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

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In the early hours of March 8th 2014, a Boeing 777 vanished off of radar over the South China Sea with 239 souls aboard. It rapidly became on of the greatest mysteries of all time, with governments and civilians alike racing at first to find the aircraft, and then to explain what happened. In 2018, a report was released which claimed to answer the majority of the questions, and yet a careful analysis reveals numerous inconsistencies; and some of them point to a coverup. Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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[jordanhenshaw]

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.

[Astrolex]

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

[simplykudos]

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.

[lilgooblersvids]

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.

[Grimnir_x]

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

[cooperstuart]

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!

[Wote]

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

[usveteran]

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

[SockieTheSockPuppet]

And remember kids, the next time that somebody tells you, "The government wouldn't do that!" - *_OH. YES. THEY. WOULD._*

[snappers_antique_firearms]

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.

[scotterton]

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!

[ElViperr]

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

[StoneInMySandal]

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.

[roberteddy]

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.

[Recoil]

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

[ThroneOfBhaal]

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...

[snipergirl]

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.

[untapupkeepdraw]

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.

[davebeeken]

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?

[appulsprite]

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.