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Goodnight Malaysian 370: The truth behind the loss of flight 370
Shocking new book on the disappearance of Malaysia airlines flight 370
The truth behind the loss of Flight 370 will shock the travelling public.
The book by New Zealand pilot Ewan Wilson and journalist Geoff Taylor presents compelling evidence about what actually occurred in the final hours of Flight 370, some of it based on new interviews with family members of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 captured the world's attention and shocked everyone.
The book takes you to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8 and brings together the lives of passengers and crew who ultimately met their fate on board what should have been a routine flight to Beijing on a well respected airline operating a state-of-the-art airliner with a near faultless record.
For the first time the book presents a detailed analysis of the flight, the incredible route it took, and who the authors believe was in charge of the aircraft as it plunged into the Indian Ocean.
The book investigates each piece of evidence and eliminates all the possible scenarios until the reader is left with one shocking and unbelievable conclusion as to what happened to end the lives of 239 people that night.
What happened to MH370 was no accident. It was deliberate and it was calculated and it should never have been allowed to happen.
The authors
Geoff Taylor is a highly respected career journalist who is now deputy editor of the Waikato Times newspaper, one of New Zealand’s leading daily papers.
Ewan Wilson is a commercial pilot, former chief executive of Kiwi International Airlines and Norfolk Air and has qualifications as a Transport safety investigator. Good Night Malaysia 370 is Wilson’s third book. He has also written Help My Plane’s on Fire while his first book Dogfight became a New Zealand best seller.
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The truth behind the loss of Flight 370 will shock the travelling public.
The book by New Zealand pilot Ewan Wilson and journalist Geoff Taylor presents compelling evidence about what actually occurred in the final hours of Flight 370, some of it based on new interviews with family members of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 captured the world's attention and shocked everyone.
The book takes you to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8 and brings together the lives of passengers and crew who ultimately met their fate on board what should have been a routine flight to Beijing on a well respected airline operating a state-of-the-art airliner with a near faultless record.
For the first time the book presents a detailed analysis of the flight, the incredible route it took, and who the authors believe was in charge of the aircraft as it plunged into the Indian Ocean.
The book investigates each piece of evidence and eliminates all the possible scenarios until the reader is left with one shocking and unbelievable conclusion as to what happened to end the lives of 239 people that night.
What happened to MH370 was no accident. It was deliberate and it was calculated and it should never have been allowed to happen.
The authors
Geoff Taylor is a highly respected career journalist who is now deputy editor of the Waikato Times newspaper, one of New Zealand’s leading daily papers.
Ewan Wilson is a commercial pilot, former chief executive of Kiwi International Airlines and Norfolk Air and has qualifications as a Transport safety investigator. Good Night Malaysia 370 is Wilson’s third book. He has also written Help My Plane’s on Fire while his first book Dogfight became a New Zealand best seller.
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First published July 31, 2014
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January 10, 2019
Goodnight Malaysian 370 is a book about flight MH370 which disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014. The disappearance of the flight has been a mystery with no definitive answers. The authors of this book share thoughts on the possible cause of its disappearance along with the 239 lives aboard.
The authors present different scenarios all the way up to their final conclusion. All possible causes are exhausted and the final conclusion is the best answer they can give based on the evidence available, yet it’s all still speculation due to the fact that they haven’t been able to locate the plane or black boxes. Truly the only items recovered have been some wreckage.
I read this book in 2017 and it seems strange to claim it as a favorite, but I’ve had such a huge interest in this story and the book turned out to be really good. The authors did a nice job laying everything out for readers. It’s written well and very thought- provoking. I think this is a valuable book for all those interested in discovering the possible fate of flight MH370.
It’s been nearly 5 years and the plane still hasn’t been found after multiple searches, but I hope that future searches will help the families to know what happened that day on March 8th, 2014.
“We dedicate this book to the 239 people who lost their lives on MH370 on March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. One of our purposes in writing the book was, in some small way to convey the human stories from the tragedy. We hope we have done this without adding upset to the terrible toll relatives and friends are already facing. Our other, more important task was to pursue the truth about what exactly happened. That is one small contribution we feel we can make to this whole terrible affair.”
― Ewan Wilson
Please visit my blog www.readrantrockandroll.com to see this review and others.
The authors present different scenarios all the way up to their final conclusion. All possible causes are exhausted and the final conclusion is the best answer they can give based on the evidence available, yet it’s all still speculation due to the fact that they haven’t been able to locate the plane or black boxes. Truly the only items recovered have been some wreckage.
I read this book in 2017 and it seems strange to claim it as a favorite, but I’ve had such a huge interest in this story and the book turned out to be really good. The authors did a nice job laying everything out for readers. It’s written well and very thought- provoking. I think this is a valuable book for all those interested in discovering the possible fate of flight MH370.
It’s been nearly 5 years and the plane still hasn’t been found after multiple searches, but I hope that future searches will help the families to know what happened that day on March 8th, 2014.
“We dedicate this book to the 239 people who lost their lives on MH370 on March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. One of our purposes in writing the book was, in some small way to convey the human stories from the tragedy. We hope we have done this without adding upset to the terrible toll relatives and friends are already facing. Our other, more important task was to pursue the truth about what exactly happened. That is one small contribution we feel we can make to this whole terrible affair.”
