Applying expert insight to understand the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370
Curated by: Jeff Wise (59 videos)
The ocean is a big place. Many people think that's reason enough to explain the failure of the seabed search to find the wreckage of MH370. But actually, the scientists who defined the search area thought they had a pretty accurate understanding of where the plane had flown to. In episode 4, we talked about why they were confident the plane couldn't have flown very far beyond the 7th arc. In today’s episode, we discuss how Australian scientists struggled to define the other dimension of the search box, its length. How far north or south could the plane have flown as it reached the end of its flight? They struggled to pin down a methodology, trying and discarding several approaches before settling on a method that allowed them to state, with mathematical certainty, where the seabed search would find the plane. That search, of course, failed. But math is math — if the calculations failed to yield the correct location of the plane, there must have been an extenuating factor that they hadn't taken into account. A branch of statistics called Bayesian inference offers guidance on what to do next. Meanwhile, Finding MH370 has a Kickstarter underway to gather new evidence about the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner. With your help we can make it happen! Please visit the project page at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/findingmh370/the-finding-mh370-project. Many thanks to those who've already pledged their support! To learn more about this episode, to sign up for a free weekly newsletter, or to view other episodes from Season 1 and 2, please visit our show page at FindingMH370.com. Another way you can support the show is by signing up for a membership to the YouTube channel, which provides a small subscription fee and is hugely appreciated, more here: https://www.youtube.com/@Jeff_Wise/join For a concise account of the MH370 mystery check, and an explanation of what might have happened to it, check out my book "The Taking of MH370,” availalble on Amazon: https://a.co/d/3DePduu Don’t forget to Like, Comment, and Subscribe! Contact me: jeff@jeffwise.net Deep Dive: MH370: About Us: https://www.deepdivemh370.com/about Finding MH370 audio podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6JyFlxPVfImPQj3vr4gOAj Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dive-mh370-season-2/id1750281366 YouTube Podcasts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcH7WtY363fExOddSHsd1LY6QGf_oDt2B Pocketcasts: https://pca.st/kvko6qnr Jeff’s Blog: https://www.JeffWise.net Jeff on Twitter: https://x.com/ManvBrain