MH370: The plane that vanished
Witness History
BBC
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On 8 March 2014, a plane carrying 239 passengers and crew disappeared.
What happened to missing flight MH370 remains one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries.
Ghyslain Wattrelos’ wife Laurence and teenage children Ambre and Hadrien were on the plane, which was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
He was on a different flight at the time and only found out the plane was missing when he landed.
A decade on, Ghyslain tells Vicky Farncombe how he’s no closer to knowing what happened to his family.
“I am exactly at the same point that I was 10 years ago. We don't know anything at all.”
(Photo: Ghyslain Wattrelos. Credit: Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan |
| 0:05.2 | I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy |
| 0:10.1 | podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really. |
| 0:13.0 | Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh, |
| 0:18.0 | making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things. |
| 0:22.0 | But you know, I also know that comedy is really |
| 0:24.3 | subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from |
| 0:29.8 | satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about. |
| 0:35.0 | So if you fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me |
| 0:49.9 | Vicky Farncombe. I'm taking you back 10 years to when a Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 passengers |
| 0:58.0 | and crew disappeared. What happened to it remains one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries? |
| 1:04.0 | It's 119. A.m. on the 8th of March 2014, and flight MH370 is less than an hour into its journey from Kuala Lumpa to |
| 1:17.6 | Beijing. The co-pilot is talking to air traffic controlling Kuala Lumpur. |
| 1:23.0 | Relision 3-0, contact such a mean 120 decimal 9. |
| 1:27.0 | Good-9. Good-9. |
| 1:30.0 | No one hears from the aircraft again, as this BBC report from the time explains. |
| 1:38.0 | The plane's transponder which communicates with ground radar, stopped. |
| 1:43.2 | The plane did not check in with Vietnamese air traffic control. |
| 1:47.0 | I was the last one on this planet to know what happened. |
| 1:53.0 | This is Gillon Wotrilo. |
| 1:55.0 | His wife, Laurent and teenage children, |
| 1:59.0 | Umbra and Adrian, are on the plane. |
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