By Ashley Sim
KUCHING, Feb 20: “Planes go up, planes go down — but what planes don’t do is just vanish off the face of the Earth.” So begins the introduction of the official trailer for a three-part speculative docuseries titled ‘MH370: The Plane That Disappeared’, which will air on Netflix on March 8.
The trailer concludes with a spine-chilling audio clip of the pilot-in-command of MH370, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, wishing passengers a good night.
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) is arguably the ‘most’ famous mystery in recent modern aviation history.
On March 8, 2014, MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK). According to the Wikipedia entry on the incident, the crew of the Boeing 777-200ER with registration 9M-MRO last communicated with air traffic control (ATC) approximately 38 minutes after takeoff, over the South China Sea. It then vanished with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
The mystery surrounding its disappearance has fueled all sorts of conspiracy theories over the years.
Now, nine years later, the mystery of MH370 has been brought back into the spotlight with the release of ‘MH370: The Plane That Disappeared’.
The official trailer for the docuseries was released by Netflix on February 16, giving viewers a sneak peek of the discussion of multiple theories regarding why MH370 has not yet been located.
It features multiple family members of passengers on board MH370 sharing their pain and anguish in response to the aircraft’s disappearance in 2014, ranging from a theory that the plane was hijacked to suspicious findings related to evidence accumulated over the years.
The release of the official trailer for this docuseries caused a stir on YouTube, drawing numerous comments and speculations.
“Nine years have gone by and we still feel so connected to the incident. The most mysterious thing in aviation history. I hope this documentary gives us an answer,” wrote one YouTube user.
Another comment read: “Someone out there knows the answers to our questions. Regretfully I imagined this someone as a high ranking intel or military officer with a big office in Washington who keeps an item or artifact in his office. When others look at the item in his office, they just see another ornamental or decorative piece, but he would see it as a reminder of what happened.”
Many Malaysians also commented on the trailer, expressing their deepest condolences to the families of the missing passengers after all these years.
“I was a teen in Malaysia when this happened and the local newspaper the next day was printed in all black on the front page that said ‘goodnight MH370’ and that really freaked me out. My family flew on trips a few months after that and we would hold hands and pray so hard before every flight,” wrote one netizen.
Another person claimed: “If you go to KLIA’s parking lot today, there’s a car still parked left by one of the passengers of that flight. The car has not been towed and the family decided to leave it there as a reminder that the passenger might come back one day.”
One netizen even made an intriguing comment, saying, “Imagine if that flight came back after 20 years…like ‘Manifest’.”
‘MH370: The Plane That Disappeared’ will be released on Netflix on March 8, the ninth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance.
Will you be watching? I certainly will. — DayakDaily
