1 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained, Season five, Episode eleven, Destination Unknown, 2 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: Part two. Kate gazed up at the stars as the 3 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: boat gently glided across the ocean. The dead, calm waters 4 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: were a marked contrast from the treacherous weather of the 5 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: last few days, and as Kate's husband Mark slept below deck, 6 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: she was grateful for this quiet moment of solitude. For 7 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: the past few weeks, Kate had been learning the constellations 8 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: of the night sky and was enjoying testing herself on 9 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: one of the clearest nights in days when she spotted 10 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: something unexpected, an orange speck just above the horizon to 11 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: the north. Perhaps it was Mars, she thought, as she 12 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: looked about for any other sign of the red planet, 13 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: then turned back to find, much to her confusion, that 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: the orange speck was now moving directly toward her. It 15 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: was only then she realized with some alarm, it was 16 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: orange because it was on fire. The couple were in 17 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: the midst of a journey across the Indian Ocean at 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: the time, making their way from Cochin in India to 19 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: Fouquet in Thailand. It had just gone ten minutes past 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: seven pm Coordinated Universal Time or UTC with their boat 21 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: heading northeast between the tip of North Sumatra and Great 22 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: Nicobar Island when Kate saw the unusual object. As she 23 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: would later claim on her travel blog a few months 24 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: after the apparent event, Kate first assumed the object to 25 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: be a meteor or perhaps some kind of missile, before 26 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: realizing with horror as it drew nearer that it was 27 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: in fact a plane tearing through the sky at what 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: must have been barely four thousand feet, with a trail 29 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: of thick black smoke billowing out from behind it. It 30 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: wasn't until the couple arrived in Fouquet two days later 31 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: that they heard the news of the missing plane, and 32 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: it was only when Kate looked back at the log 33 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: book soon after that she made the startling discovery. Ten 34 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: minutes past UTC on March seventh, the time Kate claimed 35 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: to have seen a burning plane in the sky, also 36 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: happens to be ten minutes past two am on March eighth, 37 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: Malaysian time, or rather precisely the time that Malaysia Airways 38 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: flight MH three seventy was picked up on a military 39 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: radar close to Great Nicobar Island, shortly before it vanished. 40 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: If Kate's sighting is to be believed her and Mark's 41 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: boat would have been almost directly underneath it at the time. 42 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: Five days after Flight H three seventy disappeared, the Wall 43 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: Street Journal published an article detailing the revised information about 44 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: the plane's last known whereabouts and its unknown turn to 45 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: either the north or south, adding further confusion to the situation. 46 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: The Malaysian government first denied the claim, only to then 47 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: confirm it two days later. As the loved ones of 48 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: those on board wrestled with this startling new information, search 49 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: and rescue experts assessed the two possible options. Since it 50 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: was considered highly unlikely that the plane had flown back 51 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: over China and into Kazakhstan without being picked up on 52 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: a number of national military radars, that left only one 53 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: possibility that, due to a strange and unlikely set of circumstances, 54 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: Flight MH three seventy had flown inexplicably right into the 55 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: vastness of the wide open Indian Ocean. Assuming the plane 56 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: had eventually come down in the water, the point of 57 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: impact was judged to have been somewhere in the southern 58 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: corridor of the Southern Indian Ocean, an area considered to 59 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: be mostly within Australia's aeronautical and maritime Search and Rescue region. 