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-[waves crashing] -[seabirds squawking]

[tense music playing]

[waves roaring]

[in French] And that's where I saw the plane debris, around there.

[tense music turns ominous]

[man in French] If it's from a crash, there are people who died.

So we immediately thought of the families.

That's when we got on the radio and called the police.

-[waves crashing] -[birds squawking]

[rapid beeping]

-[beeping stops] -[sinister music playing]

[news jingle plays]

[reporter 1] Breaking news on the search

for Malaysia Airlines flight 370...

[reporter 2] A piece of plane debris has washed up

on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion.

[reporter 3] But investigators believe the debris in the images

is consistent with a Boeing 777, the same as the missing Malaysia jet.

-[reporter 4] This seems real. -If it's a 777 part, it's MH370.

[reporter 4] There's no doubt. There's nothing missing.

No doubt. Also, it has indications it's been in the water for a long time.

It's a terrible day for the families.

[ominous music playing]

I personally lived in 100% complete denial about the plane having ended its flight

in some sort of crash.

So everything was spiraling out of control for my... for me, again, in my life.

[Ghyslain in French] For me, the debris was the point

at which I started thinking,

"Fine, they're not coming back."

We faced something that forced us to accept that they were here.

It's accepting

that they won't come back. That's it.

[wistful music playing]

[in English] I personally don't believe MH370 crashed in the south Indian Ocean.

So, the first time I saw that in the news,

my honest feeling,

"Who planted it there?"

"Who brought the piece there?"

[suspenseful music playing]

[suspenseful music turns chilling]

[Piers Morgan] We don't have the answers.

This is one of the great mysteries in aviation history.

[tense, chilling music playing]

[music turns somber]

[camera shutters clicking]

It is with a very heavy heart

that I must tell you

that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed

that the aircraft debris found on Réunion Island

is indeed from MH370.

[reporter 1] It's a huge break in the biggest aviation mystery in decades.

[Mike] It was huge news among the people in the Independent Group.

It was the first hard evidence that the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.

[reporter 1] The area where they think the plane came down.

All of those white dots simulate possible pieces of debris coming off MH370.

It was gratifying to learn that

it reinforced the theories that we had been advocating.

[telephones ringing]

[Mark] Up to that point, the only information available

that the plane ended up in the southern Indian Ocean

was really the Inmarsat data.

-[radar bleeping] -[electrical static]

Now, the debris washing up was confirming that.

It was the first time that there was an independent bit of evidence

that the flight had ended up where we roughly said it had ended up.

When debris was found,

it put the lights out on the spoof scenario,

which was my theory that the Inmarsat data had been maliciously altered

to make it look like the plane went one way when it actually went the other.

The plane clearly had not gone north,

because here's a piece of the actual, physical plane.

But...

as I thought about it,

I thought to myself, "Okay."

"I need to convince myself 100% that this came from MH370."

[soft orchestral music playing]

-[traffic humming] -[honking]

[Blaine] My love of adventure and travel

and solving mysteries came from when I was very young.

I've always wanted to go to every country in the world

and learn about it and any unsolved mystery anywhere,

I wanted to be the one to solve it and know about it.

[camera shutter clicks]

I'd been involved in a Facebook group

discussing Malaysia 370

and I wanted to know what I could possibly do to help.

So after the flaperon was found,

I knew that more debris was out there.

[waves crashing]

I talked to oceanographers.

I said, "Well, I want to go find more debris."

"Where should I go?"

And they said,

"There will be debris in the Mozambique Channel on the coast of Mozambique."

"Go there, and you'll get lucky."

And that's what I did.

So I went to Vilanculos,

a town on the Mozambique Channel.

And I asked people around Vilanculos

if they'd seen any aircraft debris.

Now, I met a guy who said, "Ah, there's a sandbank."

"And that's where all the fishermen go to get their nets, buoys, floats."

-[waves crashing] -[seabirds squawking]

So I went with him.

And we were walking along,

maybe about 20 or so odd minutes into the search,

and suddenly,

I'm like, "Whoa, what's that?"

So I walk over

and it's this gray triangle and it has "no step" written on it.

[suspenseful music playing]

And I held it in my hands.

