How could a massive aircraft filled with 239 people simply vanish from the face of the Earth it might seem impossible in the modern era but this is exactly what happened Malaysia Airlines flight 370 on March 8th 2014 there are countless theories which try to explain the mysterious disappearance everything from a remote control hijacking to exploding fruit in the cargo bay have been suggested but what if the truth is even more disturbing what if somebody on board fight 370 was responsible this is the chilling story of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and it's a story that might finally help us find the missing [Music] plane it was a clear night at qual lumper the capital city of Malaysia monsoon season was coming to a close and calmer conditions had arrived in the region this cam extended to gate C1 of the satellite terminal of qual lumper international airport where a Boeing 7 operated by Malaysia Airlines Was preparing for its journey to Beijing the aircraft was being fueled and loaded with food cargo and 227 passengers for the 6-hour journey North as the passengers walked through the jet Bridge none of them could have known that they were about to become a part of the greatest mystery in the history of Aviation despite the sheer variet of theories surrounding this night one scenario stands Head and Shoulders Above the Rest this documentary is one of the first tellings of a plausible version of that story in its [Music] entirety in the cockpit of flight 370 were two pilots both of whom in a matter of days would become the subjects of intense scrutiny 370 morning 370 in level 370 we are ready requesting 3 to Beijing that's first officer fari Abdul Hamid requesting clearance to Beijing from Air Traffic Control this was a special flight for the 27-year-old flight 370 was his last training flight before being signed off to fly the Boeing Tri 7 he had joined Malaysia Airlines as a Cadet pilot 7 years previously in 2007 and had flown Boeing 737s and Airbus a330s for the airline before beginning training on the Triple 7 a few months previously he had established an excellent performance record for himself in this time and was assessed to be well above average during his progression through the ranks at the airline in fact he was doing well enough in his training that the airline considered it safe for him to be paired with just one Captain for this fight rather than the usual to and sitting to his left was that Captain 53-year-old zahari Ahmed sha zahari had joined Malaysia Airlines as a Cadet pilot in 1981 in this time he had built up over 18,000 and flying hours this was an immense amount of experience and it made him one of the most experienced pilots in the country Sahari held a senior position at the airline as well as being responsible for taking hundreds of people around the world as a tri 7 captain for the last 7 years he had also been training Pilots to fly the trip 7 and examining them to decide whether they should be granted their license zahari was described by colleagues as jovial knowledgeable and a true Aviation geek who spent his spare time flying remote control planes gliding and inviting colleagues to his home to practice procedures on his home flight simulator but in the scenario which we're now exploring there was much more to Captain zahari than would be suggested by his disarming exterior at just before 12:30 that night 8 minutes ahead of schedule the Jet Bridge was removed moved and the massive aircraft was pushed back from the gate it was now a sealed vessel operating under its own power and untethered to the outside world on board were 227 passengers 10 flight attendants and 49 metric tons of fuel some would later speculate that the captain took on an unnecessarily large or even a suspicious amount of fuel about 30 minutes more than was required for the distance but the truth is that Malaysia Airlines mandated all Beijing bound flights to take on 30 minutes of additional holding fuel so there is nothing suspicious here zahari nudged the Triple 7's throttles forwards and began taxiing out to Runway 3-2 right at qual lumper it was procedure at Malaysia Airlines that the captain should taxi the aircraft on the ground while the first officer handled the radios once the plane had reached the runway the first officer would take over and fly the aircraft to Beijing with the captain handling the radios as a Hari taxi out to the runway the passengers settled in and tried to get some sleep they would soon be in for a rude awakening at 20 minutes to 1 that morning the aircraft lined up with the runway ahead of it were 4 km of concrete and a dark Open Sky [Music] 3 Captain zahari pushed the enormous Rolls-Royce engines to take off thrust and then handed over control to First officer fari as the trip 7 began thundering down the runway within moments fari lifted the massive aircraft into the night sky and flight 370 began its Journey North as the plane climbed out zahari contacted departure controlan Malayan 370i identifi climb FL LEL 180 can turn right okay level direct 370 as well as clearing the flight to climb to 18,000 ft the controller had given the pilots a shortcut allowing them to go straight to a waypoint further along their route known as aari this Waypoint aari is kind of an unusual one it's one of the few waypoints on the planet which is bordered by a total of five different airspaces namely those of Malaysia Thailand Cambodia Vietnam and Singapore this fact will take on an eerie significance in the scenario which we're about to explore the plane continued climbing out as normal leaving behind the bright orange sea of lights that was quala lumper its Flight Plan would take it Northeast over the Malaysian Peninsula and then out over the South China Sea before long the departure controller handed fight 370 off to lumper radar control who was responsible for a higher altitude portion of the country's airspace 70 contct 1326 1326 37 Sahari dialed this frequency Into His Radio set and made contact with the new controller 37 37 CL flight level 2 level 2an 370 so far everything was going to plan it was a clear moonless night the aircraft was in good condition and there was little other traffic in the vicinity all the pilots needed to be fully on their way was the final clearance from Air Traffic Control to climb to their cruising altitude and at about A4 to 1 that morning that clearance came 370 clim flight level 3 3 about 20 minutes after takeoff flight 370 had reached this cruising altitude a flight level 350 or about 35,000 ft when it did Sahari made a routine report to air traffic control Malayan 370 about 6 minutes later he made this report again 37 Main level 3 370 it wasn't necessary for him to make this report a second time but the fact that he did doesn't really tell us much anything from sleepiness to simple forgetfulness could have been responsible up until now for the passengers flight 370 had been about as routine as a fight can get the flight attendants were making their way through the cabin with a meal service for those who were still awake however most of the passengers were asleep by this point what happened next is the subject of much controversy for this video we'll apply aam's Razer which holds that the theory which requires the fewest assumptions is most likely to be the right one the following account is not definitive but it is the most consistent with the known facts and it is supported by some of the world's leading authorities on the subject at 19 minutes P 1 as flight 370 neared the wayp point of Gary Malaysian air traffic control told the crew to contact hoi Min air traffic control as they would soon be entering Vietnamese airspace malan 370 contact 120 [Music] night much has been made in the media of the radio transmission by the captain that's because technically a pilot is also supposed to read back the radio frequency they've been assigned so the controller knows that the pilot has heard them correctly but pilots who know in airspace well like Sahari did sometimes don't read back the frequency so there is truly nothing unusual about Sahari simply saying good night as he switched over to hoi Min what is strange however is what happened next and here is where our scenario begins just seconds after saying good night to Lumber control Captain Sahari asked first officer fiek to go back into the cabin and get them both a cup of coffee they had 5 hours of night flying ahead of them a shot of caffeine wouldn't go a miss the first officer dutifully headed back to the galley and closed the cockpit door behind him normally the cabin