Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained, Season five, Episode eleven, Destination Unknown,
Speaker 1: Part two. Kate gazed up at the stars as the
Speaker 1: boat gently glided across the ocean. The dead, calm waters
Speaker 1: were a marked contrast from the treacherous weather of the
Speaker 1: last few days, and as Kate's husband Mark slept below deck,
Speaker 1: she was grateful for this quiet moment of solitude. For
Speaker 1: the past few weeks, Kate had been learning the constellations
Speaker 1: of the night sky and was enjoying testing herself on
Speaker 1: one of the clearest nights in days when she spotted
Speaker 1: something unexpected, an orange speck just above the horizon to
Speaker 1: the north. Perhaps it was Mars, she thought, as she
Speaker 1: looked about for any other sign of the red planet,
Speaker 1: then turned back to find, much to her confusion, that
Speaker 1: the orange speck was now moving directly toward her. It
Speaker 1: was only then she realized with some alarm, it was
Speaker 1: orange because it was on fire. The couple were in
Speaker 1: the midst of a journey across the Indian Ocean at
Speaker 1: the time, making their way from Cochin in India to
Speaker 1: Fouquet in Thailand. It had just gone ten minutes past
Speaker 1: seven pm Coordinated Universal Time or UTC with their boat
Speaker 1: heading northeast between the tip of North Sumatra and Great
Speaker 1: Nicobar Island when Kate saw the unusual object. As she
Speaker 1: would later claim on her travel blog a few months
Speaker 1: after the apparent event, Kate first assumed the object to
Speaker 1: be a meteor or perhaps some kind of missile, before
Speaker 1: realizing with horror as it drew nearer that it was
Speaker 1: in fact a plane tearing through the sky at what
Speaker 1: must have been barely four thousand feet, with a trail
Speaker 1: of thick black smoke billowing out from behind it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't until the couple arrived in Fouquet two days later
Speaker 1: that they heard the news of the missing plane, and
Speaker 1: it was only when Kate looked back at the log
Speaker 1: book soon after that she made the startling discovery. Ten
Speaker 1: minutes past UTC on March seventh, the time Kate claimed
Speaker 1: to have seen a burning plane in the sky, also
Speaker 1: happens to be ten minutes past two am on March eighth,
Speaker 1: Malaysian time, or rather precisely the time that Malaysia Airways
Speaker 1: flight MH three seventy was picked up on a military
Speaker 1: radar close to Great Nicobar Island, shortly before it vanished.
Speaker 1: If Kate's sighting is to be believed her and Mark's
Speaker 1: boat would have been almost directly underneath it at the time.
Speaker 1: Five days after Flight H three seventy disappeared, the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal published an article detailing the revised information about
Speaker 1: the plane's last known whereabouts and its unknown turn to
Speaker 1: either the north or south, adding further confusion to the situation.
Speaker 1: The Malaysian government first denied the claim, only to then
Speaker 1: confirm it two days later. As the loved ones of
Speaker 1: those on board wrestled with this startling new information, search
Speaker 1: and rescue experts assessed the two possible options. Since it
Speaker 1: was considered highly unlikely that the plane had flown back
Speaker 1: over China and into Kazakhstan without being picked up on
Speaker 1: a number of national military radars, that left only one
Speaker 1: possibility that, due to a strange and unlikely set of circumstances,
Speaker 1: Flight MH three seventy had flown inexplicably right into the
Speaker 1: vastness of the wide open Indian Ocean. Assuming the plane
Speaker 1: had eventually come down in the water, the point of
Speaker 1: impact was judged to have been somewhere in the southern
Speaker 1: corridor of the Southern Indian Ocean, an area considered to
Speaker 1: be mostly within Australia's aeronautical and maritime Search and Rescue region.
Speaker 1: It was therefore agreed that Australia, in coordination with the
Speaker 1: Chinese and Malaysian governments, would lead the search. They were
Speaker 1: joined by ships and aircraft from New Zealand and the
Speaker 1: US as they focused first on an area roughly six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand kilometers squared in size, beginning three thousand kilometers
Speaker 1: southwest of Perth. It was an area described by Australian
Speaker 1: Prime Minister at the time, Tony Abbot as being as
Speaker 1: close to nowhere as it's possible to be. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: as relatives and loved ones demanded more information, Malaysia Airlines,
Speaker 1: and since it was the national airline by extension, the
Speaker 1: Malaysian government, were left to make sense of just how
Speaker 1: an earth the plane had got to where it did.