And I'll tell you,

that was the moment that I knew

in my heart and in my mind,

that I had a piece of Malaysia 370.

[ominous music playing]

There are new developments tonight involving that piece of debris,

discovered off Eastern Africa, possibly belonging

to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Malaysian authorities reiterated today that photographic evidence suggests

it likely came from a Boeing 777.

And we're hearing more from the American who found it.

[Blaine] This is definitely from an airplane.

This could be from a Boeing.

This could be from a 777.

This could possibly be

from Malaysia 370.

[camera shutters clicking]

From the pictures shown,

there is a high probability of, uh...

the plane debris is from a Boeing 777.

[camera shutters clicking]

I'd been told to go to Mozambique to look for debris.

I did and I found it.

I was also told by oceanographers that the best place was Madagascar.

So I went there

to find more debris.

-[plane engine buzzing] -[suspenseful music playing]

[reporter 1] Blaine Gibson has found at least 20 pieces of wreckage.

Seven pieces are classified as almost certainly from MH370.

Another ten are likely or highly likely to be off the plane.

This is by far the most significant piece that has been found.

[waves crashing]

[Jeff] Blaine Alan Gibson

had displayed an uncanny knack for finding pieces of debris.

Something no one else had been able to do deliberately.

He's the only person who can go out,

walk along a beach and pull up a piece of debris.

This piece of debris, which we believe is from Malaysia 370...

Oh. Yeah, look.

Oh, my God.

[Jeff] And he is now responsible

for most of the pieces of debris of MH370 that have been recovered.

The majority of physical evidence about MH370

comes through the hands of one guy.

[reporter 2] He's a modern-day Indiana Jones

who spent over two years scouring the world on a mission

to find answers about the Malaysian plane.

[Jeff] For Blaine, it seemed easy.

And the question that I had to ask was,

"How is this possible?"

If I had been right

that MH370 was a Russian plot that involved making it look,

falsely,

like the plane had gone into the southern Indian Ocean

then the implication was that the debris was part of that same plot

and was planted by someone working for the Russians.

And it wouldn't be the first time

that Russians had planted

false aircraft debris to mislead investigators.

Korean Airlines flight number 007 with 269 people aboard,

was on a flight from New York to Seoul via Alaska and Tokyo.

The state department says the plane was shot down

near the Soviet Sakhalin Island.

[Jeff] Back in 1983,

the Soviets had shot down a Korean airliner over Japanese waters.

[reporter 3] Japanese radio monitoring shows the Soviet jets

were controlled from the ground.

[reporter 4] It's now a race against time for the retrieval of the black box.

[Jeff] As American and Japanese officials were looking for the wreckage,

the Soviets planted false acoustic pingers on the seabed to mislead their efforts.

Is it possible that this could be something like that?

I wondered if it would be possible to find any evidence

linking Blaine to Russia.

[soft, tense music playing]

It turned out to be incredibly easy to find links between Russia and Blaine.

And I was able to pull registration records

that showed he had set up this company

with two business partners from central Russia

back in the early '90s.

He had been present when the Soviet Union had collapsed.

He could speak Russian fluently.

So he had, at this point, decades of links to Russia.

[sinister music playing]

[Blaine] I very much doubt

that Jeff Wise would go on Netflix and accuse me of being a Russian spy.

He has absolutely no basis for that

and he knows that it would be very serious defamation.

[tense music playing]

[Ghyslain in French] The first time I heard about Blaine

was when he found his first debris.

It's a very funny story.

He gets on a boat, lands on a beach thinking, "Maybe there's debris there."

He spends two hours on that beach, finds debris,

and conveniently,

all the English-speaking media are there too.

Weird, huh?

What a coincidence!

[in English] Middle of nowhere.

[in French] On a deserted beach.

That's Blaine for you.

[Blaine in English] I've been accused of absolutely horrible things that are just...

They're so ridiculous, they are laughable.

I've been accused of being an American spy,

a Russian spy,

a Chinese spy,

an international organ trafficker,

an international sex trafficker.

I mean, you name it.

It is just patently ridiculous.

[tense music playing]

[Jeff] I really didn't have any proof

that he was connected to Russia's military intelligence,

or planted debris.

But I wasn't the only person to be suspicious about Blaine.