― Ewan Wilson
Please visit my blog www.readrantrockandroll.com to see this review and others.
October 27, 2022
My father began his working life in a roller bearing factory, but after being laid off, he went to university and became an aeronautics engineer and inventor. Among his inventions was a device that made avionics much, much safer. He traveled the world, selling this invention to almost every airline. Chances are, if you've flown on a plane in the last fifteen or twenty years, you've been on a plane equipped with my father's device.
Because of my dad's occupation, I've always been fascinated with flying and travel. I've been to more than one hundred countries and flown more than one million miles. Naturally, when MH 370 disappeared, I was very interested. I listened to the news reports every night, I read everything I could find, and I tried to put the pieces of the puzzle together, even though I knew I lacked the expertise to do so.
GOODNIGHT MALAYSIAN 370 is one of the best books I've read concerning the sad disappearance of this flight.
Of course, we now know what most experts suspected all along: the plane came to rest somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean, even though, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, it was supposed to fly Northeast, to Beijing. The last words, at 1:19:30, probably spoken by MH 370's pilot, were to Malaysian Air Traffic Control as it handed the plane off to Vietnam: "Good night, Malaysian three seven zero." MH 370 never made contact with Ho Chi Minh City, however. Instead, it began to turn right, then turned left and began to fly in a southwesterly direction, eventually flying over the Malay Peninsula at 31,000 - 33,000 feet. At 2:22, Malaysian military radar detected the plane just northwest of Penang airport at an altitude of 29,000 feet.
This raised so many questions. If the plane was in trouble, why did the pilot or co-pilot not radio air traffic control in Kuala Lumpur or Ho Chi Minh City? Yes, pilots are incredibly busy when a sudden disaster strikes their aircraft, and their main concern is landing the plane safely and saving the lives of the passengers. (My own father was a pilot, though he did not fly commercial aircraft, and I have known several commercial pilots, and all have shown great responsibility and caring for everyone aboard their aircraft.)
If you're reading this review, you no doubt know as much, or maybe more, about this flight than I do, so I won't go into any more detail here. I don't want to ruin the book for anyone who hasn't yet read it.
Aviation experts have put forth two main theories as to why the plane ended up at the bottom of the Southern Indian Ocean (and we now know it did, because at least eighteen verified pieces of it have washed ashore in various places, putting any "way out" theories to rest, e.g., it wasn't abducted by aliens; it didn't fly into a black hole; it wasn't flown to some Middle Eastern dictatorship, etc.).
The first theory states that the plane suffered some devastating electrical failure and the passengers passed away quickly from a lack of oxygen. The pilot, knowing he was going to crash and that his passengers were no longer alive, set the auto controls so the plane would run out of fuel over the Indian Ocean and not crash into any inhabited area.
The second theory states that this was a case of pilot suicide. One theory makes the pilot, who was quite experienced, a hero, while the other makes him very selfish. You can't get much more opposite than that.
This book is not neutral. The author does subscribe to one theory, and in all fairness, he tells us exactly why he does. Whether you agree or not is up to you and your own critical thinking skills.
Both of these theories are very sad because this plane was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, most, I would presume, who have loved ones left behind. Loved ones without even a body to bury or a grave to visit. Loved ones who don't even know, with any certainty what happened.
Will we ever know why MH 370 ended up in the Southern Indian Ocean rather than in Beijing? I think we will, and I think right now, the Malaysian government knows a lot more than it wants us to know it knows.
While the disappearance of MH 370 was a very tragic event, some good did come out of it, the most important, in my opinion, being the enhanced standards for tracking a plane's exact location when flying over the open ocean.
This is a very well-researched and interesting book, whether you subscribe to the author's theory or not. I would recommend it highly to anyone interested in aviation or aviation disasters.
Because of my dad's occupation, I've always been fascinated with flying and travel. I've been to more than one hundred countries and flown more than one million miles. Naturally, when MH 370 disappeared, I was very interested. I listened to the news reports every night, I read everything I could find, and I tried to put the pieces of the puzzle together, even though I knew I lacked the expertise to do so.
GOODNIGHT MALAYSIAN 370 is one of the best books I've read concerning the sad disappearance of this flight.
Of course, we now know what most experts suspected all along: the plane came to rest somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean, even though, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, it was supposed to fly Northeast, to Beijing. The last words, at 1:19:30, probably spoken by MH 370's pilot, were to Malaysian Air Traffic Control as it handed the plane off to Vietnam: "Good night, Malaysian three seven zero." MH 370 never made contact with Ho Chi Minh City, however. Instead, it began to turn right, then turned left and began to fly in a southwesterly direction, eventually flying over the Malay Peninsula at 31,000 - 33,000 feet. At 2:22, Malaysian military radar detected the plane just northwest of Penang airport at an altitude of 29,000 feet.
