so for the first 40 minutes of this flight, up to that point everything has been routine. mm-hmm. yes. everything was routine until now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the plane s transponder goes dark. the plane s transponders is effectively the instrument which sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells you what might it s at, which direction, and what speed it s traveling. suddenly this giant triple-7 is blind to the world. and there s no easy explanation for why it happened. either it was intentional and someone tried to turn all of those systems off at once, or the pilot was unable to communicate, kept from communicating, or there was a mechanical failure of some kind that took all those systems out at one time. then minutes after the transponder stops, the triple-7
and if you re pregnant or planning to be. ready to treat differently with a pill? otezla. show more of you. malaysian 370, contact ho chi minh 120 decimal 9. good night. these are the last words heard from the cockpit of malaysia flight 370 and the moment the mystery begins. you have a series of events that appear to be human-driven. you have a transponder being
the surprises. debris found off the coast of reunion island in the indian ocean. the second piece of mh-370 s wreckage picked up. and setbacks. it was terterrible. it felt like we were right back at the beginning again. questions still unanswered. we need to know what happened. and the only way you re going to do it is to find the aircraft. there s just too much at stake here to say we re going to stop. now, vanished: the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370. march 8th, 2014. kuala lumpur international airport. just after midnight, the pilots of malaysia airlines flight 370
are preparing for takeoff. it s all about checklists in aviation. they re going through checklists. miles o brien is a pilot and aviation analyst for cnn. it doesn t matter how mundane it is, how many times you ve done it. you do it religiously because that is absolute foundation of safety in aviation. in the cockpit, 27-year-old first officer fa reek hamid. this video shows him training on the triple 7. flight 370 was his first time flying the aircraft without an instructor. so while his experience level might have been low on the aircraft, he was totally up to date on how to fly it. a lot of airline pilots tell me these are the best people to fly with because they ve just come out of rigorous training. next to fariq, zahari shah, a captain with over 18,000 hours in the air and a stellar
waits so long because it s just a normal confusion of the moment. but at some point in all of this, an air traffic controller can push the big red button that says help, panic, missing plane. and that s what they didn t do until much later. not until four hours after it s clear the plane is lost did air traffic control notify emergency responders. that just is so painful to think about, that four hours later, no one s looking yet. as precious hours pass, time is running out. while flight 370 flies further and further over one of the world s largest oceans. coming up, what happened onboard flight 370? we do not know who the