The three-part docuseries will air on March 8, the ninth anniversary of the Boeing 777’s disappearance
Whatever service might be winning your screen time in the streaming wars, if you are interested in aviation (which we will assume as you have found your way to this website) and mysteries, you might want to give Netflix a go for the coming months. A three-part documentary series exploring the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is coming to the platform at the beginning of March.
“MH370: The Plane That Disappeared” will be released on March 8, the ninth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. When the plane went missing in 2014, so did the 239 people on board the flight. The 227 passengers and 12 crew on the flight were declared to be presumed dead by the government of Malaysia in January 2015.
This made it the deadliest incident involving the Boeing 777. That is, until the second unfathomable tragedy struck Malaysia Airlines in July of the same year, when MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
The trailer for the show features images of grieving relatives and airline representatives with grave expressions on their faces but also an ample amount of conspiracy insinuations. While we may have to wait until March 8 to gauge the extent of these theories and whether they go beyond frustration with the lack of results from the search efforts, you can see the official trailer for “MH370: The Plane That Disappeared” below.
Most expensive search in history
On the day of the disappearance, MH370 was operated by a Boeing 777-200ER registered as 9M-MRO. The 12-year-old aircraft was flown by Captain Zaharie Shah, who was the Pilot-in-Command, assisted by First Officer Fariq Ab Hamid. The multinational search that followed was to become the most expensive search in aviation history. And yet, what happened to 9M-MRO and who or what was responsible for its vanishing remains a mystery.
The plane, which was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, last communicated with air traffic control at 01:19 Malaysian time (17:19 UTC, March 7). This was less than an hour after takeoff from KUL. ATC lost the aircraft soon after, whereas military radar still followed it for about an hour as it strayed westward from its intended flight path, out over the Andaman Sea. Then nothing.
Unsolved mystery unlikely to see resolution in show
Several theories have circulated the internet over the years, with information regarding the seizure of the Captain’s personal flight simulator leading to speculations that it was a suicide/mass murder. Others say that pieces of wreckage washed up in Madagascar point to the plane having been deliberately crashed.
Whatever the real answer may be, it is unlikely that the Netflix documentary will uncover it. Whether or not it will do the families of the victims good to be subjected to speculations and renewed media attention, only they can say.
Source: Simple Flying
