Skeptoid #595: Chasing Malaysian Airlines MH370
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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A roundup of the conspiracy theories and the probable true fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the worst air disasters ever was also one of the most mysterious. And as of this |
| 0:09.0 | recording date, it remains unsolved. Malaysian Airlines MH370 went down in the ocean |
| 0:15.7 | at night after flying a pattern that befuddled many experts and after inconsistently transmitting |
| 0:22.5 | bits of data in a way that don't seem to fit well into any of the proposed explanations |
| 0:27.9 | for the cause of the crash. Well, here's what we actually know, and that's coming up next |
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| 1:35.9 | You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com chasing Malaysian |
| 1:41.9 | Airlines MH370. It grabbed the world's attention because it was unimaginable, impossible, |
| 1:51.4 | a Boeing triple-7 with 239 people on board disappeared completely. It was like science fiction, |
| 1:59.4 | but it couldn't be because it was real. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 left Koala Lumpur |
| 2:06.2 | on March 8, 2014, and with the exception of a few unexpected appearances on radar and |
| 2:11.9 | satellite data, was never seen again. It did not land anywhere, and there was no record |
| 2:17.8 | of a crash. It simply vanished. Predictably, wild theories popped up everywhere, everything |
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