In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Quest talks to Jeff Schechtman about some of these mysteries - why all the communication equipment appeared to be manually switched off, why the disappearance came exactly as the plane was being handed off from Malaysian to Vietnamese air traffic controllers, the background of the flight crew, the financial state of Malaysia Airlines, the four route and altitude changes that the plane made, and how badly the families of the victims have been treated.
Now, exactly two years later, Quest has published The Vanishing of Flight MH370, a definitive account of what we know, as well as an examination of the mysteries surrounding the flight. In a “coincidence,” Quest had interviewed and been photographed with the co-pilot of the flight, Fariq Abdul Hamid, just two weeks before the disappearance. Richard Quest, CNN’s aviation correspondent, was at the helm of that coverage. What emerges is a riveting chronicle of a tragedy that continues to baffle everyone from aviation experts to satellite engineers to politicians-and which to this day worries the traveling public that it could happen again.In the immediate aftermath of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, CNN decided it would give the story wall-to-wall coverage. He takes apart the varying responses from authorities and the discrepancies in reports, the wide range of theories, the startling fact that the plane actually turned around and flew in the opposite direction, and what solutions the aviation industry must now implement to ensure it never happens again.
Quest dissects what happened in the hours following the plane’s disappearance and chronicles the days and weeks of searching, which led to nothing but increasing despair. It is here that he begins his gripping account of those tense weeks in March, presenting a fascinating chronicle of an international search effort, which despite years of searching and tens of millions of dollars spent has failed to find the plane. In a coincidence, Quest had interviewed one of the two pilots a few weeks before the disappearance. Richard Quest, CNN’s Aviation Correspondent, was one of the leading journalists covering the story. The airplane’s whereabouts and fate would quickly become one of the biggest aviation mysteries of our time. On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with barely a trace, carrying 239 people on board-seemingly vanishing into the dark night. CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest offers a gripping and definitive account of the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 in March 2014.
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