crew would bring the coffee but fari was not about to question the man who held his career in his hands now sitting alone in the warm Cocoon of the cockpit was a man who had been rehearsing for this night for over a month every step every movement had been planned with the utmost precision and it had to be because zahari was trying to pull off the impossible he would now try to make one of the world's largest most modern jets vanish from the face of the Earth safely locked behind his bulletproof cockpit door ironically designed to keep wouldbe hijackers out he could now carry out this plan without interruption he reached back into his flight bag behind his seat pulled out a warm sweater and put it on he would be needing it in a moment Sahari had chosen this exact moment to make the plane disappear because for these precious few minutes nobody on the ground was expecting to hear from the aircraft Malaysian controllers had handed them off to Vietnam and Vietnamese controllers were busy with the aircraft which were already in their airspace as far as they were concerned it would be a few minutes before fight 370 checked in so for these precious few moments fight 370 was in limbo nobody in the world was watching sahar's first step in making the plane vanish was to make it disappear from radar to do this he needed to turn off the plane's transponder but he wasn't going to do this straight away if he did it before he reached aari Malaysian air traffic control might notice him dropping off their radar screens if he waited until he had reached the Waypoint he would truly be out of their jurisdiction as the first officer obliviously fixed a coffee in the forward Galley or whatever counted for coffee on an aircraft zahari fixed his eyes on agari as it inched ever closer at 8 m minute when the active waypoint at the top right of this screen here changed from agari to Bod the next Waypoint on route that would be his trigger to turn off the transponder and after a few moments it came the aircraft reached aari and began turning towards its next waypoint at exactly that moment zahari Switched Off the transponder flight 370 disappeared from air traffic control screens in Malaysia Vietnam Thailand and Cambodia step one was complete but unbeknown to zahari he had left a clue the first of a few Clues he would leave over the coming hours and a clue that ultimately took investigators years to uncover the transponder of the Boeing trip 7 has basically three settings fully off where no information is transmitted to air traffic control altitude off where only the plane's position but not its altitude is transmitted ited to air traffic control and fully on where its position altitude and a few other parameters are transmitted for a split second as zah Hari Twisted the dial towards the fully off position it passed through the alt off position unbeknownst to him for that telling Split Second as the dial passed through alt off stations on the ground receive the plane's position while its altitude read zero this is not what would happen if the plane had experienced a massive electrical failure leading to the loss of the transponder among other systems if that had happened all of the data would have been lost at once this brief partial loss of transponder data suggests that somebody in the cockpit was turning this dial manually to the off position but this clue wouldn't be discovered for a long time as far as zahari was concerned step one of his plan had been completed successfully from that moment nobody on the ground knew where flight 370 was the plane continued turning towards bod the next Waypoint on its route except there was still a problem by disabling the transponder zahari had made the plane invisible to air traffic controllers but Malaysia Airlines still knew that the plane was in the air that's because the tri 7 is equipped with acars or aircraft Communications addressing and Reporting System this feeds status reports from the plane to the airline via a satellite communication system called satcom these status reports include information about the plane's fuel on board its maintenance status and even its position along its flight route every 30 minutes zahari knew that he couldn't truly disappear as long as AC cars was still functioning so he needed to disable it but disabling AC cars was not going to be as easy as turning off the transponder if he turned a cars off the usual way it would send a message to the ground saying that it was being powered down not a great Prospect if your mission is to disappear Without a Trace to truly vanish without leaving a trace the captain would need to do something far more drastic he would need to essentially pull the plug right out of the socket so that acars would go dark immediately without sending this Telltale logoff message to do this zahari reached up to the overhead panel and using two fingers turned off both engines electrical generators this instantly cut off the electrical supply to a whole host of aircraft systems including the the satellite communication system which acars users to send and receive its messages now there was no way for anyone on the ground to receive information from the plane just to be sure he then went through the menu on his flight management computer and deselected the two ways by which acars can communicate with the ground satcom and VHF radio now even if satcom came back on AC cars wouldn't be able to talk to the ground as far as the outside world was concerned it was at this spot over the South China Sea where MH370 had vanished disabling the satcom also had another benefit which would be absolutely essential for the next step of the captain's plan it meant that the satellite phone in the passenger cabin and the text message facility in the passengers inflight Entertainment Systems would no longer work all lines of communication between flight 370 and the outside world had been severed to make Assurance doubly sure Sahari then turned off the plane's external lights now flight 370 was fully invisible all of this happened in the space of less than a minute but these were only the first steps in zari's grand plan he had successfully hidden the aircraft from the people on the ground but behind him 238 people were expecting to be flown to Beijing the first officer was making coffee and he would be returning to the cockpit very shortly to carry out his full plan zahari would somehow need to incapacitate every single person on the aircraft and to that end he had at his disposal a rather unconventional weapon air or more specifically thin air at 35,000 ft there is only enough air to keep a human meaningfully conscious for about 45 seconds but the air inside a passenger aircraft is pressurized it's compacted like the gas in a soft drink can if the captain could somehow open a hole in his plane most of this air would come rushing out luckily for him he could open a hole on the underside of the plane there were two valves aptly named outflow valves by opening them he could vent all of this condensed air out into the atmosphere the captain readied himself he reached into the panel on his left hand side pulled out his oxygen mask placed it over his head and started the flow of oxygen now that he had his own an oxygen supply he swung his right hand up to the overhead panel and prevented the engines from bringing new air into the cabin then he pressed a switch which turned the aircraft's cabin pressurization from automatic to manual now he controlled the amount of air inside the aircraft's cabin he had in his hands the Air Supply The Very lifeblood of all 238 people behind him once he carried out this next step there would be no turning back the next few seconds were the most critical in his entire plan just as he had rehearsed zahari moved his fingers down to the two cabin outflow valve switches and pushed them to the open position on the belly of the aircraft the two valves opened there was a tremendous whoo inside the cabin as the air came rushing out any passengers who had been sleeping were startled awake by the noise and the change in air pressure their ears popped and the oxygen masks dropped automatically from the ceiling the sudden expansion of the air inside the cabin made it significantly colder adding to the passenger shock but before the bewildered passengers even had a chance to put their masks on the captain yanked the plane violently to the left in the Ford Galley the first officer was slammed to the sidewall by the dramatic turn he only had seconds to find an oxygen mask in the pandemonium before he would fall unconscious the captain