MH370: The Plane That Disappeared

Episode 1, “The Pilot,” reconstructs a cockpit-lock, comms-off, cabin-depressurisation, southern-fuel-exhaustion sequence attributed to Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Jeff Wise, who has covered the case since 2014, walks the radar and simulator material. The official 2018 report says the turn-back likely came from manual inputs and did not convert the home simulator into a plan. Episode 2, “The Hijack,” uses the shooting-down of MH17 four months later as a hinge and lays out Wise’s hypothesis: three ethnically Russian passengers access the electronics-and-equipment bay from first class, take the aircraft, spoof Inmarsat BFO, and fly north toward Kazakhstan during the Crimea annexation. Boeing 777 E/E-bay access from the cabin is a real airframe fact; flying the aeroplane from that bay is not established, and African debris is against a Central Asian landing. Episode 3, “The Intercept,” hands the floor to Florence de Changy: cargo she treats as sensitive electronics, AWACS jamming in the Malaysian–Vietnamese FIR gap, an ignored land-now order, and a shoot-down over the South China Sea. That location is inconsistent with the Réunion flaperon and the later western-Indian-Ocean debris field. Fuad Sharuji, MAS crisis director for both MH370 and MH17, appears. The series is useful as a map of the three public branches. It is not a substitute for the SATCOM logs, the 2018 report, or the debris tables.