The Conspiracy Theories Behind the Malaysian Flight 370 Disappearance

The Takeaway | Feb 23, 2015

In the days after Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 suddenly went missing somewhere between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, CNN posted a poll on its website asking readers what they thought happened to the plane.

In total, 9 percent of respondents thought it was either very or somewhat likely that the plane was abducted by aliens—"time travelers, or beings from another dimension," as the poll put it.

That one earned the mockery of Perez Hilton and was soon taken off the site. But the fact remains that nearly a year after flight MH370 vanished, no one has a clear explanation of just what happened on that flight that day in March.

Last year, science journalist Jeff Wise joined the cadre of "experts" paid to have some ideas about what happened to the flight when he became an "aviation analyst" for CNN.

He writes about his experience as an aviation analyst in a story titled, ”How Crazy Am I To Think I Actually Know Where the Malaysia Airlines Plane Is?” published in this week’s issue of New York magazine.

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