workers eye witness account and not to mention the war exercises involving the U.S. all happening in the South China Sea, I can’t help but think there is high a probability that the U.S. was behind it.
Quite possible that the U.S. directed warships to a location along the flight path given that the planned route would have been available before MH370’s departure. Then, once the plane exited Malaysia airspace leveraging AWACS to jam the communications system before shooting it down over the ocean where the debris/evidence could have been quickly collected.
Regarding Inmarsat, everything has a price especially when the U.S. government keeps them in business. They would have just used the data to send everyone in the opposite direction to buy time before coming up with a new angle since no one was convinced the first few times around – the FBI claim of the pilots simulator data followed by releasing wreckage in the South Indian Sea which begs the question, is Blake really working for the Russians, Americans, or possibly both as a dual agent?
Justin, Thanks, glad you liked it. As for Florence’s theory, I think that the way to solve a mystery like this is to start at the bottom with the available evidence and work upward from there to suspect and motive, rather than to start with a suspect and try to see if you can find any evidence. I just don’t think it proves fruitful.
Dear Mr. Jeff, Thanks for your reply about the lady in Florida, but (again [and thank you Laura and the other who insist on this point]), if the data can be changed by human hands, then that official data may be unreal. So I always think that someone in the “high places” should have made the decision to look at that place where the Lady saw those debris.
Furthermore, the position of the debris was in a precise point so they would not have had to look for it blindly. For this reason I think an attempt had to be made, if only to confirm that they were just white dots and nothing else…
All this make me think that we simple people, that want to find an answer to all the “strange disasters” that happen in the whole world, are governed by not so good people… (what a find!!!)
I am a dreamer and I would like to can trust more a government that admits his mistakes and pays for his mistakes/strange disasters that happen and don’t let simple good people, and familiars of the victims for first, continue their whole life (a broken life) without explanation.
It would be a better world so, it will remain the dream of a dreamer…
Thank you again.
And keep going on!
Daniela
P.S.
To Pietro Norton
Thank you for suggesting the film!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10341034/
Dear Mr Jeff,
I’m just now reading your reply to Laura where you say that the area of the “Florida Lady” <>
Sorry, I hadn’t read it before my last comment I wrote few minutes ago.
Now everything is clear about these debris
Thank you again
Daniela
I repeat my last comment because I saw that is missing a phrase…
Dear Mr Jeff,
I’m just now reading your reply to Laura where you say that the area of the “Florida Lady”
Sorry, I hadn’t read it before my last comment I wrote few minutes ago.
Now everything is clear about these debris
Thank you again
Daniela
O M G!!!
I have to repeat again!
I repeat my last comment because I saw that is missing a phrase…
Dear Mr Jeff,
I’m just now reading your reply to Laura where you say that the area of the “Florida Lady” …was searched quite intensively, and nothing was found.
Sorry, I hadn’t read it before my last comment I wrote few minutes ago.
Now everything is clear about these debris
Thank you again DEFINITELY
Daniela
Thanks so much for all your work, Jeff. I really appreciate it. My wife and I enjoyed the doc. We only wished it were longer and went into even further detail.
The thing that makes MH370 so maddeningly fascinating is that every single remaining theory requires one to believe outlandishly unlikely things happened, and base that opinion on very scant evidence. There are no “normal” explanations. Nothing even approaches simplicity or Occam’s razor or anything like that. Everything is at the far, far extreme tail of likelihood, even for air mysteries. And every theory has some holes in it. (Some are much bigger than others, of course.) The only fact that can’t be contested is that someone, some human being, or many human beings, did this on purpose. The plane turned at least twice. That’s stunning! Beyond that, we’re left with this immense mystery which no explanation matches perfectly.
I’ve read your stuff from pretty close to the beginning and I think you’ve always told it as straight as possible. Thank you for that.
Thanks Daniela!
Thank you Michael. I think you and I are 100 percent on the same page.
Thanks Jeff! I think so too.
The one thing I wish the documentary had covered in greater detail is how much searching power was put into the search, which yielded nothing. Ocean floor mapping. Advanced multibeam sonar. Unmanned underwater vehicles. Nothing. Nothing in the location the math said was by far the most likely resting place.