-[traffic humming] -[horns honking]

[ominous music playing]

[traffic humming]

[Florence] Blaine Gibson became the king of debris

on the east coast of Africa.

But I give zero credential or credibility to what he finds. That's for sure.

When you look at the Australian report on this debris,

they say that these pieces

are highly likely to be part of MH370.

"Highly likely" essentially means that they have not been able

to prove that it is part of MH370.

So they can only guess that it's possible because it looks like a piece of a plane.

-[shutter clicks] -[suspenseful music playing]

But despite that,

the authorities had confirmed that the flaperon was part of MH370.

This was the first piece of debris found on the beach of Réunion Island.

And so, I was very eager to look at it in detail.

I started digging much deeper.

And the first thing which I heard

from an inside source within the investigation,

was that it was missing its ID plate.

-[shutters clicking] -[ominous music playing]

A metallic part

which is either riveted or glued with a very specific mastic,

and which is obviously expected to sustain all kinds of pressure,

atmospheric, humidity, heat, cold.

[horns honking in background]

I discovered that there is only one instance

where you do take off the ID plate from a plane part,

and this is when a plane is dismantled.

-[drilling] -[metallic clunk]

The fact that it was missing was an enormous red flag

that should have immediately made you think,

"Well, this must come from a dismantled plane."

-[ominous music playing] -[plane engine buzzing]

Once the investigators realized that they don't have this ID plate,

they said, "Never mind, we will find other reference numbers

that eventually will help us identify where this debris comes from."

They say that several serial numbers

found on the flaperon were sent to the manufacturer

to try and find records in the archives of the plant.

I actually knew from an inside source within the investigation

that they had sent 12 numbers,

and that out of these 12,

there was only one serial number which was matching.

[dramatic music playing]

Only one?

When I heard that I was like, "What?"

This is not good enough

to establish beyond doubt that this flaperon is part of MH370.

[camera shutters clicking]

But despite that,

the flaperon is confirmed, uh,

as part of MH370.

An international team of experts have conclusively confirmed

that the aircraft debris is indeed from MH370.

[Ghyslain in French] The connection between the debris and the plane...

If you look at what we've been told,

it's pretty thin. "It's the same type of paint as the plane."

Or when they tell us,

"It was the only crash in the area, so it must be the plane."

Uh... [blows out]

The proof of a connection between the debris

and the plane wasn't convincing.

[tense music builds, climaxes, then stops]

[rapid beeping]

[beeping stops]

-[waves sloshing] -[somber music playing]

[Grace] We marked 1,000 days since MH370 disappeared

and decided that we would make a trip to Madagascar with Blaine.

-[camera shutters clicking] -[indistinct]

The fact that Blaine was finding debris there was some form of inspiration.

There are a lot of people who don't like Blaine.

But personally,

he's always been very respectful of the next of kin and what we need.

[Danica] I think it's completely unfair how Blaine's been treated.

I believe his intentions are good.

And I'm quite happy if he wants to go and keep searching for as long as he can.

So, God bless Blaine.

-[dramatic music playing] -[water sloshing]

[Jiang in Mandarin] When we the families went to Madagascar ourselves

to search for the debris,

I had mixed feelings.

A kind of sorrow,

anger...

A kind of...

fear.

And the feeling...

of missing...

my mother.

[in English] Jiang Hui.

Mm.

-The same place. -Same place.

MH370 cove.

-[dramatic music playing] -[indistinct conversation]

[Jiang speaking Mandarin]

It's the same.

[in Mandarin] When I had the debris in my hand,

I thought,

"This was probably the thing

that was closest to my mother in her last moments."

[man in English] This is an interesting piece.

[Jiang] Yeah.

-[breathes deeply] -[silence]

[water crashing, gurgling]

-[wind howling] -[ocean roaring]

[reporter] Over the past two years,

everything's been thrown at the search in the plane's most likely resting place,

according to satellite imaging from the British company Inmarsat.

120,000 square kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean.

But nothing has been found there yet.

[Peter] The search stretched on for a very long time.

We'd been searching for over two years.

But the longer we searched,

the more certain we became that we would find it.

[waves crashing]

I met next of kin.

I absolutely empathized with what they were going through.

