MH370: A Year Later

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?

We spoke with 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.