was holding the plane in a turn so steep that the automated bank angle warning sounded the plane was at the edge of its capabilities straining to stay Loft as the captain turned harder and harder but this wasn't done for dramatic effect zahari needed this turn to be tight he was right beside taii airspace and the last thing he wanted was to burst into an airspace which he hadn't been clear to enter because even though he had disabled the transponder there was still one way that he could be detected primary radar primary radar is the most basic kind of radar and it works on the very simple principle of ref reflectant a radar dish on the ground sends out a signal which bounces off any objects in the air including planes and flocks of birds and is reflected back to the radar dish because it just works by bouncing radio waves off an aircraft skin there is no way for a pilot to avoid being detected by primary radar but at the same time because it's such a simple system all it can tell is where an object is it can't tell what it is or how high it is if Thailand's military spotted an unidentified Target infringing upon their airspace they could well scramble fighter jets to investigate who the mystery Intruder was so as a Harry rolled Rings level just over 2 minutes after beginning his turn he checked his position on his navigation display to his relief he had just about managed to avoid Thai airspace flight 370 was now headed in the opposite direction back towards Malaysia the first part of zari's mission was complete but a massive challenge still lay ahead of him he would now have to cross back over the Malaysian Peninsula without being intercepted by the Malaysian or Thai Air Force and he would have to do this without having his plan spoiled by the 238 people behind him in the main cabin the passengers were startled and Confused they had put on their oxygen masks and were listening intently to the cabin crew's instructions the cabin crew told them that there had been a rapid decompression and that they would be descending to a breathable altitude soon apart from how cold the cabin had gotten and the fact that the oxygen Mass had dropped the situation appeared to be under control noise levels in the cabin were normal and now that the sharp turn was finished the plane was more or less flying steadily but first officer fiq knew that this situation was anything but under control nowhere in any depressurization checklist does it say that the pilots should turn the plane around their first priority after Dawning their oxygen masks is to descend to an altitude where the air is breathable whatever was going on up front it had to be very strange during the Steep turn fari had scrambled to sit at one of the cabin cruise stations in the Ford Galley and he had grabbed an oxygen mask there now he was ready to return to the cockpit to help the captain with the emergency but secure on the other side of the impenetrable cockpit door the captain had other plans passenger oxygen masks only provide about 20 minutes of oxygen the reason for that is that this gives enough time for the pilots to descend to a safe altitude where the air is breathable this usually takes about 10 minutes none of the passengers of crew knew it yet but they would not be descending to a breathable altitude their time was running out first officer fiek approached the cabin inone at the forward left door his heart pounding over his shoulder was slung one of the plane's portable oxygen bottles which he had grabbed from its compartment he had attached the flexible plastic mask to his face and was breathing heavily from it as he brought his fingers to the handset there were 15 of these oxygen bottles distributed throughout the cabin one for each of the flight attendants on a maximum crew flight there were just 10 cabin crew on board fight 370 so there was more than enough for each of them and unlike the passenger oxygen masks these bottles had 44 minutes of oxygen more than the crew could possibly need in any conceivable emergency but this emergency had never been conceived of fi was the only person on board breathing from a portable oxygen bottle the flight attendants had followed their training and had quickly sat down at one of the spare passenger seats or at a flight attendant station and grabbed the 20-minute drop- down mask there but freak's situation was different he was badly needed in the cockpit and a portable oxygen bottle was the only way to stay conscious while he tried to regain entry he picked up the handset dialed the code to call the cockpit door and put the receiver to his ear in the cockpit a message appeared on the captain's Central display cabin call if Sahari wanted to open the door all he had to do was rotate the switch on the center pedestal from the auto position to the unlock position the door would unlock the light on the entry keypad outside the door would turn green and fiek would be able to push it open FI waited and watched as the light on the entry keypad continued glowing red it should only have taken a second for the captain to unlock the door why was he not doing this the first officer figured that he must have been very busy handling whatever emergency this was he waited for a few moments and then died the cockpit again the cabin call message appeared on the captain's display and again he ignored it this was terrifying the aircraft had depressurized and it wasn't descending something was going seriously wrong up front in the cockpit on the other side of the the door zahari fixed his eyes ahead out his windscreen and onto the orange lights of the seaside town of kotabaru this was his entry point for his journey back across his home country and it was perfect for this Mission his plan was to skirt the border between Thai airspace and Malian airspace this way when the Malaysian military saw the plane on radar they would assume that it was being handled by Thai controllers and likewise when the Thai military saw the plane they would assume that it was being handled by Malaysian controllers and zahari figured even if they did realize that it was Malaysia Flight 370 after seeing it turn back at aari they may think that it was making an emergency return to an airport perhaps pang's airport where it appeared to be heading if this was the case the flight would be the concern of the civilian controllers who were surely dealing with the plane but in reality Malaysian civilian controllers had handed the plane off to hoi Min in Vietnam they weren't even thinking about it anymore flight 370 was in limbo meanwhile locked out of the cockpit first officer fi could tell that despite the depressurization the plane had still not begun to descend he then had a terrible thought what if the reason the door wasn't opening was that the captain had become incapacitated by the rapid decompression this would be odd though after all Dawning the oxygen masks was the first item on the checklist which is completed even before the descent is initiated and what's more Captain Sahar regularly taught this scenario to pilots in the Airlines flight simulators he was more qualified than almost anybody to handle such an emergency how could he simply forget to put on his oxygen mask but there was no time for freak to work this out he needed to get back inside the cockpit and for that he had one last option cockpit door keypads don't just accept one code as well as the normal code there is a special code for the rare event in which the pilots are incapacitated and the cabin crew need to gain access with this code the door opens automatically if the pilots haven't responded after 30 seconds but of course this emergency code could easily be used by hijackers to gain entry to the cockpit so to prevent this in the cockpit Pilots have the option of turning the door switch to the deny position within 30 seconds of the code being entered this clever logic allows Crews to gain entry to the cockpit in case of a pilot incapacitation but also gives flight crew the to deny entry to hijackers the first officer hurried over to the keypad and punched in the emergency code a loud buzzer sounded in the cockpit if the captain was incapacitated the door would automatically open for fi in just 30 seconds fi waited anxiously 10 seconds passed then 20 but those final seconds came and went and the keypad light remained remained red a horrible Sinking Feeling came over the first officer he entered the code once again this time more carefully and he waited counting down the seconds using his watch and yet again after 30 seconds the light remained red this could only