Did Governments Lie About This Missing Plane? | MH370 EXPLAINED Part I 

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It's terrifying knowing there's this much of a language barrier between the people in charge of air traffic.

As a pilot who regularly flies jets up to flight level 450, I'd like to point out that wind speeds above FL300 are very often above 100 knots (115mph). The plane's maximum speed is based on how fast it flies through the air, not the ground. In order to make 650 miles with a max speed of 590 mph, you would only need a tailwind of 60mph (52 knots) which is 100% possible

15:50 - Mentour Pilot recently did a video on this and mentioned that there are two reasons a pilot might make a second, redundant ATC call like that a short time later. 1: You had to switch to a different frequency or had to attend to something else, you came back, and wanted to make sure you didn't miss anything, so you call in and see if ATC responds with anything other than to say ok. 2: If workload is high sometimes you lose track of what was already called and might do this just to be on the safe side.

I did seaborne search and rescue for the USN for over a decade. The first thing people fail to understand is how vast the ocean is. In training we use a NYC square block as an example. If you dropped that city block in the ocean you would have a 10% chance of finding it if you arrived to the last known location within an hour. At two hours the chances are less than 3%. An entire city block. That’s 237,000 square feet. Happily, very few civilian aircraft end up in the sea. The point here is that you don’t need conspiracy theories to explain where the plane went.

Airline pilot here, though it seem out of nowhere the pilots contacted the air traffic controllers saying flight level 350. Sometimes we want to attract attention from the traffic controllers when we feel like we should be transferred to another traffic controller area. That’s something I also sometimes do. Its like saying “hey I am at this altitude, look at your screen. I should have been transferred to another ATC.” Not just for ATC transfer, it could also be for something else.thanks. Edit: i just read the transcript, the pilots were givem instruction to climb FL350, the pilots readback the instruction but the ATC didnt acknowledge which it should. The pilots prob want to comfirm again that they are following the right instruction. Also the flight number MH370, when doing the readback they would have said FL350 MH370. Which sounds simmilar, sometimes being human we could confuse the two numbers. So when that happens we like to confirm again to the ATC.

To repeat his location a second time without being prompted is not unheard of if he didn't remember doing it the first time.

The guy from Atlanta is one of the ONLY companies in the world that handle mass disasters. Pretty much all airlines have him on speed dial specifically for him being one of the first on scene as the disaster unfolds. His business is covered in one of the chapters in the 2023 book All the Living and the Dead.

As someone that has worked in aircraft maintenance for well over a decade, it isn't that strange that a data plate would be missing, especially if the part had been floating in the Indian Ocean for a couple years. They are very thin sheets of metal and not designed to be submerged in salt water for years.

Hey Aiden, I fly corporate, not airlines, but atc communication is standard across the board. When the capt checked in a second time he could have been trying to confirm with atc that they (atc) heard them the first time. Could have been that the pilots never received or heard the first acknowledgement at FL350. Just a guess but the second check in happens quite often just to confirm if either parties are unsure of communication. The randio frequencies can get congested and only one radio can transmit clearly at a time so it's possible the transmission was "stepped on" or blocked by a simultaneous transmission from another airplane or atc itself. P.S. flight levels are pronounced Flight level 35ZERO, 18ZERO etc... if you have any questions let me know. Your videos rock keep up the good work!

as someone obessed with this disappearance, i would like to recommend Green Dot Aviation's documentary on this. it is simply brilliant and explains everything you could possibly wonder about.

Thank you Daniel Radcliffe for this excellent explanation!

Restarting this video after spending well over 5 minutes thinking about how badly naming planes would screw up comms and ATC radars. That said, I do love your content and appreciate the thoroughness guys!

Imagine a company that just lost a plane with 239 people in mid air, with no distress signals told the relatives they would be flown to the plane's location once it was found. "...uh... I'll take the train, thanks!"

I do love your videos! I usually walk away with facts or historical stories i've never heard before. Whiczh is really saying something because i lisen to SOOOO many factorial podcasts and vids

Green Dot Aviation's video gave the best presentation and most likely explanation, with good graphics & timeline.

