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How is it possible for
an airliner to disappear out of thin air?
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There's a million different theories that
people could tell you about MH370, but
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one of them is right.
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There's a theory going around...
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Hijacking.
Mechanical failure. Meteorite hitting it.
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Pilot suicide.
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Who knows?
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Two hundred and thirty-nine
innocent people.
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{\an8}Someone knows.
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Someone definitely knows.
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{\an8}So much about this flight
simply doesn't add up.
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{\an8} This very mysterious
and very suspicious
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cargo could be at the heart
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of what happened to MH370.
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It appears to be part of the
wing system called the flaperon.
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The first time I saw that,
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my honest feeling was,
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"Who planted it there?"
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"Who brought the piece there?"
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I've been accused
of being a Russian spy,
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a Chinese spy.
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It is just patently ridiculous.
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We are equally puzzled as well.
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{\an8}There is new information coming in
that is reshaping the theories...
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The search was in the wrong area.
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We'll never have peace
until we know where they are.
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- They're lying from the beginning.
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They are lying to the whole world.
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It was a deliberate act.
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It's possible it was hijacked.
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We don't know.
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Fuck Malaysia!
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Malaysia is lying!
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I have the real evidence.
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It's there. And you can't deny that.
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Planes go up.
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Planes go down.
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What planes don't do
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is just vanish off the face of the Earth.
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We don't have the answers.
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This is one of the great mysteries
in aviation history.
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MH370 is a mystery
whose malevolence is still with us today.
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It's a snake that is still alive.
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As an aviation journalist,
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{\an8}you know, this is like the bat signal
shined on the clouds.
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It has its hooks in me.
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And I had to investigate.
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So, the flight was a red-eye
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from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
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The plane was going to
take off around midnight
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and fly through the night,
and arrive in Beijing around dawn.
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Everything was routine.
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There were 227 passengers.
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And 12 crew.
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My husband and I, Hazrin,
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were working for Malaysia Airlines
as cabin crew.
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{\an8}We have one daughter
and I was heavily pregnant,
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{\an8}so I was not working.
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He was rostered for Beijing,
and it was winter.
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I still remember he packed his
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fluffy jacket... [chuckles] ...in his bag.
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My husband, Paul Weeks,
and I lived in Australia
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with our two young sons.
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Paul was preparing
to start a new job in China.
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He said to me,
"Look, do you want me to go?"
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Because Jack was young and...
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and so was Lincoln,
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and it was 28 days on, 14 days off.
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And I said to him, "Of course."
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I had been living in Beijing
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with my children for almost six years.
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My children had been on school holidays in
Malaysia and I was on my way to meet them
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in Beijing to spend
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the second week of holidays with them.
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The day before, I had spoken to my wife.
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Everything was fine.
They were happy we were meeting.
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There was another message
from my daughter saying,
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"I'm at the airport in Kuala Lumpur."
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"I'm happy
because I'm going to see my daddy again."
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His plane was called, and...
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It was obviously very emotional.
There was a lot of tears.
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The boys, you know, blew kisses,
said, "I love you."
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And he walked out that door.
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And that was like it was yesterday.
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370, 32 right for take-off. Good night.
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32 right,
cleared for take-off, Malaysian 370.
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Thank you. Bye.
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Hazrin called me
before the plane took off.
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Last...
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Last thing he said was, "I love you."
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Ah.
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So, 41 minutes past midnight,
the plane takes off.
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It's a clear night.
Everything's very calm.
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It climbs to cruising altitude.
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It heads out over the South China Sea.
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Malaysian, uh, 370,
maintaining level three five zero.
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Shortly after one o'clock in the morning
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is when things start to get strange.
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The plane is about to leave
Malaysian airspace.
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They're going to be handed to the next set
of air traffic controllers in Vietnam.
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So, the Malaysians said...
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Malaysian 370,
contact Ho Chi Minh 120, decimal 9.
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Good night.
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As the plane approaches
the limits of Malaysian airspace,
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the captain of the flight,
Zaharie Ahmad Shah,
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gets on the radio and says...
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Uh, good night, Malaysian 370.
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{\an8} And then 90 seconds later,
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{\an8}the plane suddenly
goes electronically dark.
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It vanishes from radar.
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That is basically
where the mystery begins.
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I was awakened
by a phone call at 2:20 in the morning.
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{\an8}I was told that flight MH370
is missing from our system.
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We knew this is very, very unusual.
Extremely unusual.
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When I arrive at the
Emergency Operation Center...
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I felt numb and I was very nervous.
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We requested Thailand,
Hong Kong, as well as Vietnam,
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to call and communicate with MH370.
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But they told us that
there was no response at all.
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Between 4 o'clock in the morning
until 6:30, we were virtually scrambling.