Speaker 1: Together the fact that had clearly been flown manually for
Speaker 1: a significant part of the altered route and had not
Speaker 1: engaged in any May day communications, not to mention the
Speaker 1: lack of any credible evidence to suggest it was a
Speaker 1: terrorist attack, presented a very uncomfortable possibility that either the
Speaker 1: pilot or co pilot had deliberately brought the plane down
Speaker 1: as part of a murder suicide event. Pilot fifty three
Speaker 1: year old Sahari Ahmed Shah from Penang, first joined Malaysia
Speaker 1: Airlines as a cadet before eventually being promoted to captain
Speaker 1: of a Boeing seven thirty seven in nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: working his way up to captain of the Triple sevens
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. All in all, he had over
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand hours of flying experience and was one of
Speaker 1: the most senior and trusted pilots at Malaysia Airlines. By contrast,
Speaker 1: his co pilot, twenty seven year old First Officer Farike
Speaker 1: Abdul Hamid, was a rookie by comparison, having clocked roughly
Speaker 1: two thousand, seven hundred hours of flight time. In fact,
Speaker 1: flight MH three seventy was only his sixth in the
Speaker 1: cockpit of a Triple seven and his first without the
Speaker 1: supervision of a training pilot watching over him. The day
Speaker 1: after the plane's disappearance, Malaysian police began an investigation into
Speaker 1: the men's private lives and their movements leading up to
Speaker 1: the flight, in the hunt for any sign that they
Speaker 1: might have orchestrated the disaster. Both were found to be
Speaker 1: in stable relationships, with Captain Shah having been married for
Speaker 1: years and Farik Hamid reportedly engaged and looking forward to
Speaker 1: getting married himself. According to their employer, neither had shown
Speaker 1: any signs of stress in the weeks prior to the flight,
Speaker 1: nor had any history of drug dependency, anxiety, or apathy.
Speaker 1: CCTV footage was also analyzed from the day of the
Speaker 1: flight for any sign of emotional distress in the body
Speaker 1: language of the pair. This assessment was also extended to
Speaker 1: the ten cabin crew on board, but nothing untoward was discovered.
Speaker 1: Although it reveals nothing of an individual's precise state of might,
Speaker 1: the fact that both men had prestigious jobs for the
Speaker 1: nation's flagship airline, especially with Hammid only being at the
Speaker 1: beginning of his career with much to look forward to,
Speaker 1: was only further reason not to suspect either of any wrongdoing. However,
Speaker 1: though Hammid was quickly ruled out as a legitimate possibility,
Speaker 1: when investigators delved a little deeper into Captain Shah's private life,
Speaker 1: they found not all was quite what it seemed. In truth,
Speaker 1: although Shah was married, he was now living alone after
Speaker 1: his wife had moved out of their marital home and
Speaker 1: into a second home owned by the couple in Kuala Lump.
Speaker 1: All three of their grown up children had also moved
Speaker 1: out by this point. An analysis of his social media
Speaker 1: history also revealed a man a little at odds with
Speaker 1: his professional persona. At some point, Shah appeared to have
Speaker 1: become fixated with two teenage sisters models based in Penang.
Speaker 1: In the twelve months leading up to the plane's disappearance,
Speaker 1: Shah left over ninety comments on their Facebook pages, all
Speaker 1: of which went ignored. Shah was also a vocal critic
Speaker 1: of the Malaysian government, describing Prime Minister of the time
Speaker 1: Nagie Razak on Facebook as a moron and writing later
Speaker 1: rather ominously, on May twenty third, twenty thirteen, there is
Speaker 1: a rebel in each and every one of us. Let
Speaker 1: it out. There were question marks two about the nature
Speaker 1: of a relationship with a thirty five year old woman
Speaker 1: and mother of three whom Shah had grown close to
Speaker 1: in the months leading up to his disappearance. The woman
Speaker 1: claimed later that the pair had met while volunteering during
Speaker 1: the Malaysian elections, and that they were not having an affair,
Speaker 1: but rather that Shah had seen potential in her and
Speaker 1: that he wanted to help build a better future for
Speaker 1: her and her children. Some have suggested, however, that perhaps
Speaker 1: her interpretation of the relationship and his actual hopes for
Speaker 1: it were some distance apart. It all seemed to paint
Speaker 1: a picture of a man who had perhaps grown frustrated
Speaker 1: with his lot, and who was ultimately very lonely and sad.
