The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part I

# Summary

This Stuff You Should Know episode dives deep into one of aviation's greatest unsolved mysteries: Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. Josh and Chuck walk through the harrowing timeline of how a Boeing 777 vanished mid-flight, exploring the crucial details that make this disappearance so baffling—from the suspicious radar handoff between air traffic control centers to the satellite data that suggests the plane flew for hours after vanishing from radar. They introduce the leading theory that someone deliberately disabled the aircraft's transponder at the exact moment of handoff between airspace jurisdictions, made a sharp turn back across Malaysia, and flew the plane toward the southern Indian Ocean until it ran out of fuel.