60 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: It was therefore agreed that Australia, in coordination with the 61 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: Chinese and Malaysian governments, would lead the search. They were 62 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: joined by ships and aircraft from New Zealand and the 63 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: US as they focused first on an area roughly six 64 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: hundred thousand kilometers squared in size, beginning three thousand kilometers 65 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: southwest of Perth. It was an area described by Australian 66 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: Prime Minister at the time, Tony Abbot as being as 67 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: close to nowhere as it's possible to be. In the meantime, 68 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: as relatives and loved ones demanded more information, Malaysia Airlines, 69 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: and since it was the national airline by extension, the 70 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: Malaysian government, were left to make sense of just how 71 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: an earth the plane had got to where it did. 72 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: Together the fact that had clearly been flown manually for 73 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: a significant part of the altered route and had not 74 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: engaged in any May day communications, not to mention the 75 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: lack of any credible evidence to suggest it was a 76 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: terrorist attack, presented a very uncomfortable possibility that either the 77 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: pilot or co pilot had deliberately brought the plane down 78 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: as part of a murder suicide event. Pilot fifty three 79 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: year old Sahari Ahmed Shah from Penang, first joined Malaysia 80 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: Airlines as a cadet before eventually being promoted to captain 81 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: of a Boeing seven thirty seven in nineteen ninety one, 82 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: working his way up to captain of the Triple sevens 83 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. All in all, he had over 84 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: eighteen thousand hours of flying experience and was one of 85 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: the most senior and trusted pilots at Malaysia Airlines. By contrast, 86 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: his co pilot, twenty seven year old First Officer Farike 87 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: Abdul Hamid, was a rookie by comparison, having clocked roughly 88 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: two thousand, seven hundred hours of flight time. In fact, 89 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: flight MH three seventy was only his sixth in the 90 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: cockpit of a Triple seven and his first without the 91 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: supervision of a training pilot watching over him. The day 92 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: after the plane's disappearance, Malaysian police began an investigation into 93 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: the men's private lives and their movements leading up to 94 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: the flight, in the hunt for any sign that they 95 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: might have orchestrated the disaster. Both were found to be 96 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: in stable relationships, with Captain Shah having been married for 97 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: years and Farik Hamid reportedly engaged and looking forward to 98 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: getting married himself. According to their employer, neither had shown 99 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: any signs of stress in the weeks prior to the flight, 100 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: nor had any history of drug dependency, anxiety, or apathy. 101 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: CCTV footage was also analyzed from the day of the 102 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 1: flight for any sign of emotional distress in the body 103 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: language of the pair. This assessment was also extended to 104 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: the ten cabin crew on board, but nothing untoward was discovered. 105 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: Although it reveals nothing of an individual's precise state of might, 106 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: the fact that both men had prestigious jobs for the 107 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: nation's flagship airline, especially with Hammid only being at the 108 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: beginning of his career with much to look forward to, 109 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: was only further reason not to suspect either of any wrongdoing. However, 110 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: though Hammid was quickly ruled out as a legitimate possibility, 111 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: when investigators delved a little deeper into Captain Shah's private life, 112 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: they found not all was quite what it seemed. In truth, 113 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: although Shah was married, he was now living alone after 114 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: his wife had moved out of their marital home and 115 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: into a second home owned by the couple in Kuala Lump. 116 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: All three of their grown up children had also moved 117 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,679 Speaker 1: out by this point. An analysis of his social media 118 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: history also revealed a man a little at odds with 119 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: his professional persona. At some point, Shah appeared to have 120 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: become fixated with two teenage sisters models based in Penang. 121 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: In the twelve months leading up to the plane's disappearance, 122 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: Shah left over ninety comments on their Facebook pages, all 123 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: of which went ignored. Shah was also a vocal critic 124 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: of the Malaysian government, describing Prime Minister of the time 125 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: Nagie Razak on Facebook as a moron and writing later 126 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: rather ominously, on May twenty third, twenty thirteen, there is 127 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: a rebel in each and every one of us. Let 128 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: it out. There were question marks two about the nature 129 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: of a relationship with a thirty five year old woman 130 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: and mother of three whom Shah had grown close to 131 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: in the months leading up to his disappearance. The woman 132 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: claimed later that the pair had met while volunteering during 133 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: the Malaysian elections, and that they were not having an affair, 134 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: but rather that Shah had seen potential in her and 135 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: that he wanted to help build a better future for 136 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: her and her children. Some have suggested, however, that perhaps 137 