This raised so many questions. If the plane was in trouble, why did the pilot or co-pilot not radio air traffic control in Kuala Lumpur or Ho Chi Minh City? Yes, pilots are incredibly busy when a sudden disaster strikes their aircraft, and their main concern is landing the plane safely and saving the lives of the passengers. (My own father was a pilot, though he did not fly commercial aircraft, and I have known several commercial pilots, and all have shown great responsibility and caring for everyone aboard their aircraft.)
If you're reading this review, you no doubt know as much, or maybe more, about this flight than I do, so I won't go into any more detail here. I don't want to ruin the book for anyone who hasn't yet read it.
Aviation experts have put forth two main theories as to why the plane ended up at the bottom of the Southern Indian Ocean (and we now know it did, because at least eighteen verified pieces of it have washed ashore in various places, putting any "way out" theories to rest, e.g., it wasn't abducted by aliens; it didn't fly into a black hole; it wasn't flown to some Middle Eastern dictatorship, etc.).
The first theory states that the plane suffered some devastating electrical failure and the passengers passed away quickly from a lack of oxygen. The pilot, knowing he was going to crash and that his passengers were no longer alive, set the auto controls so the plane would run out of fuel over the Indian Ocean and not crash into any inhabited area.
The second theory states that this was a case of pilot suicide. One theory makes the pilot, who was quite experienced, a hero, while the other makes him very selfish. You can't get much more opposite than that.
This book is not neutral. The author does subscribe to one theory, and in all fairness, he tells us exactly why he does. Whether you agree or not is up to you and your own critical thinking skills.
Both of these theories are very sad because this plane was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, most, I would presume, who have loved ones left behind. Loved ones without even a body to bury or a grave to visit. Loved ones who don't even know, with any certainty what happened.
Will we ever know why MH 370 ended up in the Southern Indian Ocean rather than in Beijing? I think we will, and I think right now, the Malaysian government knows a lot more than it wants us to know it knows.
While the disappearance of MH 370 was a very tragic event, some good did come out of it, the most important, in my opinion, being the enhanced standards for tracking a plane's exact location when flying over the open ocean.
This is a very well-researched and interesting book, whether you subscribe to the author's theory or not. I would recommend it highly to anyone interested in aviation or aviation disasters.
April 21, 2021
Great Deep Dive Into MH370 Disappearance
What I liked:
-Plenty of technical information but not overwhelmingly.
-The author was unafraid to call it the way he sees it. Diplomatic niceties were cast aside as well as mentioning what is considered off limits.
-Dispensing with the obviously unlikely scenarios (ones that were pushed by “experts” in government, on tv and in print).
-Giving his best estimate of what happened based on the evidence available.
What I didn’t like:
I have only one minor issue; it needed a better explanation of the satellite arc positioning estimates. From what I had already gleaned elsewhere, round trip handshake time was accurate to pinpoint the general area of the world. But accurate enough to provide a sufficiently small area that would allow ships to find something miles below the ocean’s surface?
What I liked:
-Plenty of technical information but not overwhelmingly.
-The author was unafraid to call it the way he sees it. Diplomatic niceties were cast aside as well as mentioning what is considered off limits.
-Dispensing with the obviously unlikely scenarios (ones that were pushed by “experts” in government, on tv and in print).
-Giving his best estimate of what happened based on the evidence available.
What I didn’t like:
I have only one minor issue; it needed a better explanation of the satellite arc positioning estimates. From what I had already gleaned elsewhere, round trip handshake time was accurate to pinpoint the general area of the world. But accurate enough to provide a sufficiently small area that would allow ships to find something miles below the ocean’s surface?
June 15, 2015
A really interesting read.
January 15, 2023
Although at this point it is outdated it was still informative. As a layperson I did learn a lot about the technical aspects of aviation, communication systems, in-flight fires and cabin decompression. I found it very interesting and given the fact that parts of Flight 370 have been found the jury is still out for me as to what really happened to Flight 370.
November 20, 2022
When I got to the end of this book, I felt as if I had a greater knowledge of what could possibly go wrong during any flight and the dangers of aviation. In the text, the main character Ewan Wilson was told “If anymore of these so-called false emergencies happen, you will no longer be allowed to fly our airline”. The author used the threat towards Ewan to show how power can abuse others and manipulate them to have a think about their actions. It makes me feel bad for Ewan, he needs to have a think about whether or not he should have pulled the emergency control tower alert tag (ECTAT), just because he was unsure if something was wrong with the aircraft. Pilot students need to learn which situations the ECTAT needs to be pulled and which situations they should contact the control tower instead; lessons like these are needed to be learnt overtime to create a better understanding of the aircraft . In New Zealand, flight school teachers have set assignments for the pilot students to learn how to use the ECTAT and control radio; that teaches the students what to do in a real life emergency crisis. Here, the author is trying to show just how many lessons and practice flights they need to go through until they get their private pilot license (PPL), but if a student doesn't understand what to do such as what happened to Ewan, many things could go wrong, such as being stood down from the aviation society or worse. Some flight schools around the world treat the students with respect, letting them tryout the ECTAT and many other flight instruments, but other flight schools leave it to you to figure out how to use it during a real life emergency, just like what happened to Ewan.
September 1, 2014
Provides detailed step-by-step elimination of various scenarios and then provides author's thought-line.
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