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[ indistinct radio chatter ]
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[ chatter continues ]
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[ engine roars ]
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[ chatter continues ]
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man: maybe 65. 65 miles out.
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could be a light or...
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[ indistinct radio chatter ]
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breaking news.
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breaking news
out of the far east.
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a boeing 777 is missing.
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here to bring you the latest
on that missing airliner
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that took off from kuala lumpur.
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it was expected to land
at 6:30 a.m. local time.
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now it's almost 9:00 in the
morning in beijing right now.
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that means that plane
is 2 1/2 hours late.
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narrator: malaysia flight 370
departed kuala lumpur
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after midnight on march 8, 2014
and then vanished into thin air.
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[ plane engine humming ]
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since then, planes, ships,
submarines, and drones
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from 26 countries
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have engaged in the largest
aviation search
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in human history,
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all desperately looking
for the missing boeing 777
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and the 239 lost souls on board.
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the harrowing search
has turned up
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no evidence of debris
or passengers,
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making this ghost flight
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one of the world's greatest
unsolved mysteries.
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[ indistinct conversations ]
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the family members and friends
of the people on board
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are longing for answers
about where the plane is
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and if there's any possibility
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that their loved ones
are still alive.
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[ crying ]
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initially, you tend to want
to start to grieve,
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to start the grieving process.
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but i have no idea
what happened to the plane.
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[ sniffles ]
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philip has been my daily
companion for 2 1/2 years,
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and it leaves
a real gap in my life.
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the position
of the family members
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and my personal position is that
we must push to find this plane.
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it is not an acceptable solution
to just close the search down.
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we've got to know what happened.
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narrator: there are still
so many unanswered questions
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and theories to explore.
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but first, the undisputed facts
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about what happened
on that fateful day.
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[ indistinct announcement
over p.a. system ]
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passengers boarded
what should have been
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a routine friday night red-eye
on a boeing 777,
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one of the safest planes ever
built for transoceanic flight.
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malaysian flight mh370
was a boeing 777.
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this particular brand of 777
was designed from the outset
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to carry roughly 200, 250
passengers over long distances,
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over water, and over land.
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and in fact, it was designed,
even though it had two engines,
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to be more reliable
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than earlier-model aircraft
with three or four engines.
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the flight from kuala lumpur
to beijing
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was planned to be 6 1/2 hours,
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so the aircraft had about 8,
8 1/2 hours' fuel on board.
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[ indistinct radio chatter ]
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flight 370 left
from runway 32 right.
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it was flying northeast,
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heading towards
vietnam airspace.
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the airspeed was 471 knots,
or 542 miles an hour,
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which is exactly
what it should be going.
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the altitude was exactly right.
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for a 777, it was about
as normal as you can be.
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narrator: passengers settled in
for a long flight,
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and nothing appeared
to be out of the ordinary
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as the pilot reported
that all systems were normal
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through the plane's
a.c.a.r.s. system.
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a.c.a.r.s.
is actually an acronym.
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it stands for
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aircraft communications
and reporting system
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where the pilots
can communicate back,
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and the plane can communicate
back with their base.
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this is really
texting for pilots.
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it's done differently.
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we're not using
a cellular network
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like we do on our phones.
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we're using the communication
radios on the airplane
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to send that data.
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basically,
it's just back-and-forth,
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receiving weather.
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but in the background,
there's other functions.
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it's also reporting information,
totally automated,
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seeing what the airplane is
doing to stay in touch with it.
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370, 130, 250.
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good night.
malaysia 370.
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at 1:21 a.m.,
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something occurred
with the transponder.
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the transponder,
for whatever reason,
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stopped transmitting.
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curtis: either the transponders
were deliberately turned off,
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or there was
some other event happening
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that made the transponders
no longer transmit
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their information
to the outside world.
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once that transponder's
turned off,
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air traffic control radars
are no longer able to track it.
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military-type radars, however,
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are designed to track aircraft
even without transponders.
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narrator: despite its loss
of transponder signal,
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thai military radar
continues tracking mh370
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for just over a minute
before it disappears.
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eight minutes later
at 1:29 a.m.,
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a thai radar station in the
southern surat thani province
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detects what it believes
to be malaysia 370
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heading in the opposite
direction.
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the plane executed a turn,
about a 150-degree turn.
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it turned back toward malaysia.
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thai air traffic control were
able to see it heading on radar
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at a couple way points
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heading back over
the straits of malacca.
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1:37 a.m., the next a.c.a.r.s.
transmission was due,
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and that information never came.
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that a.c.a.r.s. transmission
was not made.
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narrator: with no radio contact,
no radar or transponder fix,
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and now no a.c.a.r.s. update,
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the plane is a complete phantom
for 45 minutes of dead silence.
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[ indistinct radio chatter ]
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54 minutes after
the last communications
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after the transponders stopped,
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mh370 was picked up
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by two different
malaysian military radars.
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one of these radar stations
was near penang
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on the west coast,
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and the other was k.b.
on the northeast coast.
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the unidentified plane
believed to be malaysia 370
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flew west over the peninsula
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and arrived and flew over
the point vampi.
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it then turned and made
a northeasterly sort of turn
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and went to the next way point,
gival,
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where it passed over that,
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then passed over
another way point
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before it finally disappeared.
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so the plane was behaving
very strangely.
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the plane appears
to have passed over
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established navigational
way points.
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it's very mysterious
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because that's really not
how you have to fly a plane
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in today's modern gps world.
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for whatever reason
in this period of time
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as it was hopscotching
among the way points,
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there are reports that it was
also varying widely in altitude.
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the plane climbed
as high as 45,000 feet.
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that's significant,
because at 45,000 feet,
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if your passengers
didn't have oxygen
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or if you de-pressurized,
for whatever reason, the cabin,
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at 45,000 feet,
it's very difficult to live.
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it then descended.
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it went down to 23,000 feet
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and then turned around
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and climbed back up
to a little over 29,000 feet.
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narrator: by 2:40 a.m.,
two hours after takeoff,
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malaysian radar reports
its last tracking of mh370.
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the flight is now completely
invisible from ground radar.
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but the plane still appears
to be flying
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as orbiting inmarsat satellites
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are able to detect handshakes
with the plane.
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schiavo: after the airliner
went missing from radar,
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inmarsat satellite data said
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that there were a series
of these handshakes.
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curtis:
the term "handshakes" been used
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to describe what was going on
with the a.c.a.r.s. system
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after the transponders
were turned off.
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think of a handshake
as a sort of an echo.
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something is transmitted
at one end,
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it's received at the other end,
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and some sort of reply
is reflected back.
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but the signals didn't mean
a whole lot.
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the signals
were just literally a blip
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somewhere on some circles
above the earth.
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and so based on that data,
the plane was still intact,
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and it was still putting out
these radio signals.
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it was still flying.
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[ indistinct conversations ]
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at 6:30 a.m.,
families and friends
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were waiting
at the beijing airport
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to greet their loved ones.
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they didn't know
that it had gone missing,
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and malaysia
hadn't informed them
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that they had instituted
a search to find the plane.
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8:11 a.m. was the last
complete handshake,
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and that was the last time
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that the plane sent this signal
to the satellite
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and the satellite got the signal
and acknowledged.
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the plane was still flying.
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the engines were still turning.
it was still intact.
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and that was 8:11.
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curtis: and roughly
eight minutes later at 8:19,
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there was a partial handshake.
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that partial handshake,
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being much less
than the 1-hour interval
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from the previous handshakes,
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is indicative of a non-normal
situation going on.
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it suggests that the aircraft
ran out of fuel
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at 8:19 in the morning.
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it is with deep sadness
that i must inform you,
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flight mh370 ended.
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something happened.
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we don't know what happened.
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we need to find out
what happened.
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there's nothing more disturbing
than a ghost plane.
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narrator: what really happened
to malaysia flight 370?
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could it have been
an act of god
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or pilot suicide?
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darby:
if i had to pick a suicide,
i would pick the captain.
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narrator: was it part
of a government cover-up?
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soucie: if the aircraft
had landed there,
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the u.s. government
would know about it.
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narrator: or a catastrophic
mechanical failure?
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darby: what's unexplained
is why the airplane
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would subsequently climb
back out.
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oh!
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narrator:
did fire bring the plane down?
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gadzinski:
it can quickly consume
an entire aircraft.
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narrator: or was it the most
horrific act imaginable?
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yeffet:
it was hijacked.
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can past ghost planes
help us find the truth
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behind the disappearance
of malaysia flight 370?
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bajc: the worst possible thing
that could happen
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is we never find the plane
at all.
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upon first meeting ju kun,
we were like brothers.
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ju kun was
a fight choreographer.
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he was a stunt coordinator.
he was a father of two.
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he was also a stunt double
for jet li --
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"the mummy,"
"forbidden kingdom."
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it's really hard to find
people that you can trust,
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especially in stunts.
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i mean, your lives --
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people, you hold their lives
in your hands.
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you're flying on a wire
about 40 feet in the air
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and you have someone who's,
you know, in control of that.
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and he's one of those.
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i trust this guy.
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i trust this person
with my life.
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ju kun and i were both working
on a new production
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the day he was traveling.
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and he went to go see his kids,
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and that's the last time
i saw him.
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what do i believe happened
to the plane?
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i think it was hijacked.
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but i can hope
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that if it was hijacked, let's
say, for a specific reason,
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maybe the people
are still alive,
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being held prisoner somewhere,
something for a reason unknown.
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but knowing
the september scenario,
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it never ends well.
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narrator: it was the worst kind
of wake-up call.
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september 11, 2001 brought home
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the real threat
of weaponized airliners.
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many believe
a similar, devious plot
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is behind the disappearance
of malaysia air 370.
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i have experience
of so many years
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with aviation security
around the world
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and not only in america
or in israel.
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and it gives me the evidence --
signs, i would say,
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what happened
to the malaysian aircraft,
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that it was hijacked.
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gadzinski: the airplane appears
to be operated in a way
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that confounds
a lot of safety investigators
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as to what a normal pilot
would do in those situations.
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so in that case,
the hijacking scenario
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does appear
to be a plausible theory.
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yeffet:
airports are the best targets
for the terrorists,
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because when you hijack aircraft
with hundreds of passengers,
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the entire world is screaming.
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if the enemy wants to attack,
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they're looking for
the weakest airlines or
countries with security.
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"where is the best target for me
with no resistance?
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i want the easy target."
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malaysia is one of them.
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narrator: upon examination
of the boarding passengers,
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the manifest included several
people of particular interest.
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yeffet: two iranian guys
went to kuala lumpur
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with stolen passports.
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and they paid cash.
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any airline in the world,
this is a red flag.
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we believe that he is not likely
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to be a member
of any terrorist group.
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narrator:
while most investigations
cleared the travelers
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holding the stolen passports
of suspicion,
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it does highlight
the holes in airport security.
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recently, there was an episode
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where a boy broke
into an airport.
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he got over the fence
at an airport
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and got into the wheel well
of a jet
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that was headed for hawaii.
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soucie: how was he able
to get across the runway
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to where the aircraft was,
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to get inside that thing
without anyone noticing
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at a commercial
international airport?
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soucie: since 9/11, there's been
incredible advances in security.
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but i don't think it's possible
to make the airways 100% secure.
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darby: malaysian airlines 370,
the first part of this flight
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was a totally normal flight
until it stopped communicating.
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nine radios,
seven power sources.
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it's just inconceivable that
all of that could fail at once.
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so it appears to be
at least some combination
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of the pilot or the person
or the terrorist involved
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not wanting to communicate.
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gillespie:
if you're flying
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and you decide you don't want
to be seen on radar,
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there are ways to avoid
being seen on radar.
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you turn off the transponder.
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the transponder would have had
to be turned off,
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which was from the cockpit.
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some people have said
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that it has to be done
from underneath.
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it doesn't. the transponder can
be disabled from the cockpit.
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in my mind,
the terrorists jump on him...
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they kill him, like we know,
september 11th,
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what they did
to all of the pilots.
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he just shut off the switch,
and nobody will see you.
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they took the aircraft
to a destination
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that they were told to take it.
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darby: when it turns back,
looking at that from a pilot,
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i see a pilot returning to land.
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but when it goes northwest
and eventually south,
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that's a whole different act.
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i mean,
when i look at that as a pilot,
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when they begin
to make those moves,
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then that's a hijacking,
a criminal act.
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bunn: you know why i think
the plane made that turn?
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one of the things we've
thought about is a hijacking.
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it seems to me that someone
got into the cockpit
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and might have wanted
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to take the airplane
to some destination.
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but the problem is,
why didn't that succeed?
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[ alarms blaring ]
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is it possible that the
hijackers killed the pilots
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and didn't know
how to operate the plane?
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one of the theories,
when there was a report,
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that the plane climbed
to 45,000 feet.
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if they had a hijacker
in the cockpit,
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if they climbed the plane
to a high altitude...
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and turned off two switches
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that turn off the pressurization
to the cabin...
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darby: the hijacker
could control the cabin,
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turn off the pressurization.
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it wouldn't take
but a few minutes
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for the cabin
to go above a safe altitude
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for people to begin
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to lose their consciousness
and go to sleep.
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gadzinski:
for somebody in the cockpit
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to induce a sudden loss
of cabin pressure
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to incapacitate the crew,
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they would need to have
some kind of an oxygen system
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for them to use at the time.
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00:18:28,307 --> 00:18:30,508
now, there is
that oxygen capability
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in the aircraft,
the cockpit itself,
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because both pilots have
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an emergency oxygen system
that they can use.
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if you do that at 35,000 feet,
you might incapacitate the crew.
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three decades
leading up to 9/11,
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the majority of
terrorist-related hijackings
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were motivated by terrorists
wanting to negotiate for ransom
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or for release
of imprisoned terrorists
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in other places
around the world.
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on 9/11, we had a new kind
of terrorist hijacking
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where landing the plane
wasn't part of the plan.
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narrator:
the majority of hijackings leave
grief-stricken passengers
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at the mercy of their captors.
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but one scenario
in the recent past
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sheds light on how
the passengers in
a hostage situation
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may have taken matters
into their own hands.
370
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forest: flight 93,
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todd beamer and the other
passengers realized
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this was probably not
going to be a hijacking
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where they land the plane
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and negotiate
for some kind of demands.
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so they responded
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by organizing themselves
and storming the cockpit
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in hopes that they could
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possibly stop the event
from happening.
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knowing ju kun --
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knowing ju kun and what would
happen in a scenario like that,
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i think he would do something,
you know,
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gadzinski:
if at some point,
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the passengers revolted
and took out the terrorists,
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then you would have an airplane
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where nobody was competent
to fly it,
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maybe on the autopilot
with heading and altitude hold,
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flying in a direction where
nobody knew where they were
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or how to fly the airplane.
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ross: i don't think
it was a terrorist attack
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because a terrorist attack,
at the end of the day,
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yes, involves a lot of death
and destruction,
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but that's not really what
the essence of terrorism is.
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the essence of terrorism
is sending a message.
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and in the case
of the mh370 disappearance,
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there's no message.
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forest: to my knowledge, the
investigation does not reveal
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any number of terrorists
on board that aircraft
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from any known terrorist group.
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for a terrorist group to engage
in this kind of action,
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they would want
a return on the investment
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they would put into an operation
of this scale.
402
00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:45,843
we've heard of no claim.
403
00:20:45,944 --> 00:20:47,078
we've seen no demands,
404
00:20:47,179 --> 00:20:48,479
which kind of leads me
to believe
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00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:50,147
this wasn't
a terrorist-related incident.
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00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:53,784
schiavo:
we know that a lot of people
think that mh370 was hijacked.
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00:20:53,885 --> 00:20:57,121
and what i do, you have to rely
entirely on evidence
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00:20:57,222 --> 00:20:58,623
because once we investigate
the case,
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00:20:58,724 --> 00:20:59,790
we have to take it to court
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00:20:59,891 --> 00:21:02,760
and we have to prove
what our theories are.