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: her interpretation of the relationship and his actual hopes for 138 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: it were some distance apart. It all seemed to paint 139 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: a picture of a man who had perhaps grown frustrated 140 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: with his lot, and who was ultimately very lonely and sad. 141 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: As the search continued for any sign of debris from 142 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: the plane, numerous large objects were spotted with satellite imaging, 143 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: including one piece thought to be seventy nine feet long, 144 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: but by the time boats and aircraft were dispatched to 145 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: the area, the objects were gone. On March twenty fourth, 146 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: Malaysia's Prime Minister Naji Brazac publicly announced what had long 147 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: been suspected that flight MH three seventy had most likely 148 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean and there were no survivors. 149 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 1: Then on April twelfth, Startling news Is revealed that a 150 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: signal coming from copilot for Eke Abdulhamid's phone was picked 151 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: up sometime around two am Malaysian time, just minutes before 152 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: the plane vanished from radar screens for the second and 153 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: final time. Experts theorized that a drop in the plane's 154 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: altitude as it flew close to Penang Island may have 155 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: enabled a mobile signal to reach it. However, since it 156 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: wasn't clear if Hammid had attempted to call himself or 157 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: merely that his phone had somehow been switched back on 158 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: at this time, there was little to garner from the information. 159 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: As the days turned to weeks, with nothing to show 160 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: for it, the search of the ocean's surface was ended 161 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: in late April. Any chance of recovering the plane's black 162 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: was also swiftly dwindling, since in the event of a crash, 163 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: they were only required to continue emitting a signal for 164 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: up to thirty days. Afterwards, the main focus of the 165 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: search then turned to the ocean deep. However, with so 166 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: little known about the area and any data they did 167 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: have of such low resolution, scientists had to perform a 168 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 1: bathymetric survey before they could even begin. The process involves 169 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: the use of an echo sounder beacon being towed underwater 170 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: by boat using sonar technology to pin down and receive 171 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: back an image of the seabed. It is a painstaking process. 172 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: With the first basic survey complete in May, the more 173 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: precise underwater search for the plane was resumed. Then in July, 174 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: a second extraordinary Malaysia Airways disaster occurred when another Bowing 175 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: Triple seven flight M seventeen, carrying two hundred and ninety 176 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: eight passengers and crew, was hit by a surface to 177 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: air missile while flying above eastern Ukraine, killing all on board. 178 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: The missile was found to have been launched from an 179 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: area of the country being occupied by pro Russian forces. 180 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: The Russian government denied all knowledge of the attack. Aside 181 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: from being an obvious tragedy for those on board and 182 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: a further pr disaster for Malaysia Airways, The event was however, 183 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: unlinked to flight MH three seventy, and so the search 184 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: continued week after week, month after month, but still no 185 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: sign of the plane was discovered. On January twenty ninth, 186 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. 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In early 212 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, Blaine Gibson, who'd sold his parents' home back 213 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: in Carmel, California some time ago, was living in law 214 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: overseeing the construction of a restaurant on the Mekong River. 215 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: Throughout it all, he'd continued to keep a close eye 216 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: on any MH three seventy news, even joining a number 217 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: of Facebook groups to discuss the subject with others. In 218 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: March twenty fifteen, outside a large shopping mall in Kuala Lumpa, 219 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: a ceremony was held to commemorate the victims of the 220 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: tragic event, but also to agitate for further investigations. At 221 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: the back of the stage, a large poster carried the 222 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: silhouetted image of a Boeing Triple seven, accompanied by the 223 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: words where, Who, Why, How, alongside impossible, unprecedented, and vanished. 