The Lost Plane (Photo: Netflix)
I probably won't tell you if I write that we are in the middle of a difficult time to live in.
Inflation?
Costs.
Personal security?
going down
citizen rights?
in danger.
Unity in the people?
crumbling
But alongside this - and perhaps precisely because of this - we are experiencing the golden age of conspiracies.
It didn't happen overnight.
There were many events that led us here - from the twin disaster, through the presidency of Donald Trump who gave legitimacy to bodies that spread 'alternative truth' and of course ending with the corona epidemic.
If in the nineties you had to be FBI agent Fox Mulder to recite the mantra 'The truth is out there', today it seems that every one of us personally knows someone who believes that our world is run by the Illuminati/Freemasons/ Bill Gates/ Enter the name of another group in the comments.
For all these, the story of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a ripe fruit just waiting to be picked and be further proof that our world is run by dark forces.
"MH370: The plane that disappeared" (MH370: The plane that disappeared) is a three-part docu-series that premiered on Netflix on March 8, exactly nine years to the day the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared from radar with 239 passengers and crew on board.
Many define the disappearance of Flight 370 as the greatest mystery in the history of aviation, but with such a large number of victims, it is above all a terrible human tragedy and the fulfillment of the greatest nightmare of all those who suffer from flight anxiety (the writer of these lines, for example).
Depending on the size of the event, the disappearance of the plane naturally became a cultural phenomenon and spawned a large number of investigative articles, books and podcasts.
By the way, you are not mistaken, the hit Netflix series "Manifesto" (which originally aired on the NBC network) about the plots of the 191 passengers of Montagu flight 828, was also influenced by the story of MH370.
In interviews given near the start of the series in 2018, the showrunner G confirmed
Conspiracies for the most part.
Airplane (Photo: Netflix)
Just before we dive into the variety of theories presented in the series, it is worth dwelling on a few details about flight MH370 that everyone agrees on.
On March 8, 2014, the flight departed from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, towards Beijing on a Boeing 777 aircraft, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
At 01:19 in the morning, when it was over the South China Sea, the last contact was made between the flight and the control tower in Malaysia.
In the recording, the control tower can be heard talking to the captain, Zohari Ahmed Shah (one of the oldest and most respected pilots in Malaysia Airlines), asking him to contact the next control station in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Shah approved the request and wished the inspector a good night.
A few minutes later, flight MH370 disappeared from the control tower's radar and did not contact the control tower in Vietnam or reach its destination in Beijing.
A military radar detected the plane a few minutes later as it turned sharply from its course and flew west, but due to the complacency of the two control towers (the flight was in the gray area between the control towers) many minutes passed before anyone noticed that it was gone.
Since then, and even after tremendous search efforts by teams from a large number of countries (from the USA to Australia), her whereabouts are unknown. Although all the passengers of the plane were declared dead many years ago, no body has been found, nor the black box that is on every plane. As mentioned, a fertile ground for conspiracies.
With such a rich history and when an answer to the riddle is not in sight, the creator Louise Melkinson tried to put some order among the multitude of theories that have developed around the flight and above all - and this is the most important part in my eyes - to give a platform to the families left with a hole in their heart bigger than the Boeing 777. Each of the three episodes of the series focuses on a theory One related to flight MH370 but at the same time Malkinson also returns to the history and hysteria of the moments, days and weeks immediately after the disappearance.
In the interviews with the families and with the managers of Malaysia Airlines, you can see the chaos, the disinformation and the lack of transparency in which the event was conducted, and perhaps also try to put ourselves in the shoes of people whose world has just been turned upside down and who are unable to get answers.
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The Lost Plane (Photo: Netflix)
The first episode of the series deals with the theory that holds that the pilot (Shah) committed suicide and mass murder.
According to the theory, he planned the disappearance for months and it is mainly based on a flight simulator that is in his house and it has a similar route to the one the plane took in the end (including the sharp turn to the west).
Aviation journalist Jeff Wise, who has been investigating the affair almost from the beginning, claims that Shah waited for the exact moment when the plane was between the two control towers, asked his co-pilot to leave the cockpit for a moment and bring him something from outside, locked himself in the cabin and then depressurized The air in the cabin until all the passengers died of suffocation.
He then continued to fly for another six hours until the plane's fuel ran out and then when he was in a very remote area, between Australia and Antarctica, he crashed the plane.
Wise does not necessarily believe in any of the theories but he presents them as a kind of thinking exercises that try to solve the mystery.
The other two chapters deal with two more theories that were considered popular among researchers.
The first holds that the Russians are responsible for the disappearance of the plane and explains that the flight took place near the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula and the government in the Kremlin wanted to divert public attention from the invasion.
In support of the claim, a list of three passengers with Russian citizenship who were on the plane and an explanation from the worlds of James Bond about how one of them managed to get down to the plane's communications room and steer it into Russian-controlled territory is provided.
Another theory holds that the plane had classified cargo that was on its way to China and the Americans who found out about it too late, decided that they would not let it reach its destination at any cost.
What all the stories have in common - there are many holes in them that are filled by information from the fevered minds of the speakers.
As expected, "The Lost Plane" does not solve the mystery of flight MH370, but contrary to fear, it also does not encourage a conspiracy or dishonor the dignity of the victims.
On the contrary, it brings back to mind one of the great tragedies that happened in the last decade and along the way reminds us that with all the technology in the world our world is still full of a great deal of mystery.
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