Speaker 1: As the search continued for any sign of debris from
Speaker 1: the plane, numerous large objects were spotted with satellite imaging,
Speaker 1: including one piece thought to be seventy nine feet long,
Speaker 1: but by the time boats and aircraft were dispatched to
Speaker 1: the area, the objects were gone. On March twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: Malaysia's Prime Minister Naji Brazac publicly announced what had long
Speaker 1: been suspected that flight MH three seventy had most likely
Speaker 1: crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean and there were no survivors.
Speaker 1: Then on April twelfth, Startling news Is revealed that a
Speaker 1: signal coming from copilot for Eke Abdulhamid's phone was picked
Speaker 1: up sometime around two am Malaysian time, just minutes before
Speaker 1: the plane vanished from radar screens for the second and
Speaker 1: final time. Experts theorized that a drop in the plane's
Speaker 1: altitude as it flew close to Penang Island may have
Speaker 1: enabled a mobile signal to reach it. However, since it
Speaker 1: wasn't clear if Hammid had attempted to call himself or
Speaker 1: merely that his phone had somehow been switched back on
Speaker 1: at this time, there was little to garner from the information.
Speaker 1: As the days turned to weeks, with nothing to show
Speaker 1: for it, the search of the ocean's surface was ended
Speaker 1: in late April. Any chance of recovering the plane's black
Speaker 1: was also swiftly dwindling, since in the event of a crash,
Speaker 1: they were only required to continue emitting a signal for
Speaker 1: up to thirty days. Afterwards, the main focus of the
Speaker 1: search then turned to the ocean deep. However, with so
Speaker 1: little known about the area and any data they did
Speaker 1: have of such low resolution, scientists had to perform a
Speaker 1: bathymetric survey before they could even begin. The process involves
Speaker 1: the use of an echo sounder beacon being towed underwater
Speaker 1: by boat using sonar technology to pin down and receive
Speaker 1: back an image of the seabed. It is a painstaking process.
Speaker 1: With the first basic survey complete in May, the more
Speaker 1: precise underwater search for the plane was resumed. Then in July,
Speaker 1: a second extraordinary Malaysia Airways disaster occurred when another Bowing
Speaker 1: Triple seven flight M seventeen, carrying two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: eight passengers and crew, was hit by a surface to
Speaker 1: air missile while flying above eastern Ukraine, killing all on board.
Speaker 1: The missile was found to have been launched from an
Speaker 1: area of the country being occupied by pro Russian forces.
Speaker 1: The Russian government denied all knowledge of the attack. Aside
Speaker 1: from being an obvious tragedy for those on board and
Speaker 1: a further pr disaster for Malaysia Airways, The event was however,
Speaker 1: unlinked to flight MH three seventy, and so the search
Speaker 1: continued week after week, month after month, but still no
Speaker 1: sign of the plane was discovered. On January twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Having gathered no conclusive evidence, the Malaysian government
Speaker 1: declared the disappearance simply an accident with no survivors, and
Speaker 1: the search was paused due to bad weather this year
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Speaker 1: in Carmel, California some time ago, was living in law
Speaker 1: overseeing the construction of a restaurant on the Mekong River.
Speaker 1: Throughout it all, he'd continued to keep a close eye
Speaker 1: on any MH three seventy news, even joining a number
Speaker 1: of Facebook groups to discuss the subject with others. In
Speaker 1: March twenty fifteen, outside a large shopping mall in Kuala Lumpa,
Speaker 1: a ceremony was held to commemorate the victims of the
Speaker 1: tragic event, but also to agitate for further investigations. At
Speaker 1: the back of the stage, a large poster carried the
Speaker 1: silhouetted image of a Boeing Triple seven, accompanied by the
Speaker 1: words where, Who, Why, How, alongside impossible, unprecedented, and vanished.
