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A Malaysia Airlines plane,
with nearly 300 people on board,
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has crashed in Ukraine
near the Russian border.
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{\an8}Flight MH17 took off from Amsterdam
just after midday local time.
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{\an8}It was bound for Kuala Lumpur.
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I woke up one morning
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and there was a Malaysian plane
splashed across the TV.
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Instantly, I thought it was MH370
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and then I saw MH17 and I went,
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"Hold on."
"Can't be another Malaysian plane."
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US intelligence has concluded
it was shot down
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by a surface-to-air missile.
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The odds of losing
two airplanes within a six-month period
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is unprecedented.
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And both 777s too.
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Again it happened
to Malaysia Airlines plane.
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Again it happened to my colleagues.
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And...
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it just so happened that this time,
they can bury their loved ones.
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Because we also...
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Yeah.
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We also want to bury our loved ones.
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{\an8}I just went numb. Completely numb.
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{\an8}And...
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I just couldn't believe it.
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We kept thinking,
"There is probably some kind of plan
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to destroy our credibility."
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A series of actions
trying to bring us down.
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Ukrainian president called
the downing of a Malaysian Airlines
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passenger plane an act of terrorism.
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It turned out
that it was a Russian army unit
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under the command
of Russia's military intelligence.
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Malaysia Airlines hadn't had a major
accident since the '90s
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and now within a span of four and a half
months, they'd lost two, big 777s.
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I had to wonder,
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"Is this just a coincidence?"
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And if there was a link
between the two of them,
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{\an8}the underlying truth had to be way darker
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{\an8}then anyone had anticipated at that point.
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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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Australia will lead
the search in the Indian Ocean
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for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
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In the months that followed
the shoot-down of MH17...
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As I thought about
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the idea that maybe the Russians
had caused both of these events,
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the search for MH370 was already underway.
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Experts say the jet
going down in the Indian Ocean,
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more than 1,800 kilometers
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off the West Australian coast.
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It's a vast area,
a huge responsibility
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for Australia as they try and find
any trace of flight 370.
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Tonight, there are 43 ships,
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58 aircraft,
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from 14 different countries,
all working together to try to find clues.
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The area they're searching is far larger
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than the continental United States.
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We're not searching
for a needle in a haystack,
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we're trying to define
where the haystack is.
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The search team
still insists the debris field
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is here on the ocean floor,
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a location they say
satellite data points to.
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The official account
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was that the plane definitely went south
into the southern Indian Ocean.
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Because that's where the last electronic
signals had been detected.
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The Inmarsat data says
the plane went south.
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I can't imagine someone I loved
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lost in the southern Indian Ocean
in 4,000 meters of water.
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I mean, that's just...
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inconceivable.
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There was 239 families
who were desperate for answers.
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And...
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I made a promise at that time
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that I'd do everything I could,
as an individual,
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to bring their loved ones home.
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But it was
a very, very difficult area to search.
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{\an8}What you hope for is a nice,
flat, soft plane.
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{\an8}But there were
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volcanoes, underwater mountains,
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every bit as big and wide
as the Grand Canyon.
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The weather at times
is appalling down there.
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They measured a wave of 24 meters.
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It was definitely not
for the faint-hearted.
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So, we knew the chances were
it would take a long time.
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This is what
a year of grieving looks like.
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The relatives of the missing
have experienced denial, anger, sadness.
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But with not a single trace of the plane,
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acceptance is a long way off.
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This is why I am here
speaking to you today.
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This is why I'm here going through
this heart-wrenching episode,
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talking about my feelings. It's not easy.
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{\an8}I think, for everyone, it had been a very
difficult year for the next of kin.
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When I decided
to then address the public on that day,
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I was just speaking to them as
a daughter missing her mother.
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But I'm doing it because I need to know
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that I've done everything
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Even if she's not here.
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I think I still lived my days
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thinking my mom
would walk through the door any minute.
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Because we had not discovered any debris,
there was absolutely nothing.
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So my daughter asked me,
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"Where is Papa?"
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"If Papa died,
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where is his grave?"
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She asked me again and again.