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00:21:02,861 --> 00:21:04,962
and here, we don't have
any evidence of a crime.
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we don't have any evidence
of terrorism or a hijacking.
413
00:21:08,166 --> 00:21:09,634
[ indistinct shouting ]
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00:21:09,735 --> 00:21:12,436
but suffice to say,
with this many people dead,
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you can't hoard the evidence
and say,
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00:21:14,473 --> 00:21:15,940
"you can't know what happened."
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00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:19,043
we want --
they give us the truth.
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narrator:
coming up, could one of the most
famous ghost planes in history
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hold the answer to mh370?
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philip and i
actually met here in beijing
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about 2 1/2 years ago.
422
00:21:34,593 --> 00:21:39,764
he was working here with ibm,
and i'm teaching school here.
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00:21:39,865 --> 00:21:43,200
philip is one of those men
that when he walks into a room,
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everybody kind of relaxes.
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00:21:45,570 --> 00:21:48,773
he has a special aura about him.
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00:21:48,874 --> 00:21:53,511
philip has been my daily
companion for 2 1/2 years,
427
00:21:53,612 --> 00:21:58,382
and it leaves a real gap
in my life.
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00:21:58,483 --> 00:22:01,085
narrator: the search so far
is based on the assumption
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that mh370 had gone down
in the indian ocean.
430
00:22:04,956 --> 00:22:07,491
that data has fallen
under suspicion,
431
00:22:07,592 --> 00:22:10,861
and some believe the plane
put down on dry land.
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00:22:10,962 --> 00:22:12,163
most of us believe
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that that flight has been taken
on purpose.
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00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:16,767
and most of us believe
435
00:22:16,868 --> 00:22:19,537
that our loved ones
are actually still alive.
436
00:22:19,638 --> 00:22:21,839
we began to get reports in
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from flights
that were flying overhead
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00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:26,877
and ships that had already
gotten into the region
439
00:22:26,978 --> 00:22:29,947
that there was
no obvious evidence of a crash.
440
00:22:30,048 --> 00:22:32,249
there was no debris
that had surfaced.
441
00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:33,984
there were no satellite images
442
00:22:34,086 --> 00:22:37,421
that saw flashes of light
like an explosion.
443
00:22:37,522 --> 00:22:39,857
there was no physical evidence
that surfaced.
444
00:22:39,958 --> 00:22:43,160
and within that time,
i began to think
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the most likely scenario
is that the plane was taken
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and landed at some location
447
00:22:48,967 --> 00:22:52,470
and that there's some next step
that is being planned.
448
00:22:52,571 --> 00:22:54,105
we just don't know
what it is yet.
449
00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:59,877
narrator:
but taken where?
450
00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:01,779
the 777 is a big plane.
451
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,447
while boeing recommends
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a landing strip
at least 7,000 feet long,
453
00:23:06,518 --> 00:23:09,186
skilled pilots have been known
to land the aircraft
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00:23:09,287 --> 00:23:10,888
in much less.
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00:23:10,989 --> 00:23:13,457
typically, once the airplane's
down to landing weight,
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it can land in less runway
than 3,000 or 4,000 feet,
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00:23:16,928 --> 00:23:18,529
which is very short.
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and there's a lot of airports
in this world
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that are 3,000 feet long.
460
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:27,505
there's 16,000 to 18,000
uninhabited islands
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00:23:27,606 --> 00:23:29,173
within the indonesian chain
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00:23:29,274 --> 00:23:32,209
that are certainly large enough
to land a plane.
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00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:36,280
gadzinski: as a captain,
you can break any rule,
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pretty much no matter
what field you find.
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if you find an airfield,
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you can land on it using
captain's emergency authority.
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00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:48,526
when i first heard the news
about the mh370 disappearance,
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like everyone else, i expected
469
00:23:50,862 --> 00:23:53,097
that the airplane had simply
crashed into the ocean
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00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:55,166
and that wreckage
would soon be found.
471
00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,001
but when that didn't happen,
472
00:23:57,102 --> 00:23:59,770
and then there were electronic
signals that were heard,
473
00:23:59,871 --> 00:24:02,072
that maybe the airplane
kept flying,
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00:24:02,174 --> 00:24:04,241
i said, "whoa. déjà vu.
475
00:24:04,342 --> 00:24:05,843
i've seen this before."
476
00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:07,778
man: the world mourns
as amelia earhart
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00:24:07,879 --> 00:24:10,548
appears lost
in the south pacific.
478
00:24:10,649 --> 00:24:12,616
gillespie:
i've spent 25 years
479
00:24:12,717 --> 00:24:15,453
researching the amelia earhart
disappearance.
480
00:24:15,554 --> 00:24:18,823
incredible parallels
of what happened
481
00:24:18,924 --> 00:24:22,560
and how the media and the public
reacted to this.
482
00:24:22,661 --> 00:24:24,028
man:
search commanders think
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00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:26,096
the plane
is in the southern indian ocean.
484
00:24:26,198 --> 00:24:30,167
again, the initial assumption is
the airplane went in the water.
485
00:24:30,268 --> 00:24:31,869
but then nothing is found
in the water.
486
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:33,304
man:
after a massive search,
487
00:24:33,405 --> 00:24:37,208
not a trace of flight 370
or the 239 people on board.
488
00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:41,245
and then we learned that
the airplane continued to fly.
489
00:24:41,346 --> 00:24:43,714
man:
engine data showed mh370
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might have flown
for an additional four hours.
491
00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:47,218
and, as a matter of fact,
492
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the same thing happened
with the earhart disappearance.
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00:24:50,021 --> 00:24:52,389
man:
nearly 19 hours into her flight,
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00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:54,692
reports
of her last communication.
495
00:24:59,264 --> 00:25:01,966
gillespie:
amelia earhart vanished.
496
00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:05,469
everybody expected
her disappearance
497
00:25:05,570 --> 00:25:08,172
to have a happy ending,
and it didn't.
498
00:25:08,273 --> 00:25:10,274
so we did some research,
499
00:25:10,375 --> 00:25:12,843
and i think
this is what really happened.
500
00:25:12,944 --> 00:25:16,780
having failed to find the island
that they were trying to find,
501
00:25:16,882 --> 00:25:18,282
howland island,
502
00:25:18,383 --> 00:25:21,151
they proceeded
along a navigational line
503
00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:23,587
that they hoped would lead them
to howland island,
504
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:24,622
but it didn't.
505
00:25:24,723 --> 00:25:26,457
but it did bring them
to an island
506
00:25:26,558 --> 00:25:28,792
that at that time was called
gardner island.
507
00:25:28,894 --> 00:25:31,795
they looked down, and they see
that there's a place to land.
508
00:25:31,897 --> 00:25:33,564
at low tide,
this island looks like
509
00:25:33,665 --> 00:25:36,267
it's surrounded
by an empty parking lot.
510
00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:38,135
so they land successfully.
511
00:25:38,236 --> 00:25:40,738
it was uninhabited
at the time earhart disappeared,
512
00:25:40,839 --> 00:25:42,940
but about a year and a half
later,
513
00:25:43,041 --> 00:25:45,476
the british put
native work parties there
514
00:25:45,577 --> 00:25:48,913
to start clearing land
for a coconut plantation.
515
00:25:49,014 --> 00:25:54,051
and they found bones,
parts of a woman's shoe,
516
00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:55,953
parts of a man's shoe,
517
00:25:56,054 --> 00:25:58,923
a box that had once contained
a sextant --
518
00:25:59,024 --> 00:26:00,891
a navigational instrument.
519
00:26:00,992 --> 00:26:02,426
and after many expeditions,
520
00:26:02,527 --> 00:26:04,295
we did find
the castaway's campsite,
521
00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:07,798
a place where a castaway
had lived and died.
522
00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:12,002
other artifacts -- a pocket
knife, a little piece of glass.
523
00:26:12,103 --> 00:26:14,305
next expedition,
find another piece of glass
524
00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:16,840
that fits like a jigsaw puzzle
to the first piece.
525
00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:20,678
and around it,
we find little chunks
526
00:26:20,779 --> 00:26:23,380
of what turns out
to be early 20th century makeup.
527
00:26:23,481 --> 00:26:26,016
we have a woman's compact
on this site --
528
00:26:26,117 --> 00:26:28,052
a 1930s woman's compact.
529
00:26:28,153 --> 00:26:30,688
we go back to the files,
the british files,
530
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:33,090
and we find
the bones of the castaway.
531
00:26:33,191 --> 00:26:34,892
we give those measurements
532
00:26:34,993 --> 00:26:37,628
to two modern
forensic anthropologists
533
00:26:37,729 --> 00:26:40,497
who put them into the databases
that are available now.
534
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:41,999
and what comes
out of the computer?
535
00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:46,070
white female,
northern european descent,
536
00:26:46,171 --> 00:26:48,205
standing 5'7", 5'8".
537
00:26:48,306 --> 00:26:50,274
well, that's amelia earhart.
538
00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:52,242
that's a good description
of amelia earhart.
539
00:26:52,344 --> 00:26:54,378
there's nobody else like that
missing out there.
540
00:26:54,479 --> 00:26:57,147
narrator: if amelia earhart
survived for weeks
541
00:26:57,248 --> 00:27:00,150
after her crash on an island,
542
00:27:00,251 --> 00:27:04,855
is there any evidence to prove
that the same happened to mh370?
543
00:27:04,956 --> 00:27:07,891
captain shah did have
numerous island runways
544
00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:09,860
programmed
into his flight simulator,
545
00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:13,430
including male airport
in the maldives.
546
00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:22,439
sightings of a low-flying plane
matching mh370
547
00:27:22,540 --> 00:27:24,775
were reported
throughout the region.
548
00:27:24,876 --> 00:27:26,543
but if a plane did manage
549
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:29,647
to land in the maldives
or a nearby island,
550
00:27:29,748 --> 00:27:31,415
what would be the motivation?
551
00:27:31,516 --> 00:27:33,450
well, why would somebody
do something like that?
552
00:27:33,551 --> 00:27:37,054
why would somebody abduct
an airplane?
553
00:27:37,155 --> 00:27:40,157
this is not a hostage situation.
554
00:27:40,258 --> 00:27:43,293
hostages don't do you any good
if no one knows you have them.
555
00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:46,063
so it's not about the people.
556
00:27:46,164 --> 00:27:48,198
is it about the airplane itself?
557
00:27:48,299 --> 00:27:53,303
was somebody engaged
in grand theft airplane?
558
00:27:53,405 --> 00:27:56,273
schiavo: one of the things i did
when i was inspector general
559
00:27:56,374 --> 00:27:59,476
was a worldwide effort
to combat bogus aircraft parts.
560
00:27:59,577 --> 00:28:00,644
and what people didn't realize
561
00:28:00,745 --> 00:28:02,446
is there's a black market
on aircraft parts.
562
00:28:02,547 --> 00:28:05,983
aircraft parts are stolen
off of downed airplanes,
563
00:28:06,084 --> 00:28:07,618
and then they sell them
on the world market.
564
00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:10,487
and airplane parts
are very expensive.
565
00:28:10,588 --> 00:28:14,058
but there should be easier ways
to steal an airplane.
566
00:28:14,159 --> 00:28:15,392
airliners get stolen
all the time.
567
00:28:15,493 --> 00:28:17,361
most people
don't understand that.
568
00:28:17,462 --> 00:28:19,863
they're usually not stolen
in midair. no.
569
00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:21,765
what makes sense
570
00:28:21,866 --> 00:28:24,268
is that there was something
aboard the airplane
571
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:25,836
of immense value to somebody.
572
00:28:25,937 --> 00:28:28,439
it could be something
in the cargo hold.
573
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:30,541
it could be
intellectual property
574
00:28:30,642 --> 00:28:33,811
on a passenger
or a passenger's laptop.
575
00:28:33,912 --> 00:28:35,012
but there was something
576
00:28:35,113 --> 00:28:37,247
that someone knew
would be aboard the airplane
577
00:28:37,348 --> 00:28:38,949
on this particular flight.
578
00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:43,153
it was valuable enough to steal
579
00:28:43,254 --> 00:28:46,156
in a way that nobody knows
you have stolen it.
580
00:28:48,193 --> 00:28:53,030
i have to say the theory
that the mh370 was hijacked
581
00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:54,998
and then sequestered off
somewhere,
582
00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,000
landed in some remote airstrip,
583
00:28:57,102 --> 00:28:59,737
and everybody was corralled
into wherever
584
00:28:59,838 --> 00:29:01,171
or perhaps liquidated
585
00:29:01,272 --> 00:29:04,541
and the plane was sold
for parts on the black market
586
00:29:04,642 --> 00:29:06,744
seems really absurd to me.
587
00:29:06,845 --> 00:29:08,846
as a former
intelligence professional,
588
00:29:08,947 --> 00:29:10,881
keeping something like that
secret
589
00:29:10,982 --> 00:29:13,117
from the world's major
intelligence services,
590
00:29:13,218 --> 00:29:15,419
including the chinese,
591
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,454
who have a very deep
and vested interest
592
00:29:17,555 --> 00:29:19,490
in the fate of this aircraft,
593
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:21,925
thinking that
that part of the world
594
00:29:22,026 --> 00:29:23,694
that you can just hide something
595
00:29:23,795 --> 00:29:26,697
or fly it to kazakhstan
or somewhere and just hide it,
596
00:29:26,798 --> 00:29:28,665
just seems absurd to me.
597
00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:30,868
gillespie: the amelia earhart
mystery tells us
598
00:29:30,969 --> 00:29:34,538
about how we should approach
the mh370 mystery.
599
00:29:34,639 --> 00:29:36,039
in the earhart case,
600
00:29:36,141 --> 00:29:42,312
an accepted answer was embraced
by the official authorities.
601
00:29:42,413 --> 00:29:46,884
they didn't keep investigating
all of the alternative theories.
602
00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:52,756
so with mh370,
don't go down one track
603
00:29:52,857 --> 00:29:56,193
and ignore
all the possible sightings.
604
00:29:56,294 --> 00:29:58,695
some of them
are gonna be dead ends,
605
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:01,298
but one of them
is going to lead you
606
00:30:01,399 --> 00:30:04,168
to the destination
of the answer.
607
00:30:04,269 --> 00:30:07,838
'cause some of the things
you think you know may be wrong.
608
00:30:07,939 --> 00:30:09,406
narrator: coming up...
609
00:30:09,507 --> 00:30:10,741
hello?
610
00:30:10,842 --> 00:30:11,975
...there is another
daunting theory.
611
00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:15,112
schiavo:
when malaysia flight 370 turned,
612
00:30:15,213 --> 00:30:18,715
that's the critical juncture in
terms of loss of communication.
613
00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:20,384
that aircr
614
00:30:20,585 --> 00:30:25,155
mukherjee:
muktesh and xiaomo were
very attached to each other.
615
00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:28,659
and their two sons
were their whole life --
616
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,129
mirav, who just turned 8,
617
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:34,798
and the younger one, miles.
618
00:30:34,899 --> 00:30:36,967
they cared for their children.
619
00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:40,437
so whenever they would go on
a holiday without the children,
620
00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:44,241
they made sure
they had the best attention
621
00:30:44,342 --> 00:30:49,479
from either us
or the maternal grandparents.
622
00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:52,916
muktesh and xiaomo
were on a holiday to vietnam,
623
00:30:53,017 --> 00:30:57,287
and they were supposed to come
back on the friday morning.
624
00:30:57,388 --> 00:30:59,923
when we spoke to them on friday,
625
00:31:00,024 --> 00:31:04,127
he said, "no, i'm extending
my stay by one day."
626
00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:08,932
so that was very significant
in terms of fate.
627
00:31:09,033 --> 00:31:15,105
i believe
in the goodness of humanity.
