I have sat through more hours of news conferences, interviews, and debates about MH370 than most people. Richard Quest is author of "The Vanishing of Flight MH370." (Matthew Percival) There is the failure of air traffic control on that night, the confusion and political interference in the search operation, and the new methods of tracking planes and retrieving vital black-box data that are now being considered. Of course we want to know what happened during those moments, on the morning of March 8, 2014, at 1:19, just after Captain Zaharie said, “Good night Malaysian 370.” But if we never discover the facts, there are plenty of other issues occasioned by the plane’s disappearance and it is these that must be resolved. The vanishing of MH370 has raised too many other issues for this to be the case. My answer has always been that the need for a book like this does not hinge on finding the plane. Many people have asked me how I can write a book about MH370 when authorities haven’t found the plane and the ending to this story remains unknown. The search teams could be trolling right over the wreckage and never notice it.
Assuming the Inmarsat data is correct, and the plane is lying along the seventh arc, the water is too deep, the ocean canyons too wide, the area too large.
Some are now saying that the plane may never be found, that the task is too great.
They must.” As the time has gone by, sometimes I think I detect a certain wry smile on my colleagues’ faces as the words I uttered with such certitude come back to haunt me. In the following days, then weeks, months, and now years, Chris and all my other anchor colleagues have asked me the same question again and again. It was Chris Cuomo, the anchor of New Day, who first asked me, shortly after MH370’s disappearance, “Richard, will they find the plane?” I answered without a moment’s hesitation, “Of course they will.” He followed up with another question: “And if they don’t?” I didn’t flinch. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest, who has just published the book “ The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane.” Book Excerpt: 'The Vanishing Of Flight MH370' Two years later, the mystery of what happened to the plane continues. On March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stopped communicating with air traffic control. (Laurent Errera/Wikimedia Commons) This article is more than 7 years old.
The missing aircraft is pictured taking off at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France in 2011.
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