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We were calling everyone
that we can get hold of,
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hoping that the aircraft could have landed
somewhere in Vietnam, or in Hong Kong,
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or somewhere in China
before it arrived in Beijing.
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As the time grows nearer
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to 6:30 a.m...
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...we knew there was something
seriously wrong.
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{\an8}We have breaking news.
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{\an8}Malaysia Airlines confirms
it has lost contact
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{\an8}with a plane carrying 227 passengers...
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...6:30 in the morning in Beijing.
At this stage, very sketchy details...
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Just to re, re... uh...
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{\an8}remind you of what we're finding out.
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{\an8}The flight number is MH370.
It was expected...
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...Boeing 777
seems to have vanished into thin air.
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This was absolutely my worst nightmare.
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What do we tell the family members?
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What do we tell the media?
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I was already getting calls
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from several media, including CNN.
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On the phone with us is Malaysian Airlines
Vice President of Operations.
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Mr, Sharuji,
I appreciate you being with us.
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What's the latest
you can tell us about this aircraft?
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Okay, the aircraft has got
about seven hours of fuel.
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And we suspect that by 8:30,
this aircraft would have run out of fuel.
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At the moment, we have got no idea
where this aircraft is right now.
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As senior officers,
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you are trained
to expect the worst-case scenario.
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You are trained
to handle crisis management.
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{\an8}But when it happens,
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it's... it's... it's... it's different
because you don't have a clue.
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You don't have a clue then
where is the aircraft.
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Early in the morning
of the eighth,
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the search-and-rescue had been activated.
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The standard operating procedures is to go
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to the location where we lost the aircraft
on the radar screen.
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We got calls saying that personnel
from one of the oil rigs
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in the South China Sea
sighted an explosion,
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as if an aircraft
had crashed into the sea.
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Right away,
when the plane failed to appear,
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you got a huge amount of interest,
social media activity,
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people posting about, "What happened
to this plane?" "Where is it?"
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We received so many reports
from social media.
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One claimed
that the aircraft was hijacked.
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Another said that the aircraft crashed
in the jungles of Java.
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At that time,
we had to take all information
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as possible truth.
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Because we do not know
whether they are true or not.
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Vietnamese Air Force planes
have apparently spotted
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two large oil slicks in the area,
off the southern tip of Vietnam.
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Each of those slicks apparently
about six miles wide.
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Our time and effort was consumed
in trying to validate this information.
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{\an8} Cathay Pacific pilot
reported seeing
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{\an8}large solid debris in the ocean during
a flight from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur.
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{\an8}Of course the families want to know
what happened to their loved ones.
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Are they alive? Are they dead?
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And we have no answers.
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We do know
another pilot contacted flight 370
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just before it disappeared.
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{\an8}The captain of the overnight flight
to Tokyo was positioned 30 minutes ahead
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{\an8}and he called them
on the emergency frequency.
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{\an8}He told Malaysian media,
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{\an8}"There was a lot of interference, static,
but I heard mumbling from the other end."
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It was Saturday morning
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and Paul had sent an email from
the airport titled, "Miss you already."
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He finished his email with,
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"You and the boys are my world."
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"And as soon as I land in Beijing,
on March 8th, I'll give you a call."
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I was just at home.
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Everything was totally normal.
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Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
is a daily departure.
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So Hazrin worked the flight many times.
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It was a routine for us to send each other
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a text message when the plane landed.
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We had been doing that
throughout our flying career.
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I was in the kitchen
and then I got a call.
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And it was a lady asking for Paul.
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And I said,
"Oh no, look sorry, he's on a plane."
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I said, "Where are you from?"
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She said, "I'm a reporter
from the New Zealand Herald."
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I was on a plane,
on my way to meet my children.
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I arrived at 4:00 p.m. in Beijing.
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At that point,
I'm heading out of the plane.
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There was a hostess waiting for me
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who said, "Sir, follow us."
I had no idea what was happening.
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I woke up early morning.
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I look at my phone.
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When I don't receive the text from him...
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I say to myself,
"Never mind, just go back to sleep."
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"He will call or text later on, right?"
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And I thought,
"What does she want with Paul?"
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And she said, "You haven't heard?"
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And I said, "Heard what?"
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She said,
"There's been an incident with the plane."
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See you tomorrow morning.
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Papa misses you too. I love you.
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Good night, Malaysia 370.
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I dropped the phone
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and ran outside screaming.
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All I can remember
was I was just crying.
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It's just so unimaginable
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that becomes a reality to... to me.
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At that moment, time stops.
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"How's that possible?"
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"Is this a nightmare?"
"Please wake me up!"
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I said, "Are you sure?"
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And at that moment, they answer,
"No, we aren't sure of anything."
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Well, I'm at
terminal three at the moment.
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You would expect there
to be a lot of people here waiting for...
