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it is the greatest aviation mystery of all time Malaysian Airlines flight mh370 somewhere in the far depths of the Indian Ocean like a massive passenger jet and the remains of its 239 passengers and crew this is Aviation's greatest mystery the last time the world had this interest in a missing airplane the captain was Amelia Earhart tonight the world's top air crash investigators and experts re-examine its last hours its final moments why how and where it's officer's place to search mh370 the Situation Room good evening and welcome to a special edition of 60 minutes I'm Tara Brown right now 3,000 kilometers from Perth in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean there's a state-of-the-art ship searching for mh370 what it's doing may be the final act in the mystery the tragedy of the missing Boeing triple7 aircraft and its 239 passengers and crew the investigation into the fate of mh370 has been without precedent so why after more than four years has it not been found to answer that question we've brought together some of the world's leading aviation crash investigation and oceanography experts for a final reckoning was mh370 a catastrophic accident or mass murder they are the most terrifying accidents of all terrible errors by man disastrous mechanical malfunctions deliberate carnage by hijackers or the rarest of all mass murder by their pilot but they always have a cause and we always find out why it's the job of men like these Martin Dolan former head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau he led the search for mh370 veteran air crash investigator Larry Vance from Canada and American John Cox global air Safety Specialist world-renowned oceanographer professor charissa periyachi and Simon Hardy senior Boeing triple7 pilot and instructor so we're coming up to the second engine failure point which is now tonight our experts reveal new evidence how they believe mh370 was brought down we test fly its final minutes still accelerating so it's probably supersonic now okay we're gonna crash now that that's it from the aircraft's actual flight plan it's mysterious route is reexamined with chilling discoveries what technical reason is there for this and after three months of thinking about it I finally got the answer and the latest forensic evidence put to the test so we see bits of wreckage and you see clues there's all kinds of evidence in here Tara if this was a high-speed dive this piece would not exist the logic that was used is based on evidence it's not correct so which parts of the evidence are not correct the fact that the airplane ran out of fuel it didn't run out of fuel the fact that so your evidence for that is the fact that the flaps were down in the conductor to confirm the fact that they you can't give a speculation the flaps may have been down well you'd know it's speculation to you to me there's evidence so we know that there's electricity back in the airplane after an interruption in the in the cause for that interruption is that's my question some people are arguing what are you arguing some it's simple it's obvious my calculations said it's in there to these men mh370 is not lost it's unfinished business if you take history and you look back it says we'll find it we always have so if history is our guide I remain optimistic the flight that shocked the world left Kuala lumper on March 8 2014 on board were 12 crew members and 227 passengers including eight from Australia at 42 minutes past midnight local time mh370 sets off for Beijing in the cockpit is 53 year old Malaysian captain zaharie ahmad shah a highly respected veteran of the skies by his side his inexperienced co-pilot 27 year old farik abdul hamid on his first ever flight as a triple 7 copilot for 37 minutes mh370 is just another commercial aircraft in the sky approaching the point at which Malaysian air traffic control will hand over to Vietnam then captain zaharie makes a last routine but now infamous radio transmission two minutes later its transponder and other ground communications are turned off right on the border of Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace the Boeing triple7 literally vanishes from the face of the earth inside Australia's air investigation headquarters ATSB chief Martin Dolan got the call when the plane is missing when all the communication has gone are you thinking at that point catastrophic accident or are you thinking pilot gone bad that point what we are thinking is there is an aircraft missing there is at least a possibility that some people have survived and certainly in my experience the first thought is not what happened there people still alive and can we do something about that so in the first hours it's they're mobilizing the search effort there hopefully rescue efforts where's the debris those questions were central to everyone if there were survivors you've got to find them so it's those first hours that turn into days that where's the airplane and then the evidence starts rolling in now something's wrong now something doesn't fit the what I'll call standard profile for accident investigation something with this one is different in this day and age as sad as it is do you assumed immediately yes if this had been a terrorist event as we would normally classify them then it's almost invariable that a terrorist organization will claim credit for the event and there was no such claim made in this case for the families of those aboard mh370 March 8th 2014 was the beginning of a nightmare that has no end four years of questions four years of fading hope there will ever be answers and everyone who lost someone has lived lonelier lives missing the moments that might have been and that's certainly how Amanda Lawton feels [Music] the beach never felt the same for that first year to think they could be out there somewhere this constantly reminded you some you look up in the sky and there's an airplane up in the sky and you just instantly question how does something like that disappear you know Amanda's parents Bob and Cathy Lawton were on a trip of a lifetime a long-planned holiday to China with friends Rodney and Mary burrows it's just knowing what happened people don't go on a holiday and not come back because they've disappeared it's it's not fair why do you think it's so important to find out