And, you know,

I tried to reassure them that we were doing everything we possibly could

to find the aircraft and... and bring their loved ones home.

So, we just needed to persevere.

We needed to continue.

[splashing, gurgling]

[in French] Maybe they genuinely wanted to keep going, sure.

But...

No, there was no chance they'd ever find the plane.

No chance.

The plane's not there.

[in English] By this time, the mystery is still unresolved.

We don't know what happened to the plane.

It still could be the pilot.

It still could be hijackers.

What happens next is probably the biggest gobstopper of all.

There is this explosive new report

that suggests the pilot who flew the downed MH370 plane

flew a similar route on a home simulator just a month before this plane went down.

[Jeff] From almost the very beginning,

we knew that the captain had a flight simulator in his basement.

This is a YouTube video that I made.

Many airline pilots really love flying

and it's not unusual at all that Zaharie had a flight simulator.

But if he flew the exact same route on the simulator

that the plane later turned out to have flown,

it's hard to imagine he could be innocent.

-[shutters clicking] -[shouting]

[reporter 1] During the investigation,

hard drives from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of MH370,

they were obtained by investigators, given to the FBI.

The FBI then did a thorough analysis of those hard drives

and were able to find data points. According to this article...

[Jeff] It turns out that the FBI had known this information

ever since they'd gotten their hands on the simulator data.

But it only surfaced in the media two years later.

[reporter 2] The yellow line is the presumed flight path that the plane took.

The red line is the one that was on that simulator.

[Jeff] The simulator data points seem to indicate

the plane followed a route up the Malacca Strait

and then into the southern Indian Ocean

until

the fuel runs out.

[music crescendos and fades]

[reporter 3] This could be the strongest evidence thus far.

[Mike] When that evidence came out, that definitely raised a lot of eyebrows.

A lot of people thought that it could be a smoking gun.

[ominous music playing]

But... this wasn't quite what it seemed.

Yes, the simulated plane flew up the Malacca Strait,

but then it seems like the plane's location was manually changed.

He repositioned it by, essentially, taking the cursor

and moving it on a sort of global map down into the southern Indian Ocean.

He didn't actually fly into the southern Indian Ocean.

He just put it in the southern Indian Ocean,

actually hundreds of miles away from the search area.

So, as with anything in this case, you can see what you want to see.

[reporter 4] The pilot flew a simulated flight that...

[Mike] While I don't think taking the simulator data by itself

proves a whole lot,

it certainly correlates pretty well with the general facts as we know them.

And, you know, it's very odd that you would have a simulation end

with fuel exhaustion in the southern Indian Ocean.

[reporter 5] That simulated flight...

[Mike] The simulator data is not the whole puzzle.

It's just one piece in the puzzle that fits.

[reporter 6] We've spoken to families this morning about this news,

they say they are frustrated by it.

[Ghyslain in French] When the incident happened, the pilot's flight simulator

was seized by the FBI at his home.

People need to understand that the FBI had this information before anyone else.

Then, a few years later,

"Ah! On the pilot's flight simulator is the same route he flew."

The FBI was up to something.

For me, once again, it's more proof the Americans are involved.

The FBI never handed anything either to the official inquiry in Malaysia

or to the French judges.

Not even one report.

So we'd like to know what they did.

[soft emotive music playing]

[Marie] I mean, the FBI isn't famous for its culture

of transparency.

But in this specific case, uh...

we're talking about a request for judicial cooperation,

as part of a judicial investigation benefitting from confidentiality.

I find it pretty scandalous that in a case such as this one,

we witness this much bad faith and such a silence. Really.

[emotive music playing]

[Ghyslain] I believe Malaysia was

what we call in French, "The Stooge" in the story.

They were updated, kept quiet somehow.

So it's the Americans leading the investigation from the outset.

It's the British who are locating the plane, with Inmarsat.

Okay.

And it's the Australians leading the search.

Everybody's locked out.

"Move on, nothing to see here."

Nothing.

Zero.

-[soft music playing] -[birds chirping]

[Florence in English] When you're a journalist,

of course you trust the authorities.

Your first instinct is not to imagine that these people are lying to you.

But as far as I was concerned,

the problem with this official narrative

of the plane crashing in the southern Indian Ocean

that everyone was expected to believe,

is that it had basically no proof.

