“We threw everything at it, and then tried to throw more,” says Quest. Until Flight MH370 disappeared, no story had been big enough to gain the kind of sustained traction that Zucker wanted.Īs Quest records in a new book, The Vanishing of Flight MH370, that moment (and opportunity) finally arrived as the baffling catastrophe unfolded. Zucker told his staff that news would remain at the core of their work, but that when a big story broke they should immediately set out to own it-to go “all in.” Zucker, previously a programming powerhouse at NBC, had been hired to reverse what seemed to be an endless slide in CNN’s ratings and a perceptible drift in its command of the medium it pioneered, 24-hour cable news. By dawn on March 8 the missing flight had a number, MH370.įourteen months earlier, Jeff Zucker became the president and CEO of CNN. and its far larger network, CNN International. What emerges is a riveting chronicle of a tragedy that continues to baffle everyone from aviation experts to satellite engineers to politicians - and which to this day worries the traveling public that it could happen again.In New York, Quest was on the air through the night, providing live commentary for both CNN in the U.S. He takes apart the varying responses from authorities and the discrepancies in reports, the wide range of theories, the startling fact that the plane actually turned around and flew in the opposite direction, and what solutions the aviation industry must now implement to ensure it never happens again. Quest dissects what happened in the hours following the plane’s disappearance and chronicles the days and weeks of searching, which led to nothing but increasing despair. It is here that he begins his gripping account of those tense weeks in March, presenting a fascinating chronicle of an international search effort, which despite years of searching and tens of millions of dollars spent has failed to find the plane. In a coincidence, Quest had interviewed one of the two pilots a few weeks before the disappearance.
Richard Quest, CNN’s Aviation Correspondent, was one of the leading journalists covering the story. The airplane’s whereabouts and fate would quickly become one of the biggest aviation mysteries of our time… On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with barely a trace, carrying 239 people on board - seemingly vanishing into the dark night. CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest offers a gripping and definitive account of the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 in March 2014.
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