628
00:31:15,206 --> 00:31:19,476
so even if i want
to think otherwise,
629
00:31:19,577 --> 00:31:22,112
i still think it was
some failure of the aircraft,
630
00:31:22,213 --> 00:31:24,815
some mechanical failure,
electrical failure.
631
00:31:27,652 --> 00:31:30,187
there are just so many things
that can go wrong on a plane.
632
00:31:30,288 --> 00:31:34,625
the plane is literally a flying
miracle of millions of pieces.
633
00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:37,261
the physics have to work.
the parts have to work.
634
00:31:37,362 --> 00:31:39,730
you can troubleshoot, you can
find out what's going wrong,
635
00:31:39,831 --> 00:31:41,665
we have inspection systems,
et cetera,
636
00:31:41,766 --> 00:31:44,001
but still to this day,
we have catastrophic events.
637
00:31:44,102 --> 00:31:45,636
we have catastrophic failures.
638
00:31:50,642 --> 00:31:53,210
alaska 261 lost the ability
639
00:31:53,311 --> 00:31:55,145
to control
their horizontal stabilizer,
640
00:31:55,246 --> 00:31:57,514
and at one point, they even
were flying upside down.
641
00:32:03,888 --> 00:32:06,390
narrator: could the passengers
of flight mh370
642
00:32:06,491 --> 00:32:07,891
have suffered a similar fate?
643
00:32:17,468 --> 00:32:20,671
this is malaysia 370.
hello? hello?
644
00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:22,572
something fails,
we go to the checklist.
645
00:32:22,674 --> 00:32:23,974
we fix it or deal with it.
646
00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:25,375
when two things fail,
647
00:32:25,476 --> 00:32:26,843
or three things
at the same time,
648
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,312
we look at the power source
649
00:32:28,413 --> 00:32:31,481
because it's very unusual for
things to fail simultaneously.
650
00:32:31,582 --> 00:32:32,816
so that's what led me
to thinking
651
00:32:32,917 --> 00:32:35,519
that it was an electrical issue.
652
00:32:41,826 --> 00:32:45,062
schiavo:
when malaysia flight 370 turned,
653
00:32:45,163 --> 00:32:46,530
that's the critical juncture
654
00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:49,833
in terms of loss
of communications, the turn.
655
00:32:49,934 --> 00:32:52,869
whatever happened,
it happened there.
656
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:54,538
if they just turned, that --
657
00:32:54,639 --> 00:32:56,239
say, "well,
maybe they're not going back."
658
00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:58,775
but in this case,
they turned and descended.
659
00:32:58,876 --> 00:33:00,911
and when they descend
and turn back to home,
660
00:33:01,012 --> 00:33:03,447
to me, that's a pilot
that's got a mechanical problem.
661
00:33:03,548 --> 00:33:04,815
something's forcing him
to do that.
662
00:33:04,916 --> 00:33:07,951
we've lost all electrical.
we have to go back.
663
00:33:08,052 --> 00:33:09,453
the penang airport
664
00:33:09,554 --> 00:33:12,622
is the maintenance facility
for malaysia airlines.
665
00:33:12,724 --> 00:33:16,426
that penang airport is directly
on the route to the southwest.
666
00:33:16,527 --> 00:33:18,395
so at that point,
that aircraft was heading
667
00:33:18,496 --> 00:33:19,896
right back towards
the maintenance bays,
668
00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:21,431
which would explain
a lot of things.
669
00:33:21,532 --> 00:33:24,434
in that case,
you would expect that aircraft
670
00:33:24,535 --> 00:33:27,904
to have at least attempted
to land on a runway
671
00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:32,843
fairly soon after
the 150-degree turn occurred.
672
00:33:32,944 --> 00:33:34,578
the fact that it didn't
673
00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:38,315
meant that there was probably
some other extenuating factor
674
00:33:38,416 --> 00:33:39,950
which severely affected
675
00:33:40,051 --> 00:33:42,019
the flight crew's ability
to fly the aircraft.
676
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,154
i -- i can't control it!
677
00:33:44,255 --> 00:33:46,023
i'm losing control!
678
00:33:46,124 --> 00:33:48,458
curtis: early on, after
the aircraft didn't report in
679
00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:51,361
to the vietnamese
air traffic control authorities,
680
00:33:51,462 --> 00:33:54,264
apparently the air traffic
controllers in vietnam
681
00:33:54,365 --> 00:33:56,166
asked other pilots in the area
682
00:33:56,267 --> 00:33:59,703
to see if they could raise
flight mh370 by radio.
683
00:33:59,804 --> 00:34:03,106
one of those pilots
reported hearing something --
684
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:05,909
not any words
that could be determined.
685
00:34:06,010 --> 00:34:09,079
[ indistinct radio chatter ]
686
00:34:11,082 --> 00:34:12,916
based on cases i've worked on,
687
00:34:13,017 --> 00:34:16,153
that suggests something wrong
with your communications system
688
00:34:16,254 --> 00:34:17,954
or something wrong
with your plane.
689
00:34:21,025 --> 00:34:23,593
narrator: if something
did go wrong with the plane,
690
00:34:23,694 --> 00:34:25,495
chances are
you would lose cabin pressure.
691
00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:29,332
when aircraft is flying
at cruising altitude --
692
00:34:29,434 --> 00:34:33,203
30,000 feet, 35,000 feet --
the atmosphere is so thin
693
00:34:33,304 --> 00:34:34,871
that if you have a loss
of cabin pressure,
694
00:34:34,972 --> 00:34:37,507
there's not enough oxygen
for people to stay conscious.
695
00:34:37,608 --> 00:34:42,245
you can think of an airplane
as kind of like a bagpipe.
696
00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:44,281
you have to keep blowing air
into it.
697
00:34:44,382 --> 00:34:46,383
air is constantly going
from the engines
698
00:34:46,484 --> 00:34:48,752
into the airplane
and out the airplane.
699
00:34:48,853 --> 00:34:52,155
so if you stop blowing air
into the airplane,
700
00:34:52,256 --> 00:34:54,357
the pressurization will be lost.
701
00:34:56,194 --> 00:34:59,229
any number of things could lead
to a loss of pressure --
702
00:34:59,330 --> 00:35:01,231
an outflow valve
being left open,
703
00:35:01,332 --> 00:35:02,833
a broken window, et cetera.
704
00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:05,202
if there's a loss
of cabin pressure,
705
00:35:05,303 --> 00:35:07,070
supplemental oxygen is deployed.
706
00:35:07,171 --> 00:35:09,806
darby: the pilot's oxygen
is good for several hours.
707
00:35:09,907 --> 00:35:10,841
the passenger's oxygen,
708
00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:12,409
it's only good
for a few minutes,
709
00:35:12,510 --> 00:35:16,246
enough time to get it
from cruising altitude
down to 10,000 feet
710
00:35:16,347 --> 00:35:18,682
where the air is thick enough
for everybody to breathe.
711
00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:22,452
narrator:
but there's always a chance that
the oxygen masks didn't deploy,
712
00:35:22,553 --> 00:35:24,754
or the pilots were incapacitated
713
00:35:24,856 --> 00:35:28,492
and were unable to descend
the plane due to hypoxia.
714
00:35:28,593 --> 00:35:30,894
hypoxia
is a loss of consciousness
715
00:35:30,995 --> 00:35:33,697
or a loss of intellectual
function due to lack of oxygen.
716
00:35:33,798 --> 00:35:36,299
probably the most famous case
in the u.s.
717
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,469
is a 1999 case
involving golfer payne stewart,
718
00:35:39,570 --> 00:35:41,271
where he and several others
were on an aircraft
719
00:35:41,372 --> 00:35:42,405
where they lost cabin pressure.
720
00:35:42,507 --> 00:35:44,774
narrator:
stewart was headed to compete
721
00:35:44,876 --> 00:35:47,511
in the tour championship
in dallas, texas,
722
00:35:47,612 --> 00:35:49,746
in what should have been
an ordinary flight.
723
00:35:49,847 --> 00:35:53,450
in the process of getting its
altitude, something occurred,
724
00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:54,985
and the aircraft continued
to fly north.
725
00:35:55,086 --> 00:35:58,021
and that's what tipped off
the air traffic control.
726
00:35:58,122 --> 00:35:59,890
they kept trying to reach it
and trying to reach it.
727
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,158
there was no one answering.
728
00:36:01,259 --> 00:36:05,395
they scrambled jet fighters
to see what's wrong.
729
00:36:05,496 --> 00:36:07,364
and what pilots saw
730
00:36:07,465 --> 00:36:11,234
was that the windshield and
cabin windows were fogged over.
731
00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:13,703
for whatever reason,
732
00:36:13,804 --> 00:36:16,039
the cabin pressurization
failed very suddenly
733
00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:20,610
before the crew
could get their oxygen masks on.
734
00:36:20,711 --> 00:36:22,546
everybody passes out.
735
00:36:22,647 --> 00:36:24,147
the autopilot is still engaged.
736
00:36:24,248 --> 00:36:26,416
the airplane is still flying
and still has a heading.
737
00:36:26,517 --> 00:36:28,051
it's still maintaining
that heading.
738
00:36:28,152 --> 00:36:30,153
in this case,
we sat for hours and hours,
739
00:36:30,254 --> 00:36:33,123
as did everybody in the country,
watching this aircraft.
740
00:36:33,224 --> 00:36:35,091
it was very, very disturbing,
741
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:37,327
and clearly, no one was alive
on board the aircraft.
742
00:36:37,428 --> 00:36:38,595
and i think
that's why some people
743
00:36:38,696 --> 00:36:41,164
refer to that aircraft
as the zombie airplane.
744
00:36:41,265 --> 00:36:43,133
man: finally, the inevitable --
745
00:36:43,234 --> 00:36:46,603
the plane runs out of fuel,
spirals down, and crashes.
746
00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:49,206
only small pieces of the plane
visible,
747
00:36:49,307 --> 00:36:51,708
almost nothing recognizable.
748
00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:53,476
narrator: eventually,
the passengers and crew
749
00:36:53,578 --> 00:36:54,778
could have run out of oxygen
750
00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:58,515
forcing mh370 to fly for hours
on autopilot
751
00:36:58,616 --> 00:37:01,117
before meeting
its fateful demise.
752
00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,386
given that the indirect evidence
753
00:37:03,487 --> 00:37:04,888
was that for the last
several hours of the flight,
754
00:37:04,989 --> 00:37:09,092
the aircraft was flying
not only in a consistent manner,
755
00:37:09,193 --> 00:37:11,561
but in a direction
that didn't make a lot of sense.
756
00:37:11,662 --> 00:37:12,963
it was flying in an area
757
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:15,465
that was basically over
the middle of the indian ocean,
758
00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:17,534
very far from any suitable
landing place.
759
00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:19,636
it's a situation where no input
760
00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:21,538
was put into
the flight control system,
761
00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:24,708
and the airplane kept flying
until it couldn't fly anymore.
762
00:37:31,082 --> 00:37:33,149
a mechanical failure
is definitely a theory
763
00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,784
that i know
people are looking at.
764
00:37:34,885 --> 00:37:38,855
but the 777 was designed
from the ground up
765
00:37:38,956 --> 00:37:42,459
to have much more resilient
safety systems
766
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:43,827
than your normal airplane,
767
00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:45,729
which means
that you should be able
768
00:37:45,830 --> 00:37:48,231
to lose hydraulic systems
and electrical systems,
769
00:37:48,332 --> 00:37:50,967
not just once, but in two or
three different failure modes
770
00:37:51,068 --> 00:37:53,103
and still be able
to fly the airplane,
771
00:37:53,204 --> 00:37:55,438
to navigate the airplane,
to control the airplane,
772
00:37:55,539 --> 00:37:57,207
to have
some situational awareness
773
00:37:57,308 --> 00:37:59,175
of where the airplane is.
774
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:02,579
and, so, for all those systems
to fail at once,
775
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,081
statistically,
very, very, very remote.
776
00:38:05,182 --> 00:38:07,350
darby: the airplane's designed
to handle these problems.
777
00:38:07,451 --> 00:38:08,818
there are procedures in place
778
00:38:08,919 --> 00:38:11,421
for the pilots to do
to make the problem manageable.
779
00:38:11,522 --> 00:38:14,391
and there's also a process
to get back on the ground.
780
00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:17,727
what's unexplained
is why the airplane
781
00:38:17,828 --> 00:38:20,797
would subsequently climb
back out and head south.
782
00:38:20,898 --> 00:38:25,235
that is not typically the result
of a mechanical issue.
783
00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:26,770
narrator:
coming up...
784
00:38:26,871 --> 00:38:28,872
soucie: this oxygen tank had
some problems in the past
785
00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:30,440
and exploded.
786
00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:32,876
oh!
it could have actually
even killed the pilot.
787
00:38:33,844 --> 00:38:35,879
narrator:
flight mh370 flew for hours
788
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:39,616
after that horrific moment
when all communication was lost,
789
00:38:39,717 --> 00:38:41,451
leaving some experts to believe
790
00:38:41,552 --> 00:38:43,753
that fire may have played
a role.
791
00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:47,624
do you smell smoke?
792
00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:51,661
probably the most insidious
and the most dangerous
793
00:38:51,762 --> 00:38:53,229
is that
electrical wire-bundle fire,
794
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:54,431
because it can occur
795
00:38:54,532 --> 00:38:56,900
beyond the sight
of where anybody can see it,
796
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:59,803
and it can spread
where nobody can get to it.
797
00:38:59,904 --> 00:39:01,371
do it now! do it now!
798
00:39:01,472 --> 00:39:03,473
when there's smoke and fumes
in the cockpit,
799
00:39:03,574 --> 00:39:06,509
the big danger is
the smoke has nowhere to go.
800
00:39:06,610 --> 00:39:08,144
there are procedures
801
00:39:08,245 --> 00:39:11,448
to modify the pressurization
flow of the aircraft
802
00:39:11,549 --> 00:39:14,050
to try and get
as much of the smoke
803
00:39:14,151 --> 00:39:17,487
out of the cabin as possible,
as quickly as you can.
804
00:39:17,588 --> 00:39:20,390
the pilots in this case
have oxygen masks to use.
805
00:39:20,491 --> 00:39:23,093
they can breathe.
806
00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:27,197
fires in the cabin of
the aircraft are very serious.
807
00:39:27,298 --> 00:39:29,165
they can spread,
they can be very hard to fight,
808
00:39:29,266 --> 00:39:31,801
and if an aircraft
is truly on fire,
809
00:39:31,902 --> 00:39:33,636
you don't normally
see it airborne
810
00:39:33,738 --> 00:39:34,904
for more than 20 minutes.
811
00:39:35,005 --> 00:39:37,140
that's why it's so important
for an airplane,
812
00:39:37,241 --> 00:39:38,375
if it's on fire,
813
00:39:38,476 --> 00:39:41,711
to get down on the ground
as quickly as it can,
814
00:39:41,812 --> 00:39:44,214
because it can quickly consume
an entire aircraft.
815
00:39:46,350 --> 00:39:48,685
september 2, 1998 --
816
00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:53,423
swissair flight 111
experienced a fire
817
00:39:53,524 --> 00:39:56,459
in a wire bundle
over the cockpit,
818
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,628
and the fire disabled
the autopilot.
819
00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:00,196
narrator:
15 minutes before the crash,
820
00:40:00,297 --> 00:40:03,266
the pilot radios mayday
and starts to dump fuel.
821
00:40:03,367 --> 00:40:05,368
it was
an entertainment-system fire
822
00:40:05,469 --> 00:40:07,070
that turned out
the entertainment system
823
00:40:07,171 --> 00:40:09,339
was right up over the cockpit
in the first-class section.
824
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,175
that electrical fire
also came in contact
825
00:40:12,276 --> 00:40:14,010
with some
very combustible material.
