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[man 1 speaking Ukrainian]
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[man 2 speaking Ukrainian]
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[music crescendos]
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[reporter 1] 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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[rapid beeping]
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[sinister music playing]
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[Danica] 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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[reporter 2] US intelligence has concluded
it was shot down
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by a surface-to-air missile.
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[reporter 3] The odds of losing
two airplanes within a six-month period
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is unprecedented.
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[reporter 4] 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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[emotive music playing]
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Yeah.
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We also want to bury our loved ones.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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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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[reporter] Ukrainian president called
the downing of a Malaysian Airlines
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passenger plane an act of terrorism.
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[Jeff] 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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[ominous music playing]
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[Piers Morgan] We don't have the answers.
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This is one of the great mysteries
in aviation history.
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[engines whirring]
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[dramatic string music playing]
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[reporter 1] Australia will lead
the search in the Indian Ocean
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for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
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[Jeff] 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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[reporter 2] 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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[reporter 3] 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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[reporter 4] 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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[man] 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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[propellers whirring]
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[reporter 5] 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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[waves crashing]
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[man] 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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[waves roaring]
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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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[waves crashing ferociously]
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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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[water splashing and gurgling]
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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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[ship roaring]
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So, we knew the chances were
it would take a long time.
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- [waves crashing]
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[rapid beeping]
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[beeping halts]
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[wistful music playing]
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[reporter] 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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[woman] 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
that I can for my mother.
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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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[Intan] 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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[sniffs]
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[Danica] 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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[inhales deeply]
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[wistful music playing, fades]
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- [traffic humming]
- [horn honking]
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[Jeff] 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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[reporter 1] On social media,
conspiracy theories
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about the missing plane are going viral.
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{\an8}[man] 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}[reporter 2] Fire from lithium batteries
in the cargo hold brought the plane down.
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[Jeff] Speculation is rife.
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[reporter 3] 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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[reporter 4] Another conspiracy,
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an outrageous insurance scam.
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[Grace] 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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[reporter 5] Four days after
flight disappeared,
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there was a patent issued
for a new semiconductor technology.
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[reporter 6] Others wonder,
"Did it land on the US military base
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known as Diego Garcia?"
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[Jeff] 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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[reporter 7] Perhaps, some suggest,
North Korea took the airplane.
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{\an8}[reporter 8] Does this mean
an alien was on the plane?
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{\an8}[reporter 9]
And abducted everyone on board.
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It gets even weirder.
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[dramatic music climaxes, stops]
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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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[tense music playing]
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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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[traffic humming]
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[woman] 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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[pensive music playing]
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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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[reporter] 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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[Florence] 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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[Florence] 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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[dramatic music playing]
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[Fuad] 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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[Grace] 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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[Florence] 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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- [distant hum of traffic]
- [birds chirping]
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- [leaves rustling]
- [traffic humming, honking]
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[Jeff] 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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[Mike] 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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[reporter] 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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[Jeff] 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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[menacing music playing]
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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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[man] 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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[Jeff] 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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[man] ...equipment racks where...
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[Jeff] And, in there,
you can switch off this equipment.
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[man] 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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[dramatic music intensifies]
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[music turns ominous]
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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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[suspenseful music playing]
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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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[tense music playing]
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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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[tense music playing]
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[Ghyslain in French]
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.
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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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00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,120
"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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[suspenseful music playing]
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The first time I met him,
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the first thing he told me...
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- [music rises then fades]
- [car door shuts]
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"The Americans know
full well what happened."
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[ominous music playing]
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[indistinct chatter]
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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."
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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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00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,680
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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[news jingle]
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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}[Ghyslain in French] I accepted
every single interview
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to say "We're being lied to.
Journalists must join in."
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00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,760
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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[upbeat tense music playing]
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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.
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[reporter] 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.
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We can't get any information.
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We have to get together
to do something ourselves.
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So that's when
we started coordinating with the families.
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[in Mandarin] The families... um...
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from different countries gathered,
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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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Uh...
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and information coming from Malaysia.
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[Ghyslain in French] It was pretty risky.
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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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[distant indistinct chatter]
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What we did was,
we pressed charges for "act of terrorism."
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[doorbell buzzes]
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Why an "act of terrorism?"
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Well, because terrorism ranks highest
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on the hierarchy of judicial matters.
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In France, the moment you press charges,
judges are assigned
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and the judges
have to conduct an investigation.
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[indistinct]
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[in French] Hello, how are you?
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- Very well, and you?
- Very well.
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[indistinct chatter]
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{\an8}[tense music playing]
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[Marie] The thing you
need to realize is that,
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across the globe, there's only
one source of judicial information.
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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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We owe it to everyone.