Speaker 1: A crowd of hundreds had gathered to watch, and standing
Speaker 1: at the back behind them all was Blaine Gibson. He,
Speaker 1: like most of the attendees, had openly wept when Grace
Speaker 1: Subethiri Nathan had taken to the stage to describe what
Speaker 1: she loved most about her mother, who had been lost
Speaker 1: with all the others on the plane. Blaine had been
Speaker 1: so moved by Grace's words that when he saw her afterwards,
Speaker 1: he felt compelled to offer her a hug, to which
Speaker 1: she gladly accepted. The pair would go on to become
Speaker 1: good friends. But what struck him most as he watched
Speaker 1: her speech, unable to ignore the large poster behind her,
Speaker 1: was that single word that seemed to stick out more
Speaker 1: prominently than any other vanished. What the missing passengers loved
Speaker 1: ones needed more than anything, he thought, was something tangible.
Speaker 1: Without this, they would remain forever in limbo, imprisoned by
Speaker 1: an impossible hope that there might yet be survivors, but
Speaker 1: equally unable to move forward and begin to come to
Speaker 1: terms with the more tragic and likely scenario. And so
Speaker 1: he got to thinking, why hadn't anything of the plain
Speaker 1: been found yet? If it had indeed crashed into the
Speaker 1: Indian Ocean and disintegrated on impact, as most suspected, could
Speaker 1: it be? He thought that the experts were essentially looking
Speaker 1: in the wrong place, four thousand kilometers to the west
Speaker 1: of the underwater search area. On Wednesday, July twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, a beach clean up crew were busily scouring
Speaker 1: the stony beach along the coastline of Saint Andre, a
Speaker 1: town in the northeast of the French Overseas region of Runion.
Speaker 1: The crew, led by forty six year old Johnnie Begg,
Speaker 1: had been up since seven am, gathering all the usual
Speaker 1: bits of detritus that gets swept in from the ocean,
Speaker 1: plastic bottles, broken nylon, fishing nets, and various other pieces
Speaker 1: of mostly plastic. With the heat of the day beginning
Speaker 1: to rise, the group took a short break around nine,
Speaker 1: giving Johnnie just enough time to head off in search
Speaker 1: of a stone that he could use as a pestle
Speaker 1: for grinding spices. After a few moments scanning the pebbles,
Speaker 1: he noticed something unusual rocking by the waterline as shallow
Speaker 1: waves lapped softly against it. The object, roughly one and
Speaker 1: a half meters squared in size, was gray in color
Speaker 1: and appeared to be made of a combination of aluminium
Speaker 1: and some other fibrous material. It looked a lot like
Speaker 1: part of an airplane wing. Johnny called for his colleagues
Speaker 1: to join him, and together they hauled the item from
Speaker 1: the beach. The piece, along with the tattered remains of
Speaker 1: a fabric suitcase also found by Janni, was eventually sent
Speaker 1: to to Lose in France the following day to be analyzed,
Speaker 1: and then on August fifth, twenty fifteen, the news was announced.
Speaker 1: The object was identified as a flaperon, a section of
Speaker 1: airplane wing used to control speed and lift, and it
Speaker 1: had come from flight H three seventy. The flaperon was
Speaker 1: the first physical evidence that the search crews had been
Speaker 1: right to suspect the plane had ended up in the
Speaker 1: Indian Ocean, as Blaine had begun to suspect. What they
Speaker 1: seemed not to have paid much attention to was how
Speaker 1: if the plane had broken up into pieces, much of
Speaker 1: the debris would have long been carried away from the
Speaker 1: search area by ocean currents. By the time Jeannie Begg
Speaker 1: had found the first piece, Blaine had already traveled to
Speaker 1: the coasts of Mayan, mar the Maldives, and Mauritius in
Speaker 1: his own effort to find something, and though he'd come
Speaker 1: up empty handed so far, Beg's discovery confirmed he was
Speaker 1: on the right track for friends and family. However, despite
Speaker 1: it being ultimately a welcome turn of events, the flapron's
Speaker 1: discovery was a hammer blow, concrete proof that whatever had
Speaker 1: happened to the plain, their loved ones had not survived.
Speaker 1: After flying to Reunion to speak directly with Janni Beg,
Speaker 1: Blaine then traveled to Australia to consult with two oceanographers
Speaker 1: to determine where would be the most likely place for
Speaker 1: any debris to turn up. They concluded the coasts of
Speaker 1: Madagascar and Mozambique, and so it was that in February
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Blaine found himself sat in the bow of
Speaker 1: a small fishing boat just off the coast of Villanculus
Speaker 1: in Mozambique, shielding his eyes from the spray as he
Speaker 1: and his guide Suleiman headed out toward a nearby sandbank.
