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- Malaysia 370, contact
Ho Chi Minh 120.9. Good night.

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[suspenseful music]

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Fishburne:
Tonight, one of the most

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chilling aviation mysteries
in modern day.

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239 people vanish
over the Indian Ocean...

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Without a trace.

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- With not enough oxygen
feeding the brain,

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people can't do
the simplest things,

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let alone something
as complicated

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as piloting
a commercial aircraft.

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Fishburne: Now we'll
uncover the top theories

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surrounding the world's
most infamous missing aircraft.

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- The officials
and most of the media

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convinced themselves
that the satellite data

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could only mean one thing,
that the plane went south.

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But they were wrong.

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- Was it potentially
a murder-suicide?

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There's 227 passengers
up there.

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Any of them
could be responsible.

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Fishburne: Can new clues
bring us closer to answers?

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- If the plane isn't
flying itself,

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was it something
more sinister?

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Because planes don't
just disappear.

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Fishburne: What really happened
to Malaysia Flight 370?

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[dramatic music]

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[suspenseful music]

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March 8, 2014, Kuala Lumpur
International Airport.

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Malaysia Flight 370 sits
on the runway

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awaiting clearance
for takeoff.

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- The cabin has been secured,

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tray tables and seat backs

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are in their upright
and locked position.

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And the flight attendants
are ready

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for what they hope will
be a routine flight.

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On board, we have 239 people,

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227 passengers.

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We have 12 crew members.

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The 12 crew members
are all Malaysian citizens.

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And up front,
we have Captain Shah.

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They're headed to Beijing
International Airport.

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It's a routine flight.
They make it twice a day.

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March 8th is no exception.

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[dramatic music]

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- This flight was a flight

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that Zaharie Shah,
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was quite familiar with.

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- Normally, the flight
takes about six hours,

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flying over a handful
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and international waters.

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Fishburne: At 12:40 a.m.,

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MH370 is cleared for takeoff.

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[indistinct radio chatter]

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- Recordings of the radio
chatter back and forth

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between the aircraft
and the tower shows

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that everything is routine,

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mundane even.

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Fishburne: At 1:06,

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the plane's computer sends
an automated position report.

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- The transponders are
continuously communicating

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with air traffic control,

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relaying information
about the flight status.

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These messages show up on
what's called secondary radar.

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- At this point,
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on course and has 96,000 pounds
of fuel remaining.

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That's enough fuel for another
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Fishburne:
A few minutes later, at 1:19,

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Captain Shah radios
air traffic control

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as he transitions
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to Vietnamese airspace.

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- Air traffic control
in Kuala Lumpur radios MH370

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and says, "Contact Ho Chi Minh
on 120.9. Good night."

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That means it's time for MH370

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to call
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on the frequency given.

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- Captain Zaharie then says,
"Good night, Malaysia 370."

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So everything seems fine.

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The next thing
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is that air traffic controllers
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should hear from Malaysia 370.

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Fishburne:
But that's not what happens.

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- The Vietnamese air traffic
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never hear from that flight
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the flight transponders

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aren't responding at all,
and they disappear

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from the air traffic
controller screen.

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Fishburne: Just 38 minutes
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Malaysia 370 simply disappears
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- It's really inexplicable
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which had been flying
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the secondary data all along,

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would at this point
of transition just disappear.

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and the power was in some way
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We don't know why it happened.

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- In modern aviation,
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exactly where their airplanes
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and precisely
scheduled communications.

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- So this is something
that doesn't happen.

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Planes don't just vanish.

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Fishburne:
Alarm bells immediately ring,

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and Vietnamese air controllers
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to contact the aircraft.

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- It's just not the case
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would be flying
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without the controllers
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where it is,
and why it's there.

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That's the way it works.

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Doesn't happen otherwise.

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- They tried
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through the satellite phone
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but there was no answer.

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Then it was clear to them
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crashed into the sea.

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[intense music]

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- How could this happen
so suddenly?

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Why was there no warning
from the pilot?

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No Mayday, nothing.

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This kicks off what will
eventually become

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the most expensive search
in aviation history.

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Everyone,
dozens of governments,

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hundreds of families,

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all want to know
what happened to MH370.

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Fishburne: By 5:30 a.m.,

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a massive search and rescue
mission is underway.

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- They gathered 26 countries
to help with the search

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by sending 50 ships

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and about 60 aircraft.

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They're looking
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wreckage, oil slick.

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where the last transmission
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and last radar trace
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and South China Sea.

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- So they do find
some oil slick.

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They test it to see
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but it's not.

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- They look
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they see what they think
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but they physically
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and there's nothing there.

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there'd be debris
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and stuff
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Makes no sense that there's no
sign of this airplane anywhere.

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Fishburne:
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investigators turn
to military radar records.

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- Radar on military bases
are constantly tracking

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to see if there's
anything in range.

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Malaysia Flight 370 would
have been in radar range

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for bases in Thailand,
Malaysia, and Vietnam,

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so their radar records
track the plane as well.

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And they do it
slightly differently.

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Fishburne: Civilians rely
on secondary radar,

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which requires a signal from
the airplane's transponder.

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- And that's
what they've been using

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to search for MH370 so far.

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But the military uses
what's called primary radar.

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Primary radar doesn't
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from an airplane.

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where it bounces
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that might be in the sky,

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and it reflects
that radio signal back.

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- It's kind of
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like a bat would use,
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A Boeing 777
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specifically
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the other one
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that means both transponders
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the secondary radar can't
see the airplane anymore.

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But guess what,
the primary radar can still

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see the airplane
and continues to track it.

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It shows the airplane
keeps flying.

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- Not only
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it makes drastic
course changes

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just as it's supposed to cross
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So MH370 turns a little bit
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then kind of loops back around.

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It's almost like
it's turning back--

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back towards Malaysia.

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Then MH370 approaches
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and flies near
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Fishburne:
Military radar tracks MH370

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for another 230 miles
into the Andaman Sea

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until the aircraft finally
goes out of range.

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they're looking
in the wrong place.

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The searchers move their
search to the Andaman Sea.

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But once again,
there's nothing there.

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So the investigators
are closer,

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but they're clearly
not close enough.

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Keep in mind, military
radar doesn't pinpoint

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where this airplane
stops flying.

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As far as we know,
it's still in the air

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all the way
until it goes out of range.

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- After that,
it could have gone

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in a lot
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Fishburne: The radar records
raise an important question,

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why does the plane fly
off course?

