Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared 9 years ago with 239 people onboard. Aviation journalist Jeff Wise joins CNN’s Michael Smerconish to discuss the various theories surrounding the disappearance as well as Netflix’s new documentary, “MH370: The Plane that Disappeared.” #CNN #News
Journalist in new Netflix documentary shares his theory on MH370 disappearance
What ever happened to the ham radio interceptions that pinpointed spots which led to an area where a crashed most likely would have occurred? I saw a video on this and never heard any more on it. Anybody heard anymore on this?
crashed? nah… we can pickup sound waves Millions of miles away from outer space and we can’t find a damn big plane?
Hmmm… Seems like they went to the UNDERWORLD.. let’s ask frodo…
The plane belongs to Malaysia and they will not allow salvage or even searching for it, even tho it is not in Malaysian waters. This is because it was a terrorist hijacking and they knew it almost immediately.
See the comment above.
@susan ohnhaus That is simply not true. If the wreck is in international waters anyone can search for it and salvage it under Maritime law. There is no way Malaysia can stop a search and only families of victims would have any say. Malaysia does not “own” their citizens or those of the other countries aboard. International law protects ship ‘grave’ sites with bodies but they became fish food in aircraft crashes long ago and there are no restrictions on them. Private citizens have pulled whole military and private planes from the Bermuda Triangle etc. so that is clearly false though countries (like the U.S.) can make it illegal for their citizens.
Malaysia would be the last to stop a search. As you may know the pilots have been accused and it has hit them hardest so a terrorist act would be far better news for the Malay government and tourism than a mass murder-suicide by a Malaysian airline pilot
Instead of looking for a plane they should have been looking for a plane parts and to prove my theories. Some of the parts washed up on shore across the ocean
What happened to Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 is what happened to MH370
What do you mean “flew to Kazakhstan”? Parts of the plane washed up in Madagascar or Reunion, I think.
you think? Its a fact. Many small parts were found there…..
Don’t know why he mentions Kazakhstan he should of said Eastern Ukraine( Donetsk) area.
@FLASHBACKS INTO That was MH 17
@Carlos Rafael Except, you are lying. No Boeing 777 has crashed in the ocean other than that one. Even without matching of serial numbers of the component parts, it is obvious that the flaperon belonged to the plane.
The part was taken to Paris.
Investigators discovered three numbers on the wing part, and later concluded that one of the figures corresponded to the serial number of a flaperon from the MH370.
“It is therefore possible to confirm with certainty that the flaperon found on Reunion island on July 29, 2015 corresponds to the one from flight MH370,” the French prosecutor said in a statement.
CNN had the most extensive coverage of the story for months and were mocked for it.
It is ironic that Smerconish is spewing nonsense (or allowing Netflix guy to spew) from the same channel.
They still have a detailed news of engine cowling, stabilizer etc. that have been found in Mozambique, Tanzania etc. all nearby which all belong to Boeing 777 but don’t have part number.
his theory that it went north is quite flawed, their are multiple airspaces before reaching Kazakhstan than have radars and air force. pretty sure the indians and the chinese have radars close to their borders. Mh370 is a regular plane and not a STEALTH plane.
So, this was basically an advert for the Netflix documentary, not an interview or news.
Well I got a pretty good and concise briefing of a 3 hour show in 5 minutes so I’m happy
@Norbert Csecs yeah, now we can give it a skip
You just won the Internets MH 370 search show!
Be happy you didn’t waste three hours watching it. As others have attested it was not good.
@CAP198462.Spot on.I watched the Netflix documentary and I found outrageous Jeff wise is given so much time in the doc for a totally fictional theory that he can’t even back.
I watched the documentary. It’s an extremely unbelievable situation overall with nearly every country in the world somehow involved and countless resources committed to it. The theory that it was shot down right off the coast of China I don’t buy. There wouldve been debris washing up on the shore everywhere around there and China would’ve used it against everybody if they could. In some sense it seems like they wanted to pin it on the pilot but the idea of pilot suicide is the most plausible.