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Not only to Ghyslain but also to those
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who didn't get that opportunity
to have investigating magistrates
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in their own countries.
We owe it to everyone.
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00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,200
[tense music playing]
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[Ghyslain] I find myself in a fight,
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and this fight keeps me going.
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I'm just trying to get to the truth,
for myself and everybody else.
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[speaking French]
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[speaking French]
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[Florence in English] Many times,
the name of Ghyslain Wattrelos,
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the French man, the angry French man,
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uh, was put out to me.
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And eventually, I decided
to see for myself what he had to say.
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[Ghyslain in French] One day,
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someone from the newspaper Le Monde
contacts me and tells me,
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"I'm the correspondent for Le Monde.
It would be great if we could chat."
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[Florence in English] Ghyslain told me
that he had been approached by
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a senior member
of the intelligence service,
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who told him that the Americans knew
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exactly what had happened.
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And that two US AWACS planes
were involved.
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When I met this source,
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I established for myself
that he was a credible,
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a genuine member
of the intelligence community.
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[pen scraping on paper]
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He was just one more voice
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telling me that
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the true story of MH370
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is completely different
than the official narrative.
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- [traffic buzzing]
- [sirens wailing]
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There were some
kind of fringe characters who were
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making noises about maybe the
Americans had covered it up.
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00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,120
Um, but especially after
what happened to MH17,
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it seemed much more likely
that the Russians were involved.
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[ominous music plays]
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Now, originally,
thanks to the Inmarsat data,
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there were these two routes,
north and south.
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I started to worry about the possibility
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that somebody aboard the plane,
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who was sophisticated
and had malicious intent,
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could have deliberately changed
the Inmarsat data,
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in order to make
the plane look like it went south,
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when it really went north.
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00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,240
[computer beeping]
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It turns out
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that on Boeing airplanes,
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it is physically possible
to alter the data,
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which allows you to determine
which of these two routes is right.
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It was a eureka moment.
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Because now we have
an alternate explanation
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for what happened to this plane.
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If the plane went north,
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it would have wound up
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at the final ping in Kazakhstan.
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A poor country in Central Asia that is not
capable of a sophisticated hacking attack,
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but which is a client state of Russia.
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Now, remember that
Russia had shot down MH17,
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a sister airplane of MH370.
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It had been blasted out
of the sky over eastern Ukraine.
503
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,760
So, my prime suspect
504
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:15,400
was that the same intelligence service
was also involved in MH370.
505
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,360
That, in fact,
there was potentially a link
506
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:21,560
between these two
very similar aircraft accidents.
507
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,160
At that point,
508
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,000
I looked in the passenger manifest
509
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:33,200
and I saw that there were three ethnically
Russian men on board the plane that night.
510
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,200
[dramatic music playing]
511
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,480
When I looked at the seating diagram,
512
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,320
my eyebrows went up,
513
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,080
because one of them was sitting
514
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,840
about 15 feet from the unlocked hatch
into the electronics bay,
515
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,040
at the front of the first-class cabin.
516
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,400
[dramatic music continues]
517
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,400
The next question was, "Well, what would
the motive be for Russia doing this?"
518
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,400
[ominous music playing]
519
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,920
[rapid beeping]
520
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:04,920
[beeping stops]
521
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:16,760
[reporter] Reports have surfaced
of Russian troops landing in Crimea.
522
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,080
Moscow has indeed gone ahead
with an armed invasion of...
523
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,960
[Jeff] MH370 happened in the context
524
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,320
of Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014.
525
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,040
{\an8}The crisis in the Ukraine has escalated
and taken a new turn this morning...
526
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,480
[reporter] Several hundred Russian troops
have landed in the Crimea region.
527
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,200
[Jeff] The networks, the newspapers,
the mainline media, everyone
528
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,680
is lasering in on this event.
529
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,920
And when MH370 happened
530
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,760
it had the desirable effect of
stopping anybody from talking about that.
531
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,760
[reporter] Sir, where is the focus
of your search right now?
532
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,720
Can you confirm if the plane
has turned back?
533
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,280
[Jeff] You can't deny
534
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,440
that the disappearance of MH370
535
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,960
was a perfectly timed
and spectacularly convenient distraction
536
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,040
for Russia from the condemnation
it was facing from the rest of the world.
537
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,320
As crazy as it seemed, even to me,
538
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,440
I had to keep going
539
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,280
as long as this possibility existed.
540
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,200
So eventually, I laid it all out.
541
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,600
This is how I think it went down.
542
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,760
[tense music plays]
543
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,600
[beeping]
544
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,800
[rapid beeping]
545
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,560
[beeping slows and regulates]
546
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,440
[Jeff] It's 1:15 in the morning.
547
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:50,440
Zaharie is flying over the South China Sea
in the dark of a cool, calm night.
