Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why It Disappeared and Why It s Only a Matter of Time Before This Happens Again

An easy, interesting read

Firstly, I've read Soucie's memoir 'Why Planes Crash' and he brings the same thorough analysis to this one on MH370, but above all he introduces a firm note of sensitivity and respect for those who lost their lives, something missing from many other books and articles on this subject.Secondly, there is a limited amount of evidence and speculative theory you can explore with any book about an aircraft investigation that not only is incomplete, but where the aircraft and its passengers have not even been found. The hardback edition runs to just 158 pages and is a pretty quick read - I doubt there are much more than 30k words in here. Ten pages alone are taken up with a reproduction of the passenger manifest and another 16 colour pages of general photographs.The book also doesn't start too well considering there is a glaring factual error in the very first sentence:"It was 1:19 a.m. in Malaysia on March 8, 2014, when the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, said good night to the air traffic controller in Ho Chi Minh City."What?? The cockpit crew of MH370 never once spoke to ATC in Vietnam, nor was the aircraft ever picked up by them. The captain signed off to Malaysia ATC! Ironically, the sentence is from the opening chapter called: "Early Mistakes". I suspect David Soucie and his editor read that line a hundred times over and missed it.That said, Soucie barely puts a foot wrong after that and offers methodical examination of all possible scenarios, discounting most and honing in on a couple of most likely possibilities. He doesn't over dazzle readers with too much technical stuff (just the right amount), avoids the scrutiny of the Inmarsat satellite data because he is no expert in this area, and he provides a refreshing and insightful read based on his experience in the FAA and his role as an aviation safety expert.The book provides a reliable go-to guide to most of what we know about the investigation into MH370. A few minor quibbles about references towards the end of the book, which reference the TV network he does work for - CNN. If you are going to reference critical and factual information, then citing CNN as a source or the rather general 'Australian Report' instead of the preliminary report itself or primary sources is a little sloppy. He goes into detail about his 'Accident Algorithm' and how he devised it, but I was pretty disappointed with the visual graphic on P155 (tiny and unreadable) which adds nothing to the printed edition of the book.Overall, this was an enjoyable but a very brief read.

Was hoping for more interesting details of the missing flight, Just a glorified presentation on what may have happened, but no earth changing details revealed. Suggestions on how to prevent or help prevent such things in the future if the airline industry and government agencies get their collective acts together, it all costs money.

Don’t look to David Soucie’s book for a dramatic play by play of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappearance. Instead, we get a good read that emphasizes the process of examining the huge amount of evidence and the long and still ongoing time line of the lost Flight 370. As a crash investigator and aviator, Soucie brings the wayward observer’s eye to the events and news sound bites as they emerged to the world on that fateful day in March, 2014. The reader learns a lot about the parallels of this air tragedy and the Air France flight 447 accident in 2009 and other air crashes. Using the Bayesian formula for giving weight to pieces of evidence, Soucie maps out an accident algorithm for taking the information, organizing and weighing the validity and the source. The author weaves his own experiences as an air crash investigator as he absorbs the unlikely fact that this airplane, may be lost forever. Along the way he explains the whys and wherefores of safety implementations with the FAA and makes his own points for safety recommendations for future flights. Armed with what facts we know, Soucie does bring his very specific idea of what could have happened to the flight, in his detailed time line, very much his own hypothesis, backed up by explanations of other similar airline catastrophes. A good book that brings the process of investigating an air crash forward as well as the the investigation itself.

This isn't what I expected. It's a good read but is more on the tech side.

David's book is a good overview, especially for the non-technical MH370 follower. It contains no complicated BFO or BTO equations, just a simple explanations of how things work that the average reader will understand. I found his summary of "what is known" to be well filtered to eliminate the more ridiculous non-sense circulating on the internet, while keeping an open mind and acknowledging that many questions remain. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the MH370 story.

Giving credit where it is due, Mr. Soucie has extensive history and experience, from the ground up you could say, but I have to say that I was very disappointed in this particular book. It's brevity should be the first clue. A hastily written account of a few facts to get published in time for the one year anniversary coming up. I enjoyed his first book, "Why Planes Crash", but beware..."Safer Skies" is THE SAME BOOK!! Don't be tricked into buying both, as I did!! It is very misleading. I have a huge amount of respect for Mr. David Soucie, just not his publishers.

This is a very short book, and really rather an essay, by Mr. David Soucie concerning the Malaysian Flight 370 tragedy... Yet it is quite introductory, short and superficial, and too much so. It does not serve as a good general introduction to the topic; I feel that R. Quest's book is better at that. Therefore, I do not particularly recommend this. Yet one good point is that a full manifest of the passengers is provided.

The book is excellent for Investigators (Intelligence Crime Analyst's FBI US). David possesses a unique ability in telling a story through data; explaining complicated analysis. He sets the standards how it should be understood, analyzed and presented. The truthful act clearly informs the public and victim's families about the facts. The book presents a clear story and map and uses facts, evidence, patterns, analysis, the process of two years investigation and affords to many countries and legal authorities, victim's families and other citizens. I liked the book because connects facts and helped my analysis. David's book starts "The tragedy has dramatically, horrifically changed the lives of the families and friends of the victims.." "To those of us who have investigated aircraft accidents..". I have followed the events surrounding MH370 from the beginning incl. watching movies "Mystery of Malaysian Flight 370, Vanished DMH370" and "Where is Flight MH370" in Toronto. I just finished reading and analyzing the book incl. Contents-Preface and divided the chapters an example: 18. The Hand Off Probability - 24. Conclusions (Electrical Outage, Sabotage, Hijacking, Terrorism, Pilot, Suicide, Wireless Control) - missing puzzles: Foreign terrorist networks anti-government activists are highly organized and deceptive operating system (9/11 2001-2013/2016) used of force or violence and terror of foreign anti-government criminal organizations in order to cause fear and coerce, intimidate government, law enforcement, military, civilian populations, mass media and social media. Foreign terrorist networks are active 24/7 use covert forms involving electronic harassment and advanced digital technologies, coerce approach and the use of threats and force. Foreign anti-government activists, religious extremists commit acts of terror and multiple offenses; David Lawson and United Nation International Alliance Against Covert and Electronic Harassment described them as cause stalking groups that become Anonymous (Mkultura - Proxy Organized Stalking - Anarchist Federation - al Qaeda) non-profit organization including membership online. The problem is now widely spread, and such a waste of everyone's life, time and money. It is important to study, investigate and analyze organized crime environment, digital technology are involved weapons they operate. Sabotage (Setting up to fail) and Act of Terrorism is transcending national; creates substantial risk to all countries by destroying or damaging any structure, attempting or conspiring to destroy or damage any structure-in violation constitutional and statutory laws to commit genocide and other acts of ethnic and identity extermination.

Conspiracy ? No actuall. it's a nice book!

Very interesting read

Interesting read