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[indistinct radio chatter]

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Fishburne: Before
Malaysia Flight 370 vanishes

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on March 8, 2014,
investigators are shocked

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to learn that the plane
deviated from its route.

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- The MH370 planned flight path
would have had it flying

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over the South China Sea
towards Beijing.

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But the radar tracking shows
it made a series of turns

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going towards the west.

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And it just keeps flying until
it goes out of radar range.

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[dramatic music]

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- Once investigators realized
the airplane kept flying,

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every possible theory
was out there.

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Was it a bomb?
Was it terrorism?

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Was it a crime?

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Was it something more sinister?

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Because planes don't
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The Internet went crazy,

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and so did every
global government agency.

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Fishburne: To some, there's
an obvious explanation.

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- But right away, we know that
the aircraft continues flying

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after the transponders
go offline.

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The aircraft continues
on its path

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and drops off
of military radar.

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We know that
because it's recorded

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on the military radar
until 2:22 a.m.

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Take this radar information
and combine it with the fact

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that the transponder
was cut off just prior

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to the aircraft veering
off course.

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Combine that with the fact

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that there is no emergency
distress call made,

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and it creates a truly
terrifying possibility.

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- Was it potentially
a murder-suicide?

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Early in the investigation,

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they thought they should
look very deep

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into the two men
in the cockpit,

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which is natural with this
type of investigation.

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The question is,
would anything motivate

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these two men
to bring that aircraft down?

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- In the cockpit,
we have Captain Zaharie Shah

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and First Officer
Fariq Abdul Hamid.

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Fariq is not fully qualified
yet on the 777.

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However, this is his last
flight to qualify on the 777.

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This is a big deal,

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the realization
of a lot of hard work.

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He's been with the airline
for seven years.

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He's 27 years old.

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He's getting married soon.

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He has a long career
in front of him.

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And as a result of that,

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the investigative bodies
rule him out pretty quickly.

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They don't think he did it.

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Fishburne: Leaving only one
other suspect in the cockpit.

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- People who subscribe
to the murder-suicide theory

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believe that the captain,
Zaharie Shah,

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deviated from the flight plan
and intentionally crashed

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that airplane
into the Indian Ocean,

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sadly taking everyone with him.

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Fishburne: Investigators dig
deeper into Captain Shah.

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And a search of his home
turns up a disturbing clue.

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- Zaharie Shah had a very
sophisticated simulator,

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a actual 777 simulator
in his house.

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- When the investigative
bodies pull the data from it,

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it shows a variety
of flight paths.

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We see that they run out
over the Indian Ocean,

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they just stop.

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And ultimately,

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this is the path
that MH370 takes.

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It seems as though Captain Shah
had rehearsed this.

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So the flight path
is somewhat telling in itself.

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Captain Shah is from
the Island of Penang.

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- The final maneuver recorded
by the military radar

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was northwest of Penang,
very close to it.

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It was a clear night,
perfect visibility.

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And this turn gives him
a perfect view,

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a final view of his home
in Penang.

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Some people believe
that when you finally decide

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to commit suicide,

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that person has a level
of serenity.

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So some people believe
that this final turn

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towards Penang was him

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waving goodbye to his home.

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Fishburne: While all
of this evidence paints

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a damning picture
for the pilot,

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it is not enough
to close the case.

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303
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- So officially, MH370 is not
ruled suicide by pilot,

304
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because
there's no suicide note,

305
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and they determined
it's impossible

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to know what's in his mind.

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Fishburne: If the plane
wasn't brought down

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by the pilot or copilot,

309
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could it be someone else
on the inside?

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Investigators turn
their attention to the crew.

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- There's always
another possibility

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that one of the cabin crew

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was trained and familiar
with the aircraft

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and how to get
into the cockpit.

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So the investigators
looked into

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every one
of these crew members.

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170 interviews, looked
into their bank accounts,

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social media accounts,
their love life,

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everything that they could
possibly look into,

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and they didn't find anything.

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Fishburne: Ultimately, there
is no substantial evidence

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to tie the pilot or crew
members to any wrongdoing.

324
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- There's absolutely no proof

325
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that this was a murder-suicide.

326
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But authorities have
this nagging problem.

327
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Why is there no distress call?

328
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What could have happened?

329
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Fishburne:
Months after disappearing,

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the public is desperate
for investigators

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to find Flight 370.

332
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But with so little evidence,

333
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they had their work
cut out for them.

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[dramatic music]

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- One of the most common things

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that investigators can use

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to determine the cause
of the crash is radio chatter.

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♪ ♪

339
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- 402's radar contact
at 18 miles.

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[inaudible] speed 250.
Final bearing is 230.

341
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- When there's something
unusual happening

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on the airplane,
the flight crew usually

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gets on the radio about it.

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Whether there's an emergency,

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they see something
out the window,

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or there's a passenger
acting up,

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they usually radio about it.

348
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And in this case, there's
no radio distress calls.

349
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We don't have that clue
to help us.

350
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Fishburne: Unless the lack
of a distress call

351
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is the clue.

352
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- Based on what we know,

353
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I think the most
logical explanation

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is that the airplane
depressurized,

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causing everyone
on board the aircraft

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to become unconscious
and die from a lack of oxygen.

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The reason this airplane
is flying off course

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and on an unusual path

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is because the pilot
is not thinking clearly.

361
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- This theory says
that a terrible accident

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happened on board,
disabling the crew,

363
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and probably the passengers
as well.

364
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So the problem with MH370

365
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could have actually started

366
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before it left the ground.

367
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Fishburne:
Just before takeoff,

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maintenance logs show
that work was performed

369
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on MH370's oxygen system.

370
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- The pressurization system
in a 777 handles

371
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all the air that everyone
breathes on board.

372
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- And it also handles
the cabin pressure.

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- At a high altitude,

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the pressure outside
the aircraft is very low,

375
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too low to sustain life.

376
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Inside the aircraft,
it's pressurized,

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and it's comfortable.

378
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So it's possible
that a maintenance fault

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could have resulted
from the work they did

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on the pressurization system,

381
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essentially causing
the aircraft

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not to pressurize properly.

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It's not terribly uncommon,

384
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but if it does happen,

385
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someone has
to pressurize the aircraft,

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typically using
an emergency procedure.

387
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Fishburne:
But what if they didn't?

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♪ ♪

389
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- The last communication
with air traffic control

390
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was made by Captain Zaharie,

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"Good night, Malaysia 370."

392
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And that means that he was not
flying the aircraft.