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"Why Papa work on airplane?"
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"Why didn't Papa go work somewhere else?"
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"If Papa go worked somewhere else,
Papa wouldn't go missing."
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A whole year
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had gone past
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and we were still no further ahead
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than we were from March 8th.
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Just seemed surreal to be
standing there still, 12 months on.
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And all I had
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is him
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walking out that door
and kissing us goodbye.
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And that was still,
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a year on, all I had.
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Planes go up.
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Planes go down.
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What planes don't do
is just vanish off the face of the earth.
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I remember when it was missing
for a week and we were all incredulous.
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You know, we said to one another,
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"I can't believe it's been a whole week
and we still haven't found this plane."
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And then, after a month,
"We still haven't found this plane."
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And then a year later...
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"We're still looking for this plane?"
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The profundity of this mystery,
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and the incompetence
of the Malaysian authorities
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to answer anybody's questions
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had presented a vacuum.
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And there was a lot of people out there
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who were claiming that they had solved it.
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On social media,
conspiracy theories
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about the missing plane are going viral.
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{\an8} The real Malaysian Airlines flight
was hijacked
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{\an8}and flown to Iran
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{\an8}in preparation for a terror attack.
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Theories are bouncing off the walls.
Everyone's got an idea.
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{\an8} Fire from lithium batteries
in the cargo hold brought the plane down.
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Speculation is rife.
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News has broke that
a fisherman from Indonesia
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claims he saw the damaged plane
covered in smoke as it flew overhead.
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Another conspiracy,
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an outrageous insurance scam.
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Some of these people
showed up outside my office,
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would chase me down in a car park.
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It was quite scary. I remember
spraining an ankle once trying to escape
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one of these people who really just wanted
to bring their theory to me.
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Four days after
flight disappeared,
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there was a patent issued
for a new semiconductor technology.
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Others wonder,
"Did it land on the US military base
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known as Diego Garcia?"
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We're trying
to sift through this waterfall
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of misinformation and speculation...
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and nonsense.
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The totally bizarre.
A meteorite hitting it.
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Perhaps, some suggest,
North Korea took the airplane.
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{\an8} Does this mean
an alien was on the plane?
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And abducted everyone on board.
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It gets even weirder.
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Sometimes you just feel like
you're drowning in horseshit.
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Because there's
just so many baseless ideas.
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If you want to believe in a theory,
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make sure that it concurs
with the Inmarsat data
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that told the scientist how far
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the plane was from the satellite.
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This is the key clue of the entire mystery
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and people are choosing
to just say, "Fuck it."
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And yet the plane wasn't where
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the data said it was supposed to be,
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in the southern Indian Ocean.
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That seemed to me something
that had to be grappled with.
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We had to address the issue
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of why wasn't the plane
where it was supposed to be?
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Where had we gone wrong?
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The story was so incredible.
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I decided to suggest to Le Monde,
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a French daily newspaper,
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to revisit the story
for the one-year anniversary.
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Just saying,
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"Guys, this plane
has been completely missing for a year."
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I'm a journalist and I've been a reporter
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covering Asia-Pacific
for the last 30 years.
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The fact that
there was not a single piece of debris
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was the biggest issue.
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There was nothing tangible, credible,
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that the families could relate to.
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And the captain
was made the potential villain.
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I realized that
we had to start from scratch again.
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And I need to have my own
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understanding of who this man is.
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There was a very consistent
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and hostile campaign related to
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his private life, his mental health.
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There were also accusations
that he may have had
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political motivations
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to disappear MH370.
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He was a fan of Anwar Ibrahim,
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who was the leader
of the opposition party.
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Zaharie attended Anwar's
pro-democracy rallies and meetings.
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Local press are now asking,
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"Did Zaharie purposely down the plane
to make a political statement?"
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But he left no message, uh,
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whatsoever, political,
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uh, or goodbye to his family,
or any suicide note.
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None at all.
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And the more I looked at his life,
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the less I could see a reason for him
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to be angry or to be unhappy.
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Hi everyone. Uh...
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This is a YouTube video that I made as a
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community service.