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Friends and relatives in Beijing
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were sent to a city-center hotel
to wait for news.
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We hope the Chinese government
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will send a search-and-rescue team,
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because the Vietnamese government
is not proactive.
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We are working
with authorities who have activated
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the search-and-rescue team
to locate the aircraft.
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Our team is currently calling
the next of kin of passengers and crew.
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- Thank you very much.
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I was the last
of the family members to get there.
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You get out of the car
and you're mobbed by journalists.
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Mobbed.
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There was a crazy amount of people.
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Everybody is taking pictures of you
and reaching out with microphones...
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I remember my friends had to push
them away so we could reach the room.
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And then someone
from Malaysian Airlines
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came to me and they tell me to sit down.
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I ask, "What are we doing?"
They say, "We're waiting."
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All the families were there.
They were mostly Chinese.
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I couldn't even communicate with them.
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And that's when I told my friends,
"Please take me home, I can't stay here."
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Here in Beijing,
hundreds of family members
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and friends of the passengers on board
have gathered in the hotel.
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They're growing increasingly frustrated
by the lack of information
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about their loved ones.
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The room was full of people...
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crying and wailing.
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There were families in the corridor,
leaning against the wall,
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standing there,
squatting down, sitting on the floor.
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When I think about it now,
that room was like a living hell.
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That's not an exaggeration.
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Relatives of the missing passengers
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say they've called
their loved one's cell phones
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and instead of going to voicemail,
the phones continue to ring.
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Suddenly, there was
a daughter of a passenger running towards us.
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We could see her phone
was showing an incoming call.
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Uh, It was displaying "Papa."
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She said, "What should I do?"
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I shouted back to her, "Pick up the call!"
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But sadly,
when she tried to pick up the phone,
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it stopped ringing.
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Many of us tried to call
our families on the plane.
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In many of these calls,
there was a connection and a ringtone.
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We requested that Malaysia Airlines
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and the government
follow the lead on the connected calls.
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But their replies were always the same.
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They didn't have the technology
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to trace it further.
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Um, it was incomprehensible to us,
the families.
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This was the easiest way
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to locate the passengers and the plane.
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Sunrise,
and the waters south of Vietnam
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brought an all-out search
for Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
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If it's landed at an airport,
we'd know it.
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It does not have enough fuel
to be still in the air.
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So it sure doesn't look good.
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And we don't know anything.
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We're not even sure of
where that plane is.
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There was a glimmer of hope today.
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The Vietnamese thought
they'd spotted a life raft,
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but it turned out to be a cable reel.
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An investigator's best lead
came to nothing.
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Residue from an oil slick
was tested in the lab.
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They were looking for jet fuel,
but the oil came from a ship.
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We went there. There's nothing.
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- Oh...
- There's nothing.
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It was very, very hard
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because things are not going
as what we expected it to be.
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So, do you have any comment
on the status of MH370?
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There is just this tremendous
interest from around the world.
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What happened to this plane? Where is it?
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And it had to be explored.
It had to be investigated.
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And so I wound up spending countless hours
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to try to really understand what happened
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to this plane.
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An immediate focus of attention
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was the question of communications
and why and how they'd been lost.
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On the top of the 777 is an antenna...
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A modern commercial jetliner
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is in communication multiple ways
with the outside world.
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All of them went dark at the same time.
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Why?
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A team of clever technicians...
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The most obvious answer would be...
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catastrophic failure.
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Like, the plane blew up.
It impacted the ocean.
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Um, it suffered a fire so intense
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that it just destroyed
all the equipment simultaneously
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before anyone could issue a mayday call.
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But...
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the plane's debris was still not found
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underneath the spot where that
disruption in communication occurred.
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{\an8}If it wasn't catastrophic failure,
what's option two?
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The only really obvious possibility
is that somebody on board the plane
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deliberately turned off
its electronic communication signals.
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And if that's the case,
the question is, "Who?"
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Extraordinary new twist
in the disappearance
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of Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
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Malaysian officials now say the plane
was hundreds of miles off course,
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and flying in the wrong direction
when last tracked.
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Here are the latest developments.
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It apparently turned
the opposite direction
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and flew to the Malacca Strait.
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...reports the plane
may have flown
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for more than an hour
after disappearing from radar.
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Something very unexpected
had been spotted by military radar
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that doesn't require
any kind of signals from the plane.
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But the Malaysian military
couldn't confirm 100%
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that this actually was MH370.
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{\an8}We're now hearing from Reuters quoting
a Malaysian military source saying...
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There is a possibility that...
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that this aircraft made a turn back,
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but we are not sure
whether it is the same aircraft.
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Good evening.
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{\an8}Military radars can't say particularly
that this was even flight 370.
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{\an8}It can't tell you what kind
of aircraft it is,
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{\an8}whether it's a helicopter or an airplane.