I am a pilot but i'm not a Commercial pilot. The pilot repeating he was at 35000 feet 7 mins after the first call. Could mean he was unsure that he had made the call earlier and just repeated it to make sure ground knew he made it to 35000 feet. Sometimes you can get busy and it happens.

Still working my way through the video and definitely enjoying it so far, but one thing you may want to consider if you do future videos that involve a similar amount of moment-to-moment location information like this may be to keep a map on screen as you're walking through the route covered, if only to help viewers keep things straight with the glut of information that entails since we haven't spent as much time with that info in front of us as you likely have. :P

I watched you on ... now watching your in-depth study here. You always impress how concise and honest your portrayals are as well as full of unknown nuggets of info most do not talk about. So so good and i Thank you very much. You are always my go-to for the best!

The Netflix documentary is one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen. The lady with the satellite “images” was just laughable 💀💀💀

19:54 dude, spelling that out without putting it on screen is just diabolical

1. The tangents/rambling vibe you and Wendigoon give off are part of what makes these videos such a nice rabbit hole.

I have always thought that there is more to this story than meets the eye. As you reported, there are to many inconsistencies in the official report and what was said between the air towers. Most definitely there was miscommunication between the towers and time that searchers could have been in the air & could have located the wreckage. I doubt very much anyone could have survived an impact from that height enclosed in a tin can. My heart goes out to all who lost someone that day on flight 370. Thank you for your excellent account.

After a few minutes i thought: lots of work went into the details of this video! 👍👍👍 looking forward to part 2, too.

Hi there! I'm from Malaysia and a new listener to your channel. Thank you so much for covering this case, it still haunts us to this day, and there are so many questions still unanswered. Just one thing, since you're planning on releasing a part 2; it's okay to refer to Kuala Lumpur as "KL", it's what almost everyone uses for the capital city.

Imagine how frustrating it would be to have this language barrier while you're searching for a missing plane with hundreds of passengers!!

Dude this is an amazingly detailed series, I am so so impressed.

I’m a ramp agent, I’m not surprised that an identification plate fell off. I cannot tell you the amount of times one is missing, and has to be replaced, especially on Boeings. Lol.

Honestly learning you have AdD like myself is probably why I enjoy these longer videos

Ive always thought that authorities of a few countries know where the plane is but they dont want to "find" it.

I remember when they first claimed they seen wooden pallets floating in the wrong section of ocean they first searched. I specialised in airfreight for a living and no wooden pallets are ever used for fire risk aboard aircraft ever. Freight is unloaded from timber pallets and loaded onto large flat specialised aluminium pallets with no space for forklift tynes nor airflow in case of fire. It is a globalised pallet system. I knew something was fishy right then.

I have worked as a crisis communicator for an airline. It's not strange that they had grief counselling ready so quick after - a whole chain of events are set off simultaneously. Along with the offer for the families to see the plane and the crash site when available.

Okay, you got me subscribed and mate, I'm so happy finding you. In depth, factual I believe....and not espousing your own theories, not too much anyway.., nice work.😊

Just found your channel and I am enjoying what I have watched so far. Thank you for the work you do. Now that I have subscribed to your channel I will be binge watching for the rest of the night.

Just a quick side note, when you said it's very unusal that Chinese citizens were allowed to protest, that simply isn't true, they aren't allowed to protest against the CCP, but if you spent any amount of time in China you see people protests about local governments and perceived mistreats/injustice all the time. The Central Government in Beijing is happy to play the benevolent overlord that helps their citizens, as long as the protest is not directed towards them.

How does an entire plane disappear? IT FALLS INTO THE OCEAN. THAT'S HOW.

So, what about the seven arcs of satellite handshakes that were made with the plane when it tried to login to the satellite’s server?

