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What really happened to flight MH370? In The Disappearing Act, French journalist Florence de Changy presents her theory
- Hong Kong-based correspondent Florence de Changy believes that the plane was shot down and the truth covered up
- In her book, she attempts to demolish the accepted narrative, as well as countless conspiracy theories
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The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy, pub. Mudlark
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Were it not so excruciating, the whole sordid affair would be spellbinding. “And for our next trick,” announces the Malaysian-Australian-American conjuring act, “we’ll make this ultra-safe airliner, with 239 people aboard, vanish!”
But seven years later, the victims’ families still don’t know how, or why, they did it.
After countless half-truths, distortions and shattered hopes, they could be excused for dismissing any new potential solution to a torturous enigma. Yet that’s the tantalising prospect in The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370, by Florence de Changy.
The first hint of obfuscation in the saga that began on March 8, 2014 is in the book’s title. And as de Changy writes, “It was not possible […] for a Boeing 777 to have simply disappeared.” What she ironically calls “the greatest mystery in the history of aviation” is, she believes, its biggest con.
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