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{\an8}It just says, "There's a target out there,
here it is."
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{\an8}But it doesn't give you
altitude or airspeed.
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So now, is it possible that,
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far from crashing,
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the plane disappeared
from Malaysian civilian radar,
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reversed course back over
peninsular Malaysia,
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is seen doing so
by Malaysian military radar,
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flies to the end of the zone
of military radar coverage,
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and vanished again?
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If that's true for MH370,
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why did he turn back?
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Why don't he call us, you know?
What is he trying to do?
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We had a house
not too far from the airport.
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I didn't know what else I could do,
so I switched the TV on.
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Search-and-rescue teams from Vietnam,
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Malaysia and Singapore are conducting a...
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The BBC and CNN
had this story on a loop.
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I sat in front of it
and I realized I had to call my son now.
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He was a student at the time in France.
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That was the hardest moment
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of my whole life.
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The first thing he told me,
I hadn’t said a word yet, was,
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"Tell me they weren't on that plane."
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I answered "Yes."
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00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,480
And then I heard a scream.
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Ah.
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Seventy-two hours
after the disappearance of flight 370,
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forty ships and thirty-four aircraft
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have failed to find
any sign of the jetliner.
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So at this point, there's people
searching in the Andaman Sea,
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and at the same time,
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they're still searching
in the South China Sea.
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The state of confusion was so profound.
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I mean,
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it's farcical.
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It's impossible that the plane could be
both of these places.
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Where's the focus your search now?
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Can you confirm
if the plane has turned back?
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You're searching east.
You're searching west.
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- This is utter confusion.
- I don't think so.
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It is overwhelming.
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The clicking noise of all the cameras.
Click, click, click.
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They keep asking, "Where?"
"Why you are looking at the wrong place?"
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As far as we are concerned,
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we are equally puzzled as well.
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Do you feel like
we are getting the whole story?
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Is it possible that some information
is being held back at this point?
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One day you say this.
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The next day, the reporter says that.
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Who to believe? What to believe?
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It's still difficult to understand
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why they've withheld this information,
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given they would've seen it
when it happened in real time.
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00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,640
Right away,
my first reaction was to say,
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00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,720
" They're talking us for fools.
They're mocking us."
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Relatives threw water bottles
at officials in frustration.
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00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:15,600
They want some answers.
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00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,640
Why are you stopping us
speaking to the relatives?
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00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,440
Why are you stopping us speaking
to the relatives? Why are you stopping us?
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00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,080
{\an8} For the families,
it created so much confusion.
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00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,200
{\an8}Every day, it just seemed like there
was something different coming out.
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00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,120
{\an8}That's the torment. It's the not knowing
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00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,880
is the most horrible part of it.
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00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,960
Turning now to new developments
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00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,920
in a search that's both unbelievable
and unprecedented in modern times.
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00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,040
We're now entering a fourth day
without a single sign
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of that massive Boeing 777.
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So, four days in, the case is just
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00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,720
obviously strange and getting stranger.
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I'm trying to wrestle with the more
technical aspects of the case.
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00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,760
And I'm writing about it
on my personal blog.
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00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,880
And as I'm writing about this stuff,
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people are joining the conversation
in the comments section
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and we're sort of running
a parallel investigation almost.
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And I got one comment from a guy named
"Air Land Sea Man"
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who was in enormous detail.
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00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,000
I couldn't even understand fully
what he was saying.
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00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,080
This guy clearly knew
what he was talking about.
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I've been a pilot for over 50 years.
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My career was
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{\an8}mainly involved
with engineering and science.
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00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,240
A number of us
started communicating to see if we could
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00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,280
come up with any kind of, uh,
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solid theory on where the airplane went.
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00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:08,280
The group consisted of pilots,
engineers, scientists,
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legal experts, mechanical engineers,
electrical engineers,
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people very familiar
with how the 777 flies
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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,880
and how the different systems work.
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00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,720
I had never experienced
anything like this,
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where people were coming together
spontaneously from all around the world.
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00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:35,000
We're spending 12 hours a day
or more digging up details,
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00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,640
going back over everything
again and again.
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00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,520
We were suddenly working together
as a tight-knit team.
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00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,560
One of them suggested that we should
call ourselves the "Independent Group."
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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,480
We felt this was done by somebody who
really knew what they were doing.
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00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,720
So the spotlight turns more and more
to the pilots.
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00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,080
I write up my findings in a piece
for Slate Magazine called,
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"How to Disappear a Jetliner."
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00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,280
It gets a lot of attention.
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00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,800
The next thing I know, I'm live on CNN.
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00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,040
Jeff, let me come to you first.
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00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,960
{\an8}I read your piece before I came on air.
Absolutely fascinating theory.