what happened the world needs to know what happened to mh370 how how does a Boeing triple7 disappear could this happen again we need to find our loved ones so we're in so much pain my sister's family it doesn't get any easier like coming up dreadful mistakes as it happened in the US there would have been a military fighter jet with this aircraft within 20 minutes and somebody was looking out the window the pilots bizarre personal farewell to his hometown moment as mass-murder what do we think has happened to the passengers at this point that's next on 60 minutes to the frustration of families whose loved ones perished so many possible answers about the fate of mh370 were lost in the immediate aftermath of the planes disappearance one of the greatest is stunning oversight by Malaysian authorities that meant the massive initial search was focused in the wrong place incredibly it took the Malaysians four days to admit they were searching in the completely wrong direction for those full wasted days search aircraft and ships scoured the ocean between Malaysia and Vietnam without finding a trace of mh370 on the fourth day Malaysia's then Prime Minister Najib Razak called his first press conference and dropped a bombshell the Royal Malaysian Air Force primary de data showed that an aircraft which was believed but not confirmed to be mh370 did indeed turn back immediately after dropping off civilian radar the Malaysian military tracked the plane as a dramatically changed course veering back across the Malaysian mainland these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane to the experts in the Situation Room Malaysia's failure to detect the rogue jet immediately was an extraordinary security lapse how can a plane fly around like this and not alert authorities I mean if it's being spotted on the military radar if it happened in the US or in the UK there would have been a military fighter jet with this aircraft within 20 minutes that does sound like a terrorist dream you can fly through here an area that does have military radar and not being picked up did the military perceive a threat and if the answer to that is no then they're you know a low alert environment but I think part of the lessons learned is that even though the airplane may not present a threat if it's out of position we need to know why could a catastrophic malfunction fire or any other accident have caused the aircraft's 180 degree change of course our experts say no are we all in agreement that there could be no accident scenario that would explain what looks like the controlled flight of the plane at the beginning you can develop scenarios that potentially explain the facts that we know them in that stage of the flight where the aircraft is tracked but if you add them up they are so remote in likelihood that you can say effectively you can limit that it's the probability issue and you you put these together the probabilities become literally one in a trillion I don't think that there's a reasonable accident scenario that's exactly right too many too many coincidence our triple 7 pilots Simon Hardy has reconstructed captain zaharie armatures actual flight plan from the military radar and made a remarkable discovery mh370 s pilot avoided detection by either Malaysian or time military radar by flying along the border crossing in and out of each country's airspace as the aircraft went across Thailand Malaysia it runs down the border which is wiggling underneath means it's going in and out of those two countries which is where their jurisdictions are so both of the controllers aren't bothered about this mysterious aircraft because it's oh it's gone it's not in our in our space anymore so there's a reason deliberate yes as a reason if you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a triple 7 disappear I would do exactly the same thing as far as I'm concerned it's very accurate flying and I think it did the job because we know as a fact that the military did not come and insert the aerial but Simon found something even more disturbing in captain zaharie's flight plan detail of mh370 s unexplained strange turn at Penang in the first of the flight simulations he'll run for us tonight he reveals captain zaharie and dipped his wing to see Penang his hometown you look very carefully you can see it's actually a turn to the left then start a long turn to the right and then do another left turn so I spent a long time thinking about what this could be what technical reason is there for this and after two months three months of thinking about it I I finally got the answer somebody was looking out the window in your opinion why did he want to have a look at the net it might be a long an emotional goodbye or a short emotional goodbye to his hometown after leaving Penang mh370 runs the military radar gauntlet undetected for nearly 400 kilometers to the northwest before dropping out of range to the Situation Room it's another clearly deliberate move by whoever is in control of the aircraft by now the crew and passengers would have surely known something was terribly wrong what do we think has happened to the passengers at this point the thing that gets discussed the most is that at the point where the pilot turned the transponder off that he depressurized the airplane and which would disable the passengers there is no reason not to believe that that's what the pilot did because that would be consistent with everything else that the pilot did and I would be comforted in thinking that that's probably what happened but if the plane had not been depressurized do you think that there would have been attempts to contact people from the plane would there have been phone calls a lot more opportunity to do that that's for sure I think that if if you go down into your deep thoughts you think that's probably the most likely thing that the pilot would do given his intention to make the airplane disappear and not wanting any interference from the back or any anybody using cellphones or anybody trying to call people that's that's in my opinion that's probably what happened you asked the question I'll give you that answer so it's the nature of the silence around this airplane that makes history so good every day that went by the mystery grew deeper and this became very quickly unlike any accident in aviation history the last time that the world