First, if the official narrative is to be believed,

MH370 flew over the airspace of six different countries,

namely, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore,

and eventually Australia.

Yet not a single one of these countries

have been able to produce

radar images of MH370.

[indistinct chatter]

Despite the fact that, yes, it is Malaysia who said,

"We have seen MH370 U-turn."

[indistinct chatter]

[Ghyslain in French] So here's what they told us after a week,

"Our military radar saw the plane that night, fly back over Malaysia."

But... we've been given no proof that the Malaysians really saw the plane

on the radar that night.

-[reporter in English] Utter confusion. -I don't think so.

[in French] the key elements don't come with proof attached.

So why believe the official story

when they're withholding essential pieces of evidence?

[reporter in English] Excuse me? Why won't you speak to the relatives?

-[indistinct panicked shouting] -[camera shutters clicking]

Another thing, which I found very interesting,

was the fact that MH370 supposedly flew over

an air base called Butterworth,

which is under Australian command.

[engine whirring]

[Florence] How can you believe for a second

that a rogue B777 would fly over an air base

without immediately triggering the scrambling of jets,

some kind of interception,

some kind of alert?

No, not at all.

Nothing happens.

And all of this is all the more incredible

when you realize that at that time...

[explosions]

...when MH370 disappears,

we had two major military exercises going on

in the South China Sea involving the US.

[indistinct commands]

[Florence] So, in essence,

you had an incredible concentration

of military power in the region.

It's completely inconceivable

that, in this day and age, we would lose a B777.

It's even more inconceivable that we would lose it

in such a highly-monitored region of the world.

[indistinct chatter over radio]

This is completely not credible.

So the only thing we can rely on

to say the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean

is the handshake pings from Inmarsat.

So, the question you ask yourself is obviously,

"Who is Inmarsat?"

Very interestingly,

they actually have a specific branch called Inmarsat Government...

providing services to the militaries of the biggest powers in the world.

Including the US.

So, once you understand how close Inmarsat and the US government are,

is it that hard to believe that

the data provided by Inmarsat

was actually engineered or fabricated

in order to provide a cover-up for what truly happened to MH370?

[dramatic music playing]

In my opinion,

MH370 did not U-turn.

Whatever happened,

it happened in the South China Sea.

[dramatic music continues]

[music turns sinister]

And I was not the only one to think this.

[Cyndi] I knew what I had.

I knew that I had evidence in the South China Sea.

The more I searched, the more debris I found.

So, I feel certain that this is where MH370 ended up,

was off of Vietnam.

At that point, I already had contacted Malaysia Airlines.

I tried to reach out to so many people to tell them that this debris exists.

Nobody was listening to me.

Florence contacted me. We discussed MH370.

She asked me what I thought, and I told her what I had.

I told her, "We need to remember, we have the oil rig worker

that said he saw fire in the sky that night."

[electronic tweet]

The Cathay pilots said they saw a large debris field.

What happened to them?

Where's that evidence?

When I talked to Florence, she said, "I've talked to several people

and they tell me the same thing."

[Florence] This was just one more voice

telling me that there must be a cover-up of sorts of what truly happened

in that region that night.

At that point, I really wondered,

"What could it be that placed MH370 at the heart

of the greatest mystery of civil aviation?"

[plane engine whirring]

[pensive music playing]

So, I looked very closely at the cargo.

What I found was very interesting.

And that was 2.5. tons of electronics

listed as walkie-talkies, radio accessories, little things.

And this cargo had been delivered

under escort and loaded on MH370 the very night

without having been scanned.

I thought this was very odd.

It's public knowledge that China

was very eager to acquire

highly sensitive US technology

in the field of surveillance, stealth drone technology.

So, something like this could be at the heart

of what happened to MH370.

Maybe the US found out that MH370 was actually carrying problematic cargo

to China at the eleventh hour

and did their utmost to stop the cargo from arriving to its destination.

[plane engine buzzing]

That's when I remember Ghyslain told me that

two US AWACS planes were involved.

[whimsical music playing]

But I didn't really know what to do with it until I met someone

for a completely different conversation related to MH370.

And this source happened to be a former US Air Force member.

