Air Crash Investigation (TV Series) What Happened to Malaysian Flight 370? (2016) User Reviews

A mystery to this day

[safenoe · 8/10 · 16 September 2016]

It's been over 2 years since MH370 mysteriously vanished, and this episode of Air Crash Investigation explores the possible theories. Usually an Air Crash Investigation episode covers a crash several years after the event, so this one, screened in 2015 is quite contemporary. Maybe it can do a follow-up next season in light of fragments of the plane being found recently. The tragedy for the families of the passengers and crew is that to this day we still don't know what happened, and where the plane crashed.

Air Crash Investigation is always compelling and this episode is no exception. There are no big-name actors featured, but the acting team are quite professional and no doubt hoping to broaden their acting careers understandably.

The Case of MH70.

[rmax304823 · 6/10 · 4 November 2016]

The airplane takes off from Kuala Lumpoor for China, makes a few wriggles on its course, then turns and flies towards Antarctica until it runs out of fuel. It crashed into the Indian Ocean and none of it is recovered.

It's a relatively recent case, and it was headline news about two years ago. Unfortunately, nobody has a clear idea of what went wrong but, as usual, the investigators eliminate possibilities one by one. It wasn't the weather. It wasn't a terrorist bomb. It wasn't sudden decompression. The two methods of communication with the outside world -- one by radio and one by satellite -- were both cut off at about the same time but they run on different circuits and are independent of one another.

Conclusion: Sherlock Holmes said it first. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (Actually Conan-Doyle ripped it off from Edgar Allan Poe's detective, August Dupin.) No matter. The only reasonable guess left was that the captain had isolated himself in the cabin, deliberately flew into an area not covered by radar, and committed suicide, taking everyone else with him.

"Goodnight, Malaysia 370"

[evening1 · 6/10 · 2 March 2024]

When Air Malaysia 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, no one could have guessed it would supplant Amelia Earhart's flight as the biggest puzzle in aviation history.

With the 10th anniversary of the disappearance approaching, the doomed flight, which killed all 238 on board, remains an enigma.

This excellent documentary series reviews the theories that existed two years in, seemingly settling on the possibility that a crew member (or other person able to breach the cockpit) turned off radar and satellite links, made a sharp, westward turn radically different from the flight plan, and left the Boeing 777 to cruise another seven hours at 35,000 feet -- higher than Mount Everest -- till it ran out of fuel and plunged into the ocean.

By the time this segment aired, wreckage still had not been found. But an internet search suggests that a few small pieces of the plane did wash up in Africa and on islands.

This episode quotes a couple of very articulate aviation-safety experts who cogently rule out one possibility after another.

One leaves the program confident that whatever crises may occur in the future, smart people will seek the truth.