826
00:40:14,111 --> 00:40:16,679
in this case, it was
some insulation on the airplane
827
00:40:16,781 --> 00:40:19,182
that caught fire
a lot more easily
828
00:40:19,283 --> 00:40:21,284
than they had expected it to.
829
00:40:21,385 --> 00:40:22,685
darby:
then they waited a little while
830
00:40:22,787 --> 00:40:25,054
to get rid of some fuel
for better landing weight.
831
00:40:25,156 --> 00:40:28,691
narrator: flight 111 hits the
water and immediately breaks up,
832
00:40:28,793 --> 00:40:32,061
much like this crash
caught by home video in 1996.
833
00:40:32,163 --> 00:40:36,566
gadzinski:
the aircraft plunged into the
ocean at over 300 miles an hour,
834
00:40:36,667 --> 00:40:39,836
killing all 229 people on board.
835
00:40:39,937 --> 00:40:43,606
that was a very major event
in aviation history,
836
00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:46,709
and it made us look
at the whole issue
837
00:40:46,811 --> 00:40:49,245
of the type of insulation
that we have on wires,
838
00:40:49,346 --> 00:40:52,015
the whole issue
of wire bundles and fraying,
839
00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:54,751
and it forced the redesign
840
00:40:54,852 --> 00:40:56,753
of our fire procedures
for the pilots.
841
00:40:56,854 --> 00:40:59,355
all these safety issues
have been addressed
842
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:03,359
by the time the malaysian
flight 370 had taken off.
843
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:06,129
narrator: aircraft investigator
david soucie
844
00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:07,764
has his own theory
845
00:41:07,865 --> 00:41:11,734
regarding what might have
transpired in the case of mh370,
846
00:41:11,836 --> 00:41:14,170
one that begins
with faulty wires
847
00:41:14,271 --> 00:41:16,706
igniting an oxygen tank.
848
00:41:16,807 --> 00:41:19,108
if we start with the assumption
that this oxygen tank,
849
00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:21,811
which had had some airworthiness
directive problems in the past,
850
00:41:21,912 --> 00:41:25,482
had become hot from the wires
or a short and exploded.
851
00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:27,917
if that was the beginning
of the chain of events,
852
00:41:28,018 --> 00:41:30,153
here's what i think would have
happened from then.
853
00:41:30,254 --> 00:41:31,888
the oxygen tank
would have exploded.
854
00:41:31,989 --> 00:41:33,623
[ explosion ]
855
00:41:33,724 --> 00:41:35,325
it would have been
directly below the radio rack,
856
00:41:35,426 --> 00:41:37,760
which is the uhf radio,
the vhf radio,
857
00:41:37,862 --> 00:41:40,163
the a.c.a.r. system,
and the transponder.
858
00:41:40,264 --> 00:41:42,332
it would have taken
all those radios out.
859
00:41:42,433 --> 00:41:45,735
it also would have come up
into the lower flooring
860
00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:47,770
right below
where the pilot sits.
861
00:41:47,872 --> 00:41:50,006
depending on how strong
that explosion was,
862
00:41:50,107 --> 00:41:51,574
it could have
actually debilitated
863
00:41:51,675 --> 00:41:52,775
or even killed the pilot.
864
00:41:52,877 --> 00:41:54,444
captain, captain.
865
00:41:54,545 --> 00:41:57,614
at this point, the co-pilot is
trying to figure out what to do.
866
00:41:57,715 --> 00:41:59,649
he's realized he can't
communicate with anyone
867
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:01,050
because the radios are out.
868
00:42:01,151 --> 00:42:02,252
so, the first thing
869
00:42:02,353 --> 00:42:03,419
that would go through his mind
at that point is,
870
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:04,521
"where do i go?"
871
00:42:04,622 --> 00:42:08,224
the penang airport
is directly on the route
872
00:42:08,325 --> 00:42:09,826
that the aircraft made
a left-hand turn
873
00:42:09,927 --> 00:42:12,228
and started heading back down
to the southwest.
874
00:42:12,329 --> 00:42:14,564
this is malaysia 370.
875
00:42:14,665 --> 00:42:16,766
penang?
penang, do you copy?
876
00:42:16,867 --> 00:42:19,469
the cargo manifest
included a list
877
00:42:19,570 --> 00:42:22,605
of 5,000 pounds
of lithium batteries.
878
00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:25,041
if they were in the front
compartment of the aircraft,
879
00:42:25,142 --> 00:42:27,911
which is only separated
by a small door
880
00:42:28,012 --> 00:42:30,013
just on the other side
of the oxygen tank,
881
00:42:30,114 --> 00:42:32,348
the lithium batteries
would have burst on fire,
882
00:42:32,449 --> 00:42:34,250
burning off
the hydrogen chloride
883
00:42:34,351 --> 00:42:35,952
and its sulfuric acid.
884
00:42:36,053 --> 00:42:37,887
if, at that point,
the co-pilot deploys
885
00:42:37,988 --> 00:42:39,389
the halon fire extinguisher,
886
00:42:39,490 --> 00:42:42,358
what that does is
it takes all the oxygen away.
887
00:42:42,459 --> 00:42:44,561
so now the lithium batteries
can't burn.
888
00:42:44,662 --> 00:42:45,695
but yet those fumes
889
00:42:45,796 --> 00:42:47,664
still continue to emanate
from the batteries
890
00:42:47,765 --> 00:42:48,765
in great quantities.
891
00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:50,633
it's like a fog.
it's like a gas.
892
00:42:50,734 --> 00:42:52,468
[ coughing ]
893
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:53,903
vaporized fumes
894
00:42:54,004 --> 00:42:56,739
would go up into the cabin
where all the people are,
895
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,542
and those combinations of gases
can be very deadly.
896
00:43:04,181 --> 00:43:06,416
nothing that came out
in the early part of the flight
897
00:43:06,517 --> 00:43:08,618
indicated there was any kind
of problem with fire.
898
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,753
no smoke problem,
no fume problem,
899
00:43:10,854 --> 00:43:13,056
no indication that anything
was malfunctioning.
900
00:43:13,157 --> 00:43:15,358
the fact that the aircraft
apparently kept flying
901
00:43:15,459 --> 00:43:18,595
for over seven hours
after they lost communication
902
00:43:18,696 --> 00:43:22,865
says to me that if there was
a fire involving the aircraft,
903
00:43:22,967 --> 00:43:24,400
it wasn't so severe
904
00:43:24,501 --> 00:43:26,436
that it caused the aircraft
to be unflyable.
905
00:43:26,537 --> 00:43:28,805
so although fire
is a possibility,
906
00:43:28,906 --> 00:43:32,108
there is no evidence right now
that any sort of fire occurred.
907
00:43:32,209 --> 00:43:34,477
gadzinski: the entire
aviation system is set up
908
00:43:34,578 --> 00:43:37,146
for things to happen
in an expected way.
909
00:43:37,247 --> 00:43:40,216
i think the thing that is really
baffling everybody
910
00:43:40,317 --> 00:43:43,753
is there's no expected responses
to any of the emergencies.
911
00:43:43,854 --> 00:43:46,356
if the airplane was on fire,
it should have landed.
912
00:43:46,457 --> 00:43:48,391
if the airplane
had a major emergency,
913
00:43:48,492 --> 00:43:49,692
it could have landed.
914
00:43:49,793 --> 00:43:52,795
if the airplane had lost
all its radio communications,
915
00:43:52,896 --> 00:43:55,732
it should have flown
where it was expected to fly.
916
00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:57,967
none of that stuff happened
in this case.
917
00:43:58,068 --> 00:44:00,269
i think every single one
of these theories
918
00:44:00,371 --> 00:44:01,571
that people come up with
919
00:44:01,672 --> 00:44:03,673
has holes in it,
has challenges to it,
920
00:44:03,774 --> 00:44:06,776
and that just speaks to the
complexity of this whole tragedy
921
00:44:06,877 --> 00:44:09,779
is where did this aircraft go?
922
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,748
narrator: coming up...
923
00:44:11,849 --> 00:44:13,950
darby: the weather is one
of our biggest enemies.
924
00:44:14,051 --> 00:44:17,754
narrator:
does another doomed flight
in history hold the answer?
925
00:44:17,855 --> 00:44:20,857
gillespie: pan am flight 214 --
struck by lightning.
926
00:44:20,958 --> 00:44:24,360
the airplane blew apart.
that's not supposed to happen.
927
00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:31,401
my younger sister,
suhaili binti mustafa,
928
00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:34,137
was a passenger on the flight.
929
00:44:34,238 --> 00:44:38,608
she was a very special sister,
very special person.
930
00:44:38,709 --> 00:44:45,548
she tended to be friends
with basically everyone.
931
00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:51,220
[ voice breaking ]
i went to her facebook page.
932
00:44:51,321 --> 00:44:53,923
there's a wall picture --
933
00:44:54,024 --> 00:44:56,726
there's a picture
on her facebook wall
934
00:44:56,827 --> 00:44:59,662
with her feet planted
on the snow
935
00:44:59,763 --> 00:45:00,997
[ clears throat ]
936
00:45:01,098 --> 00:45:04,167
it was in about four inches
of snow,
937
00:45:04,268 --> 00:45:07,937
and one of her friends said
that, "where were you?
938
00:45:08,038 --> 00:45:10,173
are you sinking?"
939
00:45:10,274 --> 00:45:13,443
and she said, "yes.
940
00:45:13,544 --> 00:45:16,079
you guys might
have to look for me."
941
00:45:16,180 --> 00:45:18,448
narrator: as the world
942
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:21,217
desperately searches for answers
about the missing flight,
943
00:45:21,318 --> 00:45:24,520
every possible scenario
has to be considered.
944
00:45:29,126 --> 00:45:31,394
[ thunder crashes ]
945
00:45:31,495 --> 00:45:34,964
the weather, regrettably,
is one of our biggest enemies.
946
00:45:35,065 --> 00:45:37,433
we have winds
that produce turbulence.
947
00:45:37,534 --> 00:45:40,770
we have snow and ice that can
cause the runway to be slippery.
948
00:45:40,871 --> 00:45:43,473
i mean, there's always something
that the weather's doing
949
00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:45,308
that affects the way
we fly the plane.
950
00:45:45,409 --> 00:45:46,809
narrator:
according to a study
951
00:45:46,910 --> 00:45:50,213
by the national oceanic
and atmospheric administration,
952
00:45:50,314 --> 00:45:51,514
weather plays a role
953
00:45:51,615 --> 00:45:55,284
in 3 out of 10
fatal airplane accidents.
954
00:45:55,385 --> 00:45:58,554
even though weather conditions
were clear at the time,
955
00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:00,323
could lightning
still be a factor
956
00:46:00,424 --> 00:46:03,793
in the disappearance of mh370?
957
00:46:03,894 --> 00:46:06,896
the threat of lightning
to aircraft in flight
958
00:46:06,997 --> 00:46:08,097
is always there.
959
00:46:08,198 --> 00:46:09,932
there's clear-air lightning
960
00:46:10,033 --> 00:46:12,301
that can happen
at nearly any time.
961
00:46:12,402 --> 00:46:14,637
december 8th, 1963 --
962
00:46:14,738 --> 00:46:16,072
pan am flight 214
963
00:46:16,173 --> 00:46:19,609
on a very short flight
from baltimore to philadelphia,
964
00:46:19,710 --> 00:46:25,148
73 passengers, 8 crew,
struck by lightning.
965
00:46:25,249 --> 00:46:27,550
the airplane blew apart
966
00:46:27,651 --> 00:46:31,654
and crashed
near elkton, maryland.
967
00:46:31,755 --> 00:46:33,222
that's not supposed to happen.
968
00:46:33,323 --> 00:46:37,460
as a consequence of that loss,
there were changes made.
969
00:46:37,561 --> 00:46:41,264
soucie: and now every single
thing that's in that aircraft
970
00:46:41,365 --> 00:46:44,066
is grounded so the lightning
would go through it
971
00:46:44,168 --> 00:46:45,802
so that it doesn't stop
and explode
972
00:46:45,903 --> 00:46:47,036
while it's on the aircraft.
973
00:46:47,137 --> 00:46:50,506
gillespie: but systems
that prevent problems
974
00:46:50,607 --> 00:46:52,608
don't work in all cases.
975
00:46:54,678 --> 00:46:56,345
looks like a good day.
976
00:46:56,446 --> 00:46:57,880
it's a good day to fly.
977
00:47:00,117 --> 00:47:02,852
[ alarms blaring ]
978
00:47:06,456 --> 00:47:09,192
narrator:
while lightning strikes
to someone on the ground
979
00:47:09,293 --> 00:47:10,993
can be fatal,
980
00:47:11,094 --> 00:47:13,262
how dangerous is a strike
likely to be
981
00:47:13,363 --> 00:47:15,431
to a modern aircraft?
982
00:47:15,532 --> 00:47:19,235
lightning does not affect the
ability of the aircraft to fly,
983
00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:21,070
but it does, in some cases,
984
00:47:21,171 --> 00:47:22,772
damage the outside
of the airplane,
985
00:47:22,873 --> 00:47:25,174
because the hot gases
986
00:47:25,275 --> 00:47:27,109
that are associated
with the lightning
987
00:47:27,211 --> 00:47:29,712
do tend to affect
the skin of the aircraft
988
00:47:29,813 --> 00:47:30,813
and can make small holes
989
00:47:30,914 --> 00:47:32,615
and damage
some parts of the aircraft.
990
00:47:32,716 --> 00:47:34,083
i've been hit by lightning
991
00:47:34,184 --> 00:47:35,985
in the nose of the airplane
by the cockpit.
992
00:47:36,086 --> 00:47:39,422
it sounds like somebody shot a
shotgun right next to your ear,
993
00:47:39,523 --> 00:47:41,123
and you see a big, white flash,
994
00:47:41,225 --> 00:47:43,092
but the airplane flies
just fine.
995
00:47:43,193 --> 00:47:44,427
narrator: another factor
996
00:47:44,528 --> 00:47:48,030
that could have affected
flight mh370's disappearance
997
00:47:48,131 --> 00:47:51,500
is something that passengers
experience every day --
998
00:47:51,602 --> 00:47:52,735
turbulence.
999
00:47:59,443 --> 00:48:01,377
turbulence is there
all the time.
1000
00:48:01,478 --> 00:48:04,413
i mean,
the air is rising and falling,
1001
00:48:04,514 --> 00:48:06,682
storms, rain,
wind over the surface,
1002
00:48:06,783 --> 00:48:08,184
wind over the mountains --
1003
00:48:08,285 --> 00:48:09,585
there's turbulence all the time.
1004
00:48:09,686 --> 00:48:10,720
extreme turbulence
1005
00:48:10,821 --> 00:48:11,954
or severe turbulence
that you talk about
1006
00:48:12,055 --> 00:48:13,189
is extremely rare.
1007
00:48:13,290 --> 00:48:16,359
narrator: rare, yes,
but dangerous nonetheless.
1008
00:48:16,460 --> 00:48:17,593
it is possible to exceed
1009
00:48:17,694 --> 00:48:19,729
the ability of the airplane
to absorb it.
1010
00:48:19,830 --> 00:48:22,198
the airplane can come apart
in severe turbulence.
1011
00:48:22,299 --> 00:48:24,667
[ cracking, shattering ]
1012
00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:28,170
it does occasionally happen
1013
00:48:28,272 --> 00:48:31,140
if you were to fly into a severe
thunderstorm or tornado,
1014
00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:32,808
but the pilot's in there
with you,
1015
00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:35,311
so he's got no interest
in being anywhere near that.
1016
00:48:35,412 --> 00:48:40,082
narrator:
while unexpected weather systems
are a risk to any flight,
1017
00:48:40,183 --> 00:48:43,152
nature's own aviators
pose a distinct threat.