He said, "Oh, the AWACS."

"Their jamming capabilities are phenomenal."

And I think that's when the penny dropped for me.

[engines whirring]

Because I realized that the AWACS

had this capability to completely jam the communication system of MH370,

making it disappear from the screens

of the traffic controllers.

[chilling music playing]

[music fades]

[soft, tense music playing]

So now I finally had

a technical explanation to how and why

MH370 suddenly disappeared.

And I tried to pull all this together

in some kind of hypothetical scenario

covering what may have happened to MH370.

[bleeping]

[rapid beeping]

[beeping slows then regulates]

[ominous music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Florence] So we know that, on that night,

this very mysterious and very suspicious cargo,

without having been scanned,

and which has been delivered under escort...

is loaded on MH370.

[seatbelt warning pings]

The plane takes off as planned, 41 minutes after midnight.

[engine buzzing]

[chilling music playing]

The plane reaches its cruising altitude.

[Zaharie] Malaysia 370, maintaining level 350.

[plane engine whirring]

[Florence] Everything is completely normal.

[indistinct chatter among passengers]

[dramatic music playing]

So at 1:19 a.m.,

MH370 is requested

to change over to the Vietnamese airspace.

[air traffic controller] Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal 9.

Good night.

[Florence] Captain Zaharie signs off with his now infamous "good night."

-[Zaharie] Uh, good night, Malaysian 370. -[radio cuts out]

[chilling music playing]

[Florence] So, MH370 enters a no man's land

and this is the perfect moment for an interception to take place.

[sinister music playing]

So it's possible, in that moment,

the two US AWACS moved into action

and jammed MH370...

[dramatic music playing]

[music halts]

[bleeps]

...making it disappear from the radar.

[tense music playing]

Now, MH370 cannot communicate.

Maybe it receives an order from the AWACS to go and land

somewhere nearby.

[indistinct conversation over radio]

When Captain Zaharie receives the order,

it's possible that he says, "No."

He does not accept this order.

[man] One hundred degrees.

[tense music playing]

[Florence] I think he just continued on his planned route, going to Beijing.

[tense music builds]

The tension would have continued to increase

as Zaharie refused the orders.

Eventually, MH370 is getting close to Chinese airspace.

So, the AWACS planes have to back off.

And, as horrible as it may seem,

they still need to stop the plane and its precious cargo

from arriving to Beijing.

So

either through a missile strike,

or a midair collision,

MH370...

met its fate.

[dramatic music builds]

[music fades]

I'm the first one to say that it sounds incredibly far-fetched

and that it has still some loose ends.

But I believe I'm certainly much closer to the truth than the official narrative.

The most important part of my job has been to demonstrate

that the official narrative was a fabrication.

[pensive music playing]

Oh, boy.

[clears throat]

I'm just reluctant to talk about Florence or Jeff

or these conspiracy advocates.

Uh, they're just such a distraction.

I've been watching people like Florence get tremendous publicity for her book.

All kinds of interviews.

All kinds of newspapers.

These are people

that don't really understand the facts and the data.

[telephone ringing]

The accusations that somehow Inmarsat

fabricated or manipulated the data

are... are simply wrong.

The data is the data.

I... I don't understand why anyone would think

that we would want to manipulate or change any data associated with this.

It's not who we are and to accuse things differently is...

I find it hurtful and... and...

Uh, yeah, it impacts me.

[Blaine] The theory that this plane was shot down in the South China Sea...

No.

There'd be debris all over the South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand...

And that means that the radar turning back is wrong.

That means that the Inmarsat data is wrong.

That basically denies all the evidence that there is.

I mean, there's no way that you could get China,

America, Australia, England,

Malaysia, Vietnam, all together

to have a big conspiracy to cover up what happened to the plane.

Those guys aren't friends.

[laughs]

They're going to squeal. They're going to talk.

So, there's just no way.

It just didn't happen.

I think, unfortunately,

some people were so into their own little theories and agendas, and so on,

that they seem to be losing objectivity.

And that's sad.

[reporter] Jeff Wise joins me now. Thanks so much for being with us.

First of all, do you really think it went to Kazakhstan?

At the risk of sounding flippant, um...

opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one.

Um...