Think it boils down to legal risk/liability reduction on the part of the state-owned airline and the government itself. For them to not come out and say our pilot commandeered the plane on a suicide mission, which opens up scrutiny on pilot training /assessment / company culture to mental health etc... For me it all boils down to money

Hi Aiden, I am a pilot. Regarding your question about the dialog (46:31) between ACC and the Air Force at Butterworth; That just sounds like a handoff notifying Butterworth that another plane, MH6163 is expected to be at the fix 'VPG' at 19:14 UTC (3:14 am local) at an altitude of 36,000 ft and will be transmitting code 6365 on their transponder. MH 6163 is probably just going to be transitioning the Air Force controlled airspace and are being notified to expect them. Its all about a different plane - so likely irrelevant. The one thing it does bring up is why there is not more of this type of thing. These controllers are dealing with many other aircraft and controlling agencies all night long. It suggests that the radio transcripts you are referencing have been edited or scrubbed of all other radio communications not deemed relevant. I think this one transmission was left in by mistake as you seem to reference few other communications not dealing specifically with the missing MH370.

You might want to check your data on the speed of a Boeing 777. Yes it has a cruising speed of 590 mph. That is the efficient speed not the top speed. The top speed of a Boeing 777 is 682 mph. So covering a distance of, even without taking possible atmospheric conditions such as a possible tail wind, 650m miles in 61 minutes is not only possible but easily accomplished.

1: I love the tangents. 😂😂😂 Also, I have to admit this video gave me a ton of good for thought. I’m absolutely fascinated and will be eagerly awaiting part two, so I can form more of a fully thought out opinion on what I believe occurred. I’ve honestly always believed it was a case of unaliving or failed hijacking. Anyway, great work as always. I love your videos! I’ve been a long, long time watcher. Thanks!!

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Thanks for the effort in compiling these details of this complex story. Looking forward to part 2. I am an airline pilot and flew into Kuala Lumpur on March 25th 2014. On television there, the Director of Maintenance was asked some questions, two of which I recall: One question was “Did the Emergency Locator Transmitter go off” meaning ‘was there a broadcast on the Emergency Frequency 121.5?' His answer was “I don’t even know if that particular aircraft had one fitted”. This means that he was either oblivious to the fact that it is a legal requirement for all international flights to have an ELT fitted, or he was not being truthful. Another question was “Why was there not Emergency Procedures initiated when the aircraft was known to be off course? ie. turned to the west. The waypoints were listed which it subsequently flew over. His answer “Because they flew over well prescribed airways” I checked those waypoints on both High Level and Low Level Airway charts and the aircraft was not on any published airway. If you have access to the video of this questioning, it will give the precise wording and those waypoints. At that time I didn’t make notes as who would ever think we would be sitting here now discussing a vanished B777 which never did turn up?

The satellite imagery of the “worm hole” theory had me shook. I’m excited for Part 2

Interesting take. Always wondered about this situation.

Love your channel. So glad I found your channel. Excellent video ❤❤❤❤

Marine corps Air defense radar technician here. Your definitions of PSR vs SSR is so correct and you word it so much better than the military 😂

I can’t wait for part 2. This event has been living in my head rent free since 2014

Really love the amount of work you put into the research and you're dry sense of humour .you are both clever and curious .

Good research done on a sensitive topic. Cheers

IDK if this is possible, but for part 2 would it be possible to have a map of the flight plan and the path it took? The waypoint names and descriptions are nice but don’t really give a good visual of where exactly the plane is at one point.

49:30 exactly. I trust more in Ho Chi Minh. Their story during this stayed constant. They repeated over and over that they had not had radio contact, just a radar signal, 30 minutes earlier. Not certain why Kuala Lumpur could not understand that.

One thing I disagree with you about is how you instantly rule out the pilot taking over and committing murder/suicide. Just because people he works with say he is happy and normal doesn’t mean he is, a lot can go in inside someone’s head without any physical signs and co workers/family aren’t always going to be able to tell

46:46 VPG is a location, 1914 is the time it was/expected to be at that location, FL360 is 36000 feet, Squawk 6345 is the transponder code the target is broadcasting at the time. This makes sense since they asked them to estimate when it was going to get there, so they did...

Every aircraft transmits a signal that identifies the type aircraft it is. And this signals is referred to as a SQUAWK code. It’s basically an ID code. Private aircraft has their own squawk. Military has one and so on. So when the tower told the pilot to squawk a specific number tower was trying to verify him on radar by his squawk code. Always enjoy your content!!! Great job as always.