mean one thing on the other side of the cockpit door the captain had heard the buzzer and had turned the switch to deny the captain checked his watch the time was 32 minutes 1 in the morning 12 minutes since he had turned his Triple 7 back on itself about 5 minutes from now the passenger's oxygen masks would begin to run out when they did all 227 of them would become hypoxic the 10 flight attendants were in much the same boat still strapped in and waiting for the signal from the captain that they were free to walk about the cabin the effects of hypoxia are much like the effects of alcohol with some people becoming euphoric and giddy others becoming angry and others still becoming contented and relaxed contrary to what many people think you don't suffocate in a decompression there is simply a dimming of awareness until the proverbial Lights Go Out ironically the very loss of mental faculties which occurs in hypoxia prevents the realization that it is even happening in the cockpit zahari made a minor adjustment to stay on course as he carefully scanned the skies around him he was now back over land zooming across Peninsular Malaysia he had been flying in these skies for decades day and night and he knew the lay of the land so well that he could easily identify the various towns on route as he flew overhead he knew that at his current speed he would be able to cross the peninsula in about 20 minutes as he flew he had his radio tuned to the qualum air traffic control frequency he could hear the controller talking to the other planes as normal at least for now was business as usual in Malaysia at hoi Min however controllers had noticed something odd the Malaysia Airlines flight from qual lumur flight 370 hadn't made contact this wasn't overly concerning sometimes it takes a few minutes before Pilots get in touch but what was unusual was that the flight wasn't even showing up on radar despite having been handed over by lumper control almost 20 minutes earlier the controller tried contacting the flight over the radio but hoi Min was far from zahari mind at this point as controllers there counted up the minutes since he was supposed to have made contact he was counting down the minutes until the passengers and crew would lose Consciousness as for his own oxygen supply he was at no risk of running out his Supply came from two large tanks underneath the cockpit which had enough oxygen to last two pilots 13 hours or One Pilot 27 hours these tanks are topped up a few times each year and luckily for zahari or perhaps more than just luckily this oxygen supply had been topped up that very evening just before the plane had departed qual lumper take a look at this it's a scanned copy of the actual Tech log from flight 370 this is one of the last pieces of paper generated by the flight before it left qual lumper the tech log is the booklet where engineers and Pilots note down any faults with the aircraft and whether they need fixing before the plane goes on its next flight there are two things which stick out in this document first under defect description the engineer wrote nil and nil notes in other words no maintenance needed he also crossed out these fields to show that nothing was needed but then sometime later that evening an engineer did make an entry crew oxygen system replenished to 1800 PSI sometime between when the plane arrived at qual lumper earlier in the day and when it left again that night as MH370 somebody decided that the Pilot's oxygen needed to be topped up whether it was zahari has never been determined the first officer was beginning to panic no matter how many times he entered the code the light remained red he began to bang his oxygen mask against the cockpit door in a desperate bid to get the captain's attention hoi Min Air Traffic Control was growing concerned fight 370 had still not turned up on radar and it hadn't answered any of their calls the controller had tried asking other planes in the area to make radio contact with the plane including on the international distress frequency these aircraft had reached out but were met with nothing but silence after repeated efforts to call the missing aircraft the controller at hoi Min telephoned the controller at quala lumper and told him that he had not been able to make radar contact with flight 370 he asked whether the flight had turned back to qual lumper but the Malaysian controller told him that it hadn't fears were now beginning to grow that something something terrible had happened at the flight the controller at qual lumper began calling out to flight 370 on the radio in case it had returned to his airspace zahari was listening out but remained silent for the first time that night he had confirmation that the ground knew his plane was missing the time was 1:41 in the morning 20 minutes after the flight had disappeared from radar controllers are supposed to report when an aircraft takes more than 5 minutes to make contact clearly the air traffic control system was not at its best tonight and as the Hari watched out his window he hoped that the Malaysian military was just as sleepy because right at that moment his plane was a blip on their primary radar screens racing Southwest across the peninsula zahari could see the lights of panang on the horizon once there he would carry out the next step of his plan around this time the passenger oxygen masks began to run out gradually the low chatter which had pervaded the aircraft began to fade in a matter of minutes all 227 passengers would be unconscious and unless pressurization was restored not long after that they would suffer irreversible brain damage from oxygen deprivation and then death flight 370 looked like any other plane as it whispered along high above the Malaysian Countryside but it was now becoming a flying mosum for all but one of its occupants [Music] first officer fi was growing increasingly desperate none of his attempts to get back into the cockpit had worked he had to try something different he knew that at this altitude his mobile phone would have no signal however at one of the cabin Cru stations there was a satellite phone maybe he figured if he could get through to the airline somebody might be able to help him fari began making his way back through the cabin the Clock Was ticking fari still had about 20 minutes of oxygen in his tank but as he walked back through the cabin he was beginning to feel lightheaded even though his mask was providing 100% oxygen it was not designed to be used at high altitude for prolonged periods of time by comparison the captain was wearing a full face mask with a tight seal and which was specifically designed to deliver oxygen at a positive pressure this meant that it forced oxygen into his lungs at a rate which ensured that he received as much of it as he needed and with 2 6 hours of oxygen remaining he was in no rush to repressurize the plane by now he had calculated all of the passengers and most if not all of the crew had lost Consciousness on his lower Central monitor he could see the first officer through the CCTV slowly walking away from the door back into the main cabin now at the other end of the Malaysian Peninsula zahari had reached the next important step in his plan ahead of him lay the Indonesian island of Sumatra as far as aari was concerned this was an impenetrable wall there were primary radar installations up and down the island and there was no guarantee that the Indonesians would be as Blaze about an unidentified aircraft as the Malaysians had been if he wanted to escape he had to avoid Indonesian airspace altogether so for the next part of his plan he would need to turn to the right and fly up the straight to Mala this way he would remain inside malesian airospace all the way until he went out of range of primary radar far below him on his right hand side was the island of panang he had grown up in this island and now he would fly over it one last time soah Hari Twisted The Heading select knob on the autopilot and the aircraft began a slow sweeping turn to the right as it did the first officer held his mobile phone against the passenger window and tried desperately to make a call his attempts to use the onboard satellite phone had proved fruitless he didn't know it but the satcom the satellite communication system had been disabled by the captain fre could see the distinctive island of panang beneath him along with its airport which he had flown to many times this was the first time since leaving the cockpit that he had a clear idea of where the aircraft was normally mobile phones cannot get a signal at the speeds