had this interest in a missing airplane the captain was Amelia Earhart coming up more damning evidence against the road captain he did it deliberately and the mysterious six-hour flight to nowhere the airplane was flown to this part of the ocean for one single reason not to be found forever that's next on 60 minutes we now know that flight mh370 made a gigantic u-turn just after it disappeared from air traffic control screens it was then tracked by military radar flying back over Malaysia and out into the Indian Ocean a route that seems inexplicable unless you contemplate the unthinkable that captain zaharie armature had planned his own death and those of his passengers and crew as a terrible few pilots had done before him Tuesday March 24 2015 40 minutes after takeoff from Barcelona enroute to Dusseldorf German wings flight 9525 disappears from radar over the French Alps the Airbus a320 was carrying a hundred and fifty passengers and crew including Melbourne mother and son Carol and Greg Friday all were killed instantly when the plane crashed at high speed into a mountainside the cockpit voice recorder would later reveal the awful truth it wasn't an accident but mass murder when the planes captain left the cockpit to go to the bathroom his copilot andreas Lubitz locked him out the stricken captain could be heard trying to break his way back in as Lubitz sent the plane into a kamikaze dive and Germanwings wasn't the first case of pilot suicide somewhere on that tape the copilot makes a statement in Arabic of a religious nature that has some reference into going into death in 1999 Egypt air flight 990 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean east of New York killing all 217 on board US investigators found that copilot Jamil Albert ooty deliberately crashed the plane apparently in revenge at being accused of sexual misconduct by his employer and there have been other pilot suicide mass murders over the years with hundreds of innocent lives lost did those crimes set the stage for mh370 and captain zaharie ahmad shah the spectra of pilots suicide is raised because it comes into question what happens after the plane is lost to the military radar he was killing himself unfortunately he was killing everybody else on board and he did it deliberately pilot suicide we have seen some very a very few very unfortunate cases of it because you're constantly evaluated you're constantly put under stress you're constantly tested it just comes with the with the job you know to have somebody just snap and elect to take their own life is a tragedy but to do it and commit mass murder at the same time it's very hard for me to even begin to understand it and in saman it looked really hard for you to even watch it yeah any any aircraft coming to grief and people coming to grief inside it is something that we're focused on avoiding we don't even let people crash the simulator in the course of your training you let the guy crash the simulator is called negative training and you don't want to go into his mind even in the pretend situation of a simulator if captain zaharie ahmad shah had been intent on killing himself and all onboard mh370 then this next discovery was confounding instead of crashing into the sea immediately the plane had kept flying for another six hours but with all its communication systems dead where it had gone was anyone's guess ten days after mh370 vanished engineers at Britain's Inmarsat shocked the world one of its satellites had picked up a series of faint data signals from the aircraft's engines proving they'd kept running for six hours the signals were meant for the engines manufacturer to monitor them in flight never designed to provide location data for the aircraft but Inmarsat engineers knew the precise position of their satellite above the Indian Ocean a series of extraordinary calculations revealed the distance of the plane from that satellite at each of the signals plotting those distances gave them seven arcs through which the plane must have passed the seventh and last arc put the planes final location somewhere in a vast air corridor that ran north as far as Kazakhstan and south deep into the Indian Ocean this new satellite information has a significant impact on the nature and scope of the search operation tell me what that corridor looks like how big is that corridor what direction are we talking about well all we were measuring was the distance from a satellite that sits over the middle of the Indian Ocean so the those arcs are very reliable pieces of information the problem is that there's a whole set of distances from the satellite they could reach from the southern Indian Ocean all the way to Central Asia all we knew was there was this arc that and somewhere along it was where the aircraft's flight ended [Music] at ammas at headquarters in London analysts pulled off a final calculation using the satellite data as Inmarsat's chief revealed there was no doubt mh370 flew south we can give you a likely area of the Southern Ocean but we can't tell you exactly where to look but as the world's eyes turned south to one of the wildest and most remote stretches of ocean on earth there is a single collective question why would anyone want to fly the plane deliberately to this part of the ocean to make it disappear the airplane was flown to this part of the ocean for one single reason and it was because the pilot wanted to disappear forever never to be seen again not to be found forever ten days after mh370 went missing the real search could finally begin an international alliance of ships and planes scoured several million square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean but where there should have been a massive debris field created by its impact with the water not a trace of the aircraft or its passengers was found [Music] what would we expect to see if there was a high impact crash I can speak to that because I worked on Swiss Air 111 accident it was a high-impact crash we had two million pieces that were created by hydrodynamic forces as the airplane entered the water at high speed if if this airplane entered the water at high speed you would expect to see an equivalent amount of damage sorry isn't oceanographer tell us about this part of the ocean it is it is a very hostile area there are lots of waves and wind so it is rough you know it took with