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This was a man
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who was doing YouTube videos to help
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sealing your windows
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or fixing your air conditioning.
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This is the cheapest solution
that you can do.
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And it's very effective.
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In my opinion,
he was certainly not an extremist.
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What I did was line up interviews
with members of his family.
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My very first encounter
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was with his older sister, Sakinab.
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He's a very gentle, very caring
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person.
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Sakinab, when I met her,
was obviously very upset.
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First, because she lost this precious
little brother that she loved so much,
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but also because she had to endure
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these insinuations
that he was responsible for this disaster.
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Captain Zaharie is
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known as one of the best pilots
at Malaysia Airlines.
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And all the crews
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definitely don't agree with
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that kind of accusation
towards Captain Zaharie.
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When the spotlight
focused on Captain Zaharie,
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I took offense to that.
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{\an8}Because I know him personally.
I know him very well.
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{\an8}And he's a person
who is very professional.
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There's no way he could have done this.
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If there's no proof,
then you shouldn't assume
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someone did that.
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Especially maybe because
I'm a criminal lawyer,
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and being innocent until proven guilty
is very important to me.
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People say
everyone may have a darker side.
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Okay. Maybe, then.
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But, as far as I'm concerned,
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based on all the information
I gathered and I read,
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my answer is, "No."
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"He's, he's not guilty."
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So, it's a year on.
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It seems to me increasingly problematic
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that the plane has not been found,
no debris has been found.
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All... The entire search effort
at this point
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is based on the satellite data.
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But...
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ships and planes
from 12 countries had been scouring
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millions of square miles of ocean
and found not so much as a seat cushion.
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So the entire edifice is resting on this
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rather scant set of electronic signals
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and the fairly advanced mathematics
that was used to understand them,
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by the Inmarsat company.
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At the time, I was still working with
my colleagues in the Independent Group.
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They were this kind of
amateur band of self-styled experts,
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who are obsessed with data and facts.
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We exchanged information,
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{\an8}about 18 of us, where we were working
around the clock on it.
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I became very,
very involved on a daily basis,
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corresponding with people
in the Independent Group.
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And also people
at CNN and other news organizations.
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I know it's complicated,
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but what do you see
as the biggest problem?
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{\an8}The biggest problem is that Inmarsat
hasn't released enough detail
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{\an8}to allow outsiders
to confirm any of their analysis.
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{\an8}Really, all the faith
has been in this data.
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Finally, the Malaysians
did release all of the data
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gotten from the Inmarsat company.
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Inside the report
was a paragraph that said,
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this piece of equipment
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that controlled the plane's communication
with the satellite
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had been turned off
when everything else was turned off
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and then it came back to life.
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That, to me,
changed the entire tenor of the subject.
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Because if you wanted
to abscond with an airplane,
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and if you wanted to turn it off
and make it disappear from a screen...
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why would you turn the system back on?
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Maybe there was something really wrong
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with that Inmarsat data.
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Maybe it had been tampered with.
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So I spent a lot of time
trying to figure out
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how could you turn the box off
and back on again?
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And I quickly learned that
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most airline pilots
are not trained how to do it.
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The airlines don't want them to do it.
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So there is no
on and off switch in the cockpit.
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So this is the main equipment center
of a commercial airliner.
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This is where essentially all the brains
and the electronics...
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The 777 uses electronics
to do everything.
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All of this resides
inside the electronics bay.
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Effectively, the electronic brain
of the whole plane.
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...equipment racks where...
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And, in there,
you can switch off this equipment.
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And you can deactivate the system
by pulling those. You've got relays.
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So the question is, then,
"How do you access the electronics bay?"
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And this is the part
that really blew my mind.
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The electronics bay
is under an unlocked hatch,
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under a piece of carpet
at the front of the first-class cabin.
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Effectively anybody on that plane
can pull up a carpet...
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and have control of the airplane.
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There's a hatch that leads to
the avionics compartment,
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or the E&E bay, as we call it.
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And that hatch is in between
the first class and the cockpit.
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So, there is a possibility that
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somebody could have got
into the avionics compartment.