1018
00:48:43,253 --> 00:48:45,087
[ bird cries ]
darby: well, bird strikes --
1019
00:48:45,188 --> 00:48:46,522
these airplanes are tested
1020
00:48:46,623 --> 00:48:49,358
to a certain size of bird,
certain number of birds,
1021
00:48:49,459 --> 00:48:52,962
and there's many,
many bird strikes every day.
1022
00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:56,399
but, they're small birds,
not a big deal.
1023
00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:58,834
now, a larger bird
or a group of larger birds
1024
00:48:58,936 --> 00:49:00,336
like the ones that occurred
1025
00:49:00,437 --> 00:49:04,774
when captain sullenberger put
his a320 into the river here --
1026
00:49:04,875 --> 00:49:06,943
that was a significant event.
1027
00:49:26,129 --> 00:49:28,230
narrator: but birds are not
the only deadly risk
1028
00:49:28,332 --> 00:49:30,933
to an airliner's jet intake.
1029
00:49:31,034 --> 00:49:34,570
when volcanic ash gets
into the engine of an airplane,
1030
00:49:34,671 --> 00:49:39,442
it melts and it coats the
turbine section of the airplane
1031
00:49:39,543 --> 00:49:40,710
so that the blades start
1032
00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:43,212
getting coated with glass,
basically,
1033
00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:46,649
and it affects the ability
of the engine to produce thrust.
1034
00:49:46,750 --> 00:49:50,653
narrator: in 2010, violent
volcanic eruptions in iceland
1035
00:49:50,754 --> 00:49:54,323
affected air travel
halfway around the world.
1036
00:49:54,424 --> 00:49:55,758
could a similar ash cloud
1037
00:49:55,859 --> 00:49:58,094
from one of the many
indonesian volcanos
1038
00:49:58,195 --> 00:50:01,130
have brought down mh370?
1039
00:50:01,231 --> 00:50:03,032
if you fly through volcanic ash,
1040
00:50:03,133 --> 00:50:05,835
it might look
like just clouds or mist,
1041
00:50:05,936 --> 00:50:08,604
but it can cause you the loss
of thrust of your airplane,
1042
00:50:08,705 --> 00:50:10,940
and it can cause
all of your engines to fail.
1043
00:50:11,041 --> 00:50:13,776
[ engines sputter ]
1044
00:50:16,780 --> 00:50:18,481
narrator:
but with no evidence of a crash,
1045
00:50:18,582 --> 00:50:21,550
friends and family members still
cling to the hope
1046
00:50:21,651 --> 00:50:24,286
that their loved ones
are still alive.
1047
00:50:24,388 --> 00:50:30,793
i do miss her a lot,
and i find that nowadays --
1048
00:50:30,894 --> 00:50:36,465
now that she's not around,
i tend to appreciate her more,
1049
00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:40,770
and i'm -- now i look up to her.
1050
00:50:40,871 --> 00:50:45,441
i try to be the same person
that she is.
1051
00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:48,811
i rarely say, you know,
"i love you" to someone
1052
00:50:48,912 --> 00:50:51,614
except, then, to maybe my wife.
1053
00:50:51,715 --> 00:50:55,151
i regret not saying that to her.
1054
00:50:55,252 --> 00:51:00,022
this is what breaks my heart.
1055
00:51:08,532 --> 00:51:09,765
narrator: coming up...
1056
00:51:09,866 --> 00:51:12,435
ross: i think he took the plane
up to 44,000 feet.
1057
00:51:12,536 --> 00:51:15,071
narrator: could the flight have
disappeared on purpose?
1058
00:51:15,172 --> 00:51:18,307
ross: he chose somewhere in
the middle of the indian ocean.
1059
00:51:18,408 --> 00:51:19,341
darby:
if i had to pick a suicide,
1060
00:51:19,443 --> 00:51:20,843
i would pick the captain
in this case.
1061
00:51:24,047 --> 00:51:26,649
narrator: while friends
and family members still pray
1062
00:51:26,750 --> 00:51:28,584
for the safe return
of flight mh370,
1063
00:51:28,685 --> 00:51:30,186
there are some experts
who lean towards
1064
00:51:30,287 --> 00:51:33,756
an absolutely terrifying
scenario.
1065
00:51:36,460 --> 00:51:38,494
i think the likeliest scenario
1066
00:51:38,595 --> 00:51:41,630
for what happened
to malaysia airlines 370
1067
00:51:41,731 --> 00:51:42,998
is pilot suicide.
1068
00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:45,468
pilots of commercial aircraft
1069
00:51:45,569 --> 00:51:47,870
have, for various reasons,
committed suicide
1070
00:51:47,971 --> 00:51:50,639
and taken everyone
on board the aircraft with them.
1071
00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:52,441
i think the scenario entailed
1072
00:51:52,542 --> 00:51:56,445
the pilot planning
to conduct this suicide.
1073
00:51:56,546 --> 00:51:58,781
after he reached a certain
distance from the airport,
1074
00:51:58,882 --> 00:52:02,118
i think he took the plane
up to 44,000 feet.
1075
00:52:04,488 --> 00:52:07,723
if, intentionally, somebody took
a plane up to 45,000 feet,
1076
00:52:07,824 --> 00:52:10,893
some people theorize it was
to disable the passengers --
1077
00:52:10,994 --> 00:52:12,528
to make them pass out
1078
00:52:12,629 --> 00:52:14,663
and eventually, if they don't
get oxygen, to die.
1079
00:52:14,764 --> 00:52:17,266
and then i think he chose
some desolate spot
1080
00:52:17,367 --> 00:52:19,502
somewhere in the middle
of the indian ocean
1081
00:52:19,603 --> 00:52:20,970
and put the plane down
1082
00:52:21,071 --> 00:52:23,772
and killed everyone,
including himself, on board.
1083
00:52:27,077 --> 00:52:29,478
the only airline pilot
of a major airline
1084
00:52:29,579 --> 00:52:31,947
that's ever committed suicide,
as far as i know,
1085
00:52:32,048 --> 00:52:33,516
is the egyptair accident.
1086
00:52:33,617 --> 00:52:37,987
narrator: when egyptair flight
990 took off from jfk airport,
1087
00:52:38,088 --> 00:52:42,424
217 people settled in
for a long flight to cairo.
1088
00:52:42,526 --> 00:52:46,462
only one man knew
it would be their final flight.
1089
00:52:50,033 --> 00:52:51,734
entekel ala allah!
1090
00:52:53,436 --> 00:52:55,204
entekel ala allah!
1091
00:52:58,375 --> 00:53:01,677
woman: i lost contact with
the boeing 767 in my airspace.
1092
00:53:01,778 --> 00:53:02,878
man: the egyptair?
1093
00:53:02,979 --> 00:53:05,481
yeah. i mean, we lost radar.
we lost everything.
1094
00:53:05,582 --> 00:53:06,882
woman:
with no signs of survivors,
1095
00:53:06,983 --> 00:53:08,551
coast guard cutters
search the waters
1096
00:53:08,652 --> 00:53:10,586
off of nantucket, massachusetts.
1097
00:53:10,687 --> 00:53:13,522
meanwhile, victims' families
gathered in new york,
1098
00:53:13,623 --> 00:53:14,557
looking for answers.
1099
00:53:14,658 --> 00:53:17,927
[ crying ]
1100
00:53:18,028 --> 00:53:19,395
we were able to find
the airplane,
1101
00:53:19,496 --> 00:53:21,864
find the cockpit voice recorder,
find the flight data recorder,
1102
00:53:21,965 --> 00:53:23,532
and verify what happened.
1103
00:53:23,633 --> 00:53:25,067
schiavo:
the flight data recorders
1104
00:53:25,168 --> 00:53:26,702
that told
how the plane was performing
1105
00:53:26,803 --> 00:53:28,404
told that the plane
was performing fine.
1106
00:53:28,505 --> 00:53:31,440
the ntsb made a finding
1107
00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:34,944
that it appeared that it was
a suicide by the relief pilot.
1108
00:53:35,045 --> 00:53:38,247
the cockpit voice recorder
is what gave that away.
1109
00:53:38,348 --> 00:53:42,151
it was a situation where the
co-pilot took over the flight
1110
00:53:42,252 --> 00:53:44,587
at a time when he was alone
in the cockpit.
1111
00:53:44,688 --> 00:53:47,556
narrator:
the national air transportation
safety board confirmed
1112
00:53:47,657 --> 00:53:49,692
that the egyptair flight crew
1113
00:53:49,793 --> 00:53:51,527
fought to the death
over those controls.
1114
00:53:51,628 --> 00:53:54,330
but in the end,
it made no difference.
1115
00:53:54,431 --> 00:53:56,098
you could hear
on the cockpit voice recording
1116
00:53:56,199 --> 00:53:58,067
the pleadings of the other pilot
1117
00:53:58,168 --> 00:54:00,002
when he tried
to save the flight.
1118
00:54:00,103 --> 00:54:01,937
but the pilot flying the plane
at that point
1119
00:54:02,038 --> 00:54:03,305
had put it in a dive.
1120
00:54:03,406 --> 00:54:05,708
shut down the engines
and crashed the airplane.
1121
00:54:07,744 --> 00:54:11,513
it's a huge tragedy,
and airlines do all they can
1122
00:54:11,615 --> 00:54:13,782
to try and prevent that
from happening.
1123
00:54:13,883 --> 00:54:15,684
they monitor their pilots.
1124
00:54:15,785 --> 00:54:19,221
there are
two or three examinations
1125
00:54:19,322 --> 00:54:21,957
pilots have each year
by a doctor,
1126
00:54:22,058 --> 00:54:24,627
and there are
some screening questions asked.
1127
00:54:24,728 --> 00:54:27,263
they monitor
for physical fatigue,
1128
00:54:27,364 --> 00:54:31,233
for psychological concerns,
emotional concerns.
1129
00:54:31,334 --> 00:54:34,603
is an individual going through
a very heated divorce?
1130
00:54:34,704 --> 00:54:36,939
have they just lost a child
or a family member?
1131
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,742
do they have
an untreatable illness?
1132
00:54:39,843 --> 00:54:42,411
those kind of questions
are always being looked at
1133
00:54:42,512 --> 00:54:44,246
in terms of pilots,
especially here in the u.s.
1134
00:54:44,347 --> 00:54:45,414
they take it very seriously.
1135
00:54:45,515 --> 00:54:48,984
with the egyptair crash,
1136
00:54:49,085 --> 00:54:51,987
the pilot had not been promoted
to captain,
1137
00:54:52,088 --> 00:54:54,123
and he had spent
almost his entire career,
1138
00:54:54,224 --> 00:54:58,560
and he was reaching retirement
age and still had not advanced.
1139
00:54:58,662 --> 00:55:02,965
and with that apparently
causing him to be depressed,
1140
00:55:03,066 --> 00:55:04,533
he took the plane down.
1141
00:55:04,634 --> 00:55:07,036
narrator:
the egyptair disaster
seemed to foreshadow
1142
00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:10,205
the fate of malaysia airlines
flight 370,
1143
00:55:10,307 --> 00:55:12,875
with the focus
on the 53-year-old pilot,
1144
00:55:12,976 --> 00:55:14,643
zaharie ahmad shah.
1145
00:55:14,744 --> 00:55:16,845
co-pilot was younger,
about to get married,
1146
00:55:16,946 --> 00:55:19,848
you know,
seemed to have more a future.
1147
00:55:19,949 --> 00:55:21,784
if i had to pick a suicide,
1148
00:55:21,885 --> 00:55:24,586
i would pick the captain
in this case,
1149
00:55:24,688 --> 00:55:26,722
and that's only from
the few facts that we have.
1150
00:55:26,823 --> 00:55:29,391
and we've heard all kinds of,
you know, rumors
1151
00:55:29,492 --> 00:55:32,261
and little signals that,
you know, he was unhappy,
1152
00:55:32,362 --> 00:55:34,563
that there was problems
in his personal life.
1153
00:55:34,664 --> 00:55:36,231
we know that he didn't have --
1154
00:55:36,333 --> 00:55:40,202
the captain didn't have a good
relationship with his wife.
1155
00:55:40,303 --> 00:55:42,304
narrator: further suspicion
fell on the captain
1156
00:55:42,405 --> 00:55:43,772
when it was discovered
1157
00:55:43,873 --> 00:55:45,207
that several files
had been erased
1158
00:55:45,308 --> 00:55:49,578
from the personal flight
simulator he kept at his home.
1159
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:53,615
why would a pilot commit suicide
and take everyone with him?
1160
00:55:53,717 --> 00:55:57,720
i don't think
that probably any of us
1161
00:55:57,821 --> 00:56:00,622
can really grasp
why a person would do that,
1162
00:56:00,724 --> 00:56:04,126
but a person can feel
so self-centered
1163
00:56:04,227 --> 00:56:07,730
in their personality
and their world view
1164
00:56:07,831 --> 00:56:09,965
that if they're going
to not exist,
1165
00:56:10,066 --> 00:56:13,402
they don't want
anyone or anything to exist.
1166
00:56:13,503 --> 00:56:14,837
narrator:
not everyone, however,
1167
00:56:14,938 --> 00:56:17,573
is convinced
that this is the case.
1168
00:56:17,674 --> 00:56:18,841
in addressing the theory
1169
00:56:18,942 --> 00:56:21,243
about suicide
by captain shah or his co-pilot,
1170
00:56:21,344 --> 00:56:23,912
i find that hard to believe,
and here's why --
1171
00:56:24,013 --> 00:56:26,448
at the time that the aircraft
made the hard left turn
1172
00:56:26,549 --> 00:56:29,651
and everything was turned off or
taken offline with the radios,
1173
00:56:29,753 --> 00:56:31,019
that's when they were going
1174
00:56:31,121 --> 00:56:33,455
from one control area
to the other control area.
1175
00:56:33,556 --> 00:56:35,357
if the suicide was done alone,
1176
00:56:35,458 --> 00:56:37,893
which, high probability
that if it was a suicide,
1177
00:56:37,994 --> 00:56:39,862
it would have been
singular suicide, not double --
1178
00:56:39,963 --> 00:56:42,364
in this case,
both pilots were seated,
1179
00:56:42,465 --> 00:56:44,867
one of them was flying,
one was handling the radio,
1180
00:56:44,968 --> 00:56:46,368
so that's the least likely time
1181
00:56:46,469 --> 00:56:48,771
that i would think
that would happen.
1182
00:56:48,872 --> 00:56:51,573
narrator:
after further investigation,
1183
00:56:51,674 --> 00:56:54,777
the mysterious deleted files
from the flight simulator
1184
00:56:54,878 --> 00:56:57,079
turned up a distinct lack
of hard evidence
1185
00:56:57,180 --> 00:56:59,915
that captain shah
had sinister motives.
1186
00:57:00,016 --> 00:57:03,118
based on the information
that they gathered,
1187
00:57:03,219 --> 00:57:06,922
the captain did not
commit suicide.
1188
00:57:07,023 --> 00:57:10,793
30 years he is a pilot.
1189
00:57:10,894 --> 00:57:14,563
based on the c.e.o.
of the airlines,
1190
00:57:14,664 --> 00:57:18,066
they never, ever had
any smallest problem with him.
1191
00:57:18,168 --> 00:57:20,836
narrator: some experts believe
the pilot had a noble reason
1192
00:57:20,937 --> 00:57:25,274
for intentionally diverting
the plane into the indian ocean.
1193
00:57:25,375 --> 00:57:27,643
when an emergency happens,
1194
00:57:27,744 --> 00:57:29,411
flight crews have
several responsibilities,
1195
00:57:29,512 --> 00:57:32,381
the most important of which is
to continue to fly the airplane
1196
00:57:32,482 --> 00:57:34,249
and then
to maneuver the aircraft
1197
00:57:34,350 --> 00:57:36,051
to land safely somewhere.
