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Episode 4: The Reboot

Publication date: October 5, 2023

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We’re getting into the thick of it now, as delve into the evidence that lies at the heart of MH370’s infinitely weird mystery. A week after MH370 vanished, the Malaysian Prime Minister announced that a satellite communications company called Inmarsat had recorded transmissions from the plane for another six hours after it disappeared from military radar in the Strait of Malacca. That meant that it could have flown for another 3000 miles! But where did it go? Jeff will discuss some of the reasons why MH370 probably wasn’t a “ghost flight” that flew on autopilot after its flight crew became incapacitated. Jeff and Andy will revisit the much-talked-about footage that appears to show UFOs circling and abducting an airplane. And finally, they’ll address one of the most frequently asked questions about the Netflix documentary: why the show gave short shrift to the woman who says she found MH370’s wreckage by looking at Tomnod data.

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Episode 3: The Turnback

Publication Date: September 28, 2023

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This week, the mystery deepens as, in the days after MH370’s disappearance, the Malaysian authorities first deny, then confirm that their military radar detected the missing 777 as it turned back from its planned route to Beijing just a few seconds after it passed the final waypoint in Malaysian airspace. The plane reversed course, flew back over the Malayan Peninsula, then flew up the middle of the Malacca Strait toward the northwest before disappearing again over the Andaman Sea. Jeff and Andy discuss the difference between primary and secondary radar, and Jeff explains why the timing of the turnback struck him as suspicious.

Here are some links and explanations relating to the topics discussed:

6:02: Video shown is of the press conference at which Malaysian authorities finally admitted that they had seen the plane on military radar as it reversed course and flew back over the Malayan peninsula. Link here. Admission comes around the 3:20 mark.

13:17: Footage of MH370’s route is from this video by Jean-Luc Marchand.

19:46: Here’s a link to the Guardian article shown on-screen. It describes a scenario in which an accidental depressurization caused the pilots to become incapacitated.

20:46: Jeff mentions a theory that the plane had snuck under another plane’s radar signature in order to elude detection. This was formulated by an aviation blogger named Keith Ledgerwood and is described in this BBC article as theory #7.

21:21: An article describing the theory that MH370 had wound up in Cambodia.

22:30: NewsNation doesn’t seem to have posted a video of Jeff’s segment discussing barnacles but if you’re interested in the topic he’s previously it extensively on his blog. We’ll be devoting a future episode of the podcast to it.

24:20: You can see a video of UFOs supposedly abducting MH370 here.

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Episode 2: The First Vanishing

PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The mystery begins. Shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and headed to the northeast, towards Beijing. For the first 40 minutes of the flight, everything was absolutely routine. But then, at 1.21am local time, the plane vanished from the radar screens of air traffic control. In today’s episode, Jeff and Andy discuss what it means for a civilian flight to disappear from radar screens, and why the timing of the disappearance might raise a red flag for investigators. We’ll talk about why it took so long for authorities to realize that something had gone wrong, and why the initial assumption was that the plane most likely had crashed close to its last known position.

Find it on Apple Podcasts here and on YouTube here.

Episode 1: How to approach an unsolved mystery

Publication date: September 7, 2023

In this first episode, journalist and aviation expert Jeff Wise and OnMilwaukee publisher Andy Tarnoff set the stage for how to discuss the mystery of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. They interview Peter Waring, who was a lieutenant in the Australian Navy in 2014 and participated in the search for the wreckage of MH370 with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Wise and Tarnoff talk about how best to approach this unsolved case, laying out the journalistic and scientific methods they will use to peel away the layers of the onion in each upcoming podcast episode.

Find it on Apple Podcasts here and on YouTube here.