And then the Ocean Infinity search happened. They have skilled analysts. They’ve found wrecks of various kinds in remote areas around the world. They were going to get a huge finder’s fee if they found the plane. They had a massive financial interest in finding the plane. And they didn’t. So people can’t just act like pilot suicide in the southern ocean is this open and shut case.
Dear Jeff,
I just finished my watching the documentary and thought you did an outstanding job laying out the facts and proposing hypotheses very objectively. Back when this happened, I was briefly between jobs and watched/read every news story there was. (My girlfriend at the time thought I was nuts). Anyway, the doc was very enthralling and I’ll definitely check your blog regularly going forward.
Thank you for all your investigative work and continuing to bring attention to this – I truly hope your efforts will one day help bring much-needed closure to the families & friends of those who were lost. Keep fighting the good fight!
Hello Jeff, it was great to see you speak up your thoughts about mh370. Your work over the years has truly been a guiding light for the people affected.
Found the documentary very interesting. That Blaine Gibson statement about you talking about him on a netflix was humorous.
The ending with Florence’s thoughts also had some of us believing her theory.
Please share your thoughts on her theory.
Thanks,
Shiv
Thank you Forrest, really appreciate your kind words and support.
Hi Shiv, Personally, I’m not a big fan of Florence’s theory; if it was me, I would have tried to dig into my own claims. What were these exercises that were supposedly taking place that night? What were they called, how long did they last, what units were involved, etc? I certainly would have tried to contact someone who took part; there must have been thousands of people, many of them now no longer in the military. And so on.
Jeff, you said on Netflix that the disappearance of the MH370 may be linked to the war in Crimea. Last year Russian started their attacks in 24-Feb and that boing 737-800 was taken down in 21-march in China, have you ever think and tried to do the same connection?
Hi Marcelo, I’m not sure what the connection would be.
Went from the Captain being the culprit to Russian spies miraculously getting inside the hatch of the electronics (not plausible), and flying the plane from there (also not possible and proven to be impossible to do), to the Good Samaritan walking beaches being a Russian spy. These comments baffle me bc this is not good journalism. It’s sensationalism to get attention and mislead the public. The plane went down in the ocean, the authorities created a massive search (in the wrong area), odds are it was an electronics failure, that went down in the South China Sea. I’d be interested to see the wave/ocean currents to see if that wing flap could make it to that island it was found on. It’s not a ploy to start a world war, it’s not aliens, it’s gonna be boring and incredibly tragic nonetheless
Alex again!
From one coffee lover to another – the comment about the documentary only being about you drinking endless amounts of coffee made me laugh.
Is it true that if you gain control of the system that displays the flight pattern in the sky, you can make it seem like you flew anywhere, such as the argument that it could have flown north OR south?
For any theory ending in a plane crash, wouldn’t it be almost too easy to disprove since there would have been a plane in the ocean/a crash site?
I think it goes without saying this was intentional, and if gov’t leaders from who knows where wanted this plane to disappear, that is what will happen.
I’m sure sure has been investigation into the passengers on board to determine who would have been a person of interest in terms of why someone would have wanted this plane gone. Anything notable to talk about there?
I need more episodes for this series. I have too many questions!
Eres muy ridículo con tus teorías inculpando a diestro y siniestro, no sé como no se te cae la cara de vergüenza. Oportunista
Alex, Tampering with the Inmarsat data doesn’t allow you to make it look like the plane flew anywhere, but it would allow you to make it look like you flew to one particular endpoint instead of another.
As to disproving the plane crash, I’d suggest that we’ve come close to doing that, by searching the seabed and not finding anything.
Yes, I’ve looked into the passengers on the plane, and have written about them here and in my book. You should check it out!
Hi, Jeff!
I must state my admiration and appreciation for the work you’ve done over the years with this case. I was 12 years old when the case started, and it has stuck with me ever since.
The series, including your theories, sparked a big interest in me. Bigger than it was before. The series was so well laid out and included so many things I found valuable as information. It has made me eager to find out all I can about MH370 and the investigation. So, I just wanted to thank you for being a motivation and inspiration to me as a viewer, and I hope the series will gather more people to shine light on and lift attention to the investigation again.