Speaker 1: Blaine squinted towards the under the brim of his fedora,
Speaker 1: clasping down firmly on the top of it to stop
Speaker 1: it blowing away as they shot over the water. Arriving
Speaker 1: soon after, Sulliman secured the vessel and invited Blaine to
Speaker 1: jump out to begin their search. They hadn't been looking
Speaker 1: long when Sulliman shouted over to Blaine, holding a weathered
Speaker 1: two feet wide, grayish looking object above his head. It
Speaker 1: was only when Blaine got closer he could clearly see
Speaker 1: the words no Step stenciled onto it. Blaine delivered the
Speaker 1: now infamous no Step piece of debris, later determined to
Speaker 1: be a horizontal stabilizer panel to the Australian console in
Speaker 1: Mozambique after being flown to Australia. Further analysis suggested it
Speaker 1: was in all likelihood a part of MH three seventy.
Speaker 1: When news of Gibson's efforts to aid the search went public,
Speaker 1: and after he was widely hailed as a hero, Having
Speaker 1: now unequivocally found himself tied up with the story, Blaine
Speaker 1: was soon introduced to an entirely different aspect of the
Speaker 1: planet's interest in what had happened to the plane. It
Speaker 1: was something he'd noticed seeds of in those first Facebook
Speaker 1: groups he'd joined soon after the plane disappeared, but was
Speaker 1: by now fostering entire mythologies of its own. At first,
Speaker 1: he was merely chastised by people online for exploiting the
Speaker 1: misery of the family's link to the disaster. Others derided
Speaker 1: him for his seemingly egotistical efforts to needlessly involve himself
Speaker 1: in the search, but most, in what seems to have
Speaker 1: become a feature of modern life, simply didn't believe him.
Speaker 1: Some accused him of being a stooge, believing he was
Speaker 1: a plant for the Russian government, others that he was
Speaker 1: in fact working for the American government. Either way, all
Speaker 1: were convinced he was part of an elaborate a global
Speaker 1: cover up to hide what had really taken place, and
Speaker 1: soon all manner of theories were being posited, and not
Speaker 1: always from the more extreme ends of online culture. The
Speaker 1: plane had been taken by a Russian special ops team,
Speaker 1: suggested one writer in a New York Magazine article. Others
Speaker 1: believed the US military shot it down after it was
Speaker 1: spotted heading toward a US military base in the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1: Rupert Murdock even offered his theory that it had indeed
Speaker 1: been hijacked as a part of a jihadist plot to
Speaker 1: cause trouble for the Chinese government. Others suggested it had
Speaker 1: been captured by aliens, or that it had simply vanished
Speaker 1: into a wormhole and been transported to another time. And yet,
Speaker 1: despite Blaine finding three more pieces on the northeastern shore
Speaker 1: of Madagascar in June twenty sixteen, nothing of the pieces
Speaker 1: revealed anything to comprehensively discredit any one of the theory
Speaker 1: about what had happened. Then, in July twenty sixteen came
Speaker 1: an incredible revelation. The news was confirmed by Australian officials
Speaker 1: who until then had for sensitive diplomatic reasons, agreed to
Speaker 1: keep it quiet on behalf of the Malaysian government. It
Speaker 1: concerned the discovery made by Malaysian police a few days
Speaker 1: after the plane disappeared of an elaborate computer setup for
Speaker 1: the Microsoft Flight Simulator program. The system had been installed
Speaker 1: in Captain Zahari Shah's home, complete with multiple screens and
Speaker 1: manual controls, all designed to precisely mimic the cockpit of
Speaker 1: a Boeing seven seven seven. There was nothing unusual about
Speaker 1: it as such, since it is something that many pilots
Speaker 1: do for themselves to keep sharp and busy between flights.
Speaker 1: But what was intriguing was the single set of deleted
Speaker 1: miles that appeared to relate to a trip that Sharp
Speaker 1: programmed himself into the simulator back in February twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: a month before the fateful flight. Unable to get more
Speaker 1: information themselves, the Malaysian police sent the files to the
Speaker 1: FBI for further analysis, and what they found astounded them.