224 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: A crowd of hundreds had gathered to watch, and standing 225 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: at the back behind them all was Blaine Gibson. He, 226 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: like most of the attendees, had openly wept when Grace 227 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: Subethiri Nathan had taken to the stage to describe what 228 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: she loved most about her mother, who had been lost 229 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: with all the others on the plane. Blaine had been 230 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: so moved by Grace's words that when he saw her afterwards, 231 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: he felt compelled to offer her a hug, to which 232 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: she gladly accepted. The pair would go on to become 233 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: good friends. But what struck him most as he watched 234 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: her speech, unable to ignore the large poster behind her, 235 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: was that single word that seemed to stick out more 236 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: prominently than any other vanished. What the missing passengers loved 237 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: ones needed more than anything, he thought, was something tangible. 238 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: Without this, they would remain forever in limbo, imprisoned by 239 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: an impossible hope that there might yet be survivors, but 240 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: equally unable to move forward and begin to come to 241 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: terms with the more tragic and likely scenario. And so 242 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: he got to thinking, why hadn't anything of the plain 243 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: been found yet? If it had indeed crashed into the 244 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: Indian Ocean and disintegrated on impact, as most suspected, could 245 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: it be? He thought that the experts were essentially looking 246 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: in the wrong place, four thousand kilometers to the west 247 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: of the underwater search area. On Wednesday, July twenty ninth, 248 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, a beach clean up crew were busily scouring 249 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: the stony beach along the coastline of Saint Andre, a 250 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: town in the northeast of the French Overseas region of Runion. 251 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: The crew, led by forty six year old Johnnie Begg, 252 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: had been up since seven am, gathering all the usual 253 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: bits of detritus that gets swept in from the ocean, 254 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: plastic bottles, broken nylon, fishing nets, and various other pieces 255 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 1: of mostly plastic. With the heat of the day beginning 256 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: to rise, the group took a short break around nine, 257 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: giving Johnnie just enough time to head off in search 258 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: of a stone that he could use as a pestle 259 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: for grinding spices. After a few moments scanning the pebbles, 260 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: he noticed something unusual rocking by the waterline as shallow 261 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: waves lapped softly against it. The object, roughly one and 262 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: a half meters squared in size, was gray in color 263 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: and appeared to be made of a combination of aluminium 264 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: and some other fibrous material. It looked a lot like 265 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: part of an airplane wing. Johnny called for his colleagues 266 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: to join him, and together they hauled the item from 267 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: the beach. The piece, along with the tattered remains of 268 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: a fabric suitcase also found by Janni, was eventually sent 269 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: to to Lose in France the following day to be analyzed, 270 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: and then on August fifth, twenty fifteen, the news was announced. 271 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: The object was identified as a flaperon, a section of 272 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: airplane wing used to control speed and lift, and it 273 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: had come from flight H three seventy. The flaperon was 274 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: the first physical evidence that the search crews had been 275 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: right to suspect the plane had ended up in the 276 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: Indian Ocean, as Blaine had begun to suspect. What they 277 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: seemed not to have paid much attention to was how 278 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: if the plane had broken up into pieces, much of 279 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: the debris would have long been carried away from the 280 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: search area by ocean currents. By the time Jeannie Begg 281 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: had found the first piece, Blaine had already traveled to 282 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: the coasts of Mayan, mar the Maldives, and Mauritius in 283 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: his own effort to find something, and though he'd come 284 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: up empty handed so far, Beg's discovery confirmed he was 285 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 1: on the right track for friends and family. However, despite 286 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: it being ultimately a welcome turn of events, the flapron's 287 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: discovery was a hammer blow, concrete proof that whatever had 288 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: happened to the plain, their loved ones had not survived. 289 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: After flying to Reunion to speak directly with Janni Beg, 290 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: Blaine then traveled to Australia to consult with two oceanographers 291 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: to determine where would be the most likely place for 292 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 1: any debris to turn up. They concluded the coasts of 293 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: Madagascar and Mozambique, and so it was that in February 294 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Blaine found himself sat in the bow of 295 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: a small fishing boat just off the coast of Villanculus 296 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: in Mozambique, shielding his eyes from the spray as he 297 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,959 Speaker 1: and his guide Suleiman headed out toward a nearby sandbank. 