MH370: A Year Later
What One Plane's Disappearance Taught Us About the Future of Global Travel
- In-Person
- New America NYC
199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
New York, NY 10012 - 6:30PM – 8:15PM EDT
In the year since MH370 vanished
over the South China Sea, private pilot and science writer Jeff Wise has
appeared on CNN more than 50 times to lend his insights on where he thinks the
plane has ended up. In the same time Wise was dubbed CNN’s new
“aviation analyst,” a million theories bloomed about MH370’s
whereabouts, including his
own.
Despite the unprecedented and technically complex turn of
events, aviation experts, governments, and amateur plane hobbyists all thought
they had the answers, answers that were often received as incomplete,
illogical, or downright wacky. Will we ever find the plane or learn more
accurate details of its disappearance? In light of last week’s crash of a
Germanwings airbus in the French Alps, are safety standards and emergency
protocols going unenforced? Will these crashes put new strains on global
political relationships and the travel industry?
Join New America NYC for a conversation between Jeff Wise and technology and
aerospace journalist Eric Adams to recount the progress a year has made in the
search for MH370 and to assess its impacts on the politics and economics of
global travel.
Follow the discussion online using #NANYC and following @NewAmericaNYC.
Participants:
Jeff Wise
Science journalist
Former CNN aviation analyst
Author, The Plane That Wasn’t There: Why We Haven’t Found MH370
@ManvBrain
Eric Adams
Technology and aerospace journalist
Contributor, Popular Science and Air & Space Magazine
@ericadams321