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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:35 am

MH370 pilot flew to 40,000ft to suffocate passengers before crashing plane

The pilot of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 ‘deliberately depressurised the cabin’ in order to ‘slowly kill everyone on board’, experts claim

‘Troubled and lonely’ captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah then crashed the plane into the Indian Ocean, killing all 238 passengers, according to the independent group that has worked on the case.

The group behind the claims is made up of dedicated aviation experts, whose sole mission is to find out what happened to the doomed flight.

Some were even called in to help the official search for the plane, which went missing on March 8, 2014.

They claim Shah deliberately steered the Boeing 777 off course, before either waiting for the jet to run out of fuel or deliberately nose-diving it into the water so it disintegrated on impact.

The new claims are reported in The Atlantic, by respected aviation expert William Langewiesche.

According to Mr Langewiesche, the most likely theory is that Shah either killed or incapacitated his co-pilot, before depressurising the cabin.

Electrical engineer Mike Exner, a member of the independent group, believes Shah also made a steep climb to 40,000ft before the murder-suicide.

Mr Exner says climbing so rapidly, would have accelerated the depressurising process.

‘An intentional depressurisation would have been an obvious way – and probably the only way – to subdue a potentially unruly cabin in an airplane that was going to remain in flight for hours to come,’ adds Mr Langewiesche.

He said: ‘In the cabin, the effect would have gone unnoticed, but for the sudden appearance of the drop-down oxygen masks and perhaps the cabin crew’s use of the few portable units of similar design.

‘None of those cabin masks was intended for more than about 15 minutes of use during emergency descents to altitudes below 13,000 feet; they would have been of no value at all cruising at 40,000 feet.

‘The cabin occupants would have become incapacitated within a couple of minutes, lost consciousness, and gently died without any choking or gasping for air.’

Flight MH370 was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014 and its disappearance remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

A number of theories have been put forward about what happened to the plane, including that veteran pilot Shah, who flew a similar path on his flight simulator at home, was depressed at the time.

A fellow 777 captain has said he has reluctantly concluded that his close friend deliberately crashed the plane.

‘It doesn’t make sense. It’s hard to reconcile with the man I knew. But it’s the necessary conclusion,’ the unnamed pilot told The Atlantic.

The fellow pilot speculated that the mental state of Shah’s could have been a contributing factor to his decision.

‘Zaharie’s marriage was bad. In the past he slept with some of the flight attendants,’ he said.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:11 pm

MH370 sleuth gets DEATH THREATS warning he'll be killed if he keeps probing

AN AMERICAN "plane hunter" has been warned he will be KILLED if he continues to probe the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370, it's been reported

Blaine Gibson first hit the headlines in February 2016 when he claimed he had found debris from the Malaysian Airlines jet washed up on a sandbank in Mozambique.

However, a respected aviation expert has now revealed since making his startling finds, the self-proclaimed adventurer has been receiving chilling death threats.

William Langewiesche, a pilot turned writer, told the Atlantic after the sleuth found the first piece of wreckage "he began receiving death threats."

"One message said that either he would stop looking for debris or he would leave Madagascar in a coffin.

"Another warned he would die of polonium poisoning...He has been traumatised," he added.

The American 'plane hunter' has reportedly received death threats since making his finds

Langewiesche said he hooked up with Gibson in Kuala Lumpur where he is in "hiding", reports The Sunday Times.

“He largely avoids disclosing his location or travel plans, and for similar reasons avoids using email and rarely speaks over the telephone," the author revealed.

"He frequently swaps out his Sim cards. He believes he is sometimes followed and photographed."

And conspiracy theorists believe self-funded Gibson has every reason to be running scared.

They point to the fact a diplomat investigating the disappearance was gunned down just as he was about to deliver "new evidence" to Malaysian investigators.

Honorary Consul of Malaysia Zahid Raza was shot dead in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo in an apparent assassination in September 2017.

At the time Gibson revealed he was left severely rattled by news of the killing.

He said he had planned to keep details of his latest finds under wraps until they had been safely transported off the island but changed his mind after Mr Raza was killed.

“For the protection of those involved we decided not to make this report public until the debris was safely delivered to Malaysia,” Mr Gibson reported in his blog.

“However tragic events have intervened. Under the agreement between the two countries, debris is supposed to be collected by Hon. Zahid Raza, the Honorary Malaysian Consul in Madagascar, and delivered by private courier to Malaysia.

“On August 24, the Hon. Zahid Raza was assassinated in Antananarivo.”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:06 am

Depressed pilot suffocated 238
passengers and flew for hours


The captain of the Malaysia Airlines jet which disappeared five years ago was reportedly clinically depressed. Fresh details about Zaharie Ahmad Shah suggest he killed the 238 passengers by starving them of oxygen. The report by US aviation writer William Langewiesche said Mr Zaharie went on to fly alone for hours with the bodies in the plane

Mr Zaharie was often lonely and sad during the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, according to the report in The Atlantic magazine.

