On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 loaded 227 passengers and fifteen crew members and took off from its Kuala Lumpur airport for what should have been a six-hour flight to Beijing. A year after its take-off, the plane and its passengers and crew are still missing. This detailed, true-story of the search for the missing aircraft features interviews with leading diplomats, militiamen, and family members of the missing passengers and crew members. It draws from the author's thirty-year experience as an aviation safety inspector and accident investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration--working in the cockpit, as a mechanic, and as a first-responder--and a media correspondent covering plane malfunctions, hijackings, and crashes. Comprehensive in scope, personal and empathetic in voice, Soucie's riveting narrative offers an unparalleled history of what diplomats and investigators around the world hypothesized about why and where the plane crashed. He explains what the experts were correct in investigating and what was overlooked, and the result is a clear, persuasive proclamation of the mostly likely reason for the crash, and where the plane most likely resides. The disappearance of Flight 370 has been called "the mystery that baffled the world" (CNN); the plane that "simply vanished" (FOX); the search for it is likely to cost "hundreds of millions of dollars" (ABC). It's been the subject of intense media, diplomatic, and public scrutiny.

But until now, no book has given a thorough account of the search for the plane--or a riveting, page-turning narrative that answers the mystery the rest of the world just couldn't solve.