and altitudes that airliners fly at but with the plane in a turn its distance to the cell tower on panang remained roughly constant so for a few short seconds the first officer's mobile phone an iPhone 5 connected to the ground station at panang but far from being able to make a call all that freak got was a brief fleeting signal bar at the top of his screen for a few seconds the cell phone tower registered a signal hit indicating that the phone was on but nothing more when the signal bar disappeared fi knew that he was truly out of options barely able to stand up from hypoc IA and exhaustion he made his way back to the cockpit door still in complete control the captain rolled out on a Northwest heading some have suggested that this turnaround panang was zahari bidding a final farewell to his hometown however this is unlikely for one thing the turn began after the plane had passed the island so it wasn't really a turn around the island and besides the turn was too shallow for the captain to have been able to see the island anyway sentimentality had no place in the cockpit of flight 370 What mattered was the mission and the mission was far from over it had been just about 35 minutes since aari had depressurized the plane and turned it back over the Malaysian Peninsula he had managed to get across the peninsula without being intercepted by fighter jets but he still had a significant challenge ahead of him because Malaysia Airlines had just found out that something was a Miss with flight 370 at lumper radar control control the supervisor on duty telephone Malaysia Airlines Dispatch Center telling them that hoi Min had been unable to contact fight 370 or see it on radar the dispatcher at Malaysia Airlines checked the Airlines online flight tracking system to locate the flight on the map it showed flight 370 to be in Cambodian airspace of course in reality flight 370 was nowhere near Cambodia what the dispatcher did not know was that this flight tracking system didn't use live information from the aircraft to update its position rather it simply projected its last known position out into the future since the plane's last known position was over the South China Sea heading Northeast that's where the flight tracker showed it to be so far as Malaysia Airlines was concerned and now Air Traffic Control authorities too that's where flight 370 was they had no idea that at that very moment the aircraft was hundreds of kilometers to the Southwest in Malaysian airspace speeding up the straight of Mala but it still was wasn't good news to the airline that one of its flights hadn't checked in with air traffic control the dispatcher at Malaysia Airlines sent an acars text message to the cockpit printer asking the pilots to contact hoi Min immediately but this message didn't make it to the cockpit of flight 370 the captain had stopped the AC cars from being able to communicate with the outside world right after he had removed power from the satcom he was intent on ensuring that not a single clue about the aircraft status or position made it back to air traffic control or Malaysia Airlines however even with the acars disabled there was still one big thorn in zari's side he knew that at Lan airport in the Malaysian state of Keda there was a primary radar station he also knew that the range of this radar was 200 nautical miles for every second he spent inside the range of this radar he risked being discovered and intercepted by fighter jets because he couldn't avoid this radar his strategy for this part of the mission was to blend in even as at night plenty of commercial aircraft fly up and down the straight of Mala on their way between qual lumper and Europe in the Middle East to anybody looking at the radar that night fight 370 would appear as just one more dot moving serenely up the straight of Mala an eerie silence now filled the passenger cabin of the Triple 7 it had been almost an hour since the plane was depressurized and all of the passengers were either unconscious or dead the first officer and any C and crew who had used portable oxygen bottles with a 44-minute supply had slipped into unconsciousness 2 at an altitude of 35,000 ft even 100% oxygen delivered through a portable oxygen bottle is not enough to stay meaningfully conscious the only person alive and functioning was the one up in the cockpit but the situation which he had created was now beginning to have unexpected side effects for his plane and these had nothing to do with his oxygen supply back at agari when the C Captain had cut power to the plane's two main electrical generators the aircraft's computers had diverted The Limited remaining electrical power to only the plane's most essential systems but now almost an hour after this had happened the plane had begun throwing up warnings saying that the computer room underneath the cockpit known as the en e Bay was getting too hot its cooling fans were one of the things which had lost power when the main electrical generators were depowered so Harry didn't fancy finding out what would happen if the computers which powered his cockpit screens and the aircraft's massively complicated systems overheated according to his checklists the very least that would happen was that his screens would start going blank without them he would not be able to complete his mission he had to restore power to the cooling fans flight 370 was nearing the edge of Lan's primary radar after this zahari would be free totally unseen by the outside world he decided that once he was outside of radar range he would be safe only then would he restore full electrical functionality to the plane meanwhile air traffic controllers in Malaysia and Vietnam were becoming increasingly confused Malaysia Airlines operations had told lumper radar control that fight 370 was in Cambodian airspace but as Vietnamese controllers confirmed flight 370 was never supposed to enter Cambodian airspace it was supposed to fly over Vietnam and besides Cambodian controllers couldn't see flight 370 on the radar so where was the flight was it over Cambodia or Vietnam or was it in the air at all in truth all parties involved were being duped by the software Malaysia Airlines used to track flights which merely projected the plane's last known position out into the future in the cockpit of flight 370 zahari could see on his CCTV display that the first officer was laying slumped against the cockpit door the one person who stood a chance at tarting his plans had been eliminated just in case there was anybody left he picked up the microphone and made a call on the intercom asking for somebody to come and help him in the cockpit he watched the display carefully nobody came at just after 20 2 that night flight 370 slipped off the radar at Lan now truly the flight had gone dark over 200 people on board were dead but at this point an hour after it had turned back at aari barely a dozen people in the world even knew that the plane was missing zahari had been listening in to air traffic control on his radio set and there were no signs of fighter jets being scrambled to intercept his plane as it would turn out Military radar operators wouldn't even notice his flight on their screens until they played back a recording of them the next day safely beyond the reach of radar and securing the knowledge that he was now the only one left alive on board zahari was now able to restore full electrical power to the aircraft he reached up to the overhead panel and re-energized both the left and right electrical buses a host of onboard systems sprung back to life as the plane reconfigured electrically The Familiar hum of the fans below the cockpit resumed and they began cooling the hot computers zahari had made it he had done the impossible and made a bone Triple 7 disappear into the night never to be seen again it would be morning before any body began searching for the aircraft and they would begin by searching the only logical place the South China Sea where the flight had disappeared from secondary radar the sensible conclusion for Rescuers to draw given that the plane had disappeared suddenly and without sending it a stress signal would be that a bombb or catastrophic structural failure had down the aircraft zahari knew that in the days and weeks that followed it was possible that investigators would review tape recordings of primary radar and see that the plane had turned back at agari and then turned again at panang and flown up the straight of Mala but he knew that this is where the trail would end if authorities were smart search and rescue operations would focus on