Everything you need to know about the Netflix docuseries “Flight MH370. The plane that vanished into thin air”

It’s been a few days The docuseries is available on Netflix – three episodes of ninety minutes each – “Flight MH370. The plane disappeared into thin air” which traces the facts and subsequent investigations relating to the disappearance of a Boeing 777 than during an overnight flight between Malaysia and Beijing on March 8, 2014 it disappeared from the radar and seems to have dissolved into thin air. There were 237 passengers and crew on board. The search operations for the plane begin immediately – costing a total of 135 million dollars – and 320,000 square kilometers of ocean are sieved without finding a single piece attributable to the missing aircraft. From here, more and more doubts about what could really have happened to the plane begin to mount and some leads take shape (none of which is ever decisive and linked to a definitive truth). The (most) official version – backed by the Malaysian government – talks about the murder/suicide by Aircraft Commander Zaharie Ahmad Shah. The man, an expert pilot and with many hours of flight behind him, however, would never have given any warning sign of what he was about to do. However, it turns out that the man had bought a flight simulator a few months earlier with which he had tried aimless journeys in the direction of the Indian Ocean. Yes, because another element seems to have been ascertained by the institutions: flight MH370 had, shortly before disappearing from the radar, reversed its course and headed southwest towards Africa instead of northeast towards China. Previously, all transponders on the plane had been (or had failed) cut off, shutting down all communication with the outside world. In that period it is hypothesized that the pilot, after having relegated the co-pilot out of the cockpit with an expedient, began to fly in the opposite direction to the trajectory, depressurizing the cabin to put the rest of the crew out of action and continued its solitary race through the sky until it runs out of fuel and plunges into the sea. A few years later, some pieces attributable to the missing plane will be found on the African coast. Meanwhile, the Malaysian authorities had already decreed for years – according to a mathematical calculation and without the confirmation of material evidence – the death of all the passengers. To complicate things however, and open up new questions, only a few months after the disappearance of flight MH370, the shooting down by the Russians in the Ukrainian skies of another Malaysian Boing, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people. A coincidence that perhaps coincidence is not. The series was created and produced by Raw Production, a British production company among the most quoted in the production of docuseries and investigative genre products.

What are the theories related to the disappearance of flight MH370?

The docuseries follows a structure divided into three chapters: the pilot, the hijack and the interception. Several conspiracy theories emerge such as the one supported by the French journalist Florence de Changy who believes that the US military voluntarily shot down the plane because she knew that the aircraft was carrying strategic technologies to introduce into China. Another theory is instead that of the American aviation expert journalist Jeff Wise who, rejecting the hypothesis that the pilot wanted to commit suicide, introduces the suspicion that Russia, to divert international attention to the operations it was conducting in Crimea, would have sabotaged the route of the aircraft forcing it to land in Kazakh territory. There are many hypotheses, some of which are apparently too forced and linked to conspiracy theories. However, what seems to emerge clearly is the nebulousness with which the Malaysian government conducted its investigation into the tragedy at the time, for example, stating that he was unable to follow the lead linked to the phone calls that the families of the missing had tried to make to them after the disappearance and demonstrating that the phones were ringing normally. The truth about what happened is still shrouded in mystery.

What’s the tone of the four-bar docuseries?

“How is it possible for an airliner to disappear into thin air?”

“Died. A mathematical calculation says so”

“Could be a potential declaration of war”

“Planes take off and land. They don’t disappear from the face of the earth.”