A Malaysia Airlines plane, with nearly 300 people on board,
has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border.
Flight MH17 took off from Amsterdam just after midday local time.
It was bound for Kuala Lumpur.
US intelligence has concluded,
it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
The odds of losing two airplanes within a six-month period is unprecedented.
And both 777s too.
Ukrainian president called the downing of the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane
an act of terrorism.
We don't have the answers.
This is one of the great mysteries in aviation history.
Australia will lead the search in the Indian Ocean
for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
Experts say the jet going down in the Indian Ocean,
more than 1,800 kilometers off the West Australian coast.
It's a vast area, a huge responsibility for Australia
as they try and find any trace of flight 370.
Tonight, there are 43 ships,
58 aircraft, from 14 different countries,
all working together to try to find clues.
The area they're searching is far larger
than the continental United States.
We're not searching for a needle in a haystack.
We're trying to define where the haystack is.
The search team still insists the debris field is here on the ocean floor,
a location they say satellite data points to.
This is what a year of grieving looks like.
The relatives of the missing have experienced denial,
anger,
sadness.
But with not a single trace of the plane,
acceptance is a long way off.
This is why I am here speaking to you today.
This is why I'm here going through this heart-wrenching episode,
talking about my feelings. It's not easy.
But I'm doing it because
I need to know that I've done everything that I can for my mother.
Even if she's not here.
On social media,
conspiracy theories about the missing plane are going viral.
The real Malaysia Airlines flight was hijacked
and flown to Iran
in preparation for a terror attack.
Fire from lithium batteries in the cargo hold brought the plane down.
News has just broken that a fisherman from Indonesia
claims he saw the damaged plane covered in black smoke
as it flew overhead.
Another conspiracy:
an outrageous insurance scam.
Four days after the flight disappeared,
there was a patent issued for a new semi-conductor technology.
Others wonder: did it land on the US military base
known as Diego Garcia?
...the totally bizarre. A meteorite hitting it.
Perhaps, some suggest, North Korea took the airplane.
Does this mean an alien was on the plane?
And abducted everyone on board.
It gets even weirder.
Zaharie attended Anwar's pro-democracy rallies and meetings.
Local press are now asking,
"Did Zaharie purposely down the plane to make a political statement?"
Hi everyone, uh,
this is a YouTube video that I made as a...
community service.
This is the cheapest solution that you can do.
And it's very effective.
He's a very gentle, very caring...
person.
I know it's complicated, but what do you see as the biggest problem?
The biggest problem is that Inmarsat hasn't released enough detail
to allow outsiders to confirm any of their analysis.
Really, all the faith has been in this data.
So this is the main equipment center of a commercial airliner.
This is where essentially all the brains and the electronics...
...equipment racks where...
And you can deactivate the system by pulling those.
You've got relays.
We were starting to think,
"How can they tell us they don't know?" "It's impossible."
When you follow the story closely,
you can only conclude that none of it makes sense.
We're not being shown proof of the radar sighting.
"We can't find the plane. We can't find debris."
We're not being shown anything. Nothing.
We're asked to believe in pure nonsense.
Someone I knew told me,
"Mr. B would like to meet you."
This person had information.
He's someone who's very connected.
Connected to the secret services.
The first time I met him,
the first thing he told me...
"The Americans know full well what happened."
"Because there were two American AWACS
that were monitoring the area at the time the plane disappeared."
These AWACS are Boeing planes with a huge radar like a mushroom on top.
And this radar basically monitors everything underneath the Boeing.
It's like a small satellite above the Earth
that sees everything that's happening in a 600-km radius.
Mr. B said these two planes must have
perfectly tracked the MH370, regardless of its state at any moment.
They know where it crashed. They know where it is.
It's difficult when you receive information
saying the Americans are involved.
I know that if I say it, people won't believe me.
But when I understood there was a "pact of silence,"
that we were being lied to and that we had to do something,
I told myself, "Time to communicate."
Ghyslain Wattrelos, good morning.
You're fighting to understand what happened...
I accepted every single interview
to say "We're being lied to. Journalists must join in."
It's obvious that, given the information I've received,
there are people whose job is to keep me away from the truth.
Until one day I thought,
"I'm not performing at work, so let's quit and go all in on the investigation."
So that's what I did.
Good evening, Ghyslain Wattrelos.
You have lost your wife and your two youngest children...
We're being fed nonsense.
We can't get any information.
We have to get together to do something ourselves.
So that's when we started coordinating with the families.
The families
from different countries gathered,
which was very important.
In doing so, we could make up
for the deficiencies of the non-transparent investigation.
and information coming from Malaysia.
It was pretty risky.
It was an investigation.
But we were going against more powerful forces than us.
We're here to hand a petition in to the president
because it's been a year
and they have said nothing and done nothing.
What we did was, we pressed charges for "act of terrorism."
Why an "act of terrorism?"
Well, because terrorism ranks highest
on the hierarchy of judicial matters.
In France, the moment you press charges, judges are assigned
and the judges have to conduct an investigation.
Hello, how are you?
- Very well, and you? - Very well.
The thing you need to realize is that,
across the globe, there's only one source of judicial information.
It's here.
There's a truth to uncover. It's not a mystery.
We owe it to everyone.
Not only to Ghyslain but also to those
who didn't get that opportunity to have investigating magistrates
in their own countries. We owe it to everyone.
I find myself in a fight,
and this fight keeps me going.
I'm just trying to get to the truth, for myself and everybody else.
One day,
someone from the newspaper Le Monde contacts me and tells me,
"I'm the correspondent for Le Monde. It would be great if we could chat."
Reports have surfaced
of Russian troops landing in Crimea.
Moscow has indeed gone ahead with an armed invasion of its...
The crisis in the Ukraine has escalated and taken a new turn this morning...
Several hundred Russian troops have landed in the Crimea region.
Sir, where's the focus, where's the focus of your search right now?
Can you confirm if the plane has turned back.
Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh,120 decimal 9.
Good night.
Uh, good night, Malaysian 370.
He thinks it's possible Russian hijackers sent the plane north.
Do you really think it went to Kazakhstan?
It's not something I believe.
It's just a hypothesis that I've pieced together.
What kind of reaction are you getting from this theory?
It, it's a lot to swallow, I grant you.
Are you getting calls from people saying this seems realistic,
or what do you think?
If you believe the comment sections, a lot of people are outraged, furious.
Some people are very angry.
Nobody goes into the ENE bay,
reprograms the BFO,
lands in Kazakhstan!
You think that somebody possibly tampered with the satellite data.
But the company that is behind this system, I think it's called Inmarsat,
says they haven't used this in the past to track planes before.
So, the idea that it's being used and then also tampered with
feels far-fetched to them.
This is CNN breaking news.
And we are following breaking news, just into CNN.
It is too soon to confirm right now,
but we can tell you at this point
that some debris has been found in La Réunion...
La Réunion island is being checked for any connection
to missing Malaysian flight 370.
The piece was found on a rocky beach on the French territory in the Indian Ocean.
Boeing investigators believe it is, in fact, a piece of a wing.
Perhaps a flap from a Boeing 777...
Everyone's wondering,
is this a remnant of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370?
New developments tonight involving that piece of debris
discovered off eastern...
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