1198
00:57:36,152 --> 00:57:37,519
the actions that we're seeing
1199
00:57:37,620 --> 00:57:40,255
were consistent
with that sort of scenario.
1200
00:57:40,356 --> 00:57:41,890
at that point,
that aircraft was heading
1201
00:57:41,991 --> 00:57:43,692
right back towards
the maintenance bays.
1202
00:57:43,793 --> 00:57:46,061
when he gets to penang,
it's still dark outside.
1203
00:57:46,162 --> 00:57:48,297
the lights aren't even on
at the runway.
1204
00:57:48,398 --> 00:57:49,465
he's realized he can't
communicate with anyone
1205
00:57:49,566 --> 00:57:51,600
because the radios are out.
1206
00:57:51,701 --> 00:57:53,435
so at this point, he's got
a critical decision to make.
1207
00:57:53,536 --> 00:57:56,138
does he continue to fly down
and crash into penang
1208
00:57:56,239 --> 00:57:58,207
and kill innocent people
on the ground?
1209
00:57:58,308 --> 00:58:00,075
no.
the decision would be made
1210
00:58:00,176 --> 00:58:02,778
to keep the aircraft on
the water as long as he could
1211
00:58:02,879 --> 00:58:04,146
so he would have been able
1212
00:58:04,247 --> 00:58:06,415
to then dial in
two or three way points --
1213
00:58:06,516 --> 00:58:07,850
the way point to turn right
1214
00:58:07,951 --> 00:58:10,185
and go up through the channel,
the canal,
1215
00:58:10,286 --> 00:58:12,621
the top two way points,
which we know it flew near,
1216
00:58:12,722 --> 00:58:13,922
and then from those points,
1217
00:58:14,023 --> 00:58:15,657
all the way back down
into the indian ocean
1218
00:58:15,758 --> 00:58:17,826
where he knew
that if the aircraft crashed,
1219
00:58:17,927 --> 00:58:19,461
it would not have harmed
anyone else.
1220
00:58:19,562 --> 00:58:24,233
in this scenario, these pilots
are heroes, not villains.
1221
00:58:26,269 --> 00:58:27,603
narrator: coming up...
1222
00:58:30,707 --> 00:58:34,810
could mh370's disappearance
be part of a nefarious plot?
1223
00:58:34,911 --> 00:58:37,613
the plane is being stored
at diego garcia.
1224
00:58:37,714 --> 00:58:40,415
diego garcia
is a military installation.
1225
00:58:40,517 --> 00:58:43,151
gillespie: we're talking about
a state-sponsored operation,
1226
00:58:43,253 --> 00:58:45,220
and that puts
a whole new spin on the thing.
1227
00:59:21,524 --> 00:59:24,126
[ horn honks ]
1228
00:59:47,784 --> 00:59:49,318
[ keyboard clacking ]
1229
01:00:14,510 --> 01:00:19,414
narrator:
the tragedy of mh370
leaves an endless list
1230
01:00:19,515 --> 01:00:22,284
of unanswered questions
in its wake.
1231
01:00:22,385 --> 01:00:26,254
as the families desperately
try to find answers,
1232
01:00:26,322 --> 01:00:28,056
theories that once seemed
outlandish
1233
01:00:28,124 --> 01:00:30,392
are increasingly embraced.
1234
01:00:34,764 --> 01:00:36,465
woman:
with the plane still missing,
1235
01:00:36,566 --> 01:00:39,568
speculation about its
whereabouts has run rampant.
1236
01:00:39,669 --> 01:00:42,871
the plane was seen
in the maldives at 6:15 a.m.
1237
01:00:42,939 --> 01:00:44,373
woman: i suppose
that it's been shot down.
1238
01:00:44,474 --> 01:00:46,274
man: these are just some
of the possibilities.
1239
01:00:46,376 --> 01:00:49,144
narrator: and until we have more
evidence, they're all in play.
1240
01:00:49,212 --> 01:00:52,814
one theory about how the plane
managed to cloak itself
1241
01:00:52,915 --> 01:00:56,218
from various countries'
civilian and military radar
1242
01:00:56,319 --> 01:00:58,820
has gained a lot of traction.
1243
01:00:58,921 --> 01:01:00,989
when it comes
to trying to hide from radar,
1244
01:01:01,090 --> 01:01:03,959
this is my personal
favorite --
1245
01:01:04,027 --> 01:01:06,495
trying to hide in the shadow
of another airplane.
1246
01:01:06,562 --> 01:01:09,164
for malaysian airlines 370
1247
01:01:09,265 --> 01:01:12,768
to "hide in the radar
shadow of another aircraft,"
1248
01:01:12,835 --> 01:01:14,136
you'd have to know two things.
1249
01:01:14,203 --> 01:01:17,339
you'd have to know where
the radar source is coming from,
1250
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:21,176
and you would have to be able
to fly very, very close
1251
01:01:21,277 --> 01:01:23,979
to the other airplane
that is providing the shadow.
1252
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,815
we, occasionally,
when we fly internationally,
1253
01:01:26,916 --> 01:01:28,483
get right behind
another airplane,
1254
01:01:28,551 --> 01:01:30,218
and we can sit there for hours.
1255
01:01:30,286 --> 01:01:31,887
but these are two airplanes
1256
01:01:31,988 --> 01:01:35,090
that are traveling at seven or
eight miles a minute at night.
1257
01:01:35,191 --> 01:01:37,693
to find an airplane,
to line up on it,
1258
01:01:37,794 --> 01:01:39,428
and stay in touch with it
1259
01:01:39,529 --> 01:01:42,064
in a position where
your primary radar shadow
1260
01:01:42,165 --> 01:01:45,534
would overlap the primary shadow
of the other airplane,
1261
01:01:45,635 --> 01:01:47,035
although theoretically possible,
1262
01:01:47,103 --> 01:01:49,071
and then at the end of it,
at some point,
1263
01:01:49,172 --> 01:01:50,439
you have to depart that path.
1264
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:52,841
i mean,
you can't land when they land,
1265
01:01:52,942 --> 01:01:55,343
so that would have been
detectable.
1266
01:01:55,445 --> 01:01:57,079
so i don't think it's likely
to have happened,
1267
01:01:57,180 --> 01:02:00,348
and if it did happen,
i'd be very surprised.
1268
01:02:00,450 --> 01:02:02,284
narrator: while the plane's
avoidance of radar
1269
01:02:02,385 --> 01:02:03,585
remains a mystery,
1270
01:02:03,653 --> 01:02:07,489
more outlandish theories
of mh370's disappearance
1271
01:02:07,557 --> 01:02:11,593
take the search for answers
out of this world.
1272
01:02:11,694 --> 01:02:13,128
there are some people
who believe
1273
01:02:13,196 --> 01:02:15,363
the aircraft was taken over
by aliens.
1274
01:02:15,465 --> 01:02:16,732
there are some who believe
1275
01:02:16,833 --> 01:02:20,235
it was sucked into another
dimension by a black hole.
1276
01:02:20,336 --> 01:02:21,703
there's all kinds
of wacky theories
1277
01:02:21,804 --> 01:02:22,804
bounding around the internet.
1278
01:02:22,905 --> 01:02:25,073
woman: another theory --
1279
01:02:25,174 --> 01:02:26,808
a meteor took the plane down.
1280
01:02:26,909 --> 01:02:28,577
there was a known meteor
in the area
1281
01:02:28,644 --> 01:02:29,611
at the time the plane took off.
1282
01:02:29,712 --> 01:02:31,847
so could it have hit mh370?
1283
01:02:31,914 --> 01:02:33,648
gillespie:
such a temptation
1284
01:02:33,716 --> 01:02:37,419
to jump to something like
a meteor hit mh370,
1285
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,421
but, you know,
we're speculating.
1286
01:02:39,522 --> 01:02:44,025
you know, we're just out there
looking for answers.
1287
01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:45,527
and something that happens
1288
01:02:45,628 --> 01:02:47,329
in all the mysterious
disappearances
1289
01:02:47,430 --> 01:02:50,198
where we don't have
information --
1290
01:02:50,266 --> 01:02:53,168
we fill in the gaps
with conspiracy theories.
1291
01:02:53,269 --> 01:02:55,871
and some of the time,
they're right.
1292
01:02:55,972 --> 01:02:57,806
man:
these are the facts.
1293
01:02:57,907 --> 01:02:59,441
the plane is being stored
1294
01:02:59,542 --> 01:03:02,544
in a hangar in the indian ocean
at diego garcia.
1295
01:03:02,612 --> 01:03:05,147
narrator: diego garcia
is a u.s. naval base
1296
01:03:05,248 --> 01:03:07,082
in the southern indian ocean
1297
01:03:07,183 --> 01:03:08,850
that has found itself
at the center
1298
01:03:08,951 --> 01:03:12,254
of the most popular
mh370 conspiracy theories
1299
01:03:12,355 --> 01:03:13,555
on the internet.
1300
01:03:13,623 --> 01:03:16,291
blog and youtube posters alike
1301
01:03:16,392 --> 01:03:18,126
claim the plane
has landed safely
1302
01:03:18,227 --> 01:03:20,162
at the island
of diego garcia base
1303
01:03:20,263 --> 01:03:23,565
and cite the witnesses of
the low-flying plane sightings
1304
01:03:23,666 --> 01:03:25,867
in the nearby maldives
1305
01:03:25,935 --> 01:03:28,603
as the landing path
for the flight.
1306
01:03:28,704 --> 01:03:30,872
man: some news reports say
the missing flight
1307
01:03:30,973 --> 01:03:35,277
could have landed in the u.s.
military base diego garcia.
1308
01:03:35,344 --> 01:03:37,345
i'll rule that one out.
1309
01:03:37,413 --> 01:03:41,750
if it's so simple to disprove
that it's not on diego garcia,
1310
01:03:41,851 --> 01:03:43,218
how come it hasn't been done?
1311
01:03:43,319 --> 01:03:45,720
and you know,
if they did explore
1312
01:03:45,788 --> 01:03:47,455
interviewing
the people in the maldives
1313
01:03:47,523 --> 01:03:48,924
who said they saw a plane,
1314
01:03:49,025 --> 01:03:51,760
where is the evidence
of the interviews that they did
1315
01:03:51,861 --> 01:03:53,795
that is now ruling that out
as a lead?
1316
01:03:53,863 --> 01:03:57,699
narrator: conspiracy theorists
suggest that mh370
1317
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,802
was nefariously rerouted
to diego garcia
1318
01:04:00,870 --> 01:04:04,139
to capture a group of
chinese engineers on the flight.
1319
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,242
these engineers
may have had key familiarity
1320
01:04:07,343 --> 01:04:09,077
with a new
chinese operating system
1321
01:04:09,145 --> 01:04:11,313
that will thwart
the spying ability
1322
01:04:11,414 --> 01:04:13,882
of the united states' nsa.
1323
01:04:13,950 --> 01:04:14,883
wake up, people!
1324
01:04:14,951 --> 01:04:16,751
there's a cover-up!
i'm telling you!
1325
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,687
diego garcia --
there's a cover-up!
1326
01:04:18,788 --> 01:04:21,756
with regard to diego garcia
and mh370,
1327
01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:25,493
diego garcia
is a very well-populated
1328
01:04:25,595 --> 01:04:28,630
and active
military installation.
1329
01:04:28,731 --> 01:04:30,932
if the aircraft
had landed there,
1330
01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:32,567
the u.s. government
would know about it.
1331
01:04:32,668 --> 01:04:36,538
but if there is a cover-up
being done by our military,
1332
01:04:36,639 --> 01:04:38,006
by the united states,
1333
01:04:38,107 --> 01:04:40,408
then it could very well be that
they did see it go up there,
1334
01:04:40,509 --> 01:04:42,944
and that's one of the things
they're hiding at this point.
1335
01:04:44,947 --> 01:04:47,782
gillespie:
it's night. 4,000 feet.
1336
01:04:47,850 --> 01:04:49,284
you can get it down and stop.
1337
01:04:49,385 --> 01:04:52,187
you're not gonna take off again,
but you're down.
1338
01:04:52,288 --> 01:04:54,556
if there's a big hangar,
1339
01:04:54,657 --> 01:04:56,091
you can put it
in the big hangar,
1340
01:04:56,192 --> 01:04:58,760
close the doors,
and the airplane is gone.
1341
01:04:58,861 --> 01:05:01,296
but then you've got to secure
the airport environment.
1342
01:05:01,397 --> 01:05:02,931
well, the easiest way to do that
1343
01:05:03,032 --> 01:05:05,333
is if the airport
is a military base.
1344
01:05:05,401 --> 01:05:07,736
you could control
a military base.
1345
01:05:07,837 --> 01:05:10,472
and military bases have lots
of runway and big hangars.
1346
01:05:10,573 --> 01:05:13,642
but...if we're talking
about that,
1347
01:05:13,743 --> 01:05:16,611
we're talking about
a state-sponsored operation
1348
01:05:16,679 --> 01:05:19,314
or some faction within a state,
1349
01:05:19,382 --> 01:05:21,583
and that puts
a whole new spin on the thing.
1350
01:05:22,919 --> 01:05:25,587
so, therefore, the u.s.
government would be involved
1351
01:05:25,655 --> 01:05:27,923
in an incredible cover-up
to protect whom?
1352
01:05:28,024 --> 01:05:29,491
the malaysian government?
1353
01:05:29,558 --> 01:05:32,160
it doesn't make sense to me.
i don't follow that chain.
1354
01:05:32,261 --> 01:05:34,029
i don't think that that's
the way that it happened.
1355
01:05:34,130 --> 01:05:37,098
narrator: mystery breeds
conspiracy theories,
1356
01:05:37,199 --> 01:05:39,434
and certainly
history repeats itself.
1357
01:05:39,535 --> 01:05:42,904
18 years ago,
another airline incident
1358
01:05:43,005 --> 01:05:46,741
left many questions and birthed
many theories of its own.
1359
01:05:46,842 --> 01:05:51,046
twa flight 800 exploded
over the shores off long island
1360
01:05:51,113 --> 01:05:52,514
just minutes after takeoff.
1361
01:05:52,615 --> 01:05:55,817
the disaster was witnessed by
other pilots flying in the area.
1362
01:05:55,918 --> 01:05:58,219
schiavo:
twa 800 was a mystery.
1363
01:05:58,287 --> 01:06:00,722
in fact, in the united states,
it remained
1364
01:06:00,823 --> 01:06:05,627
the longest unsolved ntsb
investigation that we'd had.
1365
01:06:05,728 --> 01:06:09,164
man: now, reports twa had
a terrorist bomb is the cause.
1366
01:06:09,265 --> 01:06:11,299
schiavo: and it was thought it
was brought down by a missile,
1367
01:06:11,367 --> 01:06:13,601
because so many eyewitnesses
reported
1368
01:06:13,703 --> 01:06:17,172
that they saw some bright light
rising up to the plane.
1369
01:06:17,273 --> 01:06:19,607
and then the conspiracy took
one bigger leap,
1370
01:06:19,709 --> 01:06:23,411
that not only that, it was from
the united states' own military.
1371
01:06:23,512 --> 01:06:26,348
we found
that the center fuel tank
1372
01:06:26,449 --> 01:06:27,882
exploded because the wiring
was bad,
1373
01:06:27,984 --> 01:06:30,585
and in retrospect,
it was obvious what happened,
1374
01:06:30,653 --> 01:06:34,389
but it certainly wasn't
on july 17, 1996.
1375
01:06:34,457 --> 01:06:36,791
ross: being a former
intelligence operative,
1376
01:06:36,892 --> 01:06:40,662
i'm very, very skeptical
about conspiracy theories.
1377
01:06:40,730 --> 01:06:42,630
i've worked with a lot of people
in the field.
1378
01:06:42,732 --> 01:06:44,799
i've seen the human failure
that goes on
1379
01:06:44,900 --> 01:06:47,635
behind these vast,
complicated constructs.