298 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: Blaine squinted towards the under the brim of his fedora, 299 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: clasping down firmly on the top of it to stop 300 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: it blowing away as they shot over the water. Arriving 301 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: soon after, Sulliman secured the vessel and invited Blaine to 302 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: jump out to begin their search. They hadn't been looking 303 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: long when Sulliman shouted over to Blaine, holding a weathered 304 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: two feet wide, grayish looking object above his head. It 305 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: was only when Blaine got closer he could clearly see 306 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: the words no Step stenciled onto it. Blaine delivered the 307 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: now infamous no Step piece of debris, later determined to 308 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: be a horizontal stabilizer panel to the Australian console in 309 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: Mozambique after being flown to Australia. Further analysis suggested it 310 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: was in all likelihood a part of MH three seventy. 311 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: When news of Gibson's efforts to aid the search went public, 312 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: and after he was widely hailed as a hero, Having 313 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: now unequivocally found himself tied up with the story, Blaine 314 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: was soon introduced to an entirely different aspect of the 315 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: planet's interest in what had happened to the plane. It 316 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: was something he'd noticed seeds of in those first Facebook 317 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: groups he'd joined soon after the plane disappeared, but was 318 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: by now fostering entire mythologies of its own. At first, 319 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: he was merely chastised by people online for exploiting the 320 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: misery of the family's link to the disaster. Others derided 321 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: him for his seemingly egotistical efforts to needlessly involve himself 322 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: in the search, but most, in what seems to have 323 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: become a feature of modern life, simply didn't believe him. 324 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: Some accused him of being a stooge, believing he was 325 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: a plant for the Russian government, others that he was 326 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: in fact working for the American government. Either way, all 327 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: were convinced he was part of an elaborate a global 328 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: cover up to hide what had really taken place, and 329 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: soon all manner of theories were being posited, and not 330 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: always from the more extreme ends of online culture. The 331 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: plane had been taken by a Russian special ops team, 332 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: suggested one writer in a New York Magazine article. Others 333 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: believed the US military shot it down after it was 334 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: spotted heading toward a US military base in the Indian Ocean. 335 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,439 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdock even offered his theory that it had indeed 336 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: been hijacked as a part of a jihadist plot to 337 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 1: cause trouble for the Chinese government. Others suggested it had 338 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: been captured by aliens, or that it had simply vanished 339 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: into a wormhole and been transported to another time. And yet, 340 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: despite Blaine finding three more pieces on the northeastern shore 341 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: of Madagascar in June twenty sixteen, nothing of the pieces 342 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: revealed anything to comprehensively discredit any one of the theory 343 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: about what had happened. Then, in July twenty sixteen came 344 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: an incredible revelation. The news was confirmed by Australian officials 345 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: who until then had for sensitive diplomatic reasons, agreed to 346 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: keep it quiet on behalf of the Malaysian government. It 347 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: concerned the discovery made by Malaysian police a few days 348 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: after the plane disappeared of an elaborate computer setup for 349 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: the Microsoft Flight Simulator program. The system had been installed 350 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: in Captain Zahari Shah's home, complete with multiple screens and 351 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: manual controls, all designed to precisely mimic the cockpit of 352 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: a Boeing seven seven seven. There was nothing unusual about 353 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: it as such, since it is something that many pilots 354 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,479 Speaker 1: do for themselves to keep sharp and busy between flights. 