I'm a retired 747/C-5A/b flight engineer with 35 years experience. Checking in with an unprompted altitude reference is not totally uncommon. But usually will happen if you have an extended period of no contact with control., or you have switch frequencies, or are just bored (not common) A bit odd if hey were just talking to somebody, but not unheard of. As for secondary vs primary radar, ATC radar is optimized for secondary, Primary radar is uncommon in the civilian world, but not in the military world. The military radar of course is setup for primary radar as when the bad guys are coming at you, they will not have their transponders turned on, so you would want to be able to find them. As for the time discrepancies... maybe somebody was asleep and was covering his ass.. it was some ungodly time in the morning. why would they think the plane turned back... HEY.. IT NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.. IT WENT BACK.. and it was not heard from over their airspace. The ocean here is full of fishing boats. Flying over this area at night, you will see hundreds of small boats all lit up. The jet sends auto messages out periodically and it is sent by satellite. Inmarsat is the contractor that handles this? I don't know but is very possible. I never flew jets with this fancy stuff on them but it seems very plausible to me. And the arc thing, going 2 ways, north and south is also plausible as the time delay would be the same to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit. Air forces don't scramble for something that is not a threat in a pretty much no threat environment. A jet fighter on alert will take 15-30 minutes to be airborne. in that time, the target would be completely across the malay peninsula and heading back out to sea. Chasing it down with a fighter jet that has very limited range running in full afterburner to catch is would probably be unsuccessful. Scrambling jets form something that is not a threat is not very feasible. The best answer to this is one of the pilots locked the door when the other went to pee, and hijacked his own jet. you depressurize the jet, get on the oxygne, the pax will run out of oxygen in 15-30 minutes, and after the guy flying gets the jet going the direction he wants, turns on the autopilot in heading mode, and takes his mask off and goes to sleep with the rest of the plane. Whacko pilots that are suicidal, don't want to go alone. there are several instances of this in the last 20 years, so this is not something that doesn't happen.

i wouldn't trust the fbi

The fact that they still make planes with transponders that can be shut off or that there aren't GPS trackers which can't be powered off automatically hardwired in literally every single passenger airliner so that the companies can track their movement every single second along their path is just insane.

Good, crisp presentation - thank you.

There have been 83 commercial flights that have vanished since 1948 alone. 84 if you count the current subject matter. Over one every year. We never hear about the Cargo planes and such that vanish. A plane can indeed vanish without a trace.

I absolutely love the way you incorporated promoting the chair you use 😂 also love the fact you’re an NFL fan. Great video. This was the first video I’ve seen you do, and it was awesome!!!! Great job. You gained a subscriber 😎

I've watched several videos and a documentary on this, plus read a lot on the subject. You revealed information l hadn't heard. Good job. Nice Tele in the background, btw.

A timeline as a graphic at the bottom of the video as you are going through the first several days' worth of times would be invaluable. Great coverage.

I remember when this plane went missing. I was a senior in highschool and when I got home from school it was all over the news. It was a huge mystery then and still is now. Thanks for covering this story Aiden, I always enjoy your videos😌

I feel like Aidan just gets more and more enraged at the various governments involved in each of his recent videos. Kinda gives “man who thought he lost all hope loses last additional bit of hope he didn’t know he still had” vibes.

Regarding the speed, the plane can fly faster if the wind is in favor because what is matters is airspeed. As for the military radar, I had assumed it used no transponder (no military plane will reveal its position to an enemy) but is based on waves emitted that reflect on the plane. (aka primary radar) Therefore the transponder was not turned on again. Also jets could have not been prepared at the time to be sent and intercept the plane immediately, or they assumed it was not a military plane based on how it behaved and where it came from.

I dont believe for a second that Diego Garcia wouldn't have picked MH370 up on radar given that it's a military base. Diego Garcia sits right in between radar cross over sections of all involved

That was absolutely one of your best deep dives. You should do a whole series of disaster cover up break downs. I've actually been on a weird tangent of watching videos on this exact incident for the last couple of weeks, so it was strangely coincidental that you happened to cover it this week. But of all the ones I watched yours was the best breakdown of all these many, many, conflicting details. I've yet to see any of the others go over the contradictions without saying more than huh, isn't that weird. I can't wait for part 2.

