I don't understand this at all. You scroll, and new text appears and the map in the background simply shifts to different points and shows some different data. This seems exceedingly simple to display all the data they wanted.

I think the point is that the page designers want to show me a movie, while I want to read an article.

It's annoying, because the fate of this plane is far more important to me than tedious details of web design. But I find the page incomrpehensible and will have to learn the facts somewhere else.

literally the only mode of interaction to consume the content is "scrolling down with your mouse" and this is apparently beyond your capabilities of comprehension?