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[DR3AM]

Just finished this 3 part documentary. Literally 0 new info on the actual plane missing but instead they let conspiracy theorists and Facebook groups moms talk about their "findings". Those findings are nothing but trash.

My favorite part was when experts said they found pieces of the wreckage highly likely to belong to MH370 and the French lawyer lady arguing that "highly likely" doesn't mean it actually belonged to the plane but then goes off about Russian spies and other random theorists without any proof.

Don't waste your time on this.

 

[diffusionx]

Don't waste your time on this.

You can say this about Netflix in general to be honest. Their documentaries are all cookie-cutter trash that wastes your time and doesn't give out any info you can't get on Wikipedia. They're just throwing shit out there as fast as possible. But I say this as someone who was thinking about watching this so thanks.

 

[Revolutionary]

Yeah I mentioned in the other thread that it's garbage because it gives way too much time to conspiracy theorists.

I literally did a face palm when that one guy was describing a Russian saboteur piloting the plane from the electrical compartment.

 

[newtypepilot]

it's not surprising. You aren't gonna to find new info unless you fine the plane, and you aint' gonna find the wreckage any time soon.

 

[v1oz]

A documentary just needs to be informative and entertaining. There's no chance that Netflix filmmakers would have access to some new ground breaking information that the authorities don't have already.

The Tinder Swindler didn't have anything new either - apart from recorded interviews with the victims.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Chiggs]

My favorite part was when experts said they found pieces of the wreckage highly likely to belong to MH370 and the French lawyer lady arguing that "highly likely" doesn't mean it actually belonged to the plane but then goes off about Russian spies and other random theorists without any proof.

You must have not been paying too close attention, because Florence de Changy (she's a journalist) does not support the Russian hijack theory--that's aviation journalist Jeff Wise, who does indeed come across like an idiot. Florence, on the other hand, supports the US shoot down theory, which is also supported by ex-airline CEO, Marc Dugain. She also acknowledges that the theory has loose ends...and admitted as such in the documentary.

Also, the experts you're referring to who keep finding the wreckage, is actually one person, Blaine Gibson, who has been accused of "planting wreckage" by Jeff Wise (and families of MH370 victims), and whose background has been called into question since he has deep Russian ties (and a business).

At this point, the whole thing has, for all intents and purposes, become unsolvable...much like the JFK Assassination.

 

[Lasha]

I had zero interest in the documentary after seeing the trailer. The conspiracies are all pretty batshit and fail to take into account how backwards Malaysian airspace can be. The Malaysian government is broken top to bottom.

Flying MH was great after that incident. I was flying business class alone for less than the price of an economy ticket. I took MH17 as a sign that Malaysians weren't meant to fly and went back to SQ.

 

[demigod]

Well that’s a bummer, was looking forward to this. I was in Malaysia 2 months before this happened.

 

[Chiggs]

The conspiracies are all pretty batshit and fail to take into account how backwards Malaysian airspace can be.

The shootdown of a passenger airliner isn't exactly what I'd call batshit. It happens a whole lot, actually. Just look at the last 40 years. I mean, holy shit.

I agree with your assessment of Malaysian airspace and thought the documentary did touch on the incompetence of the Malaysian government, but the problem is that Jeff Wise launches into his awful Russian hijack theory and then everything else takes a nose dive.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

A documentary just needs to be informative and entertaining. There's no chance that Netflix filmmakers would have access to some new ground breaking information that the authorities don't have already.

The Tinder Swindler didn't have anything new either - apart from recorded interviews with the victims.

The piece of the landing gear from MH370 that a Madagascar fisherman had in his possession before knowing it was part of an aircraft.
Or how about the British engineer that used used tracking data to pinpoint the crash site on the 7th arc in the South Indian ocean.

There's lots of new info the documentary could have focused on but I turned it off the moment I started seeing them talk about Kazakhstan and Russian spies getting access to the flights avionics.
Like yeah all these other countries won't see a 777 entering and exiting their airspace on the way to Kazakhstan . The Facebook group leader believed the pilot was responsible then the very next episode he says its the Russians
Like GTFO. I can't believe I wasted an hour watching this trash.

