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republicans, how do they feel about the governor's actions? >> well, the legislative body here is the board of supervisors there, are four republicans, one democrat, they voted to approve the sheltener this county. the mayor is republican, he supports the shelter. the governor, had nothing but good things to say about the republicans in the county. >> this is the fifth anniversary of a story that sadly has no final charleston a wide body jet disappeared five years ago. to this day, nobody knows why, how or where it is. it is an extraordinary story we began covering five years ago on this day. and still don't have answers. we have a cnn special report, it is called vanished, the mystery
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of malaysia airlines flight 370. it starts right now. >> the follow suggest a cnn special report. >> it has been five years since a state of the art aircraft disappeared. >> nobody expects a 777 to vanish. it doesn't happen. >> where is malaysia airlines flight 370? >> hundreds of loved ones missing. years of searching. >> it is in the most remote part of the world. >> the surprises. >> debris found off reunion island in the indian ocean.
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>> the second piece of malaysia airlines flight 370's wreckage picked up. >> it felt like we were back at the beginning again. >> we need to know what happened. the only way you will do it is to find the aircraft. >> there is too much at stake here to say we are going to stop. >> now, vanished, the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370. march 8, 2014, kuala lumpur international airport. pilots are preparing for flight. >> it is all about checklists.
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>> it doesn't matter how many times you have done t you do it religiously. that is absolute foundation of safety in aviation. >> this video shows him training on the 777, flight 370 was the first time flying. >> just coming out of rigorous training. >> captain shaw, with 18 hours in the air and a stellar reputation. >> we go back three yea30 years. >> a former pilot.
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>> i would like him to fly the plane. i have confidence in him. >> there is confidence in the aircraft they are about to fly. the boeing 777. >> it is a great airplane. a sterling record of safety. t >> after making their final preparations, the pilots are ready for push back. >> at 12:32 a.m., the pilots taxi to the runway.
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>> clears for departure. flight 370 takes off for a three-poi3.5 hour flight to beijing. >> under controls, after landing gear. >> by 1:00 a.m., the crew and 227 passengers on board are cruising comfortably at 35,000 feet. even the pilots can relax, the plane is now basically flying itself. >> there was no challenge, for a seasoned officer to handle that flight. >> all went well, automatic message from the aircraft communication system.
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>> think of a giant smart phone that will send out huge amounts of information via satellite, all by radio transmission. >> 1:19 a.m., a standard hand-off with air traffic control. as the plane leaves malaysian air space. >> the controller. >> there was no indication that anything had gone wrong. >> david is a former inspector for the faa. >> everything was routine until
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now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the transponder goes dark. it. is the instrument that sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells what height, which direction and speed it is traveling. suddenly, this giant 777 is blind to the world. >> there is no easy explanation for why it happened. >> either it was intentional, someone tried to turn all the systems off at once or the pilot was kept from communicating or a mechanical failure that took all the systems out at one time. >> then, minutes after the transpond aer stops, it makes a unexpected turn and way off course. >> that the plane turned when
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the transponder went off, is inexplicable and worrisome. >> a former director of the n t n.t.s.b. >> it was out of the ordinary there was no distress call. the turn takes place, there is absolutely silence, it means someone on that plane redirected it to a new course setting, they were not telling anyone. >> not telling anyone, and never checking in with vietnam traffic control. >> the fact that westerly turn happens at the point between malaysia and vietnam, for many is the strongest evidence that
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something nefarruous was going on. >> you investigated many incidents. is that coincidence? everything seems to go wrong at this particular critical moment. >> i don't believe in coincidence with my accidents, there seems to be, it doesn't mean nefarruous, there are a lot of systems doing a lot of things as well. >> the critical moment is after the handover. when you are in this no man's land in the sky. >> yes, nobody is watching right then. >> no one was watching. and flight 370 would vanish. >> coming up. a critical mistake. >> it is so painful to think b
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four hours later, nobody is looking yet.
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flight 370. it is a crucial moment. we know that they are all switched off, broken, fwloun up. >> as an investigator, what would the conclusion be? >> i have two different paths, one, that aircraft was taken over, and the systems were intentionally shut down. the other side, there was a singular failure at a common location, that failure would have done the same thing there.
