“My theory is that an electrical malfunction knocked out systems on the Boeing 777 and that the plane lost pressurization, incapacitating the pilots,” Negroni says.

Eventually, a team from Inmarsat provided satellite data showing that MH 370 had continued flying for seven hours after radar contact had been lost, and further, had changed course and flown south, opposite the direction of its intended route. The search for the wreckage of the Boeing 777-200ER originally was concentrated in the area around the airplane’s planned flight path. For weeks, the event saturated the media, even when new developments were lacking - no news was news. The author leads with a discussion of one of the more recent accidents that mesmerized the news media and the public: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH 370) en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014. In The Crash Detectives, aviation journalist Christine Negroni examines controversial cases that refuse to fit into standard categories or yield their secrets. But a few accidents puzzle the experts and give rise to competing theories, remaining unresolved even after years. No matter how lengthy, painstaking and difficult an aviation accident investigation may be, causal factors usually are determined through standard procedures, such as examining the wreckage and analyzing cockpit voice and flight data recordings and transponder signals from the accident aircraft.

The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters Negroni, Christine.

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