Missing Malaysian Flight

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar in 2014 and was never found. Early into Flight 370, radio contact was lost as the plane turned and flew over the Indian Ocean. Satellites tracked the plane for several hours before it disappeared completely, leaving no answers behind. Find out what happened on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN. Visit http://expressvpn.com/BLACKBOXDOWN and get an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package! Also sponsored by Keeps. Go to http://keeps.com/blackboxdown to receive your first month of treatment for free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777, is on a routine trip from
0:08.3	Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing, China. 227 passengers and 12 crew members are on board.
0:14.5	This Red High flight took off at 12.42 a.m. and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30
0:18.9	a.m. a 5.5 hour flight.
0:21.2	Ethical controls of the plane are Captain Zahir Ahmad Shah, who has 18,365 flight hours,
0:27.6	and first officer Farik Abdulhamid, who had 2,763 flight hours.
0:33.0	Flight 370 was Farik's final training flight and was scheduled to be examined on his next
0:37.1	flight. At 119 a.m., Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control Instructor Flight 370, to contact
0:43.1	Ho Chi Minh area control center, which the captain acknowledged. This was the last verbal
0:47.5	communication made from Flight 370.
0:49.8	Over the next 7 hours, various country's military radars and automated satellite communications
0:54.3	tracked the plane as it turns away from its flight path and flights towards Antarctica
0:58.5	before disappearing forever.
1:00.2	What happened on board that caused a large commercial plane to simply vanish and could
1:03.4	this happen again? Let's talk about it on this episode of Black Box Down.
1:07.6	Hey everyone, welcome to Black Box Down. As always, I'm Gus and I'm joined here with Chris.
1:15.2	How are you doing Chris?
1:16.2	Hello.
1:17.2	It's a past couple episodes, so I think it's pretty clear this is a topic that I wouldn't
1:20.6	say I'm not an expert on by any stretch of the imagination. It's just a topic that I'm
1:24.1	very interested in and very enthusiastic about and I'm bringing Chris along for a ride
1:28.8	to listen and learn things. Chris is learning as we go here.
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