Thank you so much,
Hedda
Jeff –
I find this entire situation both fascinating and frustrating. I cannot fathom the families’ anguish, nor, if there is somehow a cover up, how the people involved have managed to keep quiet for so long.
I am also a copy editor at heart, and you need to know about the subject/verb disagreement in the last sentence of your third paragraph: “Planes built since then has incorporated…” This is also incorrect on the Netflix website.
I am hopeful the Netflix documentary brushes away the cobwebs and additional information comes to light. Truth must prevail.
My question is regarding the SDU data transmitted prior to loss of communication, would it be possible to determine if the aircraft was pressurized or not based on any of that data?
According to what I’ve read 17 messages were exchanged between SDU and inmarsat satellite prior to take-off and an additional 3 during flight prior to disappearance from secondary radar.
Could you determine if the aircraft was pressurized based on data from the 3 transmissions during flight?
Thanks!
My question is regarding the data sent between the SDU and inmarsat prior to disappearing from secondary radar.
Would it be possible to determine if the aircraft was pressurized or not based on the ACARS data received in flight prior to loss of contact?
My question is regarding the data sent between the SDU and inmarsat prior to disappearing from secondary radar.
Would it be possible to determine if the aircraft was pressurized or not based on the ACARS data received in flight prior to loss of contact?
Thanks!
Apologies for my triplicate question. Had some page reloading issues.
MH370 was destroyed by a EMP weapon that was carried by American Stealth Drone that was shadowing it. They wait until it was out of radar range, then fried it, sending it crashing into the South China Sea. The drone then mimic the 777 Satellite signal, to lead the search into the Indian Ocean. It stopped transmitting once it reached the point where the 777 would have run out of fuel, at which point the drone then landed at a base in Australia, to refuel. the pieces of the aircraft that where found were planted, to keep anyone from looking in the South China Sea. We should chat about what was on that flight that was so dangerous, and also on MH17 that made the aircraft’s worth sacrificing, to keep out of the hands of China. On 8th of March 2014, I was working a desk at Alice.
Hi Jeff,
Nice documentary.
Using fixed wing aircrafts for relaying live television broadcast is something our company has been doing for many years. So, I am reasonable familiar with the RF levels I can expect at high altitudes. There were at least 239 transmitters (cellphones) on board not counting tablets and computers with SIM cards. Most of the passengers would have switched these devices into flight mode. But not all of them. The ones that were still operational would have constantly been searching for 2G,3G or 4G networks. Due to the speed of the aircraft and the antenna diagrams of the cellular base stations on the ground, interference due to single frequency networks, the connections between a cellphone in the aircraft and a base station would have only lasted for a short period. Nevertheless, if the plane travels over land, brief connections could have been established and logfiles from the mobile network operators should have registered these brief connections. If the plane had really returned to Malaysia, this passenger cellphone data should be available in the logfiles of the mobile network operators. By checking the ID of each base station in the logfile that the cellphone connects to, you can even determine the track the plane has been flying.
Juul, Really interesting observation. Counterpoint: I was talking to a cell network expert yesterday and he was saying he didn’t think it was possible for devices to connect to the terrestrial network from 35,000 feet at all. And yet we have that solitary cell phone connection at Penang.
What are the possibilities — That connection is a low-probability event, and this phone was one out of many that just managed to connect by chance? Or perhaps that the Malaysian authorities didn’t do a very thorough search?
(Also, he told me something I didn’t know: that it didn’t matter if the phone was held up to a window or anything like that. True?)
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the quick response.
I am sorry to disagree with the network expert but I can send you some screenshots being connected at 24000 ft. traveling at 474mph and with a network service provider in my screen. From 24000 ft. to 35000 ft. is RF wise not that much of a difference. Some mobile network providers at that altitude doing -130 dBm. (DK TDC) others on -96 dBm. (Vodafone) Not the RF levels we should use to cover HD cycling events via the aircraft by the way… but this is not the case here. This is about if it is feasible that cellphones connect from inside an airliner to a base station on the ground. And this is the case. I am sure that other readers have experienced welcome messages on their Ipad, welcome to Austria, 20 minutes later welcome to Germany and 30 minutes later welcome to the Netherlands when forgotten to put this ipad, stowed in the overhead locker, into flight mode.
