MH370: The Robots Go Back. What 12 Years of Searching Found | No Trace Podcast #17

On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people on board. In January 2026 the latest deep-sea search ended with nothing found. In June, Malaysia extended the contract, and from November 2026 the robots go back into the southern Indian Ocean. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Mmt... In No Trace Podcast #17, Julian and Claire follow MH370 from "Good night, Malaysian three seven zero" to the turn back over Malaysia, the satellite handshakes and the seventh arc, the 1,046-day Australian-led search, the flaperon on Réunion, Ocean Infinity's 2018 and 2025-26 searches, the 2018 safety report that could not determine the cause, the theories, the families, and the extension that sends the search back to sea. CHAPTERS 00:00 Seven hours (intro) 01:17 The flight 03:06 Good night 04:25 The turn back 06:09 The search in the wrong sea 08:05 The handshakes 09:58 The seventh arc 11:44 The deep search 14:07 Almost inconceivable 15:14 The flaperon 17:27 Quick question 18:01 No find, no fee 20:13 The theories 22:44 What changed 23:52 The families 25:06 The hidden signals 26:41 Back to the sea 28:19 It isn't where we looked 29:29 The robots go back 31:17 Where is MH370? SOURCES ATSB, The Operational Search for MH370, final report AE-2014-054 (3 Oct 2017) Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team, Safety Investigation Report MH370/01/2018 (30 Jul 2018) Ashton, Shuster Bruce, Colledge & Dickinson (Inmarsat), "The Search for MH370", Journal of Navigation (2015); DST Group, Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370 (2016) CSIRO drift studies (Griffin et al., 2016-2017); French judicial confirmation of the Réunion flaperon (3 Sep 2015) Malaysia AAIB statement (8 Mar 2026), via Malay Mail; Ocean Infinity, "Conclusion of the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370" (8 Mar 2026) Bernama and Malay Mail (29 Jun 2026): contract extended 1 Jul 2026 to 30 Jun 2027; AP (31 Dec 2025; 8 Mar 2026; 29 Jun 2026); Reuters (29 Jun 2026) ICAO Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) requirements U. Kadri, Cardiff University, hydroacoustic research (2024); R. Godfrey, WSPR analyses (independent, unproven) The cause of MH370's loss has not been determined and the aircraft has not been found. Theories are presented as theories; no person has been found responsible. IMAGE CREDITS U.S. Navy photographs (public domain); ATSB and Inmarsat-derived figures and maps (CC BY) and other photographs CC-licensed as credited on screen, via Wikimedia Commons Quote cards reproduce text verbatim from the cited sources. AI-generated (Grok) where no real image exists, labelled on screen "Illustrative image". No AI image depicts a real person's face or airline livery. Thumbnail and square image: AI-generated studio image of the hosts with a real photograph of 9M-MRO (Laurent Errera, CC BY-SA 2.0). Hosts Julian and Claire are AI-voiced characters (ElevenLabs). Script researched and written by No Trace History. Ghost flight, fire, or a deliberate act? Tell us in the comments. We read every one. #MH370 #MalaysiaAirlines #History #Mystery #Aviation #NoTraceHistory