Mr Langewiesche wrote: “There is a strong suspicion among investigators in the aviation and intelligence communities that he was clinically depressed.”

The report suggests Mr Zaharie sent his young co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid out of the cockpit before depressurising the aircraft.

He would have then ensured passengers’ deaths by climbing above cruising altitude to starve them of oxygen.

While cabin oxygen masks would have dropped, their intended use is for no longer than 15 minutes to altitudes where air is breathable.

However, if the Boeing 777 was at 40,000ft the oxygen masks wouldn’t have worked.

Mr Langewiesche added: “The cabin occupants would have become incapacitated within a couple of minutes, lost consciousness, and gently died without any choking or gasping for air.

“The scene would have been dimly lit by the emergency lights, with the dead belted into their seats, their faces nestled in the worthless oxygen masks dangling on tubes from the ceiling.”

Mr Zaharie would have had access to hours of oxygen after the passengers were dead and later could have depressurised the plane.

Mr Langewiesche dismissed theories of hijackers by noting the plane diverted from its route during a changeover in air traffic control.

He added the plane’s turn towards the Southern Indian Ocean was too tight to be performed by autopilot.

He said: “Whoever was flying MH370 must have switched off the autopilot because the turn the aeroplane then made to the southwest was so tight that it had to have been flown by hand.”

The flight continued for five hours until investigators determined the plane ran out of fuel and spiralled into the sea.

Some pieces of the aircraft have been found but the exact crash site has never been located.

The Australian government also theorised an oxygen defence harmed cabin and crew on the aircraft but believe it would have been accidental.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Jul 06, 2019 8:57 pm

Could stowaway be responsible for
hijacking Malaysia Airlines plane?


He told Channel 5’s ‘Flight MH370’: “I think it’s highly likely that a hijack took place – and again, there’s four options for the hijack

    “One is the hijack of the aircraft through a crew member.

    “The second is a hijack coming from a passenger.

    “A third option, which is a fairly unusual one, would be a stowaway.

    “And then of course the fourth option is an electrical takeover of the aircraft from a ground-based station.”
This implies that a stowaway being the instigator of the hijack is a possibility, albeit an unlikely one.

This means that any investigations into the crew and passengers on the plane could prove fruitless.

If someone had managed to sneak onto the plane beforehand, the perpetrator could be untraceable.

Another aviation security expert, Philip Baum, said this possibility must be fully investigated.

Mr Baum, who is the editor of Aviation Security International and a visiting professor of aviation security at Coventry University, told the Independent in 2018: “I think a stowaway is a strong possibility.”

He added: “No officials seem to want to even contemplate the possibility of a stowaway being on board.”

Mr Baum pointed out that it is possible one or more people could have got on board the aircraft while it was grounded in the airport and hidden in the underfloor avionics bay just behind the flight deck.

Aviation Security iNternational reported that 123 stowaway attempts have been reported internationally on 107 different flights.

Some of these people conceal themselves in the wheel wells, risking freezing to death or falling.

Others have boarded planes disguised as cleaners or airport officials then hidden.

Just earlier this week, a man fell to his death from a plane over south London, after stowing away on a flight from Kenya.

Mr Baum suggested this line of inquiry within a week of MH370’s disappearance but claimed it was never seriously considered by the authorities.

This implies that a stowaway being the instigator of the hijack is a possibility, albeit an unlikely one.

This means that any investigations into the crew and passengers on the plane could prove fruitless.

If someone had managed to sneak onto the plane beforehand, the perpetrator could be untraceable.

Another aviation security expert, Philip Baum, said this possibility must be fully investigated.

Mr Baum, who is the editor of Aviation Security International and a visiting professor of aviation security at Coventry University, told the Independent in 2018: “I think a stowaway is a strong possibility.”

He added: “No officials seem to want to even contemplate the possibility of a stowaway being on board.”

Mr Baum pointed out that it is possible one or more people could have got on board the aircraft while it was grounded in the airport and hidden in the underfloor avionics bay just behind the flight deck.

Aviation Security iNternational reported that 123 stowaway attempts have been reported internationally on 107 different flights.

Some of these people conceal themselves in the wheel wells, risking freezing to death or falling.

Others have boarded planes disguised as cleaners or airport officials then hidden.

Just earlier this week, a man fell to his death from a plane over south London, after stowing away on a flight from Kenya.

Mr Baum suggested this line of inquiry within a week of MH370’s disappearance but claimed it was never seriously considered by the authorities.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Jul 11, 2019 11:26 pm

MH370 pilot in control until the end
French investigators suspect


The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was in control of the plane “until the end”, French investigators reportedly suspect, after gaining access to "crucial" flight data

The readouts "lend weight" to suspicions that he crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide, they were cited as saying.