MH370 TRACKING MEETING “A GREAT SUCCESS”

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Graham Hancock’s son is one of the head honchos of reality programming at Netflix, so expect deeply stupid shit.

Fuck they already dedicated an entire series to his father’s absurd Atlantis tales.

 

[nush]

Graham Hancock’s son is one of the head honchos of reality programming at Netflix, so expect deeply stupid shit.

Fuck they already dedicated an entire series to his father’s absurd Atlantis tales.

You've not read his books have you?

Cliff notes: There's evidence for a lost human civilization that that existed before the Younger Dryas event. Thus Atlantis is part of that.

Oh and BTW that Netflix series you DIDN'T watch had nothing about Atlantis in it.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

You've not read his books have you?

Cliff notes: There's evidence for a lost human civilization that that existed before the Younger Dryas event. Thus Atlantis is part of that.

Oh and BTW that Netflix series you DIDN'T watch had nothing about Atlantis in it.

The evidence of a lost human civilization that existed before the Younger Dryas is shaky at best, misinterpreation of evidence at worst. To complicate matters even more, Netflix chopped the interviews with the archeologists so they appeared to support him.

I'm not going to claim we know everything. and that we know is definitevely true. But hancock keeps doing this schtick where he blames archeologists for not doing things, when he is very aware that funding is super limited and blaming archeologists for not excavating basaltic terrain where voids are known to naturally occur as the lava cools and gas bubbles get trapped is downright hostile. Between his Rogan appearances and this Netflix special I'm sure he could crowdfund a dig below nang badong (sp?). Is he doing that? Because he didn't mention that in the show. Like he didn't mention that dating dirt is essentially meaningless unless you can demonstrate that dirt was walked on by humans.

Look, I have a passing interest on archeology but this guy is an actual archeologist (to be fair, he's fresh from college) and he goes deep into his claims, he also interviews the archeologists featured on the netflix show. Granted he is somewhat hostile/flippant towards Hancock so be ready for that, but it's worth a watch just to hear the other side of the story.

 

[Bragr]

You've not read his books have you?

Cliff notes: There's evidence for a lost human civilization that that existed before the Younger Dryas event. Thus Atlantis is part of that.

Oh and BTW that Netflix series you DIDN'T watch had nothing about Atlantis in it.

Graham Hancock has some fun thoughts about things, but holy shit don't buy into it. I have never seen anyone abuse and twist history to his favor more than Hancock. He's also one of these people who don't think logically and buys into everything, he's hiding 90% of his controversial thoughts so people won't ignore him, but once in a while, he will say shit so stupid it's impossible to take him seriously.

 

[nush]

The evidence of a lost human civilization that existed before the Younger Dryas is shaky at best, misinterpreation of evidence at worst. To complicate matters even more, Netflix chopped the interviews with the archeologists so they appeared to support him.

I'm not going to claim we know everything. and that we know is definitevely true. But hancock keeps doing this schtick where he blames archeologists for not doing things, when he is very aware that funding is super limited and blaming archeologists for not excavating basaltic terrain where voids are known to naturally occur as the lava cools and gas bubbles get trapped is downright hostile. Between his Rogan appearances and this Netflix special I'm sure he could crowdfund a dig below nang badong (sp?). Is he doing that? Because he didn't mention that in the show. Like he didn't mention that dating dirt is essentially meaningless unless you can demonstrate that dirt was walked on by humans.

Look, I have a passing interest on archeology but this guy is an actual archeologist (to be fair, he's fresh from college) and he goes deep into his claims, he also interviews the archeologists featured on the netflix show. Granted he is somewhat hostile/flippant towards Hancock so be ready for that, but it's worth a watch just to hear the other side of the story.

Look, how about this. I'll DM you Fingerprints of the Gods read it and you don't have to agree but well be on the same page. That will be an interesting discussion. Your position is already covered in that book.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Look, how about this. I'll DM you Fingerprints of the Gods read it and you don't have to agree but well be on the same page. That will be an interesting discussion. Your position is already covered in that book.

Have you watched the videos?

