Writer: Andi Arok Kundera | Editor: Mom and Dad
This critical analysis is written based on an article by Adrian Horton, ‘The greatest aviation mystery of all time’: what really happened to flight MH370?, published by The Guardian on Monday, 6th of March 2023. In that article, Horton explained her point of view of the Netflix docuseries MH370: The Plane That Disappeared. She described the mystery, devastation, and speculation as aviation experts, engineers, data scientists, journalists, hobbyists, and more tried for years to piece together a confounding puzzle.
In the article, Horton explained that in the first episode, a mass murder-suicide was committed by pilot Zahrie Ahmad Shah, whose home flight simulator was found mapping a similar route to the one indicated by radar and satellite images. But subsequent episodes, delineated by theory, hear contradictory theories that regard the evidence previously cited as either inconclusive, misinterpreted, or fabricated.
The second episode, called The Hijack, presents a theory by American journalist and longtime MH370 obsessive Jeff Wise that Russian operatives stole MH370 through the plane’s electronic bay. It was only accessible by the first-class cabin to distract from the Crimean War (which Wise thought would reject the satellite data and was used as a decoy).
The third episode featuring Florence De Changy is called The Intercept. Changy was a Southeast Asia correspondent for Le Monde, France, who speculated that the US military was preventing an unknown cargo from heading to China by shooting down the plane. A similar theory was proposed by Ghyslain Wattrelos, who is a French businessman whose wife, daughter, and son were all aboard MH370 and were never to be seen again.
After reading that article and watching the Netflix docuseries MH370, I, as an elementary student who has an interest in aviation and air transportation management, do agree with what Adrian Horton has explained. People have been working for over eleven years trying to debunk this tragedy but still finding no hints to solve this mystery. Unverified theories flood about what could have happened to MH370, such as pilot suicide and cyberterrorism.
However, none of these theories has been verified; even with all of that speculation, the efforts made by the Malaysian government to find the missing aircraft were unsuccessful. But there is good news after eleven years of waiting for the people that lost their family in MH370: as of June 2025, the Malaysian government had reopened the search along with Infinity Ocean and Western Australia. Now there is a new hope for the families that are still waiting for the latest news on the MH370 search to get closure and relief. Let us pray that the search will be successful.
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