Occam’s razor has to come out for this. Some of the theories are so complex and would have to involve so much other interference intended and unintended that a rogue pilot depressurizing the cabin so everybody passes out but him and quietly flying out to the middle of nowhere before putting it into a nose dive seems to be the most plausible including the fact that that area is where debris is being found confirmed to be from the plane.
To assume that somebody manipulated satellite data that had never been used before to track a plane, before it was handed over for them to decipher so that it could be hijacked and taken back over Russia is really a stretch. Because then they would’ve had to take it out and crash it later with nobody being aware to make it look like the pilot did this. It just gets too complicated. While possible it does get to be too much to assume. One of the black boxes had a dead battery for 15 months while the other was the only good one they were chasing. By the time they got in the right area to search for it it was probably too late.
I tend to agree with you that the simplest solution is probably the one that is correct. The second and third theories are so far-fetched. It is sad that this has not been solved yet. Even worse, it never may be solved.
@brendsn roberts I totally agree with you. By the end I felt it was a waste of my time.
@Tele Bubba thankfully I don’t pay for entertainment. 🏴☠
@brendsn roberts you know now that I think about it, I’m shocked that wasn’t included. 👽👽👽
@brendsn roberts well, they’re the kings and queens of this world. The rest is slaves of this brutal and conning order imposed by Anglophones
quite a few experienced captains had flight simulators in their homes—to hone their skills.
I was told this during a chance conversation with one of of QANTAS” most experienced pilots.
This Qantas captain himself had a simulator in his home.
And do those simulators show practice flights to the Indian Ocean that were deleted unsuccessfully?
@philly car keys that’s not what was shown though. That’s widely spread misinformation. They had a few suspect waypoints with no known dates or other correlation. I.e. if it was pilot suicidal it is a strong factor, but until it is 100% shown it is just random evidence without proving anything. I.e. in the most likely scenario, that the pilot committed suicide, it is some evidence suggesting premeditation. But it doesn’t help us proving that it was pilot suicide as the event is so weak and could just mean anything/nothing.
Microsoft Flight Simulator. Available to everyone. The base program is not that expensive, but there are a lot of add-ons that make it costly if you want them all. It’s officially recomended.
@philly car keys all they found were bits n pieces from the cache that over eager people strung together into a nefarious plot
Giving this dude a platform is really dangerous. He’s not a psychologist and you’re not challenging a single thing he’s said – there was parts of the plane washed up on the shore. Honestly, this is maddening
@Tyler Yes you can. And people never go to see a ‘psychologist’ because everyone knows its a joke of a profession. psychiatrists are the ones with the real training.
I’m done with Smerconish. He’s done things like this quite often. I wouldn’t call him a serious journalist, just another sales promotor.
He made very clear they were theories. The French man and his lawyer pushed their version more like it was fact.
The plane shut down all external radio contact, but the pilot, or co-pilot, deliberately dropped down to 5000 ft as he flew over Malaysian peninsula, just low enough to use his mobile phone. So, who did he call and why did he call them?
What if the plane do a flat landing on the far away ocean surfaces and that explains why it didn’t have any debris.The plane would still sunk with all the passengers inside.
These things come down to luck. In the search for the Titanic, a French team preceded Robert Ballard by a few weeks, and started on its first leg missing the Titanic by 200 meters due to wind drift. Then Ballard was up and found it on the last day of his search.
They had navigational information and an infinitely smaller area to search for the Titanic.
Looking for something roughly between Malaysia, almost the Polar Circle, Australia and Sri Lanka is like telling an infirm deaf person with poor vision on crutches to look for you at night in Brazil
@Erich Korman Quite wrong. Titanic blurted out its last known position many times before succumbing. We know only the last distance from the final signal of MH370 to the Inmarat – bearing an enormous arc thousand of miles long, and the plane likely went further than that…
@Matthew Kleid that’s literally what he said
Titanic is one of the most interesting charts I’ve ever analysed. Must do a video on it.
Based on all I’ve learned, that area in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of Australia remains, by far, the best candidate. Nothing definitive was found in the search, certainly. BUT it is a huge and deep area, with a very rugged ocean floor, in one of the roughest stretches of ocean on the planet. Even finding a wreckage field on the damn surface would be a formidable task.
