socially, great guy. extremely helpful. and always willing to share. nick hooslan met zaharie at malaysia airlines during the rigorous days of flight school, 30 years ago. we had to polish our shoes, until we can count our teeth in it, you know? everything was very, very regimented. above all, hooslan remember his friend as a skilled and seasoned pilot, who loved to fly. seen here in a video tribute posted by his family. crazy about flying. he flies planes and builds small toy airplanes and flies them. he s got the life of aviation running through his veins. but if it wasn t zaharie and it wasn t fariq, what about the other passengers on flight 370? could it have been a hijacker? it would explain the fact that the radios were shut down, possibly systemically.
370 vanishes into thin air. there s been silence from the cockpit and by 1:37 a.m., a second flight communication system, acars, isn t working either. acars was either switched off or it failed. we don t know which. because whatever did happen, this is the crucial moment. we pretty much know that all the comes are disabled, switched off, broken, blown up. as an investigator looking at this, what would the determination be, at least at this point as the to what is happening? at this point, i ve got two different paths. one is that that aircraft was taken over and that the systems were intentionally shut down. the other side would be that there was a singular failure at a common location. and that singular mechanical failure would have done exactly the same thing.
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 transponder is effectively the instrument by which sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells you what height it s at, which direction, and what speed it s traveling. suddenly, this giant 777 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, muninutes after the transresponder stops, the 777 makes an unexpected turn,
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discovery. debris found off the coast of reunion island in the indian ocean. we know it s come from a 777, but has it come from that 777? what could be the first piece of the plane ever recovered. a major break towards solving the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 37. we need to know what happened. it is not an option not to know. 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