Finding MH370
Episodes
Back in the Search Zone, with John Waters [S2Ep45 audio]
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month the Malaysian government announced that the seabed search for MH370 would restart on December 30, and it looks looks like that is e...
Sailing to the Search Area [S2Ep44 audio]
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s December 7, 2025, and Armada 86 05 has set sail from Benoa Port on the island of Bali, Indonesia. After spending a brief period conducting sea ...
Malaysia Announces Search Restart [S2Ep43 audio]
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s December 3, 2025, and the Malaysia Government has just announced that the private underwater survey company Ocean Infinity will officially reco...
Where They'll Look [S2Ep42 audio]
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ocean Infinity’s state-of-the-art offshore support vessel, Armada 86 05, is currently on duty in the Philippines, about halfway through what is expe...
Seabed Search Update [S2Ep41 audio]
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last December, the Malaysian government announced that the American ocean survey and salvage company Ocean Infinity would once again take up a search ...
New MH370 Evidence: What it Means [S2Ep40 audio]
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two episodes ago, I revealed that with the help of two volunteers on the island of Zanzibar I had been able to retrieve the first data showing how Lep...
A New Kind of Pilot Suicide [S2Ep39 audio]
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the facts have emerged in the case of Air India 171, which crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad, India on June 12, it’s become increasingly cl...
New MH370 Evidence from the Sea [S2Ep38 audio]
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week mark the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the first piece of physical evidence in the case of the missing Malaysian Airliner, MH370. Whe...
Mindhunter MH370 [S2Ep37 audio]
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So far we’ve been focused on the physical and electronic evidence left behind by whoever took MH370. But there’s also a lot we can infer about the...
The Blind Spot [S2Ep36 audio]
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we wait for the seabed search for MH370’s wreckage to restart, it’s worth taking the time to reflect about what we’ve learned from the search...
Seabed Search Suspended
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trying to understand what’s going on with the latest seabed search for MH370 is like reading tea leaves. Neither the Malaysian government, which is ...
Goodbye, Armada [S2Ep34 audio]
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday March 28 the ship scanning the seabed for MH370, Armada 78 06, stowed its AUVs and set sail to the north, putting an end to the second phase...
Into the Blelly Zone [S2Ep33 audio]
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The seabed search for MH370 remains in full swing. It is now 12 days into Phase 2 of the third seabed search, and we’re talking about whose much-dis...
Search Phase 2: Virgin Territory [S2Ep32 audio]
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode we talked about how we couldn’t tell what Ocean Infinity was planning, because they weren’t saying anything publicly and the s...
MH370 11th Anniversary: Seabed Search Confusion [S2Ep31 audio]
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was eleven years ago today that Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared from radar screens over the South China Sea. Since then millions of square...
MH370 Search Update + New Hoax [S2Ep30 audio]
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Armada 78 06, the Ocean Infinity vessel tasked with the latest seabed search, has arrived safely in port in Henderson, near Perth Australia, a little ...
MH370 Search Takes a Break [S2Ep29 audio]
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today is Saturday March 1, 2025 and yesterday the Ocean Infinity ship tasked with carrying out the third seabed search for the missing Malaysian airli...
Seabed Scan Underway [S2Ep28 audio]
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Sunday February 23, 2025 and the Ocean Infinity Search vessel tasked with carrying out the third seabed search for MH370 has just now arrived i...
New Seabed Search is Underway [S2Ep27 audio]
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The third search for the missing Malaysian airliner, MH370, has began. A ship belonging to the martime survey company Ocean Infinity left the island o...
Why Planes Nosedive [audio]
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of all disasters that can befall a plane, probably none is more terrifying than a sudden, near vertical dive at full speed into the ground. In today’...
Is the Search for MH370 Already Dead? [S2Ep26 audio]
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last month the Malaysian Government announced that it had reached an agreement with the marine survey company Ocean Infinity to restart the seabed sea...
Restarting the Search, Again [S2Ep25 audio]
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Big news in MH370 world with an announcement by the Malaysian government that it has okayed an agreement with seabed search firm Ocean Infinity to res...
Spoofing the ILS [S2Ep24 audio]
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Civil aviation has entered a dangerous new era now that Russia has expanded its campaign of sabotage in northern Europe to attack civil aviation direc...