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is no evidence one way or the other. >> there were would be piles of eviden evidence -- >> we would know exactly the state of that aircraft. >> just the kind of information someone taking over a plane wouldn't want anyone to know. >> if you were doing something nefarruous, switching off that would be part of making the plane go dark. >> there was still no check-in with vietnam air traffic control. a call nick has made thousands of times. >> you have to be drunk for you to forget, after someone tells you immediately to check n. >> every pilot wants to do that
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as soon as possible. anything more than two, three minutes is abnormal. >> 1:27 a.m., the control center tries to reach the aircraft. >> they tried the radio. tried to see if mh 370 would answer. >> the airports tried to reach mh 370 as well, with no success. >> with no response, an air traffic controller calls malays malaysia airlines for help. >> they tells air traffic control a completely different story. they say mh 370 hasn't vanished at all.
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according to their own flight tracking system. >> they say, the aircraft is fine. we know exactly where it is. >> yet, they have had no communication. >> none. their system was showing that aircraft continued to go on that heading. >> over the next hour and a half, malaysia airlines give more message, capacitied signals with the flight. the plane was flying off the coast of vietnam, along the scheduled flight path. at that point, the guard is let down. you start going in a different direction. you are not search and rescue. are you trying to communicate. >> an hour and a half after that reassuring message. the tragic. >> the information was wrong. >> we don't know where the aircraft s our system told us it
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was there. it wasn't. >> the airline tells air transact control, the flight electronicing was based on projection, and not reliable for aircraft positioning. >> everything went wrong there. everything. it borders on scandal. the airline in the middle of it. >> the malazia airlines information to air traffic control was unhelpful at worst, it was damaging, to getting an investigation and search underway quickly. >> not only did malaysia airlines --
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>> normal confusion of the moment. at some point in all of this, an air traffic controller can push the big red button that says, help. panic. missing plane. that is what they didn't do until much later. >> not until four hours later that it is clear that plane is lost, that air traffic control notice emergency responders. >> that is so painful to think about. >> four hours later, nobody is 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 on board flight 370? >> we don't know who the perpetrators are, we will never
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blimp, they don't know with the speed erratic. it is mh 370. >> if you see something flying toward your country at 500 knots, that should raise concerns quickly. >> it didn't seem to. by now, the 777 is believed to be hundreds of miles off the original course. >> we don't know what is normal for their military. the big part of the problem with the investigation, is that the malaysians were tight lipped what what they knew, what they knew it. >> the air force continued to traffic the plane until it disappeared from radar. that never tell anyone with civilian authority. >> they don't want to talk about holes in the radar system, a
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posture not as ready as the world believes it to be. >> no jets are scrambled. nothing is done. the military said they chose not to intercept the plane, it was friendly, and didn't pose a threat to national security. >> why have an air force, if it is not capable of doing something like this? it is a big mistake, frankly, the malaysian government has not accounted for it to the families and the rest of the world. >> for david is a gray area. >> in the united states, we would know it in a heart beat. there. it wasn't set up that way. a fire wall between military and civil operations, and the two didn't meet each other. >> a missed opportunity. >> exactly. >> on the ground in beijing, the families waiting for the arrival of flight 370 knew none of this. an hour after the plane was
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expected to land, malaysia airlines makes an announcement on facebook. >> this flight lost contact with air control at 3:30 a.m. this morning. >> it quickly becomes the biggest story in the world. >> where is malaysia airlines flight 370? more questions than answers. >> the world's attention turns to the malaysian government and officials. they don't seem to know what they are talking about. >> a deer in the headlights component to the early news conferences, you could see them struggling through t not knowing what they were doing. not understanding how to begin an investigation. >> 43 ships and 40 aircrafts.
