It was a mystery that captivated the world. In March 2014 Flight MH370 suddenly disappeared. Lost without warning. Without trace. 239 passengers from 14 different countries. Flight MH370 I: The Vanishing, Channel 5 2022
It takes an hour for Air Traffic Control to tell Malaysia Airlines that MH370 is missing. ibid.
It was revealed that two Iranians boarded the flight with fake passports. ibid. journalist
7 days after MH370 disappeared, Malaysian authorities confirm the plane continued to fly for almost 6 hours. ibid.
16 Days after MH370 disappeared the Malaysian government announces where they now think the plane crashed. ibid.
If the pilots were in control of this plane, what the hell were they up to? Flight MH370 II: The Silence, woman
Six months after MH370 disappeared an advanced underwater search begins. ibid. caption
In June 2016 more debris, likely from MH370 is discovered. ibid.
Did the captain play a role in the hijack and murder of innocent people? Flight MH370 III: Murder at 30,000 feet? Jim Terimini, aviation expert
Since the earliest days of flight Britain has designed and built some of the world’s most iconic aircraft. During decades of conflict the planes that Britain built helped build our nation. Rob Bell, British Planes that Won the War I: Sopwith Camel, Channel 5 2022
The story of World War I’s most deadly fighter plane: the Sopwith Camel. It revolutionised aerial combat. And inspired tremendous acts of bravery. ibid.
It’s the plane that changed the course of history and still reigns supreme. Rob Bell, British Planes that Won the War II: Spitfire
A streamlined fighter and an all-aluminium fuselage, enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear. ibid.
As German bombers roared overhead Britain seemed powerless to hit back. But in the nick of time British engineers developed a brand new aircraft, more powerful than anything Hitler possessed: the Lancaster Bomber, the most fearsome weapon of war that Britain had ever unleashed. Rob Bell, British Planes that Won the war III: Lancaster Bomber
A vast bomb bay: 33 feet long, capable of carrying twice the load of existing bombers. ibid.
The factories churned out more than 7,000 aircraft. ibid.
The game-changing British innovation that reinvented the modern jet fighter. It helped prevent the Cold War from turning hot. Rob Bell, British Planes that Won the War IV, Channel 5 2022
Race from London GPO Tower to New York Empire State Building: 6 hours, 11 minutes 57 seconds – Harrier Jump Jet. ibid.
Falklands War: Not a single Harrier was lost to enemy aircraft. ibid.
On 30th June 1953, less than a month after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth walked across the tarmac at London airport. The Queen was there to wave her mother and sister off but also to catch a glimpse of a very exciting new British aeroplane. The De Havilland Comet represented the future, the world’s very first commercial jet airliner … But within a year of the royal flight a series of terrible crashes would ground the Comet fleet and devastate Britain’s lead in the jet age. New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr III, BBC 2020
A multinational search operation scans almost three million square miles of ocean but three weeks after MH370 disappears, the plane has still not been found. Mysteries of the Missing s1e1: Hunt for Flight MH370, Discovery 2023
Investigators have discovered that the aircraft deviated from its flight path to Beijing, flew north west and then disappeared. But they don’t understand why. ibid.
Was this a 9/11-style terror attack? ibid.
‘Terrorists are not freedom fighters or anything else.’ Bangkok International Airport September 2001: Hijacked: Flight 73, Reagan, Sky 2023
‘The 80s have surely become the age of the airline attack.’ ibid. TV
En route from Bombay, India to New York Pan Am 73 made an early morning stop in Karachi. ibid.
Flight 73 had 379 passengers and crew aboard including 13 flight attendants. ibid.
‘It was hard to leave the cockpit. To leave the fight attendants … You feel like you abandoning them.’ ibid. escape
‘He said he wanted to fly to Larnaca, Cyprus.’ ibid. rozzer
‘No group had come forward to claim responsibility.’ ibid.
‘But the raid on Tripoli was a failure.’ ibid. dude
‘It was mass howling. It was unearthly.’ ibid. woman re gunman opening fire
‘Only Americans are included in the settlement.’ ibid. dude
The remaining hijackers and an accomplice were released from jail in 2008 without the knowledge of the US authorities. ibid.
This is the Boeing 737 aeroplane. It is the workhorse of British charter airlines and dozens of other airlines around the world … On August 22nd this year at 12 minutes past 7 in the morning the 737’s proud reputation suffered a sudden blow. The sound of an exploding engine echoed across Manchester airport … [and] caught fire as it was about to take off. Within a few minutes 54 holidaymakers had died in the inferno that cut the plane in two. World in Action: The Last Days of Juliet Lima, ITV 1985
Behind the tragic scenes of that fateful day which brought the prime minister to Manchester lies the history of a troubled engine. ibid.
1969: After years of development work and months of delay Concorde was about to take off for the first time. But Concorde was not the world’s first supersonic engine jet to fly. She had been beaten into the air by her Soviet rival: Konkordski. Secret History s4e6: Konkordski, Channel 4 1996
The Russian ‘Concorde’ crashed in 1973 at the Paris Air Show in what we will reveal to be extraordinary circumstances. ibid.
In France the Russians recruited secret agents. Their mission: to penetrate Concorde’s factories. ibid.
The day that a plane first flew faster than sound was a milestone in the history of aviation … Great risks were taken and lives lost in a venture that many thought to be foolhardy. Secret History s5e3: Breaking the Sound Barrier, Channel 4 1997
At any given moment roughly 10,000 Boeing aircraft are in service in more than 150 countries. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, 2022
2018: And then two planes drop out of the sky. ibid.
Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts & Others. ibid. The Wall Street Journal
Boeing would not publicly consider that something was wrong with the design of the aeroplane. ibid.
‘We are going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all fights of 737Max8 and the 737Max9.’ ibid. Trump
‘Expecting more with less … We saw the company change before our eyes.’ ibid. ex-employee
‘Over time the lazer focus on safety that had been traditional was compromised.’ ibid.
‘Boeing whistleblowers have said that anybody who reported a problem at the South Carolina plant was either fired or let go or moved on.’ ibid.
‘Widespread pattern inside Boeing of deceitful behaviour.’ ibid.
In 1972, 45 people boarded a flight from Uruguay to Chile. Only 16 would return having made one of the most incredible decisions of their lives. To eat or starve to death. The decision would live with them forever. Andes Plane Crash I, captions, Channel 5 2024
I said I don’t want to wait here. I want to go back to my father. I want to go back to my life. ibid. survivor
40 passengers and five crew. ibid.
And the horrid sound of the impact. Instantly everything went black. ibid.
It is believed the accident was caused by pilot error. 12 people died in the crash. 5 more died in the first 24 hours. ibid. captions
We put all the dead together. We covered them with snow as a kind of burial. We we waited for rescue. ibid. survivor
And I know that everyone is thinking the same thing. ibid.