448
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,160
{\an8}Basically, what some pilots
are talking about, I'm hearing,
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{\an8}is the idea that
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{\an8}perhaps the pilot
or co-pilot of this plane,
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{\an8}um, took control of the cockpit.
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Who knows what the motive is
to do something like this. The point...
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We, of the Independent Group,
weren't making really any kind of claims,
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but we were just trying to
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figure out what was known.
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Because
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if you wanted to know about MH370,
which so many people did,
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you weren't getting it
from Malaysian authorities.
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00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,600
We weren't the only group out there.
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00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,560
There was another tribe
called the Tomnoders.
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{\an8}As multiple countries and crews
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00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,600
{\an8}search for that missing
Malaysian Airlines plane,
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00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,040
{\an8}so can you too,
using your very own computer.
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00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,680
{\an8}Here's how it works.
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{\an8} They're inviting anyone to go
onto their platform called Tomnod
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{\an8}to view the high-res pictures of the area
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where the Malaysia Airlines jet
might have gone down.
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00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,280
The Air Force Chief told us
more time and help was needed
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to pinpoint the aircraft's location.
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00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,680
Grieving family members long to know
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00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,840
where flight 370 went down.
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00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,560
When I saw
the anguish on the faces
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of these family members,
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00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,480
I thought, "I have to do something."
It just tugged at my heartstrings.
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00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,280
My hobby is photography,
so I have an eye for detail.
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00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,760
So I thought I could be a great person
to help look for this airplane
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00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,200
from the satellite images.
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00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,560
As a Tomnoder,
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the areas we were searching...
we had no control over to pick.
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00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,960
And so I was handed the area
pretty close to where the airplane
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first disappeared from radar
in the South China Sea.
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00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,440
The satellite images were empty.
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00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,960
It was just the blackness of the sea.
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00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:18,800
Then you press next...
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more black scans.
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So much black.
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00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:31,800
And then, finally...
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there's something white.
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I pulled the schematics off the internet
for a B777.
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And I was able to identify this piece
as the nose cone.
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00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:59,320
That's when I started saying, "Holy crap!"
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00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,000
"There's a piece of debris," you know?
"There's the airplane."
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00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,440
And then I started seeing more pieces.
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Something that looked like the fuselage.
Something that looked like the tail.
495
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,000
I got goosebumps.
496
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,760
I literally cried because I knew
someone had died there.
497
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,520
Because I knew
that was a part of the plane.
498
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:27,600
That meant...
499
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,600
they were no longer alive
500
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,040
and that wasn't the answer
their family members were looking for.
501
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,640
This is the most security
that we've seen so far.
502
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,440
They're obviously here
to protect the Prime Minister.
503
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,000
Mr. Prime Minister,
this is for American journalism.
504
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,360
Press conference later.
505
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,760
On the 15th of March,
506
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,240
I received a call from Malaysian Airlines
507
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,520
to say that
there's going to be an announcement
508
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,640
from the Malaysian prime minister.
509
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,360
There's a moment of trepidation that,
510
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,800
"Oh no, they've found them
and this is it."
511
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,000
"This is it, he is truly gone."
512
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,280
Today,
513
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,600
based on new satellite communication,
514
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,080
we can confirm
515
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,000
MH370
516
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,320
did indeed
517
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,200
turn back over Peninsular Malaysia
518
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,080
before turning northwest.
519
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,960
I was like, "What is going on?"
520
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,600
I was just in disbelief that...
that they were telling us this.
521
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,280
We are ending
our operations in the South China Sea
522
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,640
and reassessing
the redeployment of our assets.
523
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,440
I knew that what I had
in the South China Sea
524
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,680
was the debris of MH370
525
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,480
and I was not going to just sit around
and not be vocal about that.
526
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:20,720
I already had notified Tomnod
that this debris existed.
527
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,880
But I never got an acknowledgment
that I tagged debris.
528
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,440
I mean, it was like nothing ever happened.
529
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,560
So I tweeted everybody I could tweet.
530
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,000
I put it on Facebook.
531
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:34,760
I emailed.
532
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,160
I did everything I could to try and get
someone's attention that the debris
533
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,720
was off Vietnam in the South China Sea.
534
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,480
It frustrated a lot of us Tomnoders.
535
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,720
But then the next thing I heard
was even more confusing.
536
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,200
Based on this new data,
537
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,600
we have determined
538
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,840
that the plane's last communication
539
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:02,840
with a satellite
540
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:08,480
was in one of two possible corridors.
541
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,880
So this is really-- this is getting
weirder and weirder by the day.
542
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,000
So now,
543
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,240
after the plane
leaves the area of military radar,
544
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:19,720
it turns out that
545
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:22,720
a satellite communication service
called Inmarsat
546
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:26,520
had equipment aboard the plane that was
547
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,360
communicating with a satellite
548
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,480
that was located above
549
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:32,880
the central Indian Ocean.