393
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On a commercial airliner,
there are two pilots,

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one who is doing the flying,
and the other

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who's doing the monitoring.

396
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The pilot who is making
the radio calls

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is not the pilot flying.

398
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That's just the way it works.

399
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Every radio call from the time

400
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that Malaysia Flight 370
took off

401
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was made by the first officer,
Fariq Abdul Hamid.

402
00:18:09,792 --> 00:18:12,417
Captain Shah was handling
the takeoff,

403
00:18:12,542 --> 00:18:15,125
getting out
of Kuala Lumpur Airspace,

404
00:18:15,250 --> 00:18:17,667
sort of the more difficult
parts of the flight.

405
00:18:17,792 --> 00:18:20,833
Captain Shah was a highly
experienced airline captain.

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He had 18,000 flight hours,
and he was only 53 years old.

407
00:18:25,333 --> 00:18:29,292
That's just 1,500 hours less
than Captain Sully Sullenberger

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had when he famously landed his
airliner in the Hudson River.

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After takeoff, we can assume

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that 38 minutes
into the flight,

411
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when Captain Shah's voice
is on the radio,

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he has handed control of the
aircraft to the first officer.

413
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Remember,
this was his last flight

414
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before becoming qualified
on the aircraft.

415
00:18:50,083 --> 00:18:51,333
- Now we have
the first officer,

416
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who's operating the aircraft

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for which he's not
yet fully qualified.

418
00:18:55,375 --> 00:18:58,833
We have 227 passengers
on board,

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12 crew members,
and the aircraft is climbing.

420
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And we may have
a maintenance problem,

421
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the pressurization issue.

422
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,833
This is a dangerous situation.

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It can lead to hypoxia.

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Fishburne:
Hypoxia is a lack of oxygen

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in the body tissue and brain,

427
00:19:16,042 --> 00:19:17,958
which can occur
in any aircraft

428
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flying over 16,000 feet.

429
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- With not enough oxygen
feeding the brain,

430
00:19:23,250 --> 00:19:25,708
people can't do
the simplest things,

431
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let alone command an airliner.

432
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To be blunt,
hypoxia makes you stupid,

433
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makes you unable
to have rational thoughts.

434
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At a cruising altitude
of 35,000 feet,

435
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incapacitation due
to hypoxia can occur

436
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in less than a minute.

437
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The statistics indicate that,
for pilots,

438
00:19:43,708 --> 00:19:45,375
the time of useful
consciousness could be

439
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as low as 15 seconds.

440
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♪ ♪

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Fishburne: Gradual onset
hypoxia has caused

442
00:19:52,208 --> 00:19:55,167
numerous airline crashes
over the years.

443
00:19:55,250 --> 00:19:57,167
It's a deadly scenario

444
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with very little time
to react.

445
00:20:00,083 --> 00:20:02,833
- There are a number of cases
in which an airplane takes off,

446
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and the pilots have failed
to pressurize the aircraft,

447
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or the aircraft simply
doesn't pressurize.

448
00:20:08,292 --> 00:20:09,833
[alarm beeping]

449
00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:13,292
And because of the nature
of hypoxia, there are cases

450
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in which pilots got
a cabin altitude warning horn,

451
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a warning that the aircraft
was not properly pressurized,

452
00:20:19,375 --> 00:20:22,167
and they may not respond
to it correctly

453
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if their brains
are already lacking oxygen.

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Fishburne: Could this have
happened aboard MH370?

455
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- So at first it makes sense.

456
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There is a lack
of a Mayday call.

457
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There's no call for help.

458
00:20:35,417 --> 00:20:37,458
But under hypoxic conditions,

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they might not even think
they're in danger.

460
00:20:40,542 --> 00:20:44,625
- The erratic flight also
speaks to a hypoxic event.

461
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The pilot turned
the aircraft around,

462
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heading back to Kuala Lumpur

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as part of a response
to the emergency.

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Fishburne: According to radar,

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the plane makes one last turn.

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- So the final move made
by the first officer

468
00:21:01,083 --> 00:21:03,167
could have been
to turn the aircraft

469
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toward the runway
that he knows.

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Fishburne: That airport
is Langkawi International,

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set on an island just west
of the Malaysian peninsula.

472
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- This is where he did
his flight training.

473
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He's familiar with the terrain.

474
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He knows that the runway
is long enough

475
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to land a fully loaded 777.

476
00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:23,167
Fishburne: Instead of landing,

477
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the plane continues
to fly for 230 miles.

478
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- So at this point,
we think that both crew

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are incapacitated by hypoxia.

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They've passed out,
and the autopilot takes over.

481
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- The aircraft
is carrying 239 people,

482
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who are most likely dead,

483
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and they are flying until
that airplane runs out of fuel.

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♪ ♪

485
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Fishburne:
Not everyone is convinced

486
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the cabin depressurized.

487
00:21:50,583 --> 00:21:53,500
Could it be something
more sinister?

488
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♪ ♪

489
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Fishburne: When Malaysia
Flight 370 goes missing,

490
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investigators from nine
countries join the search,

491
00:22:02,083 --> 00:22:03,833
including the United States.

492
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,542
Their biggest challenge
is the lack of evidence,

493
00:22:06,708 --> 00:22:10,542
almost all of which lies
on that missing airplane.

494
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But several months
into their search,

495
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authorities get
a treasure trove of new data,

496
00:22:16,333 --> 00:22:20,167
and it changes the course
of the investigation.

497
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- They hear from a company
called Inmarsat.

498
00:22:22,917 --> 00:22:26,167
They handle satellite data
for commercial airlines.

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Things like satellite phones

500
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in the back of your seat
to make calls,

501
00:22:29,542 --> 00:22:32,000
TV and entertainment systems,

502
00:22:32,083 --> 00:22:35,042
these systems are in constant
communication back and forth

503
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:36,583
with a satellite system.

504
00:22:36,708 --> 00:22:38,167
It's pretty much
just checking in.

505
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[dramatic music]

506
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Well, Inmarsat has records
of this communication.

507
00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:46,375
First thing that happens
is the airplane logs into

508
00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:48,750
the Inmarsat system
at midnight Malaysia time,

509
00:22:48,875 --> 00:22:51,958
which is expected
right before takeoff.

510
00:22:52,042 --> 00:22:55,208
Then the satellite system
checks in with the airplane

511
00:22:55,333 --> 00:22:59,667
on an hourly basis
using automatic pings.

512
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It checks in to see,
hey, are you there?