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And they can disable
the communication system.
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Suddenly, it's not so clear
that it was the pilot after all.
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It's like an Agatha Christie mystery.
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Everyone in the manor house
is now a suspect.
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We were starting to think,
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"How can they tell us they don't know?
It's impossible."
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When you follow the story closely,
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you can only conclude
that none of it makes sense.
321
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We're not being shown proof
of the radar sighting.
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"We can't find the plane.
We can't find debris."
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We're not being shown anything. Nothing.
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We're asked to believe in pure nonsense.
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Someone I knew told me,
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"Mr. B would like to meet you."
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This person had information.
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He's someone who's very connected.
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Connected to the secret services.
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The first time I met him,
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the first thing he told me...
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"The Americans know
full well what happened."
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"Because there were two American AWACS
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that were monitoring the area
at the time the plane disappeared."
335
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These AWACS are Boeing planes
with a huge radar like a mushroom on top.
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And this radar basically monitors
everything underneath the Boeing.
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It's like a small satellite above
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the Earth that sees everything
that's happening in a 600-km radius.
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Mr. B said these two planes must have
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perfectly tracked the MH370,
regardless of its state at any moment.
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They know where it crashed.
They know where it is.
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It's difficult
when you receive information
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saying the Americans are involved.
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I know that if I say it,
people won't believe me.
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But when I understood
there was a "pact of silence,"
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that we were being lied to
and that we had to do something,
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I told myself, "Time to communicate."
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{\an8}Ghyslain Wattrelos, good morning.
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{\an8}You're fighting to understand
what happened...
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{\an8} I accepted
every single interview
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to say "We're being lied to.
Journalists must join in."
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It's obvious that,
given the information I've received,
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there are people whose job is
to keep me away from the truth.
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{\an8}Until one day I thought,
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"I'm not performing at work, so let's quit
and go all in on the investigation."
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So that's what I did.
357
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,400
Good evening,
Ghyslain Wattrelos.
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You have lost your wife
and your two youngest children...
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We're being fed nonsense.
360
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,320
We can't get any information.
361
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,400
We have to get together
to do something ourselves.
362
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,000
So that's when
we started coordinating with the families.
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The families... um...
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from different countries gathered,
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00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,320
which was very important.
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In doing so, we could make up
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for the deficiencies
of the non-transparent investigation.
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00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:31,280
Uh...
369
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and information coming from Malaysia.
370
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,360
It was pretty risky.
371
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It was an investigation.
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But we were going
against more powerful forces than us.
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We're here to hand a petition in
to the president
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because it's been a year
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and they have said nothing
and done nothing.
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00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,720
What we did was,
we pressed charges for "act of terrorism."
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00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,440
Why an "act of terrorism?"
378
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,480
Well, because terrorism ranks highest
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00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,720
on the hierarchy of judicial matters.
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00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,960
In France, the moment you press charges,
judges are assigned
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00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,760
and the judges
have to conduct an investigation.
382
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,000
Hello, how are you?
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- Very well, and you?
- Very well.
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00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,680
The thing you
need to realize is that,
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00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,120
across the globe, there's only
one source of judicial information.
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00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:35,040
It's here.
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00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,520
There's a truth to uncover.
It's not a mystery.
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00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,400
We owe it to everyone.
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00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,280
Not only to Ghyslain but also to those
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00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,840
who didn't get that opportunity
to have investigating magistrates
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00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,240
in their own countries.
We owe it to everyone.
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00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,320
I find myself in a fight,
393
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,640
and this fight keeps me going.
394
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,840
I'm just trying to get to the truth,
for myself and everybody else.
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00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,000
Many times,
the name of Ghyslain Wattrelos,
396
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,160
the French man, the angry French man,
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00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,600
uh, was put out to me.
398
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,760
And eventually, I decided
to see for myself what he had to say.
399
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,720
One day,
400
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,680
someone from the newspaper Le Monde
contacts me and tells me,
401
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,800
"I'm the correspondent for Le Monde.
It would be great if we could chat."