550
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,680
{\an8}There are stunning new developments
in the disappearance of flight 370.
551
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,280
{\an8}There is new information coming in
that's reshaping theories...
552
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,680
The search was in the wrong area.
553
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,880
{\an8}The aircraft could be anywhere
in these two arcs...
554
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:49,200
{\an8}...they're covering are so vast,
hundreds of thousands of square miles.
555
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,280
370...
556
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,480
When a plane is out
over the open ocean,
557
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,680
the only way it can communicate by radio
558
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,640
is by transmitting a signal
up to a satellite.
559
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:17,000
So, still no plane,
but streams of data to sift through.
560
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,560
Inmarsat are in
the business of providing
561
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,480
satellite communication for planes.
562
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,440
when they're beyond
range of ground radar systems.
563
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,720
What we found in the data
564
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:29,760
were these seven handshakes,
or "pings," as they came to be known.
565
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,080
Every hour,
the Inmarsat system was checking
566
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,840
that the satellite terminal
on the aircraft was responding.
567
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,640
So it would send a message
basically saying, "Are you still there?"
568
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,360
And the satellite terminal
responded saying, "Yes."
569
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,720
And these pings continued,
or these messages continued,
570
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:49,400
for up to six hours after last contact.
571
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:55,920
There was a deep sense of shock.
572
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,920
We weren't expecting to see the aircraft
appear still to be flying.
573
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,840
But there's nothing in the data itself
to give any positional information.
574
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,400
There was no GPS coordinates, for example.
575
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:24,400
All we know is how far
the aircraft is away from the satellite.
576
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,560
So we knew that we had additional work
to determine whether
577
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,280
the aircraft was traveling north or south
for the last part of the flight.
578
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,480
But we knew analysis
was going to take time.
579
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,520
So...
580
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,120
the mystery has only deepened.
581
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,560
Um, we know that the plane flew on
for several hours.
582
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,360
One of the routes went south
583
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,440
and ended up
in the remote southern Indian Ocean.
584
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,640
The other one
went north into Central Asia.
585
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,520
Now. the most optimistic possibility is
that it landed somewhere in Central Asia,
586
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:04,560
like Kazakhstan.
587
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,000
But if the plane went south
588
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,600
it must have crashed
589
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,640
in the remote ocean.
590
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,920
There's no way that anyone
could have survived.
591
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,000
So while Inmarsat
worked on where the plane went,
592
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,240
the Malaysians are now
forced to acknowledge
593
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:29,280
a basic fact that'd been pretty obvious
to onlookers for a while.
594
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,360
{\an8}Good evening.
The word from Malaysia tonight
595
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,480
{\an8}is that whatever happened
to Malaysia Airlines flight 370
596
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,080
{\an8}was no accident.
597
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,040
{\an8}The country's prime minister
publicly confirming today
598
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,520
{\an8}what has been a widely held suspicion
599
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,840
{\an8}that the plane
was deliberately flown off course.
600
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,800
Can you tell us
what you were doing inside the house?
601
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,480
In Kuala Lumpur,
flight 370 is now
602
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,120
a criminal investigation.
603
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,200
{\an8} This white police car
604
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,960
{\an8}has just raided the home
605
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,840
{\an8}of the captain of MH370.
606
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,320
The general consensus
was that the pilots took the plane.
607
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,920
{\an8}As I said before,
this is definitely not an accident.
608
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,960
{\an8}You don't fly for eight hours
609
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,200
{\an8}and travel thousands of miles by accident.
610
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:26,480
From the get-go,
611
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,240
of the two pilots,
612
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,400
one was considered infinitely more likely
613
00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:35,560
to be the culprit.
614
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,080
{\an8}The co-pilot was
615
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:40,200
{\an8}very wet behind the ears.
616
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,880
{\an8}He had just been approved to fly
as a first officer on a 777.
617
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,480
{\an8}So the focus was always on the captain
of the flight,
618
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,920
{\an8}Zaharie Ahmad Shah
619
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,520
{\an8}because he was an extremely
experienced captain,
620
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,880
and what was done
621
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,880
was aggressive and sophisticated.
622
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:04,640
Hi everyone, uh...
623
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,440
this is a YouTube video that I made, um...
624
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,520
The pilot's
home flight simulator
625
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,200
was removed by police to see if perhaps
626
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,040
the erratic route flight 370 took
627
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,680
was first rehearsed in cyberspace.
628
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,720
We took possession of a simulator...
629
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:23,280
of a flight simulator.
630
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,760
Zaharie had the chops.
631
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:31,240
Zaharie was a veteran, experienced guy,
who would know all the angles.
632
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:35,000
Who'd be able to conceive of something
as complicated as this.