513
00:23:03,042 --> 00:23:05,875
And we call that a handshake.

514
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While the aircraft transponder
is offline,

515
00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:12,250
the Inmarsat communication
system keeps going.

516
00:23:12,375 --> 00:23:14,333
It takes months
to analyze the data.

517
00:23:14,458 --> 00:23:16,333
And at the time, they didn't
have the technology

518
00:23:16,417 --> 00:23:17,833
to make full sense of it.

519
00:23:17,958 --> 00:23:21,625
But then when they finally
figure out the Inmarsat data,

520
00:23:21,708 --> 00:23:25,667
guess what,
it shows something incredible.

521
00:23:25,792 --> 00:23:27,750
Previously,
the last known contact

522
00:23:27,875 --> 00:23:30,333
of the airplane was 2:22 a.m.,

523
00:23:30,417 --> 00:23:33,375
when it disappears
from military radar.

524
00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:35,833
And investigators assume
that the plane crashed

525
00:23:35,917 --> 00:23:38,000
not too long after.

526
00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:41,167
The Inmarsat data shows
seven automated pings

527
00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:43,708
after 2:22 a.m.,

528
00:23:43,833 --> 00:23:47,958
and those pings go
all the way until 8:19 a.m.

529
00:23:48,042 --> 00:23:49,958
Fishburne:
If the plane continues flying

530
00:23:50,042 --> 00:23:52,083
for six more hours,

531
00:23:52,208 --> 00:23:55,000
where did it go?

532
00:23:55,083 --> 00:23:57,500
- So the technology
at the time didn't allow them

533
00:23:57,625 --> 00:24:01,667
to get a specific location
using the Inmarsat ping.

534
00:24:01,792 --> 00:24:03,917
All they know is that the plane

535
00:24:04,042 --> 00:24:07,333
is within range
of a certain satellite.

536
00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:11,792
So they calculate that
to cover a large area

537
00:24:11,875 --> 00:24:14,292
off the western coast
of Australia,

538
00:24:14,417 --> 00:24:16,708
which is way farther south

539
00:24:16,875 --> 00:24:18,667
than anywhere
they previously looked.

540
00:24:18,750 --> 00:24:19,708
♪ ♪

541
00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:22,917
This means
that MH370 turned south

542
00:24:23,042 --> 00:24:25,167
and flew for six hours

543
00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:27,708
into the middle of nowhere.

544
00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:31,667
Some theorists say
that it's not on autopilot.

545
00:24:31,833 --> 00:24:34,500
And why fly around for so long

546
00:24:34,583 --> 00:24:36,500
if you intend
to kill yourself?

547
00:24:36,583 --> 00:24:38,958
So if the plane
isn't flying itself,

548
00:24:39,042 --> 00:24:41,708
and the pilots are not
committing suicide,

549
00:24:41,833 --> 00:24:44,667
that leaves one other option:

550
00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:47,375
a passenger took control
of the aircraft.

551
00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:50,250
♪ ♪

552
00:24:50,375 --> 00:24:52,833
- There are 227 passengers
on board.

553
00:24:52,917 --> 00:24:55,583
Any of them could
be responsible.

554
00:24:55,708 --> 00:24:57,958
- In the world
post September 11th,

555
00:24:58,083 --> 00:25:00,667
we look very carefully
at who's on a plane.

556
00:25:00,792 --> 00:25:01,667
♪ ♪

557
00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:03,125
Fishburne: As they dig deeper,

558
00:25:03,250 --> 00:25:06,667
investigators realize not all
of the passengers

559
00:25:06,792 --> 00:25:08,333
are who they claim to be.

560
00:25:08,458 --> 00:25:09,750
♪ ♪

561
00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:12,625
- So they checked
everybody's info.

562
00:25:12,750 --> 00:25:15,375
And then there was
this red flag.

563
00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:20,500
Two people had boarded
using stolen passports,

564
00:25:20,625 --> 00:25:23,542
one Italian
and one Australian.

565
00:25:23,667 --> 00:25:26,667
When these two guys checked in,
for some reason,

566
00:25:26,750 --> 00:25:29,542
the passports were not
discovered by Interpol.

567
00:25:29,667 --> 00:25:33,000
So we have two men
on board this airplane

568
00:25:33,083 --> 00:25:35,708
that are trying
to hide something, clearly,

569
00:25:35,833 --> 00:25:37,750
and we didn't know about it.

570
00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:39,292
We don't know who they are,

571
00:25:39,375 --> 00:25:41,500
fake names, fake passports.

572
00:25:41,625 --> 00:25:44,208
These guys could be anybody.

573
00:25:44,333 --> 00:25:47,458
So fortunately, it's not 1950.

574
00:25:47,542 --> 00:25:51,042
It's 2014,
and there's large number

575
00:25:51,167 --> 00:25:52,792
of surveillance everywhere.

576
00:25:52,875 --> 00:25:55,958
We can trace
these guys' steps.

577
00:25:56,042 --> 00:25:58,292
Police found out
these are two friends

578
00:25:58,375 --> 00:26:00,208
using stolen passports.

579
00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:03,625
Turns out these two passports
were stolen in Thailand

580
00:26:03,708 --> 00:26:05,625
about two years before.

581
00:26:05,750 --> 00:26:07,375
They bought a one-way ticket

582
00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:09,500
through a payphone
in Thailand.

583
00:26:09,667 --> 00:26:12,208
From Thailand,
they entered Malaysia

584
00:26:12,333 --> 00:26:14,667
using their real passport.

585
00:26:14,792 --> 00:26:16,583
So now we know who they are.

586
00:26:16,708 --> 00:26:18,542
Fishburne:
The men have a valid reason

587
00:26:18,667 --> 00:26:20,375
to hide their identities.

588
00:26:20,542 --> 00:26:23,792
- These are two
Iranian refugees,

589
00:26:23,875 --> 00:26:27,250
19 and 29,
seeking asylum in Beijing.

590
00:26:27,375 --> 00:26:30,000
They don't have any knowledge
about airplanes.

591
00:26:30,125 --> 00:26:33,083
So with those maneuvers
that MH370 went through,

592
00:26:33,208 --> 00:26:34,708
whoever was doing it

593
00:26:34,875 --> 00:26:36,917
knew what they were doing
in that cockpit.

594
00:26:37,042 --> 00:26:39,500
So it turns out these guys were
not really suspects.