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>> that would baffle the greatest minds in the aviation world, and the accident investigation world. >> they put out information without corroborating it. and it turned out to be false. >> the aircraft, continued flying for some time after last contact. those reports are inaccurate. >> they ended up on both sides of a bad situation. >> even days after the plane disappeared. families believe they are not being told the truth. >> this chinese woman demanded answers before a press conference. she didn't get any. >> after 10 days to two weeks, there was a public perception that was set in stone. that malaysians were not able to
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handle the situation. and having trouble. >> i don't think we can verify when. i will check. >> ladies and gentlemen. this is very important. >> i know it is very important. >> family members were left asking what on earth was happening? >> protected by this long wait? something that is turning into a fars. >> the party -- >> abdullah akadiing to that, the early conflicting reports of where authorities think it actually s and whether or not it turned. >> there was no turn-around. he was definitative. that was misleading and wrong. it was noticeable, in the days
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after, he hedged. he said, i am not talking about that i am not saying that, we are not commenting on that. >> weeks after the flight vanished, they put some of the questions to the malaysian prime minister. >> you remember, when the plane was reported lost, i was briefed that morning. i took the position that we must search both areas. the south china sea and the northern part. >> nobody was willing to comment on the biggest unanswered question. did mh 370 vanish because someone took over its controls? >> there is an excellent of
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human intervention. >> we will never know the reasons y. >> no matter what scenario you go with, we are deep into crazy. evil scenario. we are in crazy land. this is stuff that doesn't happen. >> a truly astounding mystery. there are only a handful of verifiable facts, after confusion, delay, and chaos in the first few weeks, then, comes a different search area, based purely on mathematics. >> they were making it up as they went along. >> searching in all the wrong places. >> why was there so much confusion, when it came to where to search? >> we had no idea where the
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>> on the morning of march 8th, four hours after flight 370 disappears, a search is
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launched. >> as with any search, you start where the plane was last scene. >> a desperate search at sea, after a jet vanished off the southern coast of vietnam. >> no debris. >> more unusual, searching in the opposite direction, hundreds of miles to the west. >> i sat in the studio, covering this. and we would look at each other and say, did he say, we are looking to the west? >> yes. that is because newly discovered military radar reveals it may have turned to the west. new leads are coming in. >> late today, chinese authorities released satellite photos of what they call a
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suspected crash site. >> a fleet of boats are searching in two different areas. >> they had to look in the east, there is where debris was reported. they had to look at the west that is where the radar data said the plane had gone. >> searchers find nothing. days turn into weeks, and the search area expands further. >> why was there so much confusion, when it came to where to search? >> we had no idea where it was. the pressure is on to do something. >> it became the biggest oceanic search of all time. >> this is unprecedented on so many levels, nothing has ever happened like this. >> into this confusion, suddenly upon dros the data. >> a british company reports that flight 370 exchanged
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digital handshakes with their satellites. >> that was a water shed moment. it changed everything. >> it changed everything, everybody thought that everybody thought they malaysia airlines flight 370 had gone dark. the handshakes showed it was in the air for hours more than anybody thought. >> it few west and south, and continued to fly for six and a half hours. >> using complicated calculations, they could roughly determine where the plane was going? >> it is getting close to black magic. it is reverse engineering. we don't know how accurate it is. >> it is also the only hard evidence available, and i asked
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them again and again, are you sure? their answer to me was, we are as sure as we can possibly be. >> he needed to be sure. based on those iccal clagzs, th were about to deliver somber news. >> it ended in the southern indian ocean. >> the southern indian ocean. thousands of miles away. and where nobody could likely have survived. >> family members were shocked. distraught, angry. there would be no rescues. one last home. could they find the black boxes before they stopped emitting
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pings. >> you have pingers that may expire. you have to say this is the best guess now. >> the best guest is a remote area, more than twice the system of california. >> these are all the aircraft flying together. the australians take over the search. and soon after the australian ship pings are detected. >> clearly, this is the most promising lead. wow, again. >> miraculous. >> they had just put the locator in the water. it is a matter of days. >> a were robotic submarine covers the area where the pings were heard. it is then, two months later. >> a massive set back in the
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search for the flight for the flight 370. they say the pings are not from the aircraft. >> back to the beginning. no closer to solving the mystery of solving malaysia airlines flight 370. >> that's rights vle last two me seat. >>
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. 370. >> 370. >> these are the last words heard from the cockpit of malaysia airlines flight 370, and the moment that mystery begins. >> you have a series of events that appear to be human-driven. you have a transponder turned
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off. a-card system being turned off. the plane turned, at least twice, probably three times. >> and most perflecting, no distress calls. >> there are so many ways, vhf radios, many, many way, none of it happened. >> could the difference of mh 370 be deliberate? passing through the security at the night of the flight. he was only 27 years old. farid. >> young to be flying a 777 in the u.s. he had gone through the gates, and passed and was with a senior guy. >> he had no known motive or
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reason to take down the plain. >> there was no. you go from a small plane to a big plane. this was his promotion. >> richard quest gained permission to fly in bon one of his last training flights on the boeing 777. there was no question, he was a qualified, he landed. perfectly.
