Amelia Earhart will always be among history’s mythic disappearing acts, but aviation’s reigning mystery is the 2014 vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The calamity, which occurred nine years ago this week, remains as much a puzzle as ever according to “MH370: The Plane That Disappeared,” a three-part Netflix documentary series that banks and swoops and rolls through all the possibilities, landing on the only consensus ever reached: that none of what happened was an accident.
To recap, the Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of March 8, a “routine red-eye,” as someone says, that was supposed to deposit its 227 passengers and 12 crew people in Beijing later that morning.
As it was about to leave Malaysian airspace, the air-traffic controller and pilot bid each other good night.
It was the last thing heard from MH370, which never made contact with Ho Chi Minh City and whose multiple communications systems suddenly went dark.