595
00:26:39,625 --> 00:26:41,375
♪ ♪

596
00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,708
Fishburne: Investigators also
believe the culprit knows

597
00:26:44,833 --> 00:26:47,708
how to work the plane's
internal systems,

598
00:26:47,875 --> 00:26:49,792
like the transponders.

599
00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:52,417
- There's a passenger on board
who might fit the bill.

600
00:26:52,542 --> 00:26:54,833
He's a flight engineer
from Switzerland.

601
00:26:54,958 --> 00:26:56,208
♪ ♪

602
00:26:56,375 --> 00:27:01,667
The Boeing 777-200 has access
to the avionics bay,

603
00:27:01,792 --> 00:27:03,875
which is under the cockpit.

604
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,500
That's in the forward
first class cabin.

605
00:27:07,583 --> 00:27:11,208
And it's a small lock
to get there.

606
00:27:11,333 --> 00:27:12,833
This is where
the flight computers are.

607
00:27:12,958 --> 00:27:14,417
This is where
the pressurization

608
00:27:14,542 --> 00:27:15,833
and everything is.

609
00:27:15,917 --> 00:27:17,750
So if you could get access
to this room,

610
00:27:17,875 --> 00:27:21,042
you could cause serious harm
to an aircraft in flight.

611
00:27:21,208 --> 00:27:23,958
Would a flight engineer
know about this?

612
00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:26,083
Possibly.

613
00:27:26,208 --> 00:27:29,500
Fishburne: But does the flight
engineer have a motive?

614
00:27:29,625 --> 00:27:31,167
- When we look
into this person,

615
00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:34,250
we find that he has
a clean background.

616
00:27:34,375 --> 00:27:36,708
He works on a completely
different type of aircraft.

617
00:27:36,833 --> 00:27:38,708
He works on corporate jets.

618
00:27:38,833 --> 00:27:40,875
He's probably not a suspect.

619
00:27:41,042 --> 00:27:44,750
Fishburne: With no evidence
to implicate any passengers,

620
00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:47,625
the search goes cold
for three years.

621
00:27:47,708 --> 00:27:49,667
- Remember that proving
what happened

622
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:51,333
is all about the evidence.

623
00:27:51,458 --> 00:27:56,208
And there is none until
suddenly something washes up.

624
00:27:56,375 --> 00:27:58,208
- It's 2017,

625
00:27:58,333 --> 00:28:02,333
there's been almost no lead
from the MH370.

626
00:28:02,458 --> 00:28:05,500
- But one day,
somebody's walking on the beach

627
00:28:05,583 --> 00:28:07,458
and makes
an incredible discovery.

628
00:28:07,542 --> 00:28:11,208
Fishburne: Over 6,500 miles
from the Malaysian airport,

629
00:28:11,333 --> 00:28:14,292
wreckage appears
on several remote islands.

630
00:28:14,375 --> 00:28:15,792
♪ ♪

631
00:28:15,875 --> 00:28:19,167
- So now, we finally have
some hard evidence

632
00:28:19,333 --> 00:28:22,875
that we could look at that were
the pieces of that airplane.

633
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,000
♪ ♪

634
00:28:27,792 --> 00:28:29,042
Fishburne: For three years

635
00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:30,583
after Malaysia
Flight 370 disappears,

636
00:28:30,708 --> 00:28:34,083
there's no sign
of the actual aircraft,

637
00:28:34,208 --> 00:28:36,958
until 2017,

638
00:28:37,042 --> 00:28:40,583
when debris begin to surface.

639
00:28:40,708 --> 00:28:42,667
- So now we're getting
some of these chunks

640
00:28:42,792 --> 00:28:45,250
that are washed ashore

641
00:28:45,375 --> 00:28:47,500
over the east coast of Africa,

642
00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:50,167
the Mozambique,
and Réunion Island.

643
00:28:50,292 --> 00:28:53,708
Fishburne:
In all, 33 pieces are found

644
00:28:53,875 --> 00:28:56,542
in six different countries.

645
00:28:56,708 --> 00:29:00,000
- They even found
this big piece.

646
00:29:00,125 --> 00:29:03,792
It's a flaperon unique
to the 777

647
00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:07,667
that had a serial number on it
that matches MH370.

648
00:29:07,833 --> 00:29:09,833
So it's got to be
from that airplane.

649
00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:13,042
Fishburne: The parts also
hold an important clue.

650
00:29:13,208 --> 00:29:17,042
- There was some scorch marks
on the debris.

651
00:29:17,167 --> 00:29:20,167
And that tells me that
there may have been a fire.

652
00:29:20,292 --> 00:29:22,500
[dramatic music]

653
00:29:22,667 --> 00:29:23,958
♪ ♪

654
00:29:24,083 --> 00:29:27,333
What we know for sure is that
the transponder went off

655
00:29:27,458 --> 00:29:29,708
38 minutes into the flight.

656
00:29:29,833 --> 00:29:33,125
Maybe it is caused
by the fire on board.

657
00:29:33,208 --> 00:29:34,792
♪ ♪

658
00:29:34,917 --> 00:29:36,583
- Fires happen
for a variety of reasons,

659
00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:39,000
electrical, mechanical,

660
00:29:39,083 --> 00:29:40,875
maybe something
in the cargo hold,

661
00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:43,042
or something in the cabin.

662
00:29:43,208 --> 00:29:46,667
- MH370 was carrying
about 500 pounds

663
00:29:46,833 --> 00:29:50,417
of lithium-ion batteries
in the forward cargo hold.

664
00:29:50,542 --> 00:29:51,667
♪ ♪

665
00:29:51,792 --> 00:29:53,917
And we know
this is more than enough

666
00:29:54,042 --> 00:29:57,000
to possibly bring down
an aircraft,

667
00:29:57,083 --> 00:29:58,667
as has happened before.

668
00:29:58,833 --> 00:30:00,833
♪ ♪

669
00:30:00,917 --> 00:30:03,250
Fishburne:
On September 3, 2010,

670
00:30:03,375 --> 00:30:05,208
UPS Flight 6 takes off

671
00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:07,792
from Dubai
International Airport.

672
00:30:07,875 --> 00:30:12,667
- This was a massive
747-400 freighter UPS,

673
00:30:12,750 --> 00:30:14,833
piloted by Captain Lampe

674
00:30:14,917 --> 00:30:17,750
and First Officer
Matthew Bell.

675
00:30:17,875 --> 00:30:20,333
- 138 miles into that flight,

676
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:22,167
the cockpit fills with smoke.