1380
01:06:47,737 --> 01:06:49,137
people are not able
to keep their mouths shut.
1381
01:06:49,238 --> 01:06:50,438
they do talk.
1382
01:06:50,539 --> 01:06:53,975
if someone knew about mh370,
they would talk about it.
1383
01:06:54,076 --> 01:06:55,543
someone would come out.
1384
01:06:55,644 --> 01:06:57,445
edward snowden had everything
going for him
1385
01:06:57,546 --> 01:06:58,913
and yet felt compelled
1386
01:06:58,981 --> 01:07:01,416
to disclose
the nsa's surveillance programs.
1387
01:07:01,517 --> 01:07:05,787
so imagine a vast conspiracy
of epic proportions,
1388
01:07:05,888 --> 01:07:07,322
you know,
not being disclosed in some way.
1389
01:07:07,423 --> 01:07:08,857
it just --
it doesn't make sense.
1390
01:07:08,958 --> 01:07:12,193
there has been no recovery
of the aircraft.
1391
01:07:12,261 --> 01:07:13,294
it's a mystery
1392
01:07:13,362 --> 01:07:15,363
and one that will continue
to be compelling
1393
01:07:15,431 --> 01:07:17,265
until the black box is recovered
1394
01:07:17,366 --> 01:07:18,633
and there are
some answers found.
1395
01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:20,068
narrator: coming up...
1396
01:07:20,169 --> 01:07:23,571
where is the black box,
and will it ever be found?
1397
01:07:23,672 --> 01:07:25,306
gadzinski: from an investigation
point of view,
1398
01:07:25,408 --> 01:07:28,476
this is almost harder to get to
1399
01:07:28,577 --> 01:07:29,878
than it is
to put a man on the moon.
1400
01:07:31,647 --> 01:07:34,182
man: the search for a missing
malaysian passenger jet
1401
01:07:34,283 --> 01:07:35,450
is into its fifth day.
1402
01:07:35,551 --> 01:07:37,185
the search for the missing
malaysia airlines jet
1403
01:07:37,286 --> 01:07:38,753
is being expanded today.
1404
01:07:38,854 --> 01:07:41,122
government representatives from
malaysia, australia, and china
1405
01:07:41,223 --> 01:07:42,524
will meet early on monday
1406
01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:44,793
to decide the next phase
of this search.
1407
01:07:44,894 --> 01:07:46,728
we have these wonderful machines
that can take you
1408
01:07:46,829 --> 01:07:48,730
pretty much anywhere
you want to go,
1409
01:07:48,831 --> 01:07:51,766
but then when they fall
out of a clear, blue sky,
1410
01:07:51,867 --> 01:07:53,568
they fall into this murky world
1411
01:07:53,669 --> 01:07:56,638
because,
on this very modern machine,
1412
01:07:56,739 --> 01:08:00,141
we've got 1960s
"find it" technology.
1413
01:08:06,782 --> 01:08:08,216
woman:
at a press conference today,
1414
01:08:08,317 --> 01:08:11,252
malaysian officials announced
that based on new information,
1415
01:08:11,353 --> 01:08:14,956
the search area can be narrowed
to two possible corridors --
1416
01:08:15,057 --> 01:08:17,859
an arc to the north
and an arc to the south.
1417
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:19,861
narrator:
inmarsat is a satellite company
1418
01:08:19,962 --> 01:08:21,329
which offers airlines the option
1419
01:08:21,430 --> 01:08:24,899
to subscribe to their global
airplane-tracking service.
1420
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:29,137
if an airline subscribed to it,
the inmarsat company
1421
01:08:29,238 --> 01:08:31,873
could receive constant
positional data from the plane.
1422
01:08:31,974 --> 01:08:35,009
malaysia airlines did
not subscribe to that service.
1423
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,613
nonetheless, this plane
still put out signals,
1424
01:08:38,714 --> 01:08:40,548
and the inmarsat satellites said
1425
01:08:40,649 --> 01:08:43,451
that there were a series
of these handshakes,
1426
01:08:43,552 --> 01:08:45,053
so based on that data,
1427
01:08:45,154 --> 01:08:48,389
inmarsat determined
that this plane stopped moving
1428
01:08:48,491 --> 01:08:49,958
somewhere on this circle --
1429
01:08:50,059 --> 01:08:52,427
either an arc to the north
or an arc to the south.
1430
01:08:52,528 --> 01:08:55,363
narrator:
based on this new information,
1431
01:08:55,464 --> 01:08:58,366
international search teams
descended upon the indian ocean
1432
01:08:58,467 --> 01:09:00,401
and faced the herculean task
1433
01:09:00,503 --> 01:09:02,904
of searching an area
the size of west virginia
1434
01:09:03,005 --> 01:09:07,242
for an object
no bigger than a toaster oven.
1435
01:09:07,343 --> 01:09:11,179
the term "black box" stems
from a slang term
1436
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:15,216
that us investigators used
to use when the box was black.
1437
01:09:15,317 --> 01:09:17,252
now it's been changed.
it's an orange box.
1438
01:09:17,353 --> 01:09:18,953
but there's two different boxes.
1439
01:09:19,054 --> 01:09:20,555
one is the cockpit
voice recorder,
1440
01:09:20,656 --> 01:09:23,024
which records anything
that goes on in the cockpit.
1441
01:09:23,125 --> 01:09:25,026
the other box
is flight data recorder,
1442
01:09:25,127 --> 01:09:26,895
and what that contains
is all the information
1443
01:09:26,996 --> 01:09:28,596
about the aircraft movement
1444
01:09:28,697 --> 01:09:30,231
and the things
that the pilot does.
1445
01:09:30,332 --> 01:09:33,868
both the flight data recorder
and the cockpit voice recorder
1446
01:09:33,969 --> 01:09:35,203
have a pinger on it.
1447
01:09:35,304 --> 01:09:37,672
it's called an underwater
locator beacon.
1448
01:09:37,773 --> 01:09:40,642
in order to find
an underwater locator beacon,
1449
01:09:40,743 --> 01:09:42,777
you use a towed pinger locator.
1450
01:09:42,878 --> 01:09:45,847
the towed pinger locator
is like your ears underwater.
1451
01:09:45,948 --> 01:09:48,550
you might just hear faint beeps,
1452
01:09:48,651 --> 01:09:51,186
and you try to tow it
in the right direction
1453
01:09:51,287 --> 01:09:53,021
till you get
a very strong signal.
1454
01:09:53,122 --> 01:09:56,991
the pingers are designed
to have a minimum of 30 days.
1455
01:09:57,092 --> 01:09:58,826
narrator: it had already been
more than a week
1456
01:09:58,928 --> 01:10:01,796
since the disappearance
of mh370,
1457
01:10:01,897 --> 01:10:03,898
and time
was quickly running out.
1458
01:10:15,811 --> 01:10:17,645
schiavo: the only thing we have
from the plane
1459
01:10:17,746 --> 01:10:21,249
to give us direction and speed
was doppler.
1460
01:10:21,350 --> 01:10:23,818
they explain it like
when you hear a train go by
1461
01:10:23,919 --> 01:10:26,154
and it's one sound
as it's coming to you
1462
01:10:26,255 --> 01:10:28,923
and it's another sound
as it's going away.
1463
01:10:29,024 --> 01:10:33,228
inmarsat analyzed
those radio transmissions
1464
01:10:33,329 --> 01:10:36,798
to determine when it was moving
towards the satellite
1465
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:39,267
and when it was moving away
from the satellite.
1466
01:10:39,368 --> 01:10:41,069
narrator:
by using the doppler effect
1467
01:10:41,170 --> 01:10:43,238
to further analyze
a plane's position
1468
01:10:43,339 --> 01:10:44,973
in relation to their satellite,
1469
01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:47,642
inmarsat engineers
were able to calculate
1470
01:10:47,743 --> 01:10:50,345
the location of flight mh370
1471
01:10:50,446 --> 01:10:52,780
at the moment it sent
each of its pings.
1472
01:10:52,881 --> 01:10:55,750
this enabled them to further
narrow the search area
1473
01:10:55,851 --> 01:10:58,853
to a zone south of the plane's
presumed location
1474
01:10:58,954 --> 01:11:01,823
during the final
partial handshake.
1475
01:11:07,096 --> 01:11:08,496
an underwater signal,
1476
01:11:08,597 --> 01:11:10,798
perhaps from one of the plane's
black boxes,
1477
01:11:10,899 --> 01:11:13,001
has been picked up
by a chinese search vessel
1478
01:11:13,102 --> 01:11:14,535
in the south indian ocean.
1479
01:11:14,637 --> 01:11:16,738
narrator:
hopes were further raised
1480
01:11:16,839 --> 01:11:19,007
when an australian naval vessel,
ocean shield,
1481
01:11:19,108 --> 01:11:23,511
reported detecting pings
from the flight data recorder.
1482
01:11:23,612 --> 01:11:25,079
search efforts
narrowed their focus
1483
01:11:25,180 --> 01:11:28,616
to two areas surrounding
where the pings were heard --
1484
01:11:28,717 --> 01:11:32,820
an area to the north
and an area to the south.
1485
01:11:32,921 --> 01:11:35,256
some of the challenges
of searching in deep water
1486
01:11:35,357 --> 01:11:37,725
are you may have wind and seas
1487
01:11:37,826 --> 01:11:41,629
that make it difficult
in maneuvering the ship.
1488
01:11:41,730 --> 01:11:44,132
you may have charts
that are not very accurate
1489
01:11:44,233 --> 01:11:46,134
because
you're in an isolated area.
1490
01:11:46,235 --> 01:11:47,769
narrator: the end of the period
1491
01:11:47,870 --> 01:11:51,205
that the pingers could still
be active was fast approaching.
1492
01:11:51,307 --> 01:11:54,342
investigators knew
that once the pingers stopped,
1493
01:11:54,443 --> 01:11:58,112
finding the black boxes
would be next to impossible.
1494
01:11:58,213 --> 01:12:01,382
mh370 isn't the only plane
in modern history
1495
01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:04,519
to have seemingly disappeared
without a trace.
1496
01:12:04,620 --> 01:12:07,288
man: breaking news --
an air france passenger jet
1497
01:12:07,389 --> 01:12:10,658
with 228 people on board
is missing.
1498
01:12:10,759 --> 01:12:13,061
the plane is almost certainly
in the atlantic tonight,
1499
01:12:13,162 --> 01:12:16,064
its black box flight recorder
in deep water,
1500
01:12:16,165 --> 01:12:17,665
satellites searching for it.
1501
01:12:17,766 --> 01:12:20,101
air france had subscribed
to this inmarsat service
1502
01:12:20,202 --> 01:12:22,670
that gives system status updates
from the plane.
1503
01:12:22,771 --> 01:12:25,206
so we knew, within a day,
1504
01:12:25,307 --> 01:12:26,674
that it had experienced
a problem.
1505
01:12:26,775 --> 01:12:29,310
we knew that it had gone down
right there.
1506
01:12:29,411 --> 01:12:32,814
we had a last known position,
the last transmission,
1507
01:12:32,915 --> 01:12:34,215
and then six days later,
1508
01:12:34,316 --> 01:12:36,284
we found wreckage
on the surface.
1509
01:12:36,385 --> 01:12:38,219
gillespie: once they found
floating wreckage,
1510
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,388
they had to determine
how far the wreckage had floated
1511
01:12:40,489 --> 01:12:42,457
from where
the airplane impacted.
1512
01:12:42,558 --> 01:12:45,660
and, of course, the ocean
in that part is very deep
1513
01:12:45,761 --> 01:12:47,662
and the underwater terrain
very difficult.
1514
01:12:47,763 --> 01:12:50,832
and the initial search
was unsuccessful.
1515
01:12:50,933 --> 01:12:53,067
they couldn't find the airplane.
1516
01:12:53,168 --> 01:12:56,804
narrator: unfortunately,
in the case of mh370,
1517
01:12:56,905 --> 01:12:58,272
time had finally run out,
1518
01:12:58,374 --> 01:13:01,409
and any hope of detecting
the pings of the black boxes
1519
01:13:01,510 --> 01:13:03,044
was now lost.
1520
01:13:03,145 --> 01:13:05,313
the towed pinger locators
were retired
1521
01:13:05,414 --> 01:13:08,316
and ocean shield brought out
the big guns.
1522
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,090
the bluefin-21 is designed
1523
01:13:16,191 --> 01:13:19,060
to maintain a specific height
above the bottom of the ocean,
1524
01:13:19,161 --> 01:13:22,463
and what it does is send out
a signal out to each side,
1525
01:13:22,564 --> 01:13:25,800
and similar to how a bat
would send a sonar out,
1526
01:13:25,901 --> 01:13:27,068
the signals are received back,
1527
01:13:27,169 --> 01:13:28,636
and it's able to create an image
1528
01:13:28,737 --> 01:13:30,505
of what
that reception indicates.
1529
01:13:30,606 --> 01:13:34,375
the bluefin-21 was used
in this particular application
1530
01:13:34,476 --> 01:13:37,178
to map out
the features of the bottom.
1531
01:13:37,279 --> 01:13:38,880
so, you might see a wing,
1532
01:13:38,981 --> 01:13:42,116
you might see some detail
that stands out.
1533
01:13:56,832 --> 01:13:58,166
nearly three months now
1534
01:13:58,267 --> 01:14:02,036
since that malaysia airlines jet
vanished without a trace.
1535
01:14:02,137 --> 01:14:04,172
narrator:
search officials later suspected
1536
01:14:04,273 --> 01:14:08,810
the pings were not from the
black boxes of mh370 after all.
1537
01:14:08,911 --> 01:14:10,211
phase two of the search involves
1538
01:14:10,312 --> 01:14:12,980
mapping and searching
a much larger area --
1539
01:14:13,081 --> 01:14:17,285
23,000 square miles
of underwater terrain.
1540
01:14:17,386 --> 01:14:21,656
that could take
another year or longer.
1541
01:14:21,757 --> 01:14:23,124
while all seems lost,
1542
01:14:23,225 --> 01:14:25,726
there is one reason
to hold out hope.
1543
01:14:25,828 --> 01:14:28,796
at least in the case
of air france 447,
1544
01:14:28,897 --> 01:14:30,965
the black box
was eventually found.
1545
01:14:31,066 --> 01:14:34,702
gillespie:
it wasn't until two years later
with sufficient funding
1546
01:14:34,803 --> 01:14:37,705
and much more sophisticated
technology brought to bear
1547
01:14:37,806 --> 01:14:39,674
that the wreckage was found.
1548
01:14:39,775 --> 01:14:44,846
they recovered the black boxes,
analyzed the data,
1549
01:14:44,947 --> 01:14:47,048
and then the mystery was solved.
1550
01:14:47,149 --> 01:14:50,117
narrator: after analyzing
the black box data,
1551
01:14:50,219 --> 01:14:52,220
investigators
were able to conclude
1552
01:14:52,321 --> 01:14:54,489
that air france 447
1553
01:14:54,590 --> 01:14:56,824
ultimately crashed
into the atlantic ocean
1554
01:14:56,925 --> 01:14:58,392
because of pilot error.
1555
01:14:58,494 --> 01:15:01,762
the aircraft broke up on impact,
1556
01:15:01,864 --> 01:15:06,801
and in that instant,
all 228 people on board died.
1557
01:15:06,902 --> 01:15:08,369
we've moved to a phase now
1558
01:15:08,470 --> 01:15:10,738
where we're actually
gonna have to try
1559
01:15:10,839 --> 01:15:12,740
and scour the ocean floor,
1560
01:15:12,841 --> 01:15:15,643
which is a long-term,
very difficult operation.
1561
01:15:15,744 --> 01:15:17,979
it's going to take years.