ten days before the search actually came to this part in the ten days there were two cyclones so there was a lot of mixing and a lot of very big seas which would have also broken up part of the stuff that we're talking about so our job at this stage was we're going to have a search where do we search we search in the area that the aircraft is most likely to be it's not the place where the aircraft is guaranteed to be but by our best assessment on all the information that was available to us at the time where is the aircraft most likely to be that's where we concentrate our resources coming up have we finally located the right area to search it's in there it's obvious it's an obvious thing to do it's obvious is place to search and MH 370's final seconds if I'm gonna make the aircraft disappear I will continue to be there I will make sure I'm there to the end that's next on 60 minutes the one vital clue investigators had about the fate of mh370 was satellite data showing it had been flown to the further stretches of the southern Indian Ocean but the deepening mystery would not be cracked until the plane itself was found so now Australia took charge of the investigation running what would be the biggest undersea search in history using every possible known parameter satellite data fuel load and probable cruise speed the ATS be mapped out a search area for mh370 covering 120,000 square kilometers of the ocean floor the effort was coordinated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau under its commissioner Martin Dolan so today what do you think happened at the end of the flight I still think the weight of the evidence which is why the search has been concentrated where it is is that for whatever reason it's unlikely there were control inputs at the end of flight and therefore the aircraft spiraled into the water and crashed the 80s B's insistence that mh370 fell from the sky in a steep seemingly uncontrolled dive was based on their highly technical recalculation of the satellite data which showed a probable extremely fast descent the search area defined by this death dive scenario was 25 nautical miles either side of the seventh arc if that was the most probable scenario if that's what happened to the plane why haven't you found it that's a question that's becoming more pointed as we eliminate more of the search area do you accept that the other possibility is that the plane was controlled right to the end we've always accepted that there was a possibility that was the case what does that do to the potential search area then it's an almost impossible task and with the resources governments are likely to make available it would be impossible relying on the satellite calculation that mh370 made a steep high-speed descent there are two primary scenarios the first is the so-called death dive that has dictated the 80s B's for year 200 million dollar search for mh370 the second is that captain zaharie maximized his fuel range at altitude then used the speed of his dive to glide the aircraft to a controlled landing on the ocean but could any pilot do that captain Simon Hardy will try first though he will fly the ATS B's assumed death dive I'm going to turn off the right engine now so the aircraft's gonna start slowing down and the left engine comes up to compensate for the fact that we've lost one of them Simon is doing what he's almost never done in a simulator deliberately allowing his aircraft to crash and the assumption at this point is that nobody's in control of the planet so we're not going to touch it we'll just watch and see what happens so five miles to go thirty five seconds after flying for seven and a half hours the plane is at the very limit of its range as it runs out of fuel we're entering the death dive this is the point it's only engine off you've lost all your instruments which is great within a matter of seconds it begins a catastrophic dive from which there will be no recovery the speeds washing off now even more because we've lost that lost that engine and now it's starting to turn even in a simulator it is a sobering experience now coming up warning saying Bank angle this is overspeed warning not pull-up terrain it's now saying you're gonna hit the hit the ground and this this rate of descent you've got 10,000 feet ago it's still accelerating so it's probably supersonic now in this particular okay we're gonna crash now though that's it okay stop that's pretty horrible isn't it from cruising altitude to ocean surface it's all over in less than two minutes putting the plane not far from where it finally ran out of fuel how far did we travel we traveled eleven point nine miles from the time that second engine failed do you think what we've just shown actually happened I don't think it happened no because I think that that somebody was controlling the aircraft to the end the death type thing isn't realistic as far as I'm concerned then leaves another scenario well it leaves the scenario that this was a mission by one of the crew to hide the aircraft as far away from civilization as possible now we run the counter scenario taking into account the 80s B's calculation of a high-speed descent could MH 370's pilot have pulled out of the so-called death dive and how much further could he have flown before landing on the water so we're coming up to the second engine failure point within moments of the second engine running out of fuel where once again spiraling into what looks like a catastrophic dive 5,000 feet minute 6,000 8,000 9008 score scale deflection so now I'm going to recover the aircraft only this time in the skilled hands of a pilot the plane is brought back under control the speeds coming back with no power and the most rudimentary of controls the Boeing triple7 is actually flying again so now we're just flying with no engines were just a huge glider you seem to pull the plane out of that death dive effortlessly can you do that yeah you can do it I think if you put any pilot here he would be able to do the same thing our journey to the ocean surface will take a full nine minutes and add nearly a hundred nautical miles to our flight five hundred feet 300 feet 100 now [Music] and that's crashed that's it a controlled crash that raises fundamental questions about the central assumption that guided the search for mh370 the total travelled is eighty eight point four