677
00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:23,333
♪ ♪

678
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,208
At this point, it's chaos.

679
00:30:25,333 --> 00:30:28,292
It's not smoke
like from a campfire.

680
00:30:28,417 --> 00:30:32,333
This is thick smoke, so thick
you can't see through it.

681
00:30:32,458 --> 00:30:33,625
They had no chance.

682
00:30:33,708 --> 00:30:35,167
♪ ♪

683
00:30:35,292 --> 00:30:38,167
- First Officer Lampe
disconnected the autopilot,

684
00:30:38,292 --> 00:30:43,000
perhaps trying to make
a quick turn towards Dubai.

685
00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:45,625
And when he did that,
he realized

686
00:30:45,708 --> 00:30:48,042
the primary
flight control system

687
00:30:48,208 --> 00:30:50,667
had failed because of the fire,

688
00:30:50,750 --> 00:30:53,458
and now he couldn't
quite fly it properly.

689
00:30:53,583 --> 00:30:59,000
The captain got out of his seat
to get a fire extinguisher,

690
00:30:59,083 --> 00:31:02,417
unfortunately succumbed
by the fumes

691
00:31:02,542 --> 00:31:04,333
and smoke and fire immediately.

692
00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:06,292
♪ ♪

693
00:31:06,375 --> 00:31:08,417
Bell couldn't
see his instruments,

694
00:31:08,542 --> 00:31:11,000
but he was given a heading

695
00:31:11,125 --> 00:31:14,333
towards Dubai Airport,
Runway 12 Left.

696
00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:15,500
♪ ♪

697
00:31:15,667 --> 00:31:18,000
Sadly, he crashes few miles

698
00:31:18,125 --> 00:31:19,917
on the other side
of the runway.

699
00:31:20,042 --> 00:31:21,333
Both pilots were killed.

700
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,167
♪ ♪

701
00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:27,167
The subsequent investigation
discovered that there was

702
00:31:27,292 --> 00:31:32,292
a pallet with 81,000
lithium-ion batteries

703
00:31:32,417 --> 00:31:33,917
on board that freighter.

704
00:31:34,042 --> 00:31:37,208
Lithium-ion batteries
are extremely volatile,

705
00:31:37,375 --> 00:31:39,208
even the ones that you have
in your phone,

706
00:31:39,333 --> 00:31:42,542
they have high amount
of charge in them,

707
00:31:42,708 --> 00:31:44,125
but very thin walls.

708
00:31:44,208 --> 00:31:46,500
Because of the thin walls
on these batteries,

709
00:31:46,583 --> 00:31:50,875
if one of them catches fire,
it's very easy to propagate

710
00:31:51,042 --> 00:31:53,875
into the other batteries
adjacent to it.

711
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,833
In rare cases,
lithium-ion batteries

712
00:31:56,917 --> 00:32:00,833
actually combust,
almost like a mini explosion.

713
00:32:00,958 --> 00:32:02,333
♪ ♪

714
00:32:02,458 --> 00:32:04,125
Fishburne:
The FAA has recorded

715
00:32:04,250 --> 00:32:08,333
340 airplane incidents
involving lithium batteries.

716
00:32:08,417 --> 00:32:11,792
In 2019,
regulations were put in place

717
00:32:11,875 --> 00:32:13,917
to safeguard passenger planes.

718
00:32:14,042 --> 00:32:17,708
- It is now prohibited
to carry lithium-ion batteries

719
00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:19,500
in passenger airliners

720
00:32:19,583 --> 00:32:22,167
and in the cargo compartment
of an airliner,

721
00:32:22,333 --> 00:32:25,375
and very limited amount
on freighters.

722
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:29,042
Fishburne: But that was years
after pieces of MH370

723
00:32:29,167 --> 00:32:32,250
began to wash up
on remote shores.

724
00:32:32,375 --> 00:32:36,917
- So in the case of MH370,
you have some charred wreckage,

725
00:32:37,042 --> 00:32:39,417
you also have
a large amount of fuel

726
00:32:39,542 --> 00:32:42,292
in the form
of lithium batteries on board.

727
00:32:42,375 --> 00:32:45,417
Fishburne: What about
the unusual flight path

728
00:32:45,542 --> 00:32:47,333
and erratic maneuvers?

729
00:32:47,458 --> 00:32:49,750
- A lot of people
are questioning

730
00:32:49,875 --> 00:32:51,250
that sharp left turn.

731
00:32:51,375 --> 00:32:54,083
That can also be explained
by the fire.

732
00:32:54,208 --> 00:32:56,417
We're trained that,
in case of a fire,

733
00:32:56,542 --> 00:33:00,500
what you do is you immediately
get off the airway.

734
00:33:00,667 --> 00:33:04,292
- And at first, that's what
it appears that MH370 does.

735
00:33:04,417 --> 00:33:07,625
- Your next step
is to find an airport to land.

736
00:33:07,708 --> 00:33:10,458
Some of these sporadic turns
could be possibly

737
00:33:10,542 --> 00:33:12,833
trying to figure out
where are they going

738
00:33:12,917 --> 00:33:17,250
to land this airplane
as soon as possible?

739
00:33:17,375 --> 00:33:19,583
You have to either
put out this fire

740
00:33:19,708 --> 00:33:22,792
or get that airplane on
the ground as fast as you can.

741
00:33:22,875 --> 00:33:25,292
♪ ♪

742
00:33:25,417 --> 00:33:29,500
Usually, they say it's
between 12 to 14 minutes

743
00:33:29,625 --> 00:33:33,417
to get that airplane from
altitude down to the ground.

744
00:33:33,542 --> 00:33:38,292
And airplane that is designed
to basically glide,

745
00:33:38,375 --> 00:33:43,167
it is very hard to get it
on the ground that quickly,

746
00:33:43,292 --> 00:33:46,500
unless if you
literally nosedive.

747
00:33:46,667 --> 00:33:49,208
♪ ♪

748
00:33:49,375 --> 00:33:52,667
People always ask
why there was no Mayday call,

749
00:33:52,792 --> 00:33:55,208
why they didn't call
on a radio.

750
00:33:55,333 --> 00:33:59,042
- Well, first of all,
the aircraft may not have been

751
00:33:59,167 --> 00:34:02,042
capable at that point
of calling for help.

752
00:34:02,167 --> 00:34:04,000
The radios
or the communication systems

753
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,750
could have been knocked out.