The revelations based on Boeing data came days after a new account suggesting the pilot may have been clinically depressed, leading him to starve the passengers of oxygen and then crash the Boeing 777 into the sea.

MH370 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, when it vanished and became one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

In July last year investigators released a 495-page report, saying the plane's controls were probably deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible.

The only country still conducting a judicial inquiry into the crash is France, where two investigating magistrates are looking into the deaths of three French passengers, the wife and two children of Ghyslain Wattrelos - an engineer who met the judges on Wednesday.

According to Le Parisien, they informed him that Boeing had finally granted them access late May to vital flight data at the plane maker’s headquarters in Seattle.

This included numerous documents and satellite data from Britain-based company Immarsat.

They were obliged to sign a confidentiality contract, meaning the documents cannot be cited in court. The investigators also visited Immarsat headquarters in the UK.

It will take “a year” to sift through all the data and “nothing permits us to say the pilot was involved,” according to the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Marie Dosé.

However, French investigators cited by Le Parisien said the data “lends weight’ to the idea that “someone was behind the control stick when the plane broke up in the Indian Ocean”.

It cited a source close to the inquiry as saying someone was flying the plane "until the end."

“Certain abnormal turns made by the 777 can only have been carried out manually. Someone was in control," the source was cited as saying.

Asked whether the data pointed to a deliberate crash, the source said: “It’s too early to assert it categorically but there is nothing to suggest anyone else entered the cockpit.”

Mr Wattrelos, who lost family members in the crash, hailed the “incredible” work of the judges, who he said “were able to note that the case was riddled with incoherences”.

"For example, we know that the data initially provided by Malaysian authorities on the plane’s altitude were wrong. And I hope that by analysing all the data collected at Boeing, they will discover a problem that will jump out at them,” he told Le Parisien.

But he said he remained convinced that the plane was “taken down”. “I don’t know why or where but I’m convinced of it,” he said. Mr Wattrelos said that French investigators could meet FBI agents to discuss the case “over the summer in Paris”.

More than 30 bits of suspected washed up debris have been collected from various places around the world.

Last month, friends of the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, told aviation specialist William Langewiesche that he had become obsessed with two young models he had seen on the internet after his wife left him, and that he "spent a lot of time pacing empty rooms.”

Mr Langewiesche wrote: "There is a strong suspicion among investigators in the aviation and intelligence communities that he was clinically depressed.”

An electrical engineer quoted in the account in The Atlantic magazine said that, after depressurising the plane, the pilot probably made a climb which "accelerated the effects of depressurising, causing the rapid incapacitation and death of everyone in the cabin."

The oxygen masks in the main cabin were only designed to last 15 minutes in an emergency descent below 13,000ft.

The pilot, however, would have had access to oxygen in the cockpit and could have flown for hours.

Writing in the Atlantic, Mr Langewiesche said: "The cabin occupants would have become incapacitated within a couple of minutes, lost consciousness, and gently died without any choking or gasping for air."

One theory claims the pilot conducted a series of manouveres to "ditch the plane” - but some experts argue it would have been impossible for him to remain conscious during the emergency landing.

Pater Foley, the head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), has suggested to the Australian Senate the pilot was unconscious when the plane crashed into the Indian ocean.

Mr Foley said: “Today we have an analysis of the flap that tells us it is probably not deployed.

“We have an analysis of the final two transmissions that say the aeroplane was in a high rate of descent.

"We have 30 pieces of debris, some from inside the fuselage, that says there was significant energy at impact ... We have quite a lot of evidence to support no control at the end.”

He added: “We haven’t ever ruled out someone intervening at the end. It’s unlikely.”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:09 pm

MH370 investigators discover
mystery load weighing 89kg


French investigators searching for answers over the disappearance of flight MH370 have discovered a 89kg weight was added to the flight before take-off

The doomed Malaysia Airlines plane was carrying 239 people when it disappeared while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

Ghyslain Wattrelos, a French national who lost his wife and two teenage children in the disaster, said last week there may be new evidence surrounding what happened.

Two Parisian judges are currently conducting a judicial investigation, and have received a report on the passengers and baggage brought on board, French newspaper Le Parisien reported.

Mr Wattrelos told the paper: “It was also learned that a mysterious load of 89 kg had been added to the flight list after take-off.

“A container was also overloaded, without anyone knowing why. The expert draws no conclusion.

“It may be incompetence or manipulation. Everything is possible. This will be part of the questions for Malaysians.”

There are numerous theories over what happened to MH370, the wreckage of which has never been discovered.

Earlier this year, debris washed up on the coast of Madagascar was confirmed by authorities as "most likely" belonging to the missing flight.

