#144 Why the 2026 MH370 NEW Search is Different: New Tech & The Avionics Bay Theory | Jeff Wise
The Afterburn Podcast
John "Rain" Waters
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff, good to see you. Thanks for joining me on the podcast. It's been a minute. Yeah. |
| 0:03.4 | So thanks again. Hey, I listen, it's always a great pleasure to talk to John. I really appreciate it. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah. Last year, we did an episode on MH370. There's been some new developments, which I know you are here to help share and I think have a great conversation about it. |
| 0:18.9 | It's still mind-boggling to me that in 2025, |
| 0:22.1 | as we approached in 2026, the fact that an airliner disappeared basically off the face of the earth |
| 0:29.1 | with hundreds of people on it and, you know, we can't seem to solve this mystery. But you've done |
| 0:34.3 | a lot of research into it and have some theories. And I do find |
| 0:37.8 | them fascinating. So again, I look forward to kind of diving in and get some updates for today. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah, it is kind of an interesting time again. Everything had gone very quiet on MH370 front for a long |
| 0:49.3 | time. You know, the plane vanished in 2014. There was a search on the seabed that was that the officials, the plane vanished in 2014. |
| 0:54.3 | There was a search on the seabed that was that the officials, the Australian government |
| 0:59.0 | basically paid for a Dutch company to search the seabed. |
| 1:01.8 | They didn't find anything. |
| 1:03.9 | We assumed that that was it. |
| 1:05.7 | You know, they looked where the calculations of these weird signals that it was supposed |
| 1:10.7 | to be. |
| 1:11.6 | Then this private company called Ocean Infinity stepped forward and like with a very unusual offer said to the Malaysian government, |
| 1:18.6 | we will look for this for free and you only have to pay us if we find it. |
| 1:25.6 | And they searched an area that was as big as the original search area. |
| 1:31.2 | Again, didn't find it. |
| 1:32.2 | Stop. |
| 1:32.8 | And, like, really, I think it was reasonable to think. |
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