548
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Passengers, tired and anticipating
549
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,480
a boring overnight flight.
550
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,400
[indistinct chatter]
551
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,240
The three Russians aboard the plane
552
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,400
begin their operation.
553
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,800
[dramatic music playing]
554
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,640
Somewhere over the South China Sea,
555
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,160
someone's making a ruckus
556
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,000
near the first-class compartment.
557
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,480
The flight attendants
hurry to see what's going on.
558
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:25,840
As this happens,
559
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,360
the Russian in first class slips forward.
560
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,840
[dramatic music continues]
561
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,480
He lifts the carpet...
562
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,080
raises a hatch
563
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,760
into the electronics bay.
564
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,840
[banging]
565
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,040
[ominous music playing]
566
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:06,320
Down in the hatch,
567
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,200
the Russian is surrounded
by banks of computers.
568
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,640
He's in the nerve center
of the airplane, the electronic brain.
569
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,240
He plugs into the computer
of the plane's flight control system.
570
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,040
The plane moves closer and closer
to the edge of Malaysian airspace.
571
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:34,880
[radio crackles]
572
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,480
[air traffic controller] Malaysian 370
contact Ho Chi Minh,120 decimal 9.
573
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,400
Good night.
574
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,320
[engine whirring]
575
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
[Zaharie, over radio]
Uh, good night, Malaysian 370.
576
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,240
[indistinct chatter]
577
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,520
[Jeff] The people on board the plane
578
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,320
still have no idea
what's happening or why.
579
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:57,760
[indistinct chatter]
580
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,760
[Jeff] Now the plane
is in this operational no man's land,
581
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,400
where nobody's looking at them.
582
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,000
Inside the electronics bay,
583
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,520
the Russian agent turns the equipment on.
584
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,320
[beeping]
585
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,840
[tense music building]
586
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,320
[music fades]
587
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,600
The plane vanishes from
air traffic controllers' radar screens.
588
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,640
[dramatic pulsating musical stabs]
589
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,760
He now has
complete control of the aircraft.
590
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,080
The captain and the co-pilot are confused
as the lights blink on their display.
591
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,760
And none of their communications
equipment is working.
592
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,280
[rhythmic tense music playing]
593
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,200
And then even more shockingly...
594
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,200
the plane suddenly banks
violently to the left.
595
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,240
The plane is in maneuver
that neither one of them has commanded.
596
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,280
[tense music playing]
597
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,760
Down in the electronics bay,
598
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:02,920
the Russian agent
599
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,480
has started to depressurize the airplane,
600
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,880
letting the air out of the cabin.
601
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,840
At the same time, he turns a knob
on an oxygen bottle stowed on the wall,
602
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,440
which cut off the emergency oxygen systems
that the pilot and the co-pilot rely on.
603
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,000
[emergency alarm beeping in cabin]
604
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,200
In the cabin,
605
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,160
the masks fall down from the ceiling.
606
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,040
The flight crew
suddenly realizes that they can't breathe.
607
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,440
[tense music playing]
608
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:40,160
In the minutes that follow,
609
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,320
the captain and co-pilot
lose consciousness.
610
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,320
[tense music builds then fades]
611
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,960
And the cabin falls quiet.
612
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,360
[engines whirring]
613
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,600
The Russian agent in the electronics bay
has turned the plane towards the northwest
614
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,880
and deliberately altered
the Inmarsat data.
615
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,320
Now, if anyone looks at the
616
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,720
trail of digital breadcrumbs
that the plane's about to leave,
617
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:15,640
they'll misinterpret the signal
as meaning that the plane has gone south.
618
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,640
When in fact,
their plane is actually going north.
619
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,120
MH370 proceeds onward through the night,
620
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,000
receding gradually from its phantom twin.
621
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,000
And ultimately winding up
622
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,920
over the deserts of central Kazakhstan.
623
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,400
For the hijackers,
it's mission accomplished.
624
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,280
[haunting music playing]
625
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,320
I knew that it sounded crazy.
626
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,040
I knew that it was far-fetched.
627
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,400
I knew that people would have
a hard time swallowing it,
628
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,240
but even though it might
torpedo my reputation,
629
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:02,840
I felt like I had to go public.
630
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,320
I had to bring people's attention
to the problem
631
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,680
that this plane possessed a vulnerability.
632
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,560
{\an8}He thinks it's possible
Russian hijackers sent the plane north.
633
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,000
{\an8}Do you really think it went to Kazakhstan?
634
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,800
Well, it's not something I believe.
It's a hypothesis that I pieced together.
635
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,080
[Jeff] I went on TV and it was scary.
636
00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:27,400
I felt like my ass
was hanging out the window.
637
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,760
[reporter] What reaction are you getting
from this theory?