I'm not going to read his book but I'll watch the show, if you watch the videos.

 

[nush]

Have you watched the videos?

I'm not going to read his book but I'll watch the show, if you watch the videos.

I've watched the netflix series and it's basically the video version of book 2. Which is less compelling that Fingerprints of the Gods to be fair.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I've watched the netflix series and it's basically the video version of book 2. Which is less compelling that Fingerprints of the Gods to be fair.

My offer stands, you watch the linked videos that summarize the archeological position on the things he mentions and I’ll watch the Netflix special to get up to speed to his claims.

 

[Insane Metal]

The piece of the landing gear from MH370 that a Madagascar fisherman had in his possession before knowing it was part of an aircraft.
Or how about the British engineer that used used tracking data to pinpoint the crash site on the 7th arc in the South Indian ocean.

There's lots of new info the documentary could have focused on but I turned it off the moment I started seeing them talk about Kazakhstan and Russian spies getting access to the flights avionics.
Like yeah all these other countries won't see a 777 entering and exiting their airspace on the way to Kazakhstan . The Facebook group leader believed the pilot was responsible then the very next episode he says its the Russians
Like GTFO. I can't believe I wasted an hour watching this trash.

MH370 TRACKING MEETING “A GREAT SUCCESS”

Thanks for that link! This is amazing:

REFINED STUDY PINPOINTS LOCATION OF MH370 - Airline Ratings

A new report into the disappearance of MH370 has pinpointed a location further north than first thought.

www.airlineratings.com

 

[Husky]

The best documentarians probably get better deals from HBO. But for everyone else, well.


I liked The Social Dilemma. Behind the Curve wasn't released by Netflix, but it's often on their platform, so if it's still on there then I recommend it for a fun watch.

 

[balls of snow]

Fun fact, the prime minister when all this shit went down is now in jail serving a 12 year sentence for the 1mdb scandal which paid 100k usd (allegedly) to finance a now null and void marriage between KimK and Kanye West. The Pm is now pursuing his masters while in jail.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Thanks for that link! This is amazing:

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Yeah no worries.

I was hoping the documentary was going to be based off this latest developments and also the damaged landing gear door. In fact I kept watching hoping it would pop up but the more they veered into consipracy theory nonsense the more offputting the whole experience became.

Ocean Infinity has said they're interested in doing another search but would require clearance from the Malaysian Government to go ahead. End of this year or early 2024 is the next proposed launch date to start the search based on this latest information.

That plane will be found and everything points to the pilot.

Lets look at some of the facts:

* The Pilot, one of Malaysia's most experienced pilots so knows his job and his aircraft very well. Was made an instructor and examiner for the 777 fleet in November 2007.

* Co-pilot was an inexperienced wet behind the ears 27-year-old. So we know who has the authority in this scenario.

* Conveniently the plane went dark just as it was leaving Malaysian air space and entering into Vietname airspace and only the pilot is able to turn off these systems. Coincidience on the timing to confuse air traffic controllers of both countries as you're about to do a handover from Malaysian air traffic to Vietnam?

* Plane flew along the air traffic borders as it turned around back towards Malaysia.

* Plane flew over the pilots home town when it returned into Malaysia airspace before heading out to south indian ocean.

* Pilot could easily depressurize the cabin from the cockpit. Passengers had only 15 minutes of oxygen in those masks when they dropped down from the ceiling. The pilot has a much more advanced mask with longer oxygen supply. So he could quite literally knock everyone out by himself.

* Former Australian prime minister revealed at the time that it was understood by the highest levels in Malaysian Government that this was a pilot mass murder/suicide.

* The landing gear door found in Madagascar has signifcant damage to the inside as compared to the outisde suggesting the landing gear was down when it crashed. Close examination of the piece suggested a high speed crash into the ocean.

* Ocean drift analysis on the debris found so far combined with Richard Godfrey's latest tracking data of MH370 has the origin of the pieces in the general area of the crash site in the south indian ocean close to the 7th Arc where the initial search for the aircraft was conducted.


I'm no expert in any of this but everything we know so far points toward one man. The Pilot. Only thing left to find out is what was the motive.