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one of farek's last flights would be. >> the flight simulator he built in his home to practice landings. >> they visited the home of the pilot. >> it seemed like a lead. it was a dead end. >> like first recover, the more they looked, the less than found. >> i don't see any logic. why he would want to be a rouge pilot.
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>> did he did not have kind of make-up. >> he got married early. socially, great guy. extremely helpful. and always willing to share. >> they met in 35 school, 35 years old. >> we had to polish our shoes until we could polish our teeth in it. he remembers his friend as a season seasoned video. >> he has the life of aviation running through his vains. if it wasn't them, what about the other passengers? could it have been a hijacking?
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it would explain the radios were shutdown, explain why there may not have been communication. >> any subjects? >> they went through everybody, there is nobody that would match the profile of someone that would take over the rain -- >> he has to play for six hours, with the wrkal questions. what could shut down the plane's xhungss, and allowed it to fly? >> anyone who hangs their hat on one view or the other, heading for a fall. the yes, the obviously. it is frequencely something you
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never thought of there is no, >> there are no black boxes inside human beings. that's what you need in this case. >> un of the greatest hopes of solving one of the greatest mysteries of all time is presumably somewhere in the indian ocean. >> we need to know what happened. we need know if this plane came down at point of a gun, by the hands of a pilot or by meical fail krr. it is not an option not to know e. >> coming up a brand new search for answers begins in the indian ocean.
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>> when we look at that roof, as pilots, we look at the wave points in the airways, there aren't any. it's as remote as you can get and still be on this planet. >> this is where experts believe the wreckage of flight 370 may lie. finding it an immeasurable challenge. >> we're not searching for a needle in a haystack, we're still trying to define where the haystack is. >> set out in hopes of finding the plane and failed. >> now this is no easy task. we have very good techniques for detecting needles in haystacks. we vehigh confidence if we have the right haystack, we'll find the needle in it. >>. >> leading the search.
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>> it's six days out from the coast of australia. the best equipment available. >> in may 2015 after the initial efforts turned up nothing, they doubled the size of the priority search area. >> it is a huge area and it's a complicated area with oceans mountains. >> complex terrain is not the only challenge they face. >> you're grinding through high seas, strong winds with, incredibly difficult conditions. >> they have to winterize the ships so they can keep searching throughout the brutal winter. >> it wasn't easy and it wasn't cheap. >> the most expensive search in human history ever.
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this is uncharted territory literally and figuratively. >> yet yielded nothing. >> not a single shred of evidence, not one. is it possible there's floating wreckage out there? eventually something washes up. >> finally in july 2015 something did wash up. >> debris found off the coast of reunion island in the indian ocean. >> thousands of miles from the search area they found debris on a remote island in madagascar. >> what they found was an extremely intuicate part of the wing. it's known as the flapper on. >> french investigators later confirmed it was from the missing plane. the first real discovery in a
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year and a half and the first evidence that mh370 didn't simply vanish. >> it confirms that flight mh370 ended in the southern indian ocean. it doesn't tell us where or how but it gives you that closure for the families. it tells you the plane ended up in the water. but for family members, the fresh side is found. >> how could you just walk away. something terrible has happened. >> hope would cling to more than 30 pieces of debris and so far no miracles.
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with more than 1,000 triple sevens. >> finding the aircraft. not just for the hume an terriian reasons of those on board but they've got to know what happened and the only way you're going to do it is to find the aircraft. >> will we find it? i hope so. as long as we continue to look, there will be a chance it will be found. >> since its disappearance, investigators have searched over 144,000 square miles in the southern indian ocean. investigators from eight countries revealed they don't know much more than they did five years ago. the reason for the loss of communication, why did the plane change its flight pattern? where did the plane end up? they don't know. to date the investigation could not determine the cause of the
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