which puts us way outside the search area that is currently being do it done so if you ask me has ever been a chance of finding the aircraft the answer's no whether mh370 was under the control of its captain zaharie ahmad shah until the very end is the question dividing the situation room with Martin Dolan adamant the ATS B's 25 nautical mile search corridor is still the most likely the width along the arc of the likely location of the aircraft no one is arguing with what we continue to have okay you feel free to argue something some people are arguing we remain confident in the inequality of the mathematical analysis of those signals what are you arguing something I'm arguing if the ATSB have said that the end of flight scenario could be that there's somebody there then it's gonna go way beyond 25 nautical miles if someone's flying it you can see there's a dark area there which is the Goldfinch fracture zone which runs up through the whole area my calculation said it's in there and so what I wanted was to go another 40 50 miles it's simple it's obvious it's an obvious thing to do it's obvious is place to search so Martin why not look there why not search that area if it's so simple so obvious so we didn't dismiss that out of mind and we were weighing up a range of different evidence for Martin Dolan and the ATS B's long-held focus on an unpiloted uncontrolled dive is the moment of truth if you accepted that there was a pilot controlling the plane at the end wouldn't the most likely search area would be different yes so I accept you have to prioritize so did you get your priorities wrong if we don't end up finding the aircraft in the search area then the conclusion is that we focused on the wrong set of priorities yes Martin's admission has huge implications for the search and the motivation for captain zaharie's mysterious flight south so I guess the question is if if captain zaharie was intent on committing suicide why would he fly the plane for another six hours to make it disappear simple as that he was taking it to a pre destination someplace that he had planned to take it and he flew that six hours to get it there the airplane on the bottom of the ocean right now as I see it the fuselage is in one piece the left wing is still on it the right wing may be off the engines are separate but you basically have four pieces of airplane down there it's not it's not scattered all over the bottom of the ocean Larry Vance believes mh370 is still largely intact because he's sure captain zaharie ditched it deliberately in more heroic circumstances other pilots have proved that a water landing is possible the images of the miracle on the Hudson US Airways flight 1 4 5 9 s crash landing on New York's Hudson River in 2009 are unforgettable another infamous water landing Ethiopia Airlines flight 961 hijacked and out of fuel captured on amateur video miraculously 50 of the 175 people aboard survived even in the worst conditions controlled water landings can leave the plane largely intact with little wreckage and the wreckage so far recovered from mh370 may be further evidence it was piloted to the end and was not a high-speed impact Larry for you what is the significance of the first pit of debris that washed up off Africa sure if this was a high-speed dive this piece would not exist Larry Vance believes this recovered flaperon from mh370 s right-wing reconstructed for the official ATSB investigation would have been massively damaged if there'd been a high-speed crash what would happen instead is that is that this piece would hit at a great great high speed in the front of it would be crusty in its Hollow the water would invade inside and it would just explode from the inside out so this piece would not even exist and to Larry there are other damning clues the erosion of the flaperons trailing edge would happen because the flap was extended down and the forces of the water would be enormous and this is what made this all erode here at the back the flaps could not be extended down unless a pilot was in control of the aircraft and the reason for doing that would be to land the plane thereby keeping it intact leaving as little debris as possible Martin this is the ats-v except that the flaps were down that was not the assumption when we were defining our search area do you have proof that they won't extend it no and this is the this is the point that we've been trying to make that there are two viable theories that someone was at the controls of that aircraft and applying control inputs at the end of flight well they were not and there's evidence that supports both of those theories I think that most people will agree that the flaps were down not only were they down they were fully extended always saying in the Raymond Larry is that the evidence is not yet sufficient to draw as firm a conclusion as you appeared to have done my contention is that that's the the starting point up here is is not supported by the evidence so which parts of the evidence are not correct the fact that the airplane ran out of fuel it didn't run out of fuel the fact that so your evidence for that is the fact that the flaps were down in a conductor to control the fact that they you can't give a speculation the flaps may have been down whether you'd now is speculation to you to me there's evidence to support it and as this ditching would not be something that would be easily done what's what would be the average wave height on that day do you know 3 to 4 meters 3 to 4 meters that's that's quite sizable waves that is going to create a lot of damage on the airplane I think you could do a successful ditching in a big aircraft in that sea as Larry is saying I think you could end up with wasn't the aircraft intact I agree with you the fact is that this is planned meticulously to make the aircraft disappear and therefore if I have to if I'm gonna make the aircraft disappear I will be there at the end unless something bad has happened to me like you will control this is why I will continue to be there I will make sure I'm there to the end if you assume that it went into the ocean under control at landing speed then the idea of it fracturing into tens of thousands of pieces goes down dramatically I think it's probably also possible that the airplane is in multiple large pieces so you think that Larry's interpretation has merit absolutely it