633
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:41,600
But...
634
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,440
there was still no sign of this plane.
635
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:47,840
Whether it's heading north or south.
636
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,840
Our engineer,
who'd been working on the numbers,
637
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,080
contacted me to say
that he had cracked the problem.
638
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,280
He had to really dig into the system,
639
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,000
understand how all the components
in the system work,
640
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,400
to establish, essentially, the equation
641
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,080
for what would be expected
if the aircraft was moving north
642
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,360
or if it was moving south.
643
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,920
He had been able to determine
which of the flight paths
644
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,040
MH370 had taken.
645
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,160
So, I sat at my kitchen table that weekend
646
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,560
creating some information that we
could pass to the Malaysian authorities.
647
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,800
The Malaysian Airlines center tells us,
648
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,320
"There's an important press
conference coming up tomorrow,
649
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,960
so be in front of your TV in the morning."
650
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,720
So deep down you're telling yourself,
651
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,720
"They're still alive."
652
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,240
"If there's no crash,
they're still alive."
653
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:03,920
For quite some time,
I kept communicating with them.
654
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,000
They had their phones
so I kept sending texts.
655
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,320
So every night before going to bed,
I would text them all.
656
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,320
"How are you?" "Thinking about you."
"Here's what I did today."
657
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,560
It was a way for me to keep the dialogue
going with them in a way.
658
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:54,360
This evening,
659
00:45:55,280 --> 00:46:02,280
I was briefed by representatives from
the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
660
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,360
Based on their new analysis,
661
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:08,280
Inmarsat
662
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:11,240
and the AAIB
663
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:13,480
have concluded
664
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,680
that MH370
665
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,400
flew along the southern corridor.
666
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:24,800
This...
667
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,640
is a remote location,
668
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,280
far from any possible landing sites.
669
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:35,640
It is, therefore,
670
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,360
with deep sadness
671
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,400
and regret that I must inform you
672
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:44,640
that according
673
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,880
to this new data,
674
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,280
flight MH370
675
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,480
ended in the southern
676
00:46:57,920 --> 00:46:58,840
Indian Ocean.
677
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,920
They still don't have any proof
678
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,600
that their loved ones are dead.
679
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,520
All we had was the satellite data.
680
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,320
We had no physical evidence.
681
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:44,720
So,
682
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:46,800
he's essentially telling
683
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,360
the loved ones of the passengers and crew,
684
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,440
"Your loved ones are dead
because of math."
685
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,840
Fuck Malaysia!
686
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,080
Malaysia is lying!
687
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,320
Never in the history of human existence
688
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,520
have 239 people
689
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:13,680
been declared dead
690
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,480
on the basis of mathematics alone.
691
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,680
Nothing had been found.
692
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,600
The exact location of the plane
had not been worked out.
693
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,400
There was some sort of calculation
on the position of the plane.
694
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,760
But the result had not been verified.
695
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,200
To us, they were frantically trying
to hide something
696
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:43,720
and wrap it up quickly.
697
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:53,440
Here, we the families
of the 154 Chinese passengers on MH370,
698
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,920
vehemently protest against
and condemn Malaysia Airlines,
699
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,640
the Malaysian government and the military!
700
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:04,160
- Bring our family back!
- Bring our family back!
701
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,800
- Tell us the truth!
- Tell us the truth!
702
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:11,120
We will use all possible
means to hold Malaysian Airlines,
703
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,240
the Malaysian government and military
accountable for their unforgivable crimes.
704
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,320
Parts of Beijing
were in full riot mode today
705
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,400
as families descended
on the Malaysian embassy to protest.
706
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,280
Bring our families back!
707
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,320
This is such a rarity in Beijing,
708
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:37,040
a public protest
bringing the streets to a standstill,
709
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,440
but such is the discontent
amongst these family members,
710
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,000
they're allowed to do it.
711
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,280
The families
had been yelling slogans like...
712
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,120
Tell us the truth!
713
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:52,520
"Malaysia is a liar."
714
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,520
Bring our families back!
715
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,040
"You are murderers."
716
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,680
We simply refused to accept
717
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,680
that the fate
718
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,680
of our 154 loved ones had been
sealed by virtue of an announcement.
719
00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:12,920
The rally itself was
kept outside of Malaysian embassy fences,
720
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,200
out of the view of the world's media.
721
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,480
We felt really helpless.
722
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:21,120
And angry.
723
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,960
The chief executive
of Malaysia Airlines
724
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,960
agreed to be interviewed
for the first time today.
725
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:34,080
Our primary role is really
to ensure we take care of the families.
726
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,800
I think we've gone beyond
our normal responses.
727
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,840
{\an8}I think they would say
you haven't gone far enough.
728
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,160
Well, I think it's unfair.
I think we've done all we can.