Noted but not finding ANYTHING? At all?? Not a piece of the place or it’s passengers caught in a current ending up anywhere? Oceans are not blacks holes no matter how deep
It’s like trying to find a plane crash flying over the alps during a hurricane. Finding a plane wreck on the sea floor in that part of the world would be more surprising as not.
The problem with that theory is it pass through multiple airspaces before allegedly reaching the indian ocean. It even pass an airforce base. So its very unlikely that a country’s air force is sleeping while a big plane passes above.
@Chris Smith they’re not looking for commercial planes at 35k feet compared to fighter jets much lower
I’ve watched the documentary too…and this guy was the one I had the most problems with..he is just all in with any speculation and any scenario that offers him the most dramatic and abstruse theory. I prefer the solution of that one private woman from the satelite pictures search team..that the plane just shot down – by accident or somewhat – in the heat of the training maneuver, and think she’s right with her identified debris. This would be a logic and typical scenario for me that could explain, why nobody inside the plane, tried to reach their loved ones, when they recognized, that something is totally going wrong….But this “journalist”..is just one of these new kind of “reporters” for me – “I know the truth!..Oh..not? Impossible this way? Oh Okay..Then I know now the real truth!!..Oh..wrong again?..Damn..I can offer a third truth then!Pls..buy my books!” MEHH! Newsmax, Fox and OAN would love him. -.-
Jeff wise is mostly concerned about selling his book than any other thing!
Indeed, also his theory midway through the video of it flying north to Kazakhstan is impossible considering the debris which was washed up on the shores of Reunion Island and eastern Africa.
@lil Sebastian it was indeed pilot suicide. Loads of evidence points to that, not just the pilots simulator
@Aurelio Marty you could say the same about many people that are interviewed on network TV. That doesn’t diminish the fact that he has researched the plane’s disappearance.
If the plane went to some country, then how do you explain flaperon found in the Indian ocean belonging to MH370? A relative to the captain was apprehended (political) days before the flight. The captain was upset. The plane went into a holding pattern south of Java. Maybe he tried to negotiate with the state?
The problem with that flaperon that was found is that its identification plate was missing. Very strange.
@edgarcayce2.0 not really strange given time and conditions. You think if a conspiracy they would go thru all that and be like Oops forgot this plate. Cmon
“how could they have done all of this mathematical analysis and still not know …” (journalist)
‘there are things that i know … that you do not know’
The Netflix series was disgusting they didn’t even give the conspiracy theories any push back or ask the families what they think happened..
It’s actual garbage and a plane going missing really shows how technologically unadvanced we are.
If the plane hit the water fast enough and the debris was small enough, even if it was in the area investigators were looking, it would be easy to miss.
Given enough time, eventually someone will find it and maybe our grandkids will have answers.
What’s frustrating is that every theory regarding this case has so many unanswered questions and loopholes… rip to all 239 souls on MH370
in the netflix show, he said the inmarsat transponder was turned off and then back on again after the plane went off radar. this can only be done from the equipment room, not the cockpit, so i find that very interesting. something going on in the main cabin, nit the cockpit.
I’m feeling very sad for the family members who still.look for answers..i pray that God give them courage
Jeff is in the business of selling copy. He dives in with both feet to write theory, sell it, then rewrite it and sell it again. The French reporter from Le Monde newspaper was slightly better up until she decided to write a book to sell.
These people act like things never go missing at sea. Keep in mind, compared to the search area of MH370, the search area for Amelia Earhart was 1/1000 the size and we never found her either. Many sailors have vanished as well. It took a hundred years to find the Titanic and we knew where it went down.
Let me give you the most plausible theory, it’s not popular because it is dull. There was a catastrophic event on the aircraft causing multiple failures including the loss of all comms. The captain, using the autopilot switched from LNAV mode to HDG SEL mode and slewed the HDG around to the left to return to Malaysia. Sadly, the crew and passengers were overtaken by something and never recovered. The airplane stayed on Altitude and Heading until it ran out of gas. Something similar happened to the golfer Payne Stewart. This is not as mysterious as people with something to sell would have you believe.