num_pages: 188
description: On March 8 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 loaded 227 passengers and fifteen crew members and took off from its Kuala Lumpur airport for what should have been a six-hour flight to Beijing. A year after its take-off the plane and its passengers and crew are still missing.This detailed true-story of the search for the missing aircraft features interviews with leading diplomats militiamen and family members of the missing passengers and crew members. It draws from the authors thirty-year experience as an aviation safety inspector and accident investigator for the Federal Aviation Administrationworking in the cockpit as a mechanic and as a first-responderand a media correspondent covering plane malfunctions hijackings and crashes.Comprehensive in scope personal and empathetic in voice Soucies riveting narrative offers an unparalleled history of what diplomats and investigators around the world hypothesized about why and where the plane crashed. He explains what the experts were correct in investigating and what was overlooked and the result is a clear persuasive proclamation of the mostly likely reason for the crash and where the plane most likely resides.The disappearance of Flight 370 has been called the mystery that baffled the world (CNN); the plane that simply vanished (FOX); the search for it is likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars (ABC). Its been the subject of intense media diplomatic and public scrutiny. But until now no book has given a thorough account of the search for the planeor a riveting page-turning narrative that answers the mystery the rest of the world just couldn't solve.
language: English
title: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why It Disappeared—and Why It's Only a Matter of Time Before This Happens Again
publisher: Skyhorse Publishing