MH370: The Plane that Disappeared

Netflix just released a new series: “MH370 The Plane That Disappeared,“ renewing interest in one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time.

[a piece of debris](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/6-big-questions-raised-by-the-debris-suspected-to-be-from-mh370/?itid=lk_inline_manual_53) — similar to a wing part found on jets like the Malaysia Airlines plane — washed up on Reunion, a small island in the Indian Ocean. “Accordingly, we believe that it is a matter of paramount importance that the search for MH370 is carried out to its completion.” An estimated $150 million was spent on the sprawling investigation, which searched more than 120,000 square kilometers (over 46,000 square miles) of sea floor. A handful of personal belongings have since been found, washed up on beaches in places like Madagascar. ... We must now accept [that] all evidence suggests the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.” “There were no transmissions received from the aircraft after the first 38 minutes of the flight,” said A private search led by a U.S. Several wild conspiracy theories have also percolated through the years. However, it highlighted failings by Malaysia’s air traffic control, causing the country’s civil aviation chief to announce his resignation. [hours after it ceased communications with air traffic control](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/14/heres-how-we-know-mh-370-kept-flying-for-hours/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21). Soon afterward, at 1:21 a.m., as the plane was about to enter Vietnamese airspace, the aircraft’s transponder stopped sending location data. It also became shorthand for the particular Boeing 777-200 airliner that disappeared on March 8, 2014.

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared review: Irresponsible and ethically dubious, Netflix's three-part documentary series about 'one of the greatest aviation ...

But MH370: The Plane That Disappeared has the tone and texture of a reality series, and that’s irresponsible. MH370: The Plane That Disappeared could have very easily focused on the human toll of the tragedy. Episode one is devoted almost entirely to the theory that the captain of the aircraft downed the plane in a murder-suicide. And this is what makes MH370: The Plane That Disappeared an uncommonly cynical exercise. However, over the course of three episodes, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared gives a platform to such rubbish that Professor Calculus himself could have popped up and claimed that the Tintin story Flight 714 was based on fact, and I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid. But instead of trying to solve it, or investigating why nobody has been able to solve it, the series wastes everybody’s time by deliberately circling around in the air, even though it has been cleared to land.

Viewers of Netflix's new documentary MH370: The Plane That Disappeared have all shared the same complaint following the release of the series.

Many of the interviewees share their theories on what happened to the plane, which has left viewers of the series with some complaints. A documentary is supposed to be based on mostly facts and at the very least provide some sort of clarity, not leave you confused with a billion other questions that you didn’t even have nine years ago. [said](https://twitter.com/Nick__Anastasi/status/1633643493569490944): "Totally disagree with @netflix's documentary of flight #MH370. However, none have been confirmed as of yet. The three part series is set to investigate what happened to the Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared in 2014. On 8th March 2014, a redeye flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 passengers and crew on board, disappeared from the radar screens shortly after takeoff.

Netflix documentary series, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, investigates theories in aviation's biggest mystery, the 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight.

Will we ever know what really happened to the vanished Malaysian airliner? TV review by Adam Sweeting.

[MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Netflix review - a field day for conspiracy theorists](/tv/mh370-plane-disappeared-netflix-review-field-day-conspiracy-theorists)Will we ever know what really happened to the vanished Malaysian airliner? Ms Changy also suggests a conspiracy between the Americans, the Australians and the British (the same AUKUS collective who have been cutting out the French from supplying submarines to Australia). Persuaded by the loss of another Malaysian Airlines flight, MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists only four months after the loss of MH370, Wise devised a scenario whereby Russian agents took over 370 and flew it to Kazakhstan. Hendry was convinced she’d spotted MH370 wreckage close to where its radar signature vanished, but it was impossible to see how she thought she could make out sections of nose or fuselage from the blurry white blobs on her screen. It was concluded that the latter had occurred, prompting a vast search (led by the Australians) of the southern Indian Ocean. Florida-based Cyndi Hendry was one of millions of volunteers working with Tomnod, a crowdsourcing project which assigned chunks of satellite imagery to participants who would search for signs of the lost plane.

Nine years ago this week, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens somewhere over the South China Sea. It's 239 passengers and crew ...

Harry Hewland: I'd been working with Raw already on a series for National Geographic, I was coming to the end of that, and heard that MH370 was in the pipeline there, and same — I just desperately wanted to be a part of it. You were working on the docuseries for two years. It's the greatest aviation mystery of all time — and just nine years ago, in the modern world, where we have mobile phones, and satellites, and tracking. Though it has faded from the public consciousness in the years since, the new [Netflix](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/best-netflix-series-uk) [docuseries](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/gallery/crime-series-netflix) MH370: The Plane That Disappeared seeks to unpack what could've happened to the doomed flight, with theories ranging from pilot murder-suicide (the narrative supported by Australian investigators and [former Australian PM](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/19/former-australian-pm-told-mh370-crash-mass-murder-suicide/) Tony Abbott) to Russian hijacking or, even, U.S. Here, GQ speaks to MH370: The Plane That Disappeared director Louise Malkinson and producer Harry Hewland about the MH370 tragedy, making the docuseries over the last two years, and their hope to reignite the search for the missing plane. I'm curious as to how it came up on your radar as a potential docuseries subject.

Netflix documentary series, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, investigates theories in aviation's biggest mystery, the 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight.

Netflix is diving into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 nearly a decade after the plane vanished.

The series features scientists, reporters and family members of victims who were on the plane. The second episode dives into conspiracy theories about the plane's disappearance, and the final episode deals with the ongoing search for answers by some journalists and family members. The day marked nine years since the