the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal and this in zari's mind was the beauty of his plan because now out of radar coverage he would pull off his final trick once he had flown past the island of Sumatra he would turn to the South and take his Triple 7 deep into the southern Indian Ocean nobody could possibly know that he had taken this turn and even if they somehow did they wouldn't be able to find him the Indian Ocean is enormous and with over 5 and 1/2 hours of fuel still on board he could go deep into the middle of it as far as aari was concerned this plan was foolproof except it wasn't zahari didn't know it but the satcom which had been rebooted when he restored power to the main electrical generators wasn't just a passive system it wasn't like the radio antenna on board the aircraft which simply received received radio signals and sent them only on request when he restored full electrical power to the aircraft at 25 minutes past 2 that morning a component of the satcom the satellite data unit or sdu reboot it and when it did it sent a message to a satellite high above the Indian Ocean saying as much this satellite was operated by a company called inmarsat which stands for international Maritime satellite the plan's sdu told the satellite or more accurately told the ground station in Perth Australia which the satellite acted as a conduit for that it wanted to log on to the satellite Network this log on request was proof that the plane was still in the air or at least that it was still intact and what's more every hour the ground station in Perth would send a message to the plane which the plane would respond to confirming that it was still on the network what this meant was that zahari was dead wrong in his assumption that he had completely vanished he continued up the straight of Malak oblivious that he was carrying with him an enormous liability but he couldn't be blamed for thinking that the satcom wouldn't give much away other than the fact that the plane was still flying after all this log on request contained no information from the satellites point of view it just got a message from a Malaysia Airlines plane asking to log on to the network this message didn't say where the plane was or anything else of the sword however it did contain one piece of information which in a week's time would Shock the World an engineer at inmarsat would take a look at this log on request and have an ingenious idea attached to the signal sent by the plane was a Tim stamp saying when it was sent the satellite also recorded when it had received the signal from the aircraft so by comparing these two times it was possible to determine how long it took the signal to reach the satellite the engineer who looked at this data realized that because this signal traveled at a no known speed the speed of light he would be able to determine how far the plane was from the satellite when it sent the signal he carried out this calculation and got an answer for how far the plane was from the satellite when it sent the logon request simple physics and a spark of insight had shown that at 2:25 a.m. on the morning of March 8th flight 370 had been somewhere on this ring not inside of this ring but on it everywhere along this ring was the same distance to the satellite since the last known position of the plane on primary radar was just 3 minutes beforehand here it would be impossible for it to have traveled all the way to Africa or India or Way South in this time it had to have been somewhere close to the last known position on an arc about this length and so the first Ark was born zahari had just given investigators the ultimate clue and what's more it wouldn't just stop at one ring a new ring and therefore a a new ark would be formed every hour when the ground station and Perth inquired about the plane's online status these routine exchanges would come to be known as handshakes one Arc every hour for as long as the plane was in the air from this point on the story of fight 370 is the story of these arcs on board fight 370 the mission to Oblivion continued zahari repressurized the aircraft with everybody behind him incap iated or dead there was no need to keep the air pressure so low now mask off and out of radar range zahari could begin the next stage of his mission turning the plane to the South out his left hand side he watched the lights of the distant towns on the coast of Sumatra glitter when he was beyond them he would make his move as Z Hari watched and waited Malaysia Airlines operations center back at qual lumper was growing increasingly concerned it was unheard of for a plane to be out out of contact for this long at 238 that morning they sent a message to the aircraft over acars which was supposed to appear in the cockpit here but this message was not received by fight 370 zahari had severed the connection between acars and the satcom and VHF the airline sent the message again at 2:39 a.m. but it didn't arrive this time either had the flight experienced some kind of massal electrical failure was it lost over southeast Asia or had it landed somewhere in comp codia but then Malaysia Airlines operations decided to call the plane over the satcom in the cockpit of fight 370 the satcom phone rang zahari saw the call come through on his screen he now had confirmation that the airline knew that something was wrong with his flight he watched and waited for the call to finish ringing after a few seconds it did so Harry wondered whether the ground would be able to tell the difference between a call which had gone unanswered and one which didn't reach the aircraft in the first place but at this point it barely mattered the airline was still trying to locate the plane somewhere over Cambodia in fact less than 10 minutes earlier it had told air traffic control the plane's coordinates according to their flight tracking software they had no idea how far off they were in fact it would be another hour before Malaysia Airlines realized that the position updates they were getting were simply from the projected path of the aircraft on the flight tracking software they sent another acars message at 2:40 a.m. and another a minute later but each time the message was not received operations didn't know it but Sahari had disabled the VHF and satcom link to the acars none of their acars messages would get through just as Sahari had expected the Malaysian military had been asleep at the wheel they had failed to identify an unknown Target for more than an hour as it passed right through their airspace under the cover of of darkness and having completely duped the authorities zahari would now make his final turn South he twisted The Heading select knob to the left and the Triple 7 sahar's unwitting accomplice obliged completely oblivious to the mission it was party to as zahari turned South he could picture the headlines which would appear in the newspapers over the coming days he could envisage the countless theories which would be put forward to explain the mystery he knew that as long as the wreckage was never discovered there would always be a Shadow of Doubt as to what had caused the plane's disappearance some would say that what happened on this night was a tragic accident that some combination of electrical failure rapid decompression and pilot incapacitation led to fight 370 going missing but these theories which we will call accident scenarios all have massive flaws if there had been an electrical failure big enough to incapacitate the pilots why did the satellite data unit come back online an hour after it was disabled and stay working for hours afterwards usually when electrical systems fail they stay failed and if the pilots were so incapacitated that they couldn't get the aircraft to descend and get back to an airport why were they still conscious enough 30 minutes after the emergency began to turn at panang and then more than 40 minutes after that to turn again out over the open ocean what's more why did they turn at such inopportune places why was every turn timed perfectly so as to avoid detection by air traffic controllers civilian and Military anybody who believes The Disappearance of flight 370 was an accident also has to reckon with the fact that the aircraft problems started exactly when it reached agari the transfer of control point between Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace if an accident had caused flight 370 to go missing then it would seem that chance itself had framed the pilots for The Disappearance others would say that a hijacking best explains The aircraft's