MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (Netflix)

[XelaM]

Has anyone seen this new Netflix documentary about MH370?

It's just unbelievable that in our time a passenger plane can just disappear without a trace.

I find the conspiracy theories in that documentary totally bizarre, but I also feel very sorry for the pilot's family who has effectively been scapegoated without any real evidence that he brought the plane down. If it was a murder-suicide why would he fly for another 8 hours instead of just crashing into the ocean where he was? It makes no sense. It's also an insane coincidence that two of Malaysian Airlines planes suffered tragedies in the space of just a few months in 2014 - nothing to do with any mechanical issues on the planes.

He wasn’t ,he was on the jumbo. Are you flight crew?

Hi, as you will know aviation is a small world, to avoid possibly outing myself I'll reply by way of DM.

Something like this makes sense to me. The whole pilot suicide thing just doesn’t add up. I think something went wrong and the government are trying to cover up incompetence and the pilots did their best but failed.

I am curious about all the debris in the South China Sea though…

I also can’t understand how it flew over so many air spaces and no one saw anything

Thing is it didn't. Huge areas of our oceans see little or no or no traffic so why scan them and where from? If it had got nearer to Western Australia or the US base on Diego Garcia then radar might have picked it up. And all the transponders aboard that send a signal were switched off.
If you take a look at Flight24 all those aircraft are showing up because their transponders are going 'bleep'. And look at the southern oceans, they are near empty.

@Newsenmum

The electrical fire only makes sense if you are prepared to believe it took out selective parts of the avionics system, specifically most of the communications systems (VHF, HF, datalink) but left just enough of the satcom system intact to generate the famous pings and also somehow left the autopilot and auto throttle systems operative.

Given many of the avionics boxes for both systems live in the same space (a fairly small compartment under the flight deck) that’s not a very credible theory….not impossible I guess but way out on the edges of probability.

The aircraft was certainly “seen” on radar by various radar facilities, mainly military, as it made it’s way generally westwards across the Malay peninsula, problem was nobody recognized it for what it was at the time (because of the lack of transponder code).