729
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,880
There was this swirling fog
730
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,400
of unanswered questions.
731
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,280
But for me, it was clear.
732
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,160
The overwhelming body of evidence
733
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,680
pointed strongly to my theory.
734
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,880
The pilot decided to commit
mass murder-suicide.
735
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,320
He had wound up
736
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,720
on this straight beeline
737
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:19,440
into the southern Indian Ocean,
738
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,320
in order to end his life and to murder
739
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,880
{\an8}more than 200 other human beings.
740
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,560
This was something that
must have required significant planning.
741
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,480
And so,
742
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,720
as an aviation journalist,
743
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:40,280
I felt like I had to paint a comprehensive
744
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:45,480
and final decisive picture
of what had happened that night.
745
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,160
Shortly after one o'clock
in the morning,
746
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,080
Zaharie is flying
over the South China Sea.
747
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,920
He is responsible for 11 crew
748
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,000
and 227 passengers
749
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,960
making their way to Beijing
on a routine red-eye.
750
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:24,320
At this stage,
751
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,520
air traffic control in Kuala Lumpur
752
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,120
calls up and says...
753
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:33,040
Malaysian 370,
contact Ho Chi Minh 120, decimal 9.
754
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:33,960
Good night.
755
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,640
MH370 is about to be handed over
to the next set
756
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,040
of air traffic controllers,
who are in Vietnam.
757
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:44,960
So Zaharie says...
758
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,400
Good night, Malaysian 370.
759
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,960
He's now in a kind of gray zone
760
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,680
in between two areas
of air traffic control.
761
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,560
Nobody's paying attention to him.
762
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,840
Maybe he says to the co-pilot,
763
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,960
"Hey, buddy, why don't you go in the back
and get me something?"
764
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,840
The co-pilot closes the door.
765
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:13,000
Zaharie locks it.
766
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,680
Now, he's about to implement his big plan.
767
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,440
He turns off all the electronics
that make the plane visible
768
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:33,800
to the outside world.
769
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,280
It vanishes from radar.
770
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,160
At that moment
771
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,240
for everyone else aboard the plane,
772
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:58,800
everything was routine.
773
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,160
Zaharie is in complete control
774
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,320
and nobody knows anything about it.
775
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,120
He grabs the yoke
776
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,120
and he pulls it into a hard left turn.
777
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,480
He heads back towards
the Malaysian peninsula.
778
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:34,120
But then...
779
00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:41,320
perhaps the co-pilot realizes that
he's been locked out of the cockpit.
780
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:45,280
Zaharie knows that he
781
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,400
is going to have a very hard time
keeping control of the plane.
782
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:52,920
So...
783
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,400
maybe he
784
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,280
starts depressurizing the cabin.
785
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:05,880
Everyone is confused.
786
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,840
But what a lot of the passengers
don't realize
787
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,880
is that the oxygen generators
in these emergency masks
788
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:13,920
only work for about 15 minutes.
789
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:20,000
The captain has
a more sophisticated, longer-lasting mask.
790
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,080
And soon the entire cabin is quiet.
791
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,880
He turns the plane to the south.
792
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,040
And he flies straight, into the darkness,
793
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,000
waiting for his fuel to run out.
794
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,120
After six hours of flight...
795
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:54,640
the engines stop running.
796
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:01,640
He pushes the nose down.
797
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,360
And he starts to slide into a dive.
798
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,960
Decrease, pull up.
799
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:11,520
Decrease, pull up.
800
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,640
That is the scenario that is necessary
801
00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:21,800
if Zaharie took the plane.
802
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,240
It had to be that sequence of events.
803
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,760
It is worth pointing out that
there have been a handful of cases
804
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,560
of pilots who have decided to
805
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,160
kill their passengers.
806
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,200
But...
807
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,080
there has never been a case
808
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,200
that someone has taken six hours
809
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,160
to commit mass murder-suicide.
810
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:47,760
I started to wonder...
811
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,440
maybe it wasn't Zaharie after all.
812
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:54,080
And then, four and a half months
after the disappearance,
813
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,840
something happens that
814
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,360
is like a rip in the fabric of reality.
815
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:00,680
Good morning.
816
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:06,320
Yesterday, Malaysian Airlines flight MH17
took off from Amsterdam
817
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,560
and was shot down over Ukraine,
near the Russian border.
818
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,120
And I think, "Oh my God."
819
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:19,200
Malaysian Airlines hadn't had
a significant accident since the '90s.
820
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,000
And now,
in the span of four and a half months,
821
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,960
they'd lost two huge 777s.
822
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,760
{\an8}It seemed like an incredible coincidence.
823
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:33,520
At this point,
824
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:37,520
MH370 is not just an unsolved mass murder.
825
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,240
It's potentially...
826
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:42,920
an act of war.