Disappearance but if that were the case case this would need to have been the most technically sophisticated and yet ultimately the most fruitless hijacking of all time these hijackers had clearly done their research they knew the surrounding airospace Inside Out judging by their ability to evade detection by the military radar for over an hour and they had intimate knowledge of how to fly and how to hide a Boeing 7 they apparently knew exactly how and exactly when to turn off not just the transponder but the satcom and the acars too these were no rookies and yet despite all of this planning and skill these hypothetical hijackers appear to possess a strange lack of conviction an hour after disabling the satcom they were kind enough to turn it back on they were also considerate enough not to crash into any buildings and they were selfless enough not to make any demands of any authorities on the ground in fact if a terror group was responsible for the plane's disappearance it was apparently humble enough not to claim responsibility after the fact because 9 years after The Disappearance such a claim of responsibility is yet to be forthcoming this is not even to touch on some of the more outlandish theories that the plane had been hijacked by the CIA via remote control or that it had been sucked into a black hole two theories of approximately equivalent likelihood and that's only considering the evidence we've looked at so far those who believe this was an accident still have to contend with one more fact and it's perhaps the most disturbing fact of all as zahari headed south over the Indian Ocean this strange series of events was oddly familiar to him that's because just over a month before this night he had practiced this journey on his home flight simulator hi everyone uh this is a YouTube video that I've made on the evening of February 2nd 2014 zahari had taken a simulated bone 7 up to cruising altitude and flown it along the straight of Mala there was nothing particularly unusual about this Malaysia Airlines had plenty of flights which went up the straight of Mala and like many Pilots zahari sometimes practice flights on his home computer what was unusual was what he did next Once Sahari had reached the end of the malaka straight he turned the plane to the South and then he used the flight simulator's map function to drag it deep into the southern Indian Ocean from there he set the fuel quantity to zero and began gliding the plane first from an altitude of about 37,000 ft and then from 4,000 ft if this simulator route was a mere coincidence then once again we would have to conclude that chance itself had it out for captain zahari on this night zahari undid his seat belt and reclined in his seat he gazed out into the darkness in front of him for thousands of miles there lay nothing but dark deep ocean some of the deepest ocean in the world in fact and the the most isolated two almost no shipping lanes traversed the southern Indian Ocean it was now deep into the night on March 8th 2014 but this date hadn't been zari's First Choice on February 3rd when he used his flight simulator to fly to the southern Indian Ocean he had set the date on the simulator as February 21st fans of coincidence are now in for another treat because on February 21st zahari had been scheduled to fly flight 370 to Beijing that date was his first choice the day before the flight on February 20th zahari deleted his flight simulator from his home computer and disconnected the drive it had been stored on but February 21st came and went and zahari operated fight 370 to Beijing as normal the over 200 people on that plane had had a narrow escape the passengers on the March 8th flight had not been so lucky an hour since Malaysia Airlines had called flight 370 over the satcom phone the ground station in Perth initiated another handshake with the aircraft via satellite the second Arc was formed a few minutes earlier Malaysia Airlines had finally told lumper control that the position information they' been providing them with for flight 370 had actually been based on projected position and not on actual position their focus on Cambodia had been a total red herring at this point controllers considered that the plane might might be on its flight plan route but that it had experienced a Communications failure of some sort they began contacting Chinese air traffic controllers as by this point the aircraft should have been in their airspace if the flight was running on time it should arrive in Beijing in just under 3 hours in the cockpit of flight 370 hundreds of miles to the South zahari Twisted the altitude selector on the autopilot and put the plane in a climb the higher he flew the less fuel he would use and the the deeper into the ocean he could go he knew that if he crashed far enough into the middle of the ocean the crash site would never be found any wreckage which floated on the surface would take months even years to wash up on the shores of Africa and Australia perhaps investigators would piece together a rough picture of what happened but without any hard evidence his family and friends would be spared the shame of knowing with certainty what he did there would always be a Shadow of Doubt as to what had happened the plane out over the middle of the Southern Indian ocean Sahari was now perhaps the most isolated person on the planet from miles in every direction there was not a single human life no Islands no planes and no boats at now even though his aircraft still had hours of fuel on board there was no longer any reason for him to be part of this Mission he had carried out his tasks just as he had practiced for weeks with the turn to the South complete and his autopilot keeping the plane on course to the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean his presence on board was was now Superfluous he would now slip into the night for the second time that night Sahari opened the outflow valves only this time he didn't da his oxygen mask within seconds he was breathing thin air at 40,000 ft his thinking slowed his senses dled and moments later the Lights Went Out flight 370 was now a ghost plane Whispering out over the dark open ocean as the hours went by the satellite data unit on board continued its hourly handshakes with the ground station in Perth it was early morning in Beijing and controllers were hoping to see a Malaysian trip 7 on Final Approach To The Runway its scheduled time of arrival was 6:30 a.m. but this time came and went and still no plane appeared on the horizon families waiting for the arrival of their loved ones were told that the fight was delayed meanwhile search and rescue efforts began in the South China Sea with no contact for hours Rescuers were fearing the worst would they come face to face with the shattered wreckage of a fully Loaded Trip 7 they had no idea as they searched quite how absurd the situation truly was at that very moment the aircraft was still in the air only it was thousands of miles to the South and everybody on board was already dead Malaysia Airlines operations center made another satcom call to the cockpit of flight 370 incredibly this was only the second call they made to the aircraft over the entire flight but just like it had the first time the phone rang out this time zahari wasn't even there to see it for the airline there was no avoiding it flight 370 was now Officially Missing just before half 7 that morning Malaysia Airlines issued a press statement and announcing that the flight was missing and that they were working with search and rescue authorities to find the plane the world now knew that a Malaysian Airlines flight had crashed what nobody knew and what nobody could possibly have known was that the aircraft was still very much in the air still making its way south on autopilot as the sun rose over the southern Indian Ocean an hour after the last satellite phone call to the plane the ground station in per initiated another handshake with the aircraft creating the sixth ring and therefore the sixth Ark early morning rays of sun now streamed in the windows of the vacant plane the sole witness of the silent horror which had unfolded hours beforehand the scene on board was still like a photograph capturing a moment from hours ago and Frozen in time ever since nothing on board had moved since that moment but this Eerie Serenity would soon be shattered all of the pent up violence which had been obscured by zahari motus operandi would now now be Unleashed all at once shortly after 8:00 that morning the right-and engine ran out of fuel to compensate the left- hand engine