As a triple seven pilot myself - reporting your level off altitude is sometimes requested and sometimes just offered.

MH17 was a "plane flying over a war zone issue, where high altitude SAM shoot downs had already happened recently" issue. Also known as negligent stupidity.

Hey! Former Australian ATC here. I wasn't involved in the search for MH370 but I know people who were and the most commonly held belief is it's in the Indian Ocean, possibly as little as ten miles south of where we stopped looking. Yes the conversation between Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh was ... weird ... but I will tell you from personal experience that it can be hard to communicate with people when you're both speaking English as your first language. Both speaking English as your second language? Forget it. The presence of the Freescale employees onboard is also weird until you realise that a lot of tech manufacturing is done in SE Asia so a lot of tech company execs and engineers and so forth fly a lot. And I don't think the FBI or the military contractor is giving out false information, I think they're trying to obfuscate the information in order to hide how they got it ... don't want your rivals to know what you've got. I think Captain Shah committed suicide. Just because he didn't seem to have a reason and didn't leave a note doesn't mean he didn't do it. I could name three people right now who I grew up with who killed themselves without leaving notes or seeming to have a reason. He named the first officer as the pilot-in-charge so the FO would be distracted, then as they were moving from one country's airspace to another - a time he would have known was his best if not only opportunity - he disabled the FO, probably fatally, then turned the plane around and flew until the fuel ran out. Conspiracy theories are more fun, sure, but in this case I genuinely think it's a tragedy borne of mental illness and we only juuuuust missed finding the evidence.

At 26:30 ish you talk about Immarsat and the Rolls Royce (RR) engine data issue. I have used Immarsat and for data links in other aircraft and I know enough about both systems to know there is no conspiricy point here. The easiest way to explain it in laymans terms is Immarsat is just satellite data carrier, similar to a mobile phone carrier (and tower) sending data for you while using your phone. The RR pay Immarsat to alllow their system to transmit and receive their data. When the data signal is lost (just like a mobile) or in this case turned off (?) the Immarsat system/satellite pings the plane (like a tower/s pings your phone) to check if its back on and find the best connection or reconnect, It's a simple "hey you still there?" no data is sent a that point, it's just trying to detect and reconnect, there would be no RR data, only Immarsat pings. This function could not be turned off on the plane. These are the hourly pings Immarsat used to track the plane to an arc. Immarsat uses one satellite to track most (they cover patches of earth thousands of kilometers wide) of the time this is why the arc could be established, but not an exact position. For an exact point on the earth you need 3 satellites minimum, a forth would give you height. A single satellite give you two possible points on an arc (google GPS basics). It was truely amazing work by Immarsat to do what they did. Wiki describes this well too. at 35:50 you discuss a woman finding wreckage in a picture that looks like a low quality satellite picture that shows white water from a wave, the articfacts look like writing but a quick look at google earth will show many similar artifacts. I have spent thousands of flying hours hours looking for items in the water, wreckage is hard to see from 500-1500 FT in an aircraft, suggesting once could read the M in Malaysia (best case 5 feet high) from poor resolution satellite pic's is impossible, a spy satellite could but I never saw any spy satellite imagery in the media. It's unlikley any country would release good imagery as it gives away capability. I recall looking at the imagery at the time on the internet (from France and China I think???) and all the pictures were poor quality, none were good enough to positively ID wreckage. For the record aircraft height i.e. FL180 is read "flight level one eight zero", the way points are pronounced phonetically IGARI would be pronounced as one word EYE - GAR - EEE.

Def. Enjoyed the update to this on going mystery..Great job on your effort and hard work.. Subscribing now ‼️🤟🇺🇸

The 34 min Segway from evidence to you chair was epic 🎉🎉🎉

When you mentioned which runway the plane took off from (27R... R for Right) that's all you have to say. The KLIA I'm pretty sure just stands for Kuala Lumpur International Airport. For someone who doesn't like flying and isn't too familiar with all the lingo, you did a good job. Thanks!