754
00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:08,333
Additionally,
you need to understand

755
00:34:08,458 --> 00:34:12,000
what it's like to fly
in a cockpit or a cabin

756
00:34:12,125 --> 00:34:14,500
that is full of dense smoke.

757
00:34:14,625 --> 00:34:18,542
- If your car is on fire
or your truck or your boat,

758
00:34:18,708 --> 00:34:20,583
you can step out and jump out.

759
00:34:20,708 --> 00:34:23,542
Unfortunately, you can't
do that on an aircraft.

760
00:34:23,667 --> 00:34:26,417
There's no help.
Fire department is not coming.

761
00:34:26,542 --> 00:34:28,000
♪ ♪

762
00:34:28,125 --> 00:34:29,833
- The crew is on their own.

763
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,333
So what they would be doing

764
00:34:31,458 --> 00:34:33,667
is working to put out the fire.

765
00:34:33,833 --> 00:34:35,458
♪ ♪

766
00:34:35,542 --> 00:34:40,042
- 777 has a very sophisticated
onboard fire detection

767
00:34:40,167 --> 00:34:42,042
and fire suppression system.

768
00:34:42,208 --> 00:34:44,875
But unfortunately,
it was not designed

769
00:34:45,042 --> 00:34:47,458
to fight a lithium-ion battery.

770
00:34:47,583 --> 00:34:48,500
♪ ♪

771
00:34:48,583 --> 00:34:51,875
So when there's
nothing else to do,

772
00:34:52,042 --> 00:34:55,333
the other choice
is to climb the aircraft

773
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:59,167
and starve the fire
of the oxygen.

774
00:34:59,292 --> 00:35:02,250
But the problem with that
is the fire needs

775
00:35:02,375 --> 00:35:05,917
oxygen to breathe, and so do
the folks in the back.

776
00:35:06,042 --> 00:35:07,458
It's a gamble.

777
00:35:07,583 --> 00:35:09,125
♪ ♪

778
00:35:09,250 --> 00:35:11,917
Would the fire run out
of oxygen first

779
00:35:12,042 --> 00:35:13,042
or the people?

780
00:35:13,167 --> 00:35:14,375
If you don't climb,

781
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:16,542
everyone is gonna burn alive.

782
00:35:16,708 --> 00:35:19,375
It's very possible
that everybody was dead

783
00:35:19,542 --> 00:35:22,833
long before it crashed
into the water.

784
00:35:22,958 --> 00:35:26,333
And perhaps that was the
autopilot flying the airplane,

785
00:35:26,458 --> 00:35:30,542
and no one was in control till
eventually it runs out of fuel.

786
00:35:30,667 --> 00:35:33,667
Fishburne: But this evidence
doesn't close the case

787
00:35:33,833 --> 00:35:36,667
on Malaysia Flight 370.

788
00:35:36,792 --> 00:35:39,167
- We have only a few pieces

789
00:35:39,250 --> 00:35:42,167
of this airplane that weighs
almost a million pounds.

790
00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:44,583
So we can
make educated guesses,

791
00:35:44,708 --> 00:35:48,125
we can keep digging,
we can make assumptions.

792
00:35:48,250 --> 00:35:51,167
But the truth is
we don't have an answer.

793
00:35:51,292 --> 00:35:54,208
Fishburne: In fact, some
experts are highly skeptical

794
00:35:54,375 --> 00:35:56,875
about this physical evidence.

795
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,708
- Some people look at patterns

796
00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:01,083
and the incredible amount
of time that passed

797
00:36:01,208 --> 00:36:03,500
before the wreckage washed up,

798
00:36:03,583 --> 00:36:06,375
and they wonder, "Could this
evidence have been planted?"

799
00:36:10,208 --> 00:36:13,333
Fishburne:
On January 17, 2017,

800
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,625
the official search
for Malaysia Flight 370

801
00:36:16,708 --> 00:36:18,167
is suspended.

802
00:36:18,250 --> 00:36:21,833
Despite a sweep
of 46,000 square miles

803
00:36:21,958 --> 00:36:24,042
of the Indian Ocean seabed,

804
00:36:24,208 --> 00:36:26,667
the rest of the plane
isn't found.

805
00:36:26,792 --> 00:36:29,000
- So the official search,

806
00:36:29,083 --> 00:36:31,708
which took hundreds
of millions of dollars

807
00:36:31,833 --> 00:36:35,167
and years to conduct,

808
00:36:35,250 --> 00:36:37,375
came up empty.

809
00:36:37,542 --> 00:36:39,500
Fishburne:
According to some theorists,

810
00:36:39,625 --> 00:36:42,167
the search might have been
in the wrong area.

811
00:36:42,292 --> 00:36:44,667
- The officials
and most of the media

812
00:36:44,792 --> 00:36:46,833
convinced themselves
that the satellite data

813
00:36:46,958 --> 00:36:49,833
could only mean one thing,
that the plane went south.

814
00:36:49,958 --> 00:36:51,250
But they were wrong.

815
00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:54,417
There's another possible
interpretation of the data.

816
00:36:54,542 --> 00:36:56,083
The reason
that search officials thought

817
00:36:56,208 --> 00:36:59,333
that the plane must have gone
to the southern Indian Ocean

818
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:02,750
was because
of satellite metadata.

819
00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:04,583
[dramatic music]

820
00:37:04,708 --> 00:37:08,458
MH370 remained visible
to ground base radar systems

821
00:37:08,583 --> 00:37:11,667
until about 2:30
in the morning.

822
00:37:11,792 --> 00:37:15,167
After that,
until 8:19 in the morning,

823
00:37:15,292 --> 00:37:18,958
the only clues are these
satellite data pings.

824
00:37:19,042 --> 00:37:21,500
- They're able to calculate
the distance of the plane

825
00:37:21,583 --> 00:37:23,583
from the satellite
using these pings

826
00:37:23,708 --> 00:37:26,417
and how it travels
through time and space.

827
00:37:26,542 --> 00:37:29,500
- The time delay between the
satellite sending its signal

828
00:37:29,625 --> 00:37:32,333
and the plane replying
allows you to calculate

829
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:35,000
how far away the plane
is from the satellite.

830
00:37:35,167 --> 00:37:38,500
Fishburne: But that only tells
you one part of the story.

831
00:37:38,625 --> 00:37:39,833
♪ ♪

832
00:37:39,917 --> 00:37:42,333
- The problem with those pings
is it's really challenging

833
00:37:42,458 --> 00:37:45,542
to identify where
the airplane exactly flew.

