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Airdate: Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370

Latest doco 10 years since disappearance of MH370, looks at whether new radio technology may finally help locate it.

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Seven marks a decade since the disappearance of MH:370 with a new documentary Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370 premiering this Sunday.

This one looks at whether new radio technology may finally help locate the missing aircraft.

Saturday, 8 March 2014: A Boeing 777 carrying 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar. It sent no emergency distress signals. The aircraft was never heard from again, but startling evidence soon emerged that MH370 stayed in the air for a further seven hours.

What could have caused the plane to divert so drastically off course? Was it struck by a catastrophic technical failure? Or was it hijacked If so, by whom?

Answers to these questions may be locked inside the plane’s black box flight recorders, now lost somewhere on the seabed, more than three miles underwater in the remote and storm-ridden Southern Indian Ocean.

As new evidence emerges of MH370’s possible location through pioneering radio technology – which has never been used to locate a missing plane before – the documentary hears from scientists at the University of Liverpool who are undertaking a major new study to verify how viable the technology is and what this could mean for locating the aircraft.

Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370 features interviews with relatives of the missing, aviation experts, former Malaysia Airlines employees, and current and former pilots and unpicks other commercial aviation incidents to try and piece together what may have really happened to MH370.

Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370 is produced by Windfall Films for the Seven Network.

8:30pm Sunday on Seven.

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  1. It’s official title is BBC Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH170. It was produced for the BBC by Windfall films in London and airs in the UK tonight. It’s not new technology it’s a log of short wave transmission that have been recorded since 2008 to measure the strength of signals. An academic at Liverpool University plans to analyse the data in the hopes the planes reflect signals and produce measurable interference which would be logged as poorer signal quality. It is totally untested. Even if you could identify signals distorted by a plane, it would likely give you a larger area to search than the two attempts to similar things with satellite signals which proved unhelpful.

  2. Thankyou David for highlighting this show, I have setup a recording.

    I also notice that it was shown on BBC1 overnight or should I say, earlier this morning Aussie East coast time. Glad to see that Seven is broadcasting the show in a timely manner and from the listing in the online EPG’s that Seven appears to be allowing for the whole doco to be broadcast.

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