Props to both Aidans, both for research integrity and fantastic video editing as always. O7

Excellent research and narration SPOT ON

Very well covered, looking forward to Pt.2. The unidentified plane that travels faster than a 777 can is my pick so far. As in; a shoot down. But I'm keen to hear the other theories. I've heard several on their own but no comparisons to any others. Blessings from New Zealand.

This is my first time on your channel but definitely not the last. Apart from being totally engrossed in your information the responses from pilots is so interesting and IMO a compliment to your research and delivery.

Honestly the more I learn about MH370 the more I see parallels with the downing of Itavia over Ustica (Italy). For those unfamiliar, it’s an Italian plane that was shot down as well as a Lybian Mig fighter jet over Italian airspace in the 80s. The number one theory is that the US or Italian Airforce shot both down. The official story says it was a mechanical failure.

Listening to this communication and knowing that hundreds of lives are in the hands of these people who can’t string a sentence together is absolutely painful.

59:40 that's actually easy. They're called tailwinds. No comment on the overall scenario.

Great content per usual! Always find time to get cozy & catch new entries. Looking forward to part 2. Oh & 1 btw. Tangents show passion on the topic, & gives some background or depth around the related information. Talk away 🙏

Honestly, I’ve never waited for part two so impatiently

So I'm not saying this to throw shade. Your materials of general criminal character have a lot of attention to detail and are really well made. Also I have a very basic level of knowledge in terms of aviation. That said I feel like planes and flying are such complex topics that you should have done these Malaysia Airlines investigations as a collab with someone with a background in the industry...

Enjoying the video so far but one suggestion for your future videos - when you read out the transcripts (Kuala Lampur says.. Ho Chi Min says...) it'll be really helpful if you put those lines on the screen side by side (one side showing Malaysian correspondence, the other Vietnamese side) as in teleprompter instead of showing stock video footage (like the comm center in this video).

So hyped for part two. This is insane

"Do you know what I would buy" - I really thought our guy was going to launch into a full conspiracy. Nope. Just a super smooth add transition. This channel is great.

. THANX for the info on the chair, some of us also have lower back issues, and appreciate the recommendation. 🙂 .

Great video !! Def following

I really appreciate you going into the people on board and their lives that are available to be shared. Its so easy to take tragedys like these as just numbers and names. You give them back their humanity and dignity.

My concern is the flammability of the lithium batteries in the cargo. A similar crash occured in the Florida Everglades in I believe 1977. Smoldering cargo asphyxiated all on board. It crashed with no survivors. Lithium is prone to inflammation and, all told, is the most compelling reason for this crash.

34:12 this is HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the way you USHERED in the ad was genius ✊🏼✊🏾

The fact that google has added “context” to this tells me everything i need to know.

Thank you for a well researched and convincing piece of work. As I Malaysian, I just couldn't believe the official narrative from the very beginning as they kept on changing facts and figures. For instance, there is doubt about the cargo because mangosteen is a seasonal fruit and it was not the season for mangosteen. So where did they get the mangosteens from, if at all it were mangosteens! Moreover, Lithium and Lithium batteries, mostly come from China to Malaysia and not the other way round. I am fluent in Malay and English and if you can put it out, I'll gladly translate it for you.

Thanks for breaking this down. I've researched this for myself and there's just sooooo much info I got overwhelmed

Hi Aidan, I’m curious if you saw Green Dot Aviation’s video on this subject, where he frames Zahari as the only possible suspect? I thought he had some information you might not have been able to find and overall the video was very well made, but I didn’t like that he didn’t go over the fact that neither the pilot nor copilot had any serious reasons to do this deliberately. I appreciated that you had some more nuance than he did about the captain and his possible motivations

Every time I fly I can’t help but think about this story

I got a chuckle from the sponsorship plug. Aiden: You know what I would buy? Me, leaning forward in my seat, ready for the wildest conspiracies: What you buy, tell me please. Aiden: This chair!