834
00:37:45,667 --> 00:37:47,458
In fact,
at the time of the crash,

835
00:37:47,583 --> 00:37:49,750
we didn't have the technology
to fully analyze

836
00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:52,458
the data that was provided
by Inmarsat.

837
00:37:52,583 --> 00:37:54,375
- And then we have an airplane
that's on the move.

838
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:56,208
We don't know
how fast it's going,

839
00:37:56,333 --> 00:37:58,375
and we don't know
how high it is.

840
00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:01,667
These calculations have to be
within milliseconds

841
00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:05,375
or you could be
off thousands of miles.

842
00:38:05,542 --> 00:38:07,542
- Once they did
their calculations,

843
00:38:07,667 --> 00:38:10,167
they came to the conclusion
that this data

844
00:38:10,333 --> 00:38:11,667
meant unequivocally
that the plane could

845
00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:15,458
only have gone
to the southern Indian Ocean.

846
00:38:15,542 --> 00:38:18,583
Fishburne: But there's
another possible route.

847
00:38:18,708 --> 00:38:20,333
♪ ♪

848
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:22,708
- It's taken years
to figure out the math here,

849
00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:27,375
but the data also aligns
with a northern arc.

850
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,500
Following the northern arc,

851
00:38:29,583 --> 00:38:31,833
the aircraft would have passed
through northern Thailand

852
00:38:31,958 --> 00:38:33,417
and then Central Asia.

853
00:38:33,542 --> 00:38:35,917
- If the plane did fly
along the northern route,

854
00:38:36,042 --> 00:38:40,625
the final ping puts it
over central Kazakhstan.

855
00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:44,250
Fishburne:
If MH370 went to Kazakhstan,

856
00:38:44,375 --> 00:38:47,000
it opens up
a frightening possibility.

857
00:38:47,125 --> 00:38:52,750
♪ ♪

858
00:38:52,875 --> 00:38:56,542
- This theory says that
terrorists hijack the aircraft,

859
00:38:56,708 --> 00:38:59,667
take it to Kazakhstan,
kill the passengers,

860
00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:02,042
and then
they could have refueled

861
00:39:02,208 --> 00:39:06,083
and continued to anywhere
within Russia.

862
00:39:06,208 --> 00:39:07,958
- If the plane went north,

863
00:39:08,083 --> 00:39:10,917
it could have landed safely.

864
00:39:11,042 --> 00:39:14,708
It takes a lot of runway to
land a big plane like the 777.

865
00:39:14,833 --> 00:39:16,875
And there aren't
a lot of long runways

866
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,125
in the remote central part
of Kazakhstan.

867
00:39:20,250 --> 00:39:24,500
But it turns out that there
is a runway not too far away

868
00:39:24,583 --> 00:39:27,833
that is a suitable runway
for a 777 to land on.

869
00:39:27,917 --> 00:39:30,667
- The place is called
Yubileyniy runway,

870
00:39:30,833 --> 00:39:34,500
and it's part of the former
Soviet military base.

871
00:39:34,667 --> 00:39:36,500
Fishburne:
The big question is,

872
00:39:36,625 --> 00:39:41,042
did anyone on the plane
have ties to Russia?

873
00:39:41,167 --> 00:39:43,833
- In first class,
there's a Russian national

874
00:39:43,917 --> 00:39:45,167
named Nikolai Brodskii,

875
00:39:45,292 --> 00:39:50,083
and he's sitting about 15 feet
from an unlocked hatch,

876
00:39:50,208 --> 00:39:52,750
which contains
the electronic brain

877
00:39:52,875 --> 00:39:56,125
that controls all of the
flight surfaces of the plane

878
00:39:56,250 --> 00:39:58,583
and all the communications
with the ground.

879
00:39:58,708 --> 00:40:03,750
And in economy class, you have
two Soviet Army veterans

880
00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:07,750
sitting directly under the box
that makes the satellite ping.

881
00:40:07,875 --> 00:40:10,333
It's entirely possible
that somebody took control

882
00:40:10,458 --> 00:40:13,042
of the plane,
killed everyone on board,

883
00:40:13,167 --> 00:40:15,917
flew off into perfect safety,

884
00:40:16,042 --> 00:40:19,458
refueled, went and hid
the plane somewhere,

885
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,625
and got away scot-free.

886
00:40:21,708 --> 00:40:25,583
Fishburne:
But if MH370 didn't crash,

887
00:40:25,708 --> 00:40:27,833
where did the debris
come from?

888
00:40:27,958 --> 00:40:31,042
- Some theorists say pieces
were taken off the aircraft,

889
00:40:31,208 --> 00:40:35,667
thrown into the Indian Ocean
to throw off investigators.

890
00:40:35,792 --> 00:40:37,667
- The idea that these pieces
might have been planted

891
00:40:37,792 --> 00:40:42,958
by perpetrators would explain
why no debris was spotted

892
00:40:43,042 --> 00:40:45,000
from the aerial searches
over the area

893
00:40:45,167 --> 00:40:47,833
where the plane was presumed
to be missing for months.

894
00:40:47,917 --> 00:40:52,083
Was MH370 an accident
or was it a crime?

895
00:40:52,208 --> 00:40:53,125
A perfect crime.

896
00:40:53,250 --> 00:40:57,292
♪ ♪

897
00:40:57,417 --> 00:40:58,667
Fishburne: Despite the end

898
00:40:58,792 --> 00:41:01,417
of the official investigation
in 2018,

899
00:41:01,542 --> 00:41:04,333
there remain countless
private citizens

900
00:41:04,458 --> 00:41:06,958
dedicated to solving
this mystery.

901
00:41:07,042 --> 00:41:10,542
Around the world, scientists,
journalists, nonprofits,

902
00:41:10,667 --> 00:41:12,333
even major corporations

903
00:41:12,458 --> 00:41:14,250
continue to hunt for answers

904
00:41:14,375 --> 00:41:16,083
about what really happened

905
00:41:16,208 --> 00:41:17,792
to Malaysia Flight 370,

906
00:41:17,875 --> 00:41:20,625
answers that will hopefully
bring closure

907
00:41:20,750 --> 00:41:23,625
to the families
of those on board.

908
00:41:23,708 --> 00:41:25,125
I'm Laurence Fishburne.

909
00:41:25,208 --> 00:41:26,417
Thank you for watching

910
00:41:26,542 --> 00:41:29,667
"History's Greatest Mysteries."

911
00:41:29,792 --> 00:41:33,833
♪ ♪