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  1. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What Is Known Twelve Years Later

    Event: 2014Published: 2 Jul 2026

    This narrated documentary sums up what is known about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 12 years after it disappeared on 8 March 2014.

    View event: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (2014)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 777
    Location
    Not found. Believed to be in the southern Indian Ocean, along the final satellite arc
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  2. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Radar, Satellite Data and WSPR

    Event: 2014Published: 16 Mar 2024

    Mentour Pilot sets out what is known about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014, from the crew and the cockpit preparations to the turn back and the satellite handshakes.

    View event: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (2014)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 777
    Location
    Not found. Believed to be in the southern Indian Ocean, along the final satellite arc
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  3. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Green Dot’s Deliberate-Act Scenario

    Event: 2014Published: 8 Dec 2023

    Green Dot Aviation's feature-length video on MH370 dramatises one possible version of the flight: a deliberate act by the captain.

    View event: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (2014)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 777
    Location
    Not found. Believed to be in the southern Indian Ocean, along the final satellite arc
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  4. Air France Flight 447: The Night the A330 Vanished From Contact

    Event: 2009Published: 5 Dec 2022

    This four-minute Smithsonian Channel clip covers the first hours after Air France Flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic on 1 June 2009.

    View event: Air France Flight 447 (2009)
    Aircraft
    Airbus A330
    Location
    Atlantic Ocean near waypoint ORARO, between Brazil and Senegal
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  5. Germanwings Flight 9525: Marseille Control Watches It Descend

    Event: 2015Published: 2 Feb 2018

    This three-minute Smithsonian Channel clip follows Germanwings Flight 9525 on 24 March 2015 from its takeoff in Barcelona to the moment it dropped off radar over the French Alps.

    View event: Germanwings Flight 9525 (2015)
    Aircraft
    Airbus A320
    Location
    Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
    Phase of flight
    Cruise