Speaker 1: In total, they uncovered six deleted data points, each containing
Speaker 1: a record of the plane's speed, altitude, and direction at
Speaker 1: the time, along with a number of other parameters. Incredibly,
Speaker 1: the root Shah had plotted followed almost precisely the route
Speaker 1: taken by MH three seventy, as measured by the INMARSAT
Speaker 1: data readings. In short, in what seemed too much of
Speaker 1: a coincidence for some, only weeks before MH three seventy
Speaker 1: disappeared over what many have calculated to be the middle
Speaker 1: of the Indian Ocean, Zahari Shah had flown almost to
Speaker 1: the exact same course on his flights ulator. The flight
Speaker 1: paths were not precisely identical, but the similarity was undoubtedly jarring,
Speaker 1: and though some have taken this as conclusive proof that
Speaker 1: Captain Shah was responsible all along, others have cautioned against
Speaker 1: jumping to conclusions. The following June, as Blaine Gibson continued
Speaker 1: to find more and more pieces of the plane in Madagascar,
Speaker 1: he made arrangements to create an official channel to take
Speaker 1: care of transporting the pieces to Malaysia for further analysis.
Speaker 1: After liaising with the Malaysian consul, it was agreed that
Speaker 1: all pieces should be delivered to the Honorary Consul to Madagascar,
Speaker 1: Zahid Raza, who in turn would personally supervise their delivery
Speaker 1: to Kuala Lumpa. But then something unexpected occurred. On August
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, shortly after overseeing the transfer of six pieces
Speaker 1: found by Blaine, Sahid Raza was traveling through the island's
Speaker 1: capital and tannon or Evo in his car when an
Speaker 1: individual pulled up beside his vehicle on a motorbike and
Speaker 1: opened fire, killing him instantly in a hail of bullets.
Speaker 1: Though many were quick to note that Raza had made
Speaker 1: numerous enemies during his time in Madagascar, the incident did
Speaker 1: little to quiet and the growing number of conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: surrounding the plane's disappearance. Blaine Gibson, for one, was convinced
Speaker 1: the assassination was connected. In response, he stopped disclosing his
Speaker 1: travel plans to anyone that didn't need to know, stopped
Speaker 1: using email, and rarely spoke to people on the phone.
Speaker 1: He even took to regularly swapping out his SIM card
Speaker 1: for extra precaution. He also became convinced he was being
Speaker 1: followed and photographed. With a renewed sense of purpose, however,
Speaker 1: Blaine continued on his quest. Meanwhile, the official search of
Speaker 1: the ocean floor in the hope of finding the fuselage
Speaker 1: the plane's black box also continued on. Despite covering an
Speaker 1: area roughly two hundred and eight thousand kilometers squared in size,
Speaker 1: nothing was found, and there was further disappointment when it
Speaker 1: was revealed that the batteries and the plane's black box
Speaker 1: had died and not been replaced before the plane had
Speaker 1: even taken off, removing once and for all any hope
Speaker 1: of ever finding it. In May twenty eighteen, the official
Speaker 1: search was called off, though private searches continue with the
Speaker 1: help of a group of committed independent researches that have
Speaker 1: become known as the Independent Group. There remains no further
Speaker 1: evidence to explain the event. By September twenty nineteen, Blaine
Speaker 1: Gibson had been responsible for finding roughly a third of
Speaker 1: all pieces of MH three seventy debris. A twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: study conducted by the University of Miami Rosenthal's School of
Speaker 1: Marine and Atmospheric Science suggested the most probable crash site
Speaker 1: in the Indian Ocean was at twenty five degrees south
Speaker 1: in latitude, some distance further north of where most of
Speaker 1: the official underwater search had been conducted. In March twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: some friends and relatives of those lost on board the
Speaker 1: flight gathered together at the Marriott Hotel had Putrajayah in
Speaker 1: Malaysia to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the plain's disappearance,
Speaker 1: and though many remained committed to continuing the search for
Speaker 1: their loved wants, others have done what they can to
Speaker 1: find ways of carrying on. In February twenty twenty, after
Speaker 1: six grief stricken years, Danika Weeks, whose husband Paul was
Speaker 1: lost on the flight, found love again, remarrying in a
Speaker 1: private wedding ceremony on Australia's Sunshine Coast as her and
Speaker 1: Paul's two sons watched on beside her. While every Saturday
Speaker 1: in han Dan, China, farmer Lee Eriaale finds a quiet
Speaker 1: moment to step out into the field surrounding his home
Speaker 1: to make a call on his mobile phone. Taking it
Speaker 1: from his pocket, he types out his missing son's long
Speaker 1: disconnected number, then presses dial and holds it gently up
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