402
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,720
Ghyslain told me
that he had been approached by
403
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,880
a senior member
of the intelligence service,
404
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,960
who told him that the Americans knew
405
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,800
exactly what had happened.
406
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,000
And that two US AWACS planes
were involved.
407
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,880
When I met this source,
408
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,800
I established for myself
that he was a credible,
409
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,640
a genuine member
of the intelligence community.
410
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,920
He was just one more voice
411
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,240
telling me that
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00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,720
the true story of MH370
413
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,560
is completely different
than the official narrative.
414
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,680
There were some
kind of fringe characters who were
415
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,320
making noises about maybe the
Americans had covered it up.
416
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,120
Um, but especially after
what happened to MH17,
417
00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:38,840
it seemed much more likely
that the Russians were involved.
418
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,480
Now, originally,
thanks to the Inmarsat data,
419
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,760
there were these two routes,
north and south.
420
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,280
I started to worry about the possibility
421
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,400
that somebody aboard the plane,
422
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,440
who was sophisticated
and had malicious intent,
423
00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:01,200
could have deliberately changed
the Inmarsat data,
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00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,240
in order to make
the plane look like it went south,
425
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,880
when it really went north.
426
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,680
It turns out
427
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,240
that on Boeing airplanes,
428
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,040
it is physically possible
to alter the data,
429
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,920
which allows you to determine
which of these two routes is right.
430
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,120
It was a eureka moment.
431
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,400
Because now we have
an alternate explanation
432
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,240
for what happened to this plane.
433
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,560
If the plane went north,
434
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,440
it would have wound up
435
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,280
at the final ping in Kazakhstan.
436
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,640
A poor country in Central Asia that is not
capable of a sophisticated hacking attack,
437
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,040
but which is a client state of Russia.
438
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,400
Now, remember that
Russia had shot down MH17,
439
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,120
a sister airplane of MH370.
440
00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,480
It had been blasted out
of the sky over eastern Ukraine.
441
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,760
So, my prime suspect
442
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:15,400
was that the same intelligence service
was also involved in MH370.
443
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,360
That, in fact,
there was potentially a link
444
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:21,560
between these two
very similar aircraft accidents.
445
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,160
At that point,
446
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,000
I looked in the passenger manifest
447
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:33,200
and I saw that there were three ethnically
Russian men on board the plane that night.
448
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,480
When I looked at the seating diagram,
449
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,320
my eyebrows went up,
450
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,080
because one of them was sitting
451
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,840
about 15 feet from the unlocked hatch
into the electronics bay,
452
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,040
at the front of the first-class cabin.
453
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,400
The next question was, "Well, what would
the motive be for Russia doing this?"
454
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:16,760
Reports have surfaced
of Russian troops landing in Crimea.
455
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,080
Moscow has indeed gone ahead
with an armed invasion of...
456
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,960
MH370 happened in the context
457
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,320
of Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014.
458
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,040
{\an8}The crisis in the Ukraine has escalated
and taken a new turn this morning...
459
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,480
Several hundred Russian troops
have landed in the Crimea region.
460
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,200
The networks, the newspapers,
the mainline media, everyone
461
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,680
is lasering in on this event.
462
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,920
And when MH370 happened
463
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,760
it had the desirable effect of
stopping anybody from talking about that.
464
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,760
Sir, where is the focus
of your search right now?
465
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,720
Can you confirm if the plane
has turned back?
466
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,280
You can't deny
467
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,440
that the disappearance of MH370
468
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,960
was a perfectly timed
and spectacularly convenient distraction
469
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,040
for Russia from the condemnation
it was facing from the rest of the world.
470
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,320
As crazy as it seemed, even to me,
471
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,440
I had to keep going
472
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,280
as long as this possibility existed.
473
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,200
So eventually, I laid it all out.
474
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,600
This is how I think it went down.
475
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,440
It's 1:15 in the morning.
476
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:50,440
Zaharie is flying over the South China Sea
in the dark of a cool, calm night.
477
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Passengers, tired and anticipating
478
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,480
a boring overnight flight.
479
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,240
The three Russians aboard the plane
480
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,400
begin their operation.