Cut that, please.

But it's true. [laughs]

I mean, I've heard every sort of theory, every sort of conspiracy theory.

You know, I just find it galling and extraordinary

that people could,

um...

in the face of the evidence,

come up with some of the most bizarre and crazy conspiracy theories.

[rapid beeping]

The search is over for the missing Malaysian airliner

that vanished nearly three years ago.

Investigators overnight officially suspended the effort

to find the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard.

We need to suspend the search until further credible evidence.

That was a huge, very heartbreaking moment for, like, all the next of kin,

because our hopes were largely pinned on the...

the continuation of the search.

I don... I felt completely shattered.

[reporter] Voice 370, a support group for next of kin, said in a statement,

"Commercial planes cannot be allowed to disappear without a trace."

How could such a long search not produce any, like, result?

[seabirds squawking]

Not even... Like, zero. Nothing.

[melancholic music playing]

[Peter] We felt really bad.

It was, um... We'd been so involved for such a long time.

[birds squawking]

To ultimately fail, um, impacted on all of us.

We... We grieved.

And we felt we'd let the families down.

This will never leave any of us until such time as that aircraft is found.

And there are still 239 souls on board

who need to go home.

[rapid beeping]

[ominous music playing]

[reporter 1] Investigators released their final report overnight

on the disappearance

of Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

[reporter 2] The investigative team says the Boeing 777 was airworthy.

The pilot was very competent

and showed no signs of stress or behavioral changes.

And they cannot rule out unlawful interference by a third party.

-[man] Good evening... -[shutters clicking]

We are unable to determine with any certainty

the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its far flight plan route.

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-[shutters clicking] -[indistinct chatter]

It is so frustrating that every time we come for a meeting like this,

nobody, nobody is able to answer any of our questions.

The only good thing that happened

was that they stopped accusing Captain Zaharie

of bringing down MH370.

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[Ghyslain] Eventually,

even the official investigation stopped short of accusing the pilot.

They're not saying it anymore.

The only conclusion is that it wasn't the pilot.

It obviously wasn't the pilot.

So, the Malaysian official investigation is over.

They don't have an answer but they're done anyway.

That's what's good about the French justice system.

They can't stop, they're not allowed to stop

until they find the truth. So that's good, and it works for us.

I don't want to stop either until we have an answer.

If it takes ten years, then it takes ten years.

[soft music playing]

[music turns suspenseful]

[music softens]

[Jeff in English] What's so mania-forming about MH370

is that it's incredibly important.

We're talking about hundreds of human lives

and the entirety of the world air transport system.

So it really matters.

So, did MH370 drive me mad?

Yes! But it needed to drive me mad.

It's important. And it's good that it drove me mad.

It's a reasonable assumption

that the disappearance of MH370 was an intentional act.

And part of the mystery is, "Who did it?"

As much as I'd like to know the answer, we may never know.

And we just have to live with that.

There's another part of the mystery, "Where is it?"

And that is a question with a definitive, concrete answer.

Because the existence of this plane is a tangible reality.

It is somewhere.

And everybody wants the same thing.

Everybody wants to find MH370.

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[reporter] For all of these families who've lived in this state of limbo

ever since that day,

it seems, sadly, that that state of not knowing

is going to continue, uh, for the foreseeable future.

[Blaine] We need to bring the answers to the families.

We need to bring the answers to the flying public.

We need to show that a plane can't just disappear.

We owe them the proof.

We owe them the explanation.

We owe them that closure.

[waves lapping]

[wistful music playing]

Well, I don't know whether I'll ever get closure but...

I will try for as long as I can to find my mother,

to find out what happened.

[somber music playing]

[Ghyslain in French] I believe there are people out there

who know something, who know the true story.

We're still here and waiting for answers.

We want answers.

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[Danica in English] It's hard to think

that we will get the answers to what happened.

I promised him from day dot

that I would bring him home and I would find him.

I haven't done that.

And until I do,

there will be no peace.

[Intan] Yeah, we're still hopeful. We'll never leave hope behind.

We'll never ever leave hope behind, no matter what happens.

We deserve to know the truth.

My... My children deserve to know...

the truth.

[plane engine buzzing into the distance]

[emotive theme music playing]

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