Juul, Thank you, this is really, really, interesting. Have you seen the section of the Malaysian final report on their investigation into the Penang ping?
@jeffwise OH MY GOD! PLEASE JEFF YOU MUST READ THIS! I am a Malaysian and I have not watched the Netflix doc but today you were on Lite.FM and as I was driving to work, I was like, yea Jeff is gonna say the same stuff others did until BOOM! I screamed in my car! Here is what happened.
Just before the MH370 incident, I was in Mumbai, India and was watching the news unfold about Ukraine and the imminent war! And as a history enthusiast (not a conspiracy theorist mind you) I have deep love for what and why nations go up against nations, but enough about that, we all know the past World Wars came out from that particular continent. So I went back to research and there it was news report by someone (I can’t recall which channel as then I did not know 370 was gonna happen!) The person said a plane belonging to Malaysia (as it had the familiar logo) was seen loading up cargo in the dead of night in UKRAINE!!! And guess what Ukraine is known to hold vast amounts of? GOLD! Jeff, you may know that of all the bull crap Malaysian government was spewing out at the press conference, it started with:
1. Picture of 2 illegal foreigners travelling on fake passport, and at the press conference they showed pictures purportedly take from the security camera. The press called them out on their BULL SHIT as it was a badly edited cut and paste pictures and then SILENCE. No one spoke about this after.
2. The passenger list was also called to question as they took so long to release and when it was made public, there were 2 names that belonged to Ukranians! This set my mind racing, and mind you it was back in 2014 that I began researching and investigating on my own, the 2 Ukranians were… guess what? Ukranian SOLDIERS!
3. Then came the question about what was so significant about MH370 that it was TAKEN? theories about Chinese employees working on some stuff to all kinds then someone asked about the CARGO, why didn’t the Malaysian Aviation release the list of what the plane was carrying, then just like the mind blowing bullshit cut and paste pictures of the illegal foreigners with fake passport, the authorities came up with LITHIUM batteries! Shit loads which they said could have caused the fire bla bla and then, here comes the worst excuse….Malaysia was sending tons of MANGOSTEENS to China! WHAT THE HELL! NO, MH370 was carrying shit loads of Ukranian Gold! As the war was looming over the country and they knew that they will be powerless against the Russians, and who was the most corruptible PM we had at that time? CONNECT THE DOTS NOW
Malaysian plane in Ukraine loading stuff in the dead of night, Malaysian plane with 2 Ukrainian soldiers on board, Mangosteens my ass!
Jeff, that is not all! THIS IS THE IMPORANT PART!! That made me scream out! You said it! You got it spot on! the debris were a decoy. The plane went up north. I am not even an aviation expert but WAIT ONE MINUTE… here is where it got scary
I posted my remarks on my social media complete with the above where I mentioned Ukraine, our plane the soldiers and gold and why everyone seem to assume Russia is involved.
That very day I posted on FB, in the wee hours of the morning I received a strange call from a number I could not recognize but know is an international number, I answered and dead silence. The same number called me again 2 more times. Then for the next 2 days, I got the same call from the same number at the same damn time like 2 or 3am!!
I traced the number, and guess where the international dialing code was from?
I leave that part out for you to guess.
Here is what the public is not talking about. MH17 Boeing 777 Flight from Amsterdam that was shot down by so called surface to air missile… and where was it shot? over UKRAINE! and when did it happen? September 19, of the SAME YEAR 2014. In March we lost MH370 and then 6 months later the same country MY COUNTRY suffered the loss of MH17.. I put this theory to you Jeff, cuz my first one was confirmed by you!
A preliminary classified U.S. intelligence analysis concludes the rebels most likely fired the missile, according to an American defense official with direct access to the latest information. (HOLY SHITE!!!!)
“Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine,” Obama told reporters. However, he stopped short of blaming any particular group.
Ukrainian officials accused the rebels, who denied it. Russia also denied involvement.
Here is my theory and God Help me!