638
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,920
[Jeff] It's a lot to swallow, I grant you.
639
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,520
{\an8}Are you getting calls
from people saying this seems realistic?
640
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,400
{\an8}In the comments sections,
a lot of people are outraged, furious.
641
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,880
{\an8}Some people are very angry at me.
642
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,280
{\an8}Nobody goes into the E&E bay,
643
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,960
{\an8}reprograms the BFO, lands in Kazakhstan!
644
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,560
I'm intimately familiar with
645
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,760
how that satellite system works,
as are a number of my colleagues,
646
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,040
and we're absolutely certain
that the plane turned south and not north.
647
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,000
It was surprising that Jeff decided to
648
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,600
take off on this route.
649
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,240
[Jeff] I was correct in thinking that
650
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,200
I would get a frosty reception
from some quarters.
651
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,760
The Independent Group,
652
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,000
which had staked its reputation
on the idea that the plane went south,
653
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800
did not want to brook
any opposition from me.
654
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:21,440
They kicked me out.
655
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,520
- [traffic humming]
- [horns honking]
656
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,480
Jeff's work, in my opinion,
657
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,880
is simply a fiction that he has woven
658
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,240
and convinced himself is feasible.
659
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:36,280
But it's all based on fantasies.
660
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,640
It's not based on reality.
661
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,000
I knew the weaknesses of my own case.
662
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,440
And I knew the strengths of my own case.
But the proposition that I was making
663
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,600
was easy to ridicule.
664
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,080
[reporter] You think that somebody
possibly tampered with the satellite data.
665
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,440
{\an8}But the company
that is behind this system...
666
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,240
{\an8}- I think it's called Inmarsat?
- That's right.
667
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:02,760
{\an8}...says they haven't used
this in the past to track planes.
668
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,400
{\an8}The idea that now it's being used
and then also tampered with
669
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,720
{\an8}feels far-fetched to them.
670
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,840
The idea that someone, um, predicts
671
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,160
that we would analyze
this data in this way,
672
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,880
um, when we'd never done it
in the past before,
673
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,600
doesn't seem particularly credible at all.
674
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,720
[Fuad] Anyone who gets into the hatch
675
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:26,440
can disable the transponder
676
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,600
and disable the communication systems.
677
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:35,160
But it is impossible to fly the aircraft
from the avionics compartment.
678
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,680
It is impossible.
679
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,880
[Jeff] I've gone deep on this.
680
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,000
I know that.
681
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,400
I know it sounds like something
out of a Tom Clancy novel.
682
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,600
But the fact is,
683
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,320
even if there's no way that anyone
684
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,960
could fly a plane
from the electronics bay,
685
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,360
we know for a fact
that it is physically possible,
686
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,880
from inside of it,
to turn off all the electronics
687
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,400
that make the plane
visible to the outside world.
688
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,320
So my scenario,
689
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,920
as crazy as it might seem,
690
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,160
at least attempted to explain
691
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:12,960
the disappearance of MH370.
692
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,120
That all gets lost.
693
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,240
And I'm just lumped
with the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot.
694
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,880
But, the fact is, if the data was right
695
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,160
and it had told us where the plane went,
696
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,480
how come they hadn't managed
to find a single piece of it?
697
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,640
If your data is right,
the plane should be there.
698
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,960
Where is the plane?
699
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,320
Where is the wreckage? Show me the plane.
700
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,240
[news jingle]
701
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,080
[announcer] This is CNN breaking news.
702
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,760
[news jingle continues]
703
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,800
{\an8}And we are following
breaking news just in to CNN.
704
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
705
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,520
{\an8}that some debris has been found
in La Réunion...
706
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,600
{\an8}La Réunion island
is being checked for any connection
707
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,600
to missing Malaysian flight 370.
708
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,560
The piece was found on a rocky beach on
the French territory in the Indian Ocean.
709
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,440
{\an8}Boeing's investigators believe it is,
in fact, a piece of a wing.
710
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,520
Perhaps a flap from a Boeing 777...
711
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,480
[reporter 1] Everyone's wondering,
712
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:21,040
"Is this a remnant of the missing
Malaysia Airlines flight 370?"
713
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,520
[tense music playing]
714
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,560
[man] When the flaperon was found
715
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:26,960
I was not surprised.
716
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,320
{\an8}This is exactly
what I had said would happen,
717
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
718
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,960
somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
719
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,960
[reporter 2] New developments involving
that piece of debris
720
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,280
discovered off eastern...
721
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,240
[Blaine] I knew immediately
722
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,480
I wanted to be the one to solve it.
723
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,720
I wanted to find the plane
wherever it was.
724
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,840
- [tense music stops]
- [theme music plays]
725
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,080
[theme music fades]