went to full power with this the trip 7 began a gentle turn to the right a few minutes later the left hand engine flamed out the autopilot and auto throttle disconnected the cockpit instruments went dark deprived of power and electricity flight 370 was now at the quim of aerodynamics the plane began slowing down and descending it was the beginning of the end except the aircraft had a final trick up its sleeve in the tri 7 some fuel is reserved for the auxiliary power unit the Apu in case both engines flame out the Apu is a small gas turbine engine in the aircraft's tail it doesn't produce any thrust but it does provide the plane with limited electrical and hydraulic power in the case of a double engine failure it start starts automatically and provides enough power to ensure that the aircraft remains controllable but without the pilots at the controls this was no good except on this morning this feature of the boing 7 would leave an incredible clue for investigators the Apu automatically started up drawing from the small amount of fuel still remaining in the tanks when it was up and running electrical power was restored to the aircraft bringing some of the instruments and systems back online one of the systems to which power was restored was the satellite data unit it sent a signal to the satellite above the Indian Ocean just like the one it had sent almost 6 hours earlier requesting to log on to the satellite Network this signal created a final ring and therefore a final Arc the now Infamous 7eventh Arc if the Apu had not been restarted automatically this signal would never have been sent and we would never know where the plane had run out of fuel this signal was different than the other ones which had been sent out over the Indian Ocean in that it was not a handshake initiated by the ground station in per but a log on request initiated by the aircraft itself zahari could have had no idea that this Arc would be created pretty much confirming the plane's location in its final minutes but this isn't where the story ends because as it turned out there was one more thing which could be gleaned from the signals sent to the satellite by the satcom as the satellite data unit of flight 370 powered up multiple aircraft systems took turns logging onto the satellite Network each sending a signal within a few minutes of the other when Engineers analyzed the frequency of these signals from the seventh Arc they found something odd they were at a lower frequency than all of the previous signals after eliminating various possibilities what remained was a clear answer when fight 370 sent these signals to the satellite it was descending away from the satellite stretching out the radio wave as as it was being transmitted this caused the satellite to receive a lower frequency signal but investigators didn't stop there by precisely comparing the normal frequency of the signals which the aircraft had sent previously with the frequency of the signals received from the plane on the seventh Arc investigators could determine roughly how fast the plane was descending when it sent these signals at 19 minutes past 8 and 29 seconds flight 370 was descending at a relatively normal rate of about 4,000 ft per minute this is steeper than a plane would typically descend at but it was within the ballpark for a normal flight however just 8 seconds later when it sent another signal the aircraft was screaming towards the ocean at an incredible rate of approximately 15,000 ft per minute this was about 10 times the normal descent rate and well beyond anything in aircraft like the Triple 7 would Glide at such an incredible rate of descent is consistent with the aircraft being in a steep turn rolling onto its side as it fell towards the ocean as the plane neared supersonic speeds some of the control surfaces on the wing including the flapper on began to flutter before detaching from the wing less than 2 minutes later flight 370 plunged into the ocean at 21 minutes 8 and 7 Seconds one more signal should have been sent from the plane to the satellite the signal never came most of the aircraft was shattered upon impact with the debris sinking for miles before settling scattered on the seabed below however hundreds of pieces began floating over the coming months and years these pieces washed up thousands of miles away on the shores of Madagascar South Africa reunion and Tanzania among other countries over 30 pieces of wreckage have been discovered to date both from the interior and exterior of the aircraft a flapper on from the right wing the plastic frame of an inflight entertainment screen from the back of a passenger seat a section of wall paneling from the forward cabin many of these 30 pieces have been recovered by one man bla Gibson which aside from being a testament to his perseverance and dedication indicates that there are hundreds or even thousands of pieces still waiting to be discovered along the shorelines of Africa and nearby Islands if only governments were willing to look these pieces are the only hard physical evidence showing that the plane went down in the southern Indian ocean and therefore that it flew South after passing Sumatra and not North as some people had believed in the years since The Disappearance search teams carried out extensive underwater searches along the seventh Ark mapping over 120,000 Square km of seabed but so far the plane's wreckage has not been found today almost 10 years since the aircraft went missing all searches have been called off pending new and credible information on the plan's final resting place but there is still one final turn in the story of flight 370 let's say that at some future date maybe decades from now we do find the wreckage would this bring us any closer to understanding why the plane crashed the black boxes if they still contain data after what might turn out to be decades underwater may not have any recordings of the flight's Final hours that's because if the captain was intent on hiding the aircraft and on hiding his own culpability he would simply have pulled circuit breakers for the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder shortly after asking the first officer to leave the cockpit nothing in the wreckage would Point towards his involvement of course such a finding as blank black boxes would be evidence in itself but as always with MH370 the question lies in how this evidence should be interpreted those who favor accident scenarios would use this as further evidence that a massive electrical failure befil the aircraft while those who think that Sahari crashed the plane would use this as evidence that he was was responsible when something as seemingly impossible as The Disappearance of a modern airliner happens we naturally want the cause to be as big as the event itself but in all likelihood this was not a grand conspiracy by the CIA or the Russians involving spies or classified technology nor is it likely that it was the result of a series of Highly improbable accidents rather all the evidence points towards a single simple explanation deliberate premeditated action by a skilled pilot intent un accomplishing and Unthinkable but entirely achievable goal to make an aircraft disappear this video is not a definitive account of what happened on flight 370 experts disagree on a number of important aspects of the flight including whether there were any turns after the plane went South and whether zahari was dead at the end as depicted in this video or whether he glided his Tri 7 over 100 km from the point of fuel exhaustion and ditched it onto the surface of the ocean these important questions have not been resolved and they have significant implications for where the search efforts are directed for this reason unless new evidence is released by the Malaysian government it's quite possible that the most fruitful line of inquiry will be to investigate the possible motives and beliefs of zahari Ahmad sha he is overwhelmingly likely to be the cause of the plane's disappearance and therefore understanding his mind May hold the key to finding fight 370 where would he have directed the plane would he have tried to Glide it at the end it's an uncomfortable truth that as long as humans can fly passenger Jets humans can crash passenger Jets no amount of tracking technology or cockpit procedures can prevent this the Rarity of such events is the only Solace for those of us who fly today but this is of little help to the families of those who stepped on board 5370 on March 7th 2014 this video is dedicated to those families and to their l ones on board fight 370
