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9 years on

New netflix 3 part series on MH 370

Beamed up by Aliens ?

I was about to ask 'Haven't they already found bits of it?' when I decided to Google it myself.

Wasn't aware that a fisherman discovered some of the panelling three years after the plane went missing and was used by his wife as an ironing board for five years before anyone realised what it actually was.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 323806.cms

Pilot suicide seems the most likely explanation to me.

xandreu wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:59 am
Pilot suicide seems the most likely explanation to me.

While a plausible possible explanation, there is very little to truly make that the most likely explanation. It’s just an explanation that gained traction from some circumstantial evidence. Pilot suicides are rare. Substantially rare enough to make them quite appealing as explanations.
Many possible explanations would likely never have made it to mainstream media as they simply don’t provide enough material to maintain interest for the general public. Additionally, several ‘aviation experts’ put their name to some potentially daft or poorly considered ideas which gave credence to conspiracy at the expense of considering potential reasons for particular actions. (I actually knew one colleague who did so). These things sadly came across as more of a desire for a sound bite than actually providing any true insight.

There’s wild and wacky ideas which are far more interesting than mundane facts. Possibly due to a desire to find some greater meaning for the substantial loss of life. A single person being lost weighed up against one hundred plus. Life is sometimes uncomfortably arbitrary, and at other times what seems like an innocent, innocuous act can have catastrophic consequences.

Armchair theorists will often posit a theory or hypothesis which is later found to be the cause, and will then say ‘I told you that 2 years ago.’ The reality is that final reports actually have to demonstrate and prove the theory, having actually tested all the plausible theories, with evidence obtained over a potentially protracted period.

As much as I have an interest in the case, as do many colleagues, I fear that it will be mainly a rehash of stuff already regurgitated. The actually scientifically sound new data would be worthy of whole science programs all of their own, but would appeal to people only of a scientific bent. Signals analysis, oceanography, deep sea exploration, to name only a few areas. Geek show material. Not really the stuff media viewing figures.

One of the shittiest Netflix documentaries I've ever watched. They gave way too much time to nonsensical theories such as claiming that the plane was shot down to prevent a particular piece of cargo from reaching China.

I honestly think many people enjoy the fact that nobody knows the answer to such a monumental incident - especially when, in this modern age, most people would have expected a downed airliner to have been found with relative ease, it's blackbox located soon after, and an explanation as to what happened to be published after the ensuing investigation. I think most people assumed that all planes are constantly tracked, with their precise whereabouts known every minute throughout the flight, to the point where, if it were to fall into the sea or crash into land, there would be pinpoint accurate data of exactly where it went down.

I think a lot of people were surprised at just how inaccurate their ideas of how the aviation industry work actually were.

But I stick by the fact that people love a good mystery, and as tragic an event as it was, with such loss of life, for many, to know the actual truth now would either spoil the mystery, or it simply wouldn't be believed.

It would be like someone coming up with concrete evidence as to how the pyramids were built, the true identity of Jack the Ripper or what really happened to Lord Lucan.

It's the not knowing that keeps these stories alive.

what i came away with from the series:
It was an intentional act
The Pilot was not the cause
Nobody knows who was
Nobody knows where it is

The series raise questions and of course, provides no answers. ;-(

How did this guy find so many parts of a 777 plane
https://thecinemaholic.com/blaine-gibso ... verer-now/
and why in part 3 was there a shot of Cambodia ??

@Xandreu.
Indeed. One expert analysis vocalised by a serving US pilot was regarding how the pilot clearly avoided radar detection. In his opinion. But lacking any actual experience of the type of operation that he was being consulted upon.
The reality is that there are large swathes of the earth which are not under any radar coverage for instance, and navigation procedures work on fairly well established procedures and using existing but much more modern navigation equipment as installed on the aircraft.

The whole saga is so full of misinformed Ideas, conjecture, that when the truth is finally known, it will be unsatisfying.

I think inside the plane were some chinese spies who wanted to trick the elections in the US and the CIA hyjacked it and the airplane is just hiding in Area 51 . . .