1562
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:19,814
narrator:
as devastating as it would be
1563
01:15:19,915 --> 01:15:21,782
for the family members
of the passengers
1564
01:15:21,884 --> 01:15:22,984
to hear the truth
1565
01:15:23,085 --> 01:15:26,087
about the final few minutes
of flight mh370,
1566
01:15:26,188 --> 01:15:30,324
never knowing what happened
to their loved ones is worse.
1567
01:15:30,425 --> 01:15:31,659
to move life forward,
1568
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,495
there are a number of issues
we have to resolve,
1569
01:15:34,596 --> 01:15:36,564
and all of them
are now dependent
1570
01:15:36,665 --> 01:15:41,202
on what malaysia airlines and
the malaysian government does.
1571
01:15:41,303 --> 01:15:42,670
narrator: coming up...
1572
01:15:42,771 --> 01:15:44,539
give us the truth.
1573
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:48,910
narrator:
will the mystery of malaysia
flight 370 ever be solved?
1574
01:15:49,011 --> 01:15:50,978
we should all
be very, very worried
1575
01:15:51,079 --> 01:15:54,215
that this giant airplane
could just go missing
1576
01:15:54,316 --> 01:15:56,250
and nobody seem to know
where it is.
1577
01:15:58,687 --> 01:16:00,521
there's not been a single thing
1578
01:16:00,622 --> 01:16:03,324
that we have been told
throughout this investigation
1579
01:16:03,425 --> 01:16:05,092
that has held to be true
1580
01:16:05,193 --> 01:16:07,061
for longer than a couple of days
at a time.
1581
01:16:07,162 --> 01:16:09,730
they started off searching
in the gulf of thailand,
1582
01:16:09,831 --> 01:16:12,700
and then they're looking
in the southern indian ocean
1583
01:16:12,801 --> 01:16:15,369
because of inmarsat pings.
1584
01:16:15,470 --> 01:16:18,839
nothing from the investigation
team was proven to be right.
1585
01:16:18,941 --> 01:16:19,907
nothing.
1586
01:16:20,008 --> 01:16:22,109
there were several days
in the beginning
1587
01:16:22,210 --> 01:16:24,245
when the malaysian government
apparently had information
1588
01:16:24,346 --> 01:16:26,514
from its military radar systems
1589
01:16:26,615 --> 01:16:29,350
that indicated the aircraft
had flown to the west,
1590
01:16:29,451 --> 01:16:32,954
away from the south china sea,
which is the area
1591
01:16:33,055 --> 01:16:36,157
where the initial search and
rescue operations were going on.
1592
01:16:36,258 --> 01:16:38,225
narrator:
and to add insult to injury,
1593
01:16:38,327 --> 01:16:41,329
malaysian officials came under
harsh international criticism
1594
01:16:41,430 --> 01:16:42,496
in their dealings
1595
01:16:42,598 --> 01:16:44,999
with the family members
of the passengers.
1596
01:16:45,100 --> 01:16:48,402
on march 24th,
the airline sent a text message
1597
01:16:48,503 --> 01:16:49,870
basically saying to the families
1598
01:16:49,972 --> 01:16:53,274
that the airline was declaring
that their families were lost.
1599
01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:57,211
that kind of pushed
a lot of people over the edge.
1600
01:16:57,312 --> 01:16:58,679
it was heart-wrenching.
1601
01:16:58,780 --> 01:17:00,147
man:
this woman screams
1602
01:17:00,248 --> 01:17:02,650
that she's lost
three members of her family --
1603
01:17:02,751 --> 01:17:06,754
her son, his wife,
and her grandson.
1604
01:17:06,855 --> 01:17:08,789
[ woman shouting
in native language ]
1605
01:17:08,890 --> 01:17:10,558
schiavo: then the government did
an about-face.
1606
01:17:10,659 --> 01:17:12,426
they said, "oh, no.
we haven't declared them dead,"
1607
01:17:12,527 --> 01:17:13,728
which really only made it worse.
1608
01:17:13,829 --> 01:17:15,696
at that point, they should
have just been quiet.
1609
01:17:15,797 --> 01:17:17,431
narrator:
many people are incensed
1610
01:17:17,532 --> 01:17:19,333
at the way
this tragedy was handled
1611
01:17:19,434 --> 01:17:23,170
and need someone
to take responsibility.
1612
01:17:23,271 --> 01:17:26,574
the problem with malaysia's
investigation of mh370
1613
01:17:26,675 --> 01:17:27,842
is singular.
1614
01:17:27,943 --> 01:17:31,078
there's not been one person
who's stood up and said,
1615
01:17:31,179 --> 01:17:33,414
"i am in charge
of this investigation,
1616
01:17:33,515 --> 01:17:36,083
"and you can trust
that i'm gonna do the best i can
1617
01:17:36,184 --> 01:17:37,485
to find that aircraft."
1618
01:17:37,586 --> 01:17:40,755
there were several instances
where one malaysian official
1619
01:17:40,856 --> 01:17:42,590
would give
one set of information.
1620
01:17:42,691 --> 01:17:45,159
within hours, sometimes,
it would be contradicted
1621
01:17:45,260 --> 01:17:46,827
by another part
of the malaysian government.
1622
01:17:46,928 --> 01:17:50,264
schiavo: when malaysia revealed
on march 12
1623
01:17:50,365 --> 01:17:53,234
that they knew that the plane
had left the south china sea,
1624
01:17:53,335 --> 01:17:56,337
that the plane had passed
back over malaysia,
1625
01:17:56,438 --> 01:17:57,638
to know that the plane
1626
01:17:57,739 --> 01:17:59,907
is not where you're allowing
everyone to search
1627
01:18:00,008 --> 01:18:01,308
and everyone to think it is,
1628
01:18:01,410 --> 01:18:04,045
it was a colossal waste
of time and money
1629
01:18:04,146 --> 01:18:05,946
and emotions on the family.
1630
01:18:06,048 --> 01:18:08,315
the delays that are occurring
are explainable.
1631
01:18:08,417 --> 01:18:11,952
they're simply either protective
of military secrets
1632
01:18:12,054 --> 01:18:15,056
or trying to protect
their own image.
1633
01:18:15,157 --> 01:18:18,459
they may be a little inept.
they may be unsure what to do.
1634
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:20,161
but i don't see
a malicious intent.
1635
01:18:20,262 --> 01:18:22,997
we've had a lot of experience
doing accident investigations
1636
01:18:23,098 --> 01:18:25,232
and learning from them.
1637
01:18:25,333 --> 01:18:26,667
and our experience --
1638
01:18:26,768 --> 01:18:29,770
the experience of australia,
britain, france, china --
1639
01:18:29,871 --> 01:18:32,006
is just not shared
by the rest of the world.
1640
01:18:32,107 --> 01:18:34,208
in some cases,
to do an investigation,
1641
01:18:34,309 --> 01:18:36,510
you have to have
a little bit of humility,
1642
01:18:36,611 --> 01:18:38,312
and you have to realize
you don't know everything
1643
01:18:38,413 --> 01:18:41,515
and you better be calling in
the experts who do.
1644
01:18:41,616 --> 01:18:46,287
so i'd have to say
it's incompetence and arrogance
1645
01:18:46,388 --> 01:18:48,956
not to realize that this was
a mighty big investigation
1646
01:18:49,057 --> 01:18:51,192
that they were not equipped
to handle.
1647
01:18:51,293 --> 01:18:54,295
narrator: as months went by
with still no clear answers,
1648
01:18:54,396 --> 01:18:58,032
no one has suffered more than
those who have lost loved ones.
1649
01:18:58,133 --> 01:19:01,068
interpreter: malaysia airlines,
malaysian government
1650
01:19:01,169 --> 01:19:04,972
continuously lied to the family
and people around the world.
1651
01:19:05,073 --> 01:19:09,376
they are the real murderers
of our family members.
1652
01:19:09,478 --> 01:19:12,179
the one thing
that has actually bothered me
1653
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:16,150
throughout this whole tragedy
is the lack
1654
01:19:16,251 --> 01:19:21,222
of sense of responsibility
and accountability.
1655
01:19:21,323 --> 01:19:24,291
they should learn
from this incident
1656
01:19:24,392 --> 01:19:29,029
and how to prevent it
from happening in future.
1657
01:19:29,131 --> 01:19:32,933
and for that, i think
the efforts have to continue.
1658
01:19:33,034 --> 01:19:37,204
the passengers, the crew
should not be forgotten.
1659
01:19:45,981 --> 01:19:47,715
the way the information came out
1660
01:19:47,816 --> 01:19:49,517
and the way
that it was dealt with
1661
01:19:49,618 --> 01:19:51,786
just didn't seem
like it was right.
1662
01:19:51,887 --> 01:19:54,288
it just seemed like there was
something off about it.
1663
01:19:54,389 --> 01:19:56,357
so usually when that happens,
1664
01:19:56,458 --> 01:19:58,659
it's usually
they're hiding something.
1665
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:01,162
bajc: it's becoming increasingly
the opinion
1666
01:20:01,263 --> 01:20:03,597
of the average family member
1667
01:20:03,698 --> 01:20:06,433
that we've been being lied to,
right?
1668
01:20:06,535 --> 01:20:09,270
so, now you start to become
angry about it, as well.
1669
01:20:09,371 --> 01:20:13,207
we want they give us the truth.
1670
01:20:13,308 --> 01:20:14,708
everybody in the world
1671
01:20:14,810 --> 01:20:18,579
has a stake on the outcome
of this investigation.
1672
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:20,080
international transport
1673
01:20:20,182 --> 01:20:23,617
with wide-body aircraft
such as boeing 777
1674
01:20:23,718 --> 01:20:27,688
are fundamental to the finances
and to the national security
1675
01:20:27,789 --> 01:20:30,891
and to the operation
of almost every single
country in the world.
1676
01:20:30,992 --> 01:20:33,561
there are 3.1 billion people
1677
01:20:33,662 --> 01:20:36,530
that get on an airplane
every year.
1678
01:20:36,631 --> 01:20:39,200
and we should all be very,
very worried
1679
01:20:39,301 --> 01:20:42,469
that this giant airplane
could just go missing
1680
01:20:42,571 --> 01:20:45,005
and nobody seem to know
where it is.
1681
01:20:45,106 --> 01:20:49,376
in order to prove to the world
that flying is safe,
1682
01:20:49,477 --> 01:20:55,649
we have to find the wreckage,
the aircraft, the black box
1683
01:20:55,750 --> 01:20:57,751
in order to know
what went wrong.
1684
01:20:57,853 --> 01:21:00,888
because unless we know
what went wrong,
1685
01:21:00,989 --> 01:21:04,491
we won't be able
to prevent it for the future.
1686
01:21:04,593 --> 01:21:05,926
narrator:
every airline disaster
1687
01:21:06,027 --> 01:21:10,331
is an unwelcome reminder
of our own mortality.
1688
01:21:10,432 --> 01:21:12,233
there is a silver lining,
though.
1689
01:21:12,334 --> 01:21:14,802
each lost plane
teaches us a lesson
1690
01:21:14,903 --> 01:21:17,438
on how to prevent
the same catastrophic event
1691
01:21:17,539 --> 01:21:19,406
from happening again.
1692
01:21:19,507 --> 01:21:22,610
when you step into the cockpit
of all commercial airliners,
1693
01:21:22,711 --> 01:21:26,847
you'll see the dna of accidents
that have happened in the past
1694
01:21:26,948 --> 01:21:29,950
as you look at some
of the various instruments.
1695
01:21:30,051 --> 01:21:32,820
a delta air lines accident
involving wind shear
1696
01:21:32,921 --> 01:21:34,622
gave rise to every aircraft
1697
01:21:34,723 --> 01:21:37,458
having a wind shear
detection system.
1698
01:21:37,559 --> 01:21:39,360
an accident
that american airlines had
1699
01:21:39,461 --> 01:21:40,995
while flying in columbia
1700
01:21:41,096 --> 01:21:42,930
has given rise
to almost every aircraft
1701
01:21:43,031 --> 01:21:46,567
having an enhanced
ground-proximity warning system.
1702
01:21:46,668 --> 01:21:48,602
all these types
of emergency equipment
1703
01:21:48,703 --> 01:21:51,038
and new ways
of designing cockpits
1704
01:21:51,139 --> 01:21:53,607
and new alerting systems
for the pilots
1705
01:21:53,708 --> 01:21:56,310
have all resulted
from major accidents.
1706
01:21:56,411 --> 01:21:58,279
narrator: already,
malaysia airlines has improved
1707
01:21:58,380 --> 01:22:02,049
its cockpit regulations
in response to this tragedy
1708
01:22:02,150 --> 01:22:05,319
while the international
air transport association
1709
01:22:05,420 --> 01:22:07,988
has announced its intention
to introduce measures
1710
01:22:08,089 --> 01:22:11,358
to ensure all aircraft
can be tracked in real time.
1711
01:22:11,459 --> 01:22:14,128
still, this news is cold comfort
1712
01:22:14,229 --> 01:22:16,063
to those
who desperately seek answers
1713
01:22:16,164 --> 01:22:18,432
regarding the fate
of their loved ones.
1714
01:22:18,533 --> 01:22:20,467
chan: there is no closure.
we don't know if they're alive.
1715
01:22:20,568 --> 01:22:23,537
we don't know if they're dead.
we don't know what happened.
1716
01:22:23,638 --> 01:22:27,741
the information was distorted,
it was inconsistent
1717
01:22:27,842 --> 01:22:30,244
and this is our loved ones,
this is our families.
1718
01:22:30,345 --> 01:22:32,179
this is their mothers,
their fathers, their brothers,
1719
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,316
their -- you know, i mean,
you just won't accept that.
1720
01:22:35,417 --> 01:22:36,884
you need to know.
1721
01:22:36,985 --> 01:22:38,986
the worst possible thing
that could happen
1722
01:22:39,087 --> 01:22:40,654
is we never find the plane
at all
1723
01:22:40,755 --> 01:22:43,724
because it will leave
the family members
1724
01:22:43,825 --> 01:22:50,164
in this state of endless crisis
and ambiguity.
1725
01:22:50,265 --> 01:22:54,301
and it also leaves
the world's flying public
1726
01:22:54,402 --> 01:22:56,470
in a state of constant fright.
1727
01:22:56,571 --> 01:23:00,741
narrator: since
the disappearance of mh370,
1728
01:23:00,842 --> 01:23:03,644
we are no closer
to learning what happened.
1729
01:23:03,745 --> 01:23:06,380
was it a terrorist attack
or pilot suicide?
1730
01:23:06,481 --> 01:23:08,849
mechanical failure or a fire?
1731
01:23:08,950 --> 01:23:10,985
did everyone on board perish
1732
01:23:11,086 --> 01:23:14,922
or is there a chance the plane
landed safely on a remote island
1733
01:23:15,023 --> 01:23:18,792
and all 239 people survived?
1734
01:23:18,893 --> 01:23:23,597
this mystery has had so many
different turns and diversions,
1735
01:23:23,698 --> 01:23:25,065
just different directions
1736
01:23:25,166 --> 01:23:27,568
as we got different pieces
of information,
1737
01:23:27,669 --> 01:23:30,671
that we just can't
come up with a cohesive way
1738
01:23:30,772 --> 01:23:32,573
to understand
what happened to the plane.
1739
01:23:32,674 --> 01:23:34,842
gadzinski:
if this aircraft is indeed
1740
01:23:34,943 --> 01:23:37,111
two to three miles deep
in the ocean,
1741
01:23:37,212 --> 01:23:40,247
this is almost harder to get to
1742
01:23:40,348 --> 01:23:41,982
than it is
to put a man on the moon.
1743
01:23:42,083 --> 01:23:44,651
it's not gonna be easy,
but however we do,
1744
01:23:44,753 --> 01:23:47,755
it's gonna make for one hell
of a story, that's for sure.