481
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,640
Somewhere over the South China Sea,
482
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,160
someone's making a ruckus
483
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,000
near the first-class compartment.
484
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,480
The flight attendants
hurry to see what's going on.
485
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:25,840
As this happens,
486
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,360
the Russian in first class slips forward.
487
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,480
He lifts the carpet...
488
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,080
raises a hatch
489
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,760
into the electronics bay.
490
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:06,320
Down in the hatch,
491
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,200
the Russian is surrounded
by banks of computers.
492
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,640
He's in the nerve center
of the airplane, the electronic brain.
493
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,240
He plugs into the computer
of the plane's flight control system.
494
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,040
The plane moves closer and closer
to the edge of Malaysian airspace.
495
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,480
Malaysian 370
contact Ho Chi Minh,120 decimal 9.
496
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,400
Good night.
497
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Uh, good night, Malaysian 370.
498
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,520
The people on board the plane
499
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,320
still have no idea
what's happening or why.
500
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,760
Now the plane
is in this operational no man's land,
501
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,400
where nobody's looking at them.
502
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,000
Inside the electronics bay,
503
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,520
the Russian agent turns the equipment on.
504
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,600
The plane vanishes from
air traffic controllers' radar screens.
505
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,760
He now has
complete control of the aircraft.
506
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,080
The captain and the co-pilot are confused
as the lights blink on their display.
507
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,760
And none of their communications
equipment is working.
508
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,200
And then even more shockingly...
509
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,200
the plane suddenly banks
violently to the left.
510
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,240
The plane is in maneuver
that neither one of them has commanded.
511
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,760
Down in the electronics bay,
512
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:02,920
the Russian agent
513
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,480
has started to depressurize the airplane,
514
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,880
letting the air out of the cabin.
515
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,840
At the same time, he turns a knob
on an oxygen bottle stowed on the wall,
516
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,440
which cut off the emergency oxygen systems
that the pilot and the co-pilot rely on.
517
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,200
In the cabin,
518
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,160
the masks fall down from the ceiling.
519
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,040
The flight crew
suddenly realizes that they can't breathe.
520
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:40,160
In the minutes that follow,
521
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,320
the captain and co-pilot
lose consciousness.
522
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,960
And the cabin falls quiet.
523
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,600
The Russian agent in the electronics bay
has turned the plane towards the northwest
524
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,880
and deliberately altered
the Inmarsat data.
525
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,320
Now, if anyone looks at the
526
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,720
trail of digital breadcrumbs
that the plane's about to leave,
527
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:15,640
they'll misinterpret the signal
as meaning that the plane has gone south.
528
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,640
When in fact,
their plane is actually going north.
529
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,120
MH370 proceeds onward through the night,
530
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,000
receding gradually from its phantom twin.
531
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,000
And ultimately winding up
532
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,920
over the deserts of central Kazakhstan.
533
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,400
For the hijackers,
it's mission accomplished.
534
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,320
I knew that it sounded crazy.
535
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,040
I knew that it was far-fetched.
536
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,400
I knew that people would have
a hard time swallowing it,
537
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,240
but even though it might
torpedo my reputation,
538
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:02,840
I felt like I had to go public.
539
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,320
I had to bring people's attention
to the problem
540
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,680
that this plane possessed a vulnerability.
541
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,560
{\an8}He thinks it's possible
Russian hijackers sent the plane north.
542
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,000
{\an8}Do you really think it went to Kazakhstan?
543
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,800
Well, it's not something I believe.
It's a hypothesis that I pieced together.
544
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,080
I went on TV and it was scary.
545
00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:27,400
I felt like my ass
was hanging out the window.
546
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,760
What reaction are you getting
from this theory?
547
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,920
It's a lot to swallow, I grant you.
548
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,520
{\an8}Are you getting calls
from people saying this seems realistic?
549
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,400
{\an8}In the comments sections,
a lot of people are outraged, furious.
550
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,880
{\an8}Some people are very angry at me.
551
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,280
{\an8}Nobody goes into the E&E bay,
552
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,960
{\an8}reprograms the BFO, lands in Kazakhstan!