Russia and the US have ALWAYS been at logger heads with each other. NO DISPUTE
Throw in the HOT SPOT: UKRAINE and guess who the US and the whole world supports BECAUSE of the mainstream media that makes Russia out to be the BAD guy bully. There is a HUGE interest in Ukraine by US and other supporting countries which the Russians want stopped AT ALL COST. What is it?
GOLD? Connect the dots….
And guess who visited our previous corrupt Prime Minister to play golf with… President Barrack O…
Why?
We don’t want to step on China’s foot as the other superpower supported by guess who? Russia
Connect the dots…
China is now also the bad guy.. from purported weather balloons shot down by the US… to claiming MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian separatists. All these BAD guys are BAD according to who?
Who has the worlds best aviation experts and technology? Who else can turn off and on a ‘switch’ which even pilots do not know of?
The secret greed of nations to remain superpowers has come at the peril of innocent lives and everyone goes around with business as usual attitude. The people who lost their loved ones, in BOTH the Malaysian Airlines BOEING plane.
This is TADUM!!!!
Just out of curiosity, if the AWACS can take a plane of radar, can the AWACS tamper with the Immarsat signal too.
This was not discussed in the documentary as a theory…
Just out of curiosity, if the AWACS can take a plane of radar, can the AWACS tamper with the other plane’s Immarsat signal too. Did AWACS hack MH370 electrical system and Immarsat signal too?This was not discussed in the documentary as a theory…
Hi Jeff,
I did not find the report itself, but I found some remarks about the cellphone of the first officer and its handshake with a cell tower on Penang Island.
You would think that an airplane is something like a faraday cage, but it’s not.
I also found this remark in another article,
When the plane first went missing, authorities said millions of cell phone records were searched, looking for evidence that calls had been made from the plane after it took off, but the search turned up nothing.
I really would be interested to see who carried out this search and if this was about calls or handshakes between onboard cellphones and networks. It would also be interesting to know if this search was carried out by every network operator within the flying range of the aircraft or only in Malaysia? From my own experience with RF and airplanes, I find it hard to imagine that from an airplane with 239 people onboard only one cellphone managed to get through and made a handshake to a cell tower.
There is of course an ‘easy’ way to check this theory. It requires some assistance of the Malaysian network operators and Malaysian airlines. Run the test with a similar aircraft, using the same fly path over land as assumed with 239 cellphones (not in flightmode) at 01:00 AM (same time) to minimize the traffic on the cell network and observe the logfiles from the mobile network operators if any attempts or handshakes did take place during the test flight from the onboard cellphones.
By the way, you have my email address so if you want some proof of a cellphone connection at 24.000ft. I am happy to send it to you.
Kimi, While the overall quality of the documentary is high, I wish they had done a better job of signalling viewers as to what information was reliable versus what wasn’t. In particular, Florence’s claim that AWACS are jamming platforms is simply not correct. “Some guy told me” is not sufficient sourcing for a professional journalist. There are lots of knowledgeable electronic warfare experts out there that she or the show’s producers could have talked to.
Awsome work and conclusions. Sorry in advance for the bad speling.
The only ? i have after just watching it is.
What happend to the plane? 😀 no just kidding.. to soon :/
What happend to the lady that search satellite photos and said she found the plane where it disappeared the first time?
The last time she was on screen she was to talk or meet with the french female writer/reporter and thats it.
Did they do a dive/search around the area were it disappeared?
Patrik, This question has been asked a lot. In short, it’s very unlikely that the Tomnod woman really saw anything to do with MH370 because if the plane had crashed there people would have found a lot of debris.
Hi Jeff…..I wanted to comment on the comment from Lauren on March 13. What is Alice? You said you were working the desk at Alice that day………
Also, I just finished watching the documentary. I just don’t understand. I do believe that there are definitely people at higher levels pulling strings and that this definitely sounds like a multi-country cover up, but why?
Again, I’d love to know what Alice is. Lauren’s comment is very interestin.
Whatever happened to the lady who saw plane debris out at China sea? The doc didn’t ever give her last word and did anyone ever go investigate that area and what she had found? So sad….
Jahaida, The area where she claimed to see debris was heavily searched. Plus if the plane crashed there lots of debris would have washed up.