MH370: The Plane that Disappeared, a three-part Netflix docuseries, aired March 8 – the nine years anniversary of the Malaysia Airlines plane’s disappearance. The documentary featured experts, some family members of the victims who detailed the tragic loss.

Among those who appeared on the show was Jeff Wise, author of The Plane That Wasn’t There: Why We Haven’t Found MH370. The American author has claimed that there was nothing abnormal about the plane’s journey until the communication was handed over to Vietnamese air traffic controllers.

MH370 captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah said “good night” to his Kuala Lumpur compatriots over the radio and then all of the plane’s electronics simultaneously turned off. The plane vanished from the flight radar and nine years on, the mystery into to disappearance continues.

Who is Jeff Wise?

Jeff Wise graduated from Harvard with a degree in evolutionary biology. He began his freelance writing career after graduating from college. He is an amateur pilot and lives in New York City.

In a 2010 podcast interview, he describes why he switched fields from biology to journalism:

“I wasn’t so interested in the test tube work or going out and spending five years investigating the life cycle of a barnacle, but the story of the life cycle of the barnacle can be absolutely fascinating. So, I was very happy to spend … a half an hour reading the paragraph (or whatever it may be) about the barnacle. But, I didn’t want to be the guy in the boat watching the barnacle.”

In 2009, he wrote Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger. In 2015, he wrote The Plane That Wasn’t There: Why We Haven’t Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

He is married to Sandra Garcia with whom he has two sons.