has merit adding weight to the rogue pilot scenario the captain zaharie planned to stay at the controls until the end was an eerie flight simulation found on his home computer charting a course that ended in the southern Indian Ocean Simon Hardy reveals a stunning truth in zaharie's flight simulation he didn't plot an end point leaving himself nowhere to land but the surface of the ocean it's either a series of massive coincidences which are getting more and more and on top of each other is looking less and less like a coincidence or it's an intentional act for someone who is doing something very clever coming up are we on the verge of finding the lost wreckage when you look at it and you go back into the history of commercial jet aviation with fare-paying passengers on board we've always found the airplane that's next on 60 minutes the search for mh370 has not ended as we speak the hunt goes on in the depths of the southern Indian Ocean where a ship called the seabed constructor owned by private company ocean infinity has been operating since January it's searching an area north of the previous search zone but that search will end probably next month and with it perhaps the last chance of ever finding the missing plane and its passengers of ever answering the question what happened to mh370 for those who say to keep searching for mh370 is futile history has a lesson Air France 447 which plummeted into the Atlantic in 2009 while some surface wreckage was recovered a year-long underwater search failed to find a single trace of the plane on the ocean floor and was abandoned a year later in 2011 the team that located the Titanic began a new search with new technology for Air France 447 they found the missing aircraft in a week now similar technology is being used in the hunt for mh370 a swarm of highly advanced autonomous underwater vehicles deployed around the clock from their mothership the seabed constructor they've been searching up to 1,100 square kilometers a day since January but critically they're looking to the north of the original search area an area partially defined by the drift analysis work of Professor Patty Ruchi do you think ocean infinity might have success what I was hoping they would you talk about hope these took hundred years almost to find Titanic and this you know we're now finding World War one and World War two submarines in shipwrecks and so there's always hope when our systems get better and we have better technology there are the families of 239 people out there that at the moment still do not have an answer to what happened to their loved ones and some level of closure comes with finding the aircraft so that's the reason for continuing but on the other side of this you've got government saying the cost of this at some point outweighs any benefits we will get from it and that's what we elect governments to do I may not agree with them in this case because I'm still passionately committed to finding the aircraft when you look at it and you go back into the history of commercial jet aviation with fare-paying passengers on board we've always found the airplane to have one that we can't find is one of aviation probably Aviation's greatest single mystery and aviation does not do well with mysteries and that's why so much effort has been put into it and is it an effort that you think should keep going absolutely if we're not looking we can't find it to just give up at this point I'm not prepared to do that the search for mh370 is unparalleled in aviation history using the keenest minds and the most advanced science the Australian led investigation has exhausted the most probable scenarios at this stage sadly the result does not mirror the effort but with no plane the unlikely has become the likely for investigators that mh370 may have been flown beyond any feasible search parameters it's the nightmare scenario leaving a whole lot of ocean still to be searched if we have the will to do it I'm not sure given the likely cost of extending the search for this aircraft how much hope it is reasonable to hold out and I think the other thing is a data we have already means that we can can form a view broadly speaking about what happened Cheers the likelihood of recurrence that can be done now without finding the plane without finding the plane so are you saying in your opinion it's not necessary to find the plane it's not necessary to keep searching it's highly desirable it's not necessary to the basics of investigating and understanding what happened here so that's from the point of view of understanding this event all I'm saying is the basic conclusions about what happened here are already available on the evidence that is sitting there but do we all agree I mean what is the conclusion what actually happened to the plane so this was planned this was deliberate and it was done over an extended period of time I think that the general public the traveling public can take comfort in the fact that there is a consensus growing consensus that this was a criminal act and therefore it was not a problem with the airplane and the fact that it was a criminal act actually simplifies it down to what can you do to prevent somebody who has already has control of an airplane from doing whatever they want to do with that airplane can you do that [Music] just this year Amanda Lawton and her partner Dave welcomed a new generation to their family Bobby named in memory of his grandfather is now three months old sadly he will never get to meet his grandparents Bob and Kathy do you tell Bobby about his grandparents about your mom and dad I a little bit too young just yet but I I do wonder you know when the questions will come up how do you explain that to a little kid and without any answers ourselves you know they've they've had an accident but it's not like you can say they disappeared and but that's that's pretty much the story isn't will you ever accept that the task is too great the ocean is too big the variables are too many I don't want to believe that not with today's technology it has to be found we want to know where I loved ones are their final resting place and what happened and the search must go on for that closure so you're saying please don't give up please don't give up I'm sure Amanda Lawton speaks for every family who has lost loved ones on mh370 our thoughts are with them all