The Threat Surface with Dr Krishna Sampigethaya [S2Ep23 audio]
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In early 2009, Iran’s secret proram to build nuclear weapons suffered a series of mysterious failures. Centrifuge machines used to purify uranium su...
Citizen Science [S2 Ep22 audio]
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode we discuss a new approach to gathering the Lepas data that could help us finally understand how long MH370’s debris was in the ...
Closing the Search Box [S2Ep21 audio]
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean is a big place. So maybe it isn’t that surprising that MH370 wasn’t found.At least, that’s what you hear a lot of people say.It’s pr...
The Ukrainians in Economy [S2Ep20 audio]
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sergei Deineka and Oleg Chustrak were childhood friends who graduated from high school together in Odessa, Ukraine, then served as conscripts in the S...
An Experiment to Solve the Mystery of MH370 [S2Ep19 audio]
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m very excited to introduce The Finding MH370 Project, an ocean experiment to gather the first new evidence about the missing Malaysian airl...
From MH370 to Jan 6 [S2Ep18 audio]
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Starting in 2014, Russia dramatically intensified its hybrid warfare attack against the democratic West, launching hacking operations, misinformation ...
The Data Trove That Could Help Find MH370 [audio]
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In order to understand where MH370’s debris came from, we need to know how marine organisms like the goose barnacle Lepas anatifera typically grow u...
A New Hunt Begins [S2Ep16 audio]
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Lepas anatifera is basically the spirit animal of this podcast. As we’ve discussed before, these animals live all over the ocean, and they attac...
Military Intelligence [S2Ep15 audio]
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you spend any time engaged in the discussion about what happened to MH370, you’ll encounter the idea that the United States, and in particular th...
Confusing the Enemy [S2Ep14 Audio]
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding MH370 requires understanding how strategic planners think. One of the most important concepts in strategic thinking today is the decisio...
Let's Talk About UFOs [S2Ep13 audio]
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months one of the most viral pieces of MH370-related content has been a video that purports to show the airplane being surrounded by a trio ...
Gathering New Evidence [S2Ep12 audio]
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been years since anyone’s reported finding a new piece of MH370 debris, and even longer since anyone has come up with any other evidence of w...
S2Ep11 How The Plane Broke [audio]
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Black box data is the ne plus ultra of aircraft accident investigation. But it is not the only kind of physical evidence. Pieces of debris—in partic...
S2Ep10 Fighting Over Noise [audio]
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 6 we discussed a recent paper by Usama Kadri that examined whether the crash of MH370 should have been detected by a network of underwater ...
S2Ep9 What 'Ripley' Can Tell Us About MH370 [audio]
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MH370 is a mystery, but more specifically, it’s a murder mystery. It was an action carried out with a perpetrator with nefarious intent. That’s a ...
S2Ep8 Planning the Hack [audio]
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 5, we discussed how MH370's captain might have planned an elaborate murder/suicide in a way that would create the body of evidence we have ...
S2Ep7 The Threat Space [audio]
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, the US was flying one of its most advanced drones over Iran when they lost control. To their shock and embarrassment, they came to realize th...
S2Ep6 Listening for MH370 [audio]
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new paper published by a researcher at Cardiff University in the UK explores whether the hydrophone network maintained by a nuclear test-ban monitor...
S2Ep5 Making the Plan, part 1 [audio]
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whoever took MH370 did so in a lightning coup de main that showed decisiveness and a sophisticated knowledge of airspace, air traffic control procedur...
S2Ep4 The Terminal Dive [audio]
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the audio version of the episode 4 of the Finding MH370 podcast. Get full access to Finding MH370 at www.deepdivemh370.com/subscribe
S2Ep3 Why Russia Switched to Offense [audio]
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with foreign affairs journalist Melik Kaylan Get full access to Finding MH370 at www.deepdivemh370.com/subscribe
S2Ep2 The Russian in Business Class (audio podcast)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who was Nikolai Brodsky, and why was he on MH370? Get full access to Finding MH370 at www.deepdivemh370.com/subscribe
S2Ep1 The Greatest Lie of MH370 [audio]
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the new season of the world’s only in-depth podcast about the disappearance of MH370. For the full show notes, click here. Get full acces...