553
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,560
I'm intimately familiar with
554
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,760
how that satellite system works,
as are a number of my colleagues,
555
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,040
and we're absolutely certain
that the plane turned south and not north.
556
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,000
It was surprising that Jeff decided to
557
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,600
take off on this route.
558
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,240
I was correct in thinking that
559
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,200
I would get a frosty reception
from some quarters.
560
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,760
The Independent Group,
561
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,000
which had staked its reputation
on the idea that the plane went south,
562
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800
did not want to brook
any opposition from me.
563
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:21,440
They kicked me out.
564
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,480
Jeff's work, in my opinion,
565
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,880
is simply a fiction that he has woven
566
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,240
and convinced himself is feasible.
567
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:36,280
But it's all based on fantasies.
568
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,640
It's not based on reality.
569
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,000
I knew the weaknesses of my own case.
570
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,440
And I knew the strengths of my own case.
But the proposition that I was making
571
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,600
was easy to ridicule.
572
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,080
You think that somebody
possibly tampered with the satellite data.
573
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,440
{\an8}But the company
that is behind this system...
574
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,240
{\an8}- I think it's called Inmarsat?
- That's right.
575
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:02,760
{\an8}...says they haven't used
this in the past to track planes.
576
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,400
{\an8}The idea that now it's being used
and then also tampered with
577
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,720
{\an8}feels far-fetched to them.
578
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,840
The idea that someone, um, predicts
579
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,160
that we would analyze
this data in this way,
580
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,880
um, when we'd never done it
in the past before,
581
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,600
doesn't seem particularly credible at all.
582
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,720
Anyone who gets into the hatch
583
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:26,440
can disable the transponder
584
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,600
and disable the communication systems.
585
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:35,160
But it is impossible to fly the aircraft
from the avionics compartment.
586
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,680
It is impossible.
587
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,880
I've gone deep on this.
588
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,000
I know that.
589
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,400
I know it sounds like something
out of a Tom Clancy novel.
590
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,600
But the fact is,
591
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,320
even if there's no way that anyone
592
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,960
could fly a plane
from the electronics bay,
593
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,360
we know for a fact
that it is physically possible,
594
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,880
from inside of it,
to turn off all the electronics
595
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,400
that make the plane
visible to the outside world.
596
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,320
So my scenario,
597
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,920
as crazy as it might seem,
598
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,160
at least attempted to explain
599
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:12,960
the disappearance of MH370.
600
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,120
That all gets lost.
601
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,240
And I'm just lumped
with the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot.
602
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,880
But, the fact is, if the data was right
603
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,160
and it had told us where the plane went,
604
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,480
how come they hadn't managed
to find a single piece of it?
605
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,640
If your data is right,
the plane should be there.
606
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,960
Where is the plane?
607
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,320
Where is the wreckage? Show me the plane.
608
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,080
This is CNN breaking news.
609
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,800
{\an8}And we are following
breaking news just in to CNN.
610
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,480
{\an8}It is too soon to confirm right now,
but we can tell you at this point
611
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,520
{\an8}that some debris has been found
in La Réunion...
612
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,600
{\an8}La Réunion island
is being checked for any connection
613
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,600
to missing Malaysian flight 370.
614
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,560
The piece was found on a rocky beach on
the French territory in the Indian Ocean.
615
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,440
{\an8}Boeing's investigators believe it is,
in fact, a piece of a wing.
616
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,520
Perhaps a flap from a Boeing 777...
617
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,480
Everyone's wondering,
618
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:21,040
"Is this a remnant of the missing
Malaysia Airlines flight 370?"
619
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,560
When the flaperon was found
620
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:26,960
I was not surprised.
621
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,320
{\an8}This is exactly
what I had said would happen,
622
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,760
{\an8}that the first piece of this plane would
be found by someone walking on the beach
623
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,960
somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
624
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,960
New developments involving
that piece of debris
625
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,280
discovered off eastern...
626
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,240
I knew immediately
627
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,480
I wanted to be the one to solve it.
628
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,720
I wanted to find the plane
wherever it was.