Veteran CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest covered the story when it broke, and in hundreds of hours afterwards - more than almost any other reporter.
The disappearance on March 8, 2014, of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing with 239 people on board remains one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time.
Veteran CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest covered the story when it broke, and in hundreds of hours afterwards - more than almost any other reporter.
Quest, anchor of CNN International’s flagship programme, Quest Means Business, recently released his new book, THE VANISHING OF FLIGHT MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane.
Quest takes readers inside CNN’s newsroom, offering a revelatory look at how he dealt with becoming the face of one of the decade’s biggest news stories; and how, after a selfie of him and the MH370 co-pilot surfaced, one of the industry’s most seasoned, connected correspondents found himself in the eye of the storm.
Quest didn’t realise he’d met and flown with MH370’s first officer Fariq Hamid only two weeks before his disappearance, until a CNN colleague spotted a photo of the two on a blog.
In fact, Quest had met Hamid just 16 days earlier, while filming a segment about Malaysia Airlines’ restructuring for CNN’s Business Traveller.
THE VANISHING OF MH370 also charts the key moments of the story, including the plane’s disappearance; the up-to-the-minute coverage that followed; the recovery efforts Australian Prime Minister at the time, Tony Abbott, called “the most difficult search ever undertaken in human history”: the outlandish theories and blame game that ensued; and the one question on everyone’s mind—will they ever find that plane?
THE VANISHING OF FLIGHT MH370
The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane
by Richard Quest
Berkley Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-425-28301-1