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Ten years have passed since then and despite a lengthy official investigation and search covering millions of square kilometers of ocean, no one knows what happened or where the plane is, although some pieces of the plane were found off the coast of Reunion Island or in Mozambique.
Russians or Americans involved?
Faced with such a mystery, hypotheses, sometimes quite far-fetched, are legion.
According to a 2018 report from the Malaysian authorities, only two theories cannot be ruled out: a hijacking of the plane by someone on board or a series of incidents that caused the crash. The theory of the pilot’s suicide was ruled out.
Last year, a documentary series broadcast on Netflix (MH370, the missing plane) was very successful, despite the fact that it relayed certain conspiracy theories – the presence on board of Russian pirates or hijacking by planes. Americans – arousing the ire of many experts.
None of that here, in this six-episode documentary series directed by Benoît Bringer. “The ambition of MH370, the missing truth is not to provide a definitive answer to one of the greatest current enigmas, where the best experts have so far failed, but to plunge the viewer into the twists and turns of this terrible and fascinating mystery, he indicates in a note of intent. I wanted this series to deliver a story at human level, as close as possible to the relatives of the victims, some of whom spoke for the first time.”
Beyond the crash itself, the investigative journalist – he directed Wagner, the mercenaries of Russia (2023), The caviar connection (2022), Should we stop eating animals? (2018) and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) – looks at what it says about our society: “We live in an era in which everyone can proclaim themselves an expert on a subject and find their public, where official information is constantly called into question and the absence of a response is no longer tolerated.”
France 2, 21.12