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Channel: 60 Minutes Australia

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Keywords: MH370, Boeing 777, Malaysian Airlines, airplane, aeroplane, conspiracy, plane, Malaysia, investigation, 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes Australia, Tara Brown, aviation mystery, Indian Ocean, passenger jet, Amelia Earhart, Martin Dolan, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Larry Vance, John Cox, Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, Simon Hardy, pilot, captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah

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Length: 49min 21sec (2961 seconds)

Published: Sun May 13 2018

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I think they're right. Pilot suicide is the simplest explanation which explains everything that happened on the flight. It's not as exciting as aliens abducting the plane but it's what probably occurred.

How many times now has a pilot committed suicide by crashing his plane and becoming a murderer too? It's just sad.

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👍︎︎ 20 👤︎︎ u/acm 📅︎︎ May 14 2018 🗫︎ replies

I strongly agree with a few of them in this special that the pilot did his best to do a controlled landing to minimize debris. If all the pilots action, they talked about are correct. Turning off the transponder, flying down the boarders, flying 6hrs+ south into the Indian ocean, why do all that to just smash the plane into the sea? He could have done that 45 mins into the flight. This is way to calculated and precise.

👍︎︎ 11 👤︎︎ u/chris85king 📅︎︎ May 15 2018 🗫︎ replies

At this point, I don't really care much for why it crashed. I just wanna know where the heck it is.

👍︎︎ 7 👤︎︎ u/aphid_gurl 📅︎︎ May 15 2018 🗫︎ replies

I have never understood why this incident generated so much crazy speculation. Planes in the air eventually either land or crash. The plane wasn't at an airport, so it must have crashed. It was over an ocean, so that's where it must have crashed. Wreckage wasn't found because most wreckage doesn't float and oceans are really, really big.

It's human nature to want to know how/why it happened. There are details about the incident that might be a little out of the ordinary. But the leaps people were making--everything from a plane-theft conspiracy to an alien abduction--were so far outside the bounds of rational inquiry and speculation that I felt like I'd unwittingly slipped into bizarro world.

👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/LordBacon69 📅︎︎ May 15 2018 🗫︎ replies