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The Search for Flight MH370

USC Aviation Safety & Security Program experts comment on missing Malaysian airliner
By: Megan Hazle
March 26, 2014 —

On March 8, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people aboard. Nearly a week later, the search continues for the missing aircraft.

USC Aviation Safety & Security Program instructors and experts (including Thomas Anthony, Michael Barr, Glenn Winn Daniel Scalese, and Douglas Moss) and electrical engineering professor Giuseppe Caire comment on the mysterious disappearance and the ongoing search for Flight 370 and its passengers. Below is a sampling of recent media appearances.

 

Crash investigators have numerous avenues to investigate in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, even as an international search effort for the plane continues off the coast of Vietnam, a U.S. crash probe expert said Monday. The fate of the missing Beijing-bound jet, which disappeared early Saturday with 239 people aboard, remained a mystery after the latest possible clues to the plane's whereabouts were discounted.

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'On the Record' panel answers viewers' questions about debris that could belong to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and more.

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With few clues, searchers are racing time, wind, and the current as they search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared from radar early Saturday morning between Kuala Lampur and Vietnam with 239 people on board.

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The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is prompting many theories. Among them are parallels between the missing plane and the SilkAir Flight 185 that crashed in December of 1997.

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As a 12-nation hunt for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane spread out Saturday across the Indian Ocean and reached over land toward Kazakhstan in Central Asia, some experts raised the incredible possibility that a 250-ton Boeing 777 might never be found.

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Not surprisingly, the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 people on board more than a week ago has led some people to come up with very interesting theories about what might have happened.
 

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With few clues about what happened to a missing Malaysian wide-body plane or even where it is, aviation investigators and security analysts are left with one conclusion: almost no theory can be considered off the table.

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The number of theories continues to grow as the search continues for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

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It’s the biggest lead in days in the search for the missing Malaysian airliner. Satellite images have detected two large chunks of debris in a remote part of the Indian Ocean. Penny and Phil spoke with Glenn Winn, who is an expert in aviation safety and security, and an instructor at USC’s Aviation Safety and Security Program.

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While ships and aircraft scour Southeast Asian waters for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, investigators are also poring over records and databases and conducting countless interviews as they try to determine what happened to the Boeing 777-200 and the 239 people on board.

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The oil slicks don't match; the flotsam found in the water doesn't connect; the stolen passports could be just a coincidence. Forty ships and 34 aircraft from nine countries have not turned up any evidence. (USC Aviation director Thomas Anthony's interview at 1:42pm)

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We’re morbidly consumed with the lack of answers in Flight 370’s disappearance, as we are with all unsolved disappearances and crimes. Why our brains can’t handle cold cases. What happened to Malaysia Flight 370? Did it veer off course? Was it hijacked? Could a meteor have hit it?

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  In the absence of concrete information everyone from leaders of the aviation industry to armchair experts are ready to put forward their idea of what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

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  One of the world's top air crash investigators has said finding a possible human cause for the disappearance of flight MH370 may be the only way of solving the mystery.

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