Review | Netflix documentary review – MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, a three-part miniseries, summarises the mystery but adds little that’s new
- This slickly-packaged series looks at various conspiracy theories and hypotheses regarding the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia flight MH370
- The three episodes rely heavily on passionate journalists, and families of the missing passengers and crew, but offer no new revelations
3/5 stars
One of the most confounding mysteries in aviation history, the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is now the subject of a three-part documentary series streaming on Netflix.
The show arrives nine years to the day since the flight, a routine red-eye from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, vanished over the South China Sea carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew.
In all that time there has yet to be a conclusive official explanation for what happened next, but as the series explores, a procession of experts, journalists and conspiracy theorists have been working relentlessly to piece together the mystery.
Presented here are a number of compelling and preposterous hypotheses for what might have happened to the Boeing 777 and all those on board.