355 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: But what was intriguing was the single set of deleted 356 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: miles that appeared to relate to a trip that Sharp 357 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: programmed himself into the simulator back in February twenty fourteen, 358 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 1: a month before the fateful flight. Unable to get more 359 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: information themselves, the Malaysian police sent the files to the 360 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: FBI for further analysis, and what they found astounded them. 361 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: In total, they uncovered six deleted data points, each containing 362 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: a record of the plane's speed, altitude, and direction at 363 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: the time, along with a number of other parameters. Incredibly, 364 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: the root Shah had plotted followed almost precisely the route 365 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: taken by MH three seventy, as measured by the INMARSAT 366 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 1: data readings. In short, in what seemed too much of 367 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: a coincidence for some, only weeks before MH three seventy 368 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: disappeared over what many have calculated to be the middle 369 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 1: of the Indian Ocean, Zahari Shah had flown almost to 370 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: the exact same course on his flights ulator. The flight 371 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: paths were not precisely identical, but the similarity was undoubtedly jarring, 372 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: and though some have taken this as conclusive proof that 373 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: Captain Shah was responsible all along, others have cautioned against 374 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: jumping to conclusions. The following June, as Blaine Gibson continued 375 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: to find more and more pieces of the plane in Madagascar, 376 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: he made arrangements to create an official channel to take 377 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: care of transporting the pieces to Malaysia for further analysis. 378 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: After liaising with the Malaysian consul, it was agreed that 379 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: all pieces should be delivered to the Honorary Consul to Madagascar, 380 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: Zahid Raza, who in turn would personally supervise their delivery 381 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: to Kuala Lumpa. But then something unexpected occurred. On August 382 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: twenty fourth, shortly after overseeing the transfer of six pieces 383 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: found by Blaine, Sahid Raza was traveling through the island's 384 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: capital and tannon or Evo in his car when an 385 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: individual pulled up beside his vehicle on a motorbike and 386 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: opened fire, killing him instantly in a hail of bullets. 387 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: Though many were quick to note that Raza had made 388 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: numerous enemies during his time in Madagascar, the incident did 389 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: little to quiet and the growing number of conspiracy theories 390 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: surrounding the plane's disappearance. Blaine Gibson, for one, was convinced 391 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: the assassination was connected. In response, he stopped disclosing his 392 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: travel plans to anyone that didn't need to know, stopped 393 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: using email, and rarely spoke to people on the phone. 394 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: He even took to regularly swapping out his SIM card 395 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: for extra precaution. He also became convinced he was being 396 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: followed and photographed. With a renewed sense of purpose, however, 397 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: Blaine continued on his quest. Meanwhile, the official search of 398 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: the ocean floor in the hope of finding the fuselage 399 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,959 Speaker 1: the plane's black box also continued on. Despite covering an 400 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: area roughly two hundred and eight thousand kilometers squared in size, 401 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: nothing was found, and there was further disappointment when it 402 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: was revealed that the batteries and the plane's black box 403 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: had died and not been replaced before the plane had 404 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: even taken off, removing once and for all any hope 405 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: of ever finding it. In May twenty eighteen, the official 406 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,679 Speaker 1: search was called off, though private searches continue with the 407 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 1: help of a group of committed independent researches that have 408 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: become known as the Independent Group. There remains no further 409 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: evidence to explain the event. By September twenty nineteen, Blaine 410 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: Gibson had been responsible for finding roughly a third of 411 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: all pieces of MH three seventy debris. A twenty nineteen 412 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: study conducted by the University of Miami Rosenthal's School of 413 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: Marine and Atmospheric Science suggested the most probable crash site 414 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: in the Indian Ocean was at twenty five degrees south 415 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: in latitude, some distance further north of where most of 416 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 1: the official underwater search had been conducted. In March twenty twenty, 417 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: some friends and relatives of those lost on board the 418 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: flight gathered together at the Marriott Hotel had Putrajayah in 419 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: Malaysia to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the plain's disappearance, 420 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: and though many remained committed to continuing the search for 421 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: their loved wants, others have done what they can to 422 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: find ways of carrying on. In February twenty twenty, after 423 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: six grief stricken years, Danika Weeks, whose husband Paul was 424 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: lost on the flight, found love again, remarrying in a 425 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: private wedding ceremony on Australia's Sunshine Coast as her and 426 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: Paul's two sons watched on beside her. While every Saturday 427 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: in han Dan, China, farmer Lee Eriaale finds a quiet 428 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: moment to step out into the field surrounding his home 429 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: to make a call on his mobile phone. 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