However a “significant lack of evidence” has always made it impossible to say what caused the plane to divert from its flight path and disappear from radar less than 40 minutes after take-off.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:27 am

MH370 shock claim: Plane debris found
in Indian Ocean was planted evidence


MH370 debris found washed up on islands in the Indian Ocean is evidence planted there by Russian military intelligence, an aviation expert has claimed

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. The official investigation concluded that the plane likely ended up in the southern Indian Ocean, based on data from British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat. Moreover, several pieces of debris were found washed up in the Indian Ocean and on the west coast of Africa, three of which have been confirmed to be from MH370.

However, there are many theories as to what happened to MH370 and why.

Science journalist Jeff Wise claimed on Channel 5’s documentary ‘Flight MH370’ that the Boeing 777 was hijacked by Russia in order to detract from the conflict in Crimea.

Mr Wise’s theory is that instead of going south over the Indian Ocean, the plane actually flew north and ended up over Kazakhstan.

He believes Russians on board the plane fed fake data into the Satellite Data Unit (SDU) on the plane in order to create a “fake trail of breadcrumbs” suggesting it flew in the opposite direction to where it actually did.

He added that he believes the pieces of debris were in fact planted there by Russia after the fact.

Mr Wise said: “‘The plane’s definitely in the Indian Ocean because we have pieces of it.’ Not so fast!

“If you have carried out this incredibly technically sophisticated act of altering Inmarsat data in a way to provide this really subtle innuendo about where the plane went, throwing a piece of plane in the ocean is incredibly easy.

“You know, planted evidence.”

He then made the link to MH17 – the passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on July 17, 2014, over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people.

The aviation expert blames Russian military intelligence for this tragedy also.

Mr Wise implied that it is too much of a coincidence that “sister planes” would come down within a few months of each other.

He said: “Lo and behold, four and a half months after this Malaysia Airlines 777-200ER goes missing another, a sister ship, one of only 14 in the world, Malaysia Airlines 777-200ER gets shot shown – where?

“In eastern Ukraine, where Russia-backed rebels have got their hand on this anti-aircraft missile and murder almost 300 people in cold blood.

“And to this day, the only known cause of a 777 coming to grief in mid-flight is Russian military intelligence shooting it down.”

However, other experts have dismissed this theory.

Aviation journalist David Learmount branded it “absolute rubbish” because there was no distress signal sent out.

He said such theories are “great for Bond films, but don’t make sense in the real world”.

Meanwhile, aviation consultant Alastair Rosen said he “discounted the Russians” because he could not see a legitimate motive behind such drastic action.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:27 am

MH370 bombshell: New evidence proves
Malaysia Airlines plane wasn’t hijacked


MH370’s disappearance has been studied for the past five years and French investigators have ruled out any hijacking

The Malaysia Airlines 370 flight disappeared on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The plane took a sudden detour from its intended route and flew back across Malaysia before turning south of Penang and then towards the southern Indian Ocean. Some aviation experts have theorised a hijacker took over the plane.

According to Le Parisian, the French investigators revealed any attempt of sabotage would have been intercepted by a huge number of people.

A Malaysian aeronautical engineer imagined a hijacking of the aircraft.

The file said: “This assumption seems unlikely because it would have been intercepted by other passengers and the crew when he began to rummage with a screwdriver over him.”

The shocking revelation comes after a mysterious load is said to have been added to the flight list after take-off.

The load weighing 89kg was added to the plane along with an overloaded container.

But expert Ghyslain Wattrelos has put it down to “incompetence”.

The French investigators believe a murder-suicide is the most plausible explanation for the crash.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was reportedly depressed at the time.

MH370: Expert claims plane debris could be ‘PLANTED’

A source from the investigations team told Le Parisian: “Some abnormal turns made by the 777 can only be done manually. So someone was at the helm.

“It is too early to state categorically.

“But nothing is credited that anyone else could have entered the cockpit.”

After its disappearance, search operations began in the Indian ocean but the Boeing 777 has never been found.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Jul 27, 2019 4:30 am

MH370 FOUND?
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane discovered

The Malaysia Airlines 370 flight disappeared across the Indian Ocean according to its final radar data. But online theorists believe the plane, piloted by Captain Zaharie Shah, could have been secretly found. During the search and rescue of the plane in the ocean, the ship’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) was turned off for days preventing online observers from tracking its movements, ABC reported.

The ship, Seabed Constructor, appeared to make a circle in the Indian Ocean before going “dark” on tracking websites.

Twitter users went on to speculate what was inside the circle and why the tracking system had gone off just a few kilometres outside the circle.

One said: “I'm sticking with my theory that the big circle is a piece of debris, and the line south was to locate the plane. When they think they found it they turned off AIS as protocol.”

While another added: “This is strange. I have never seen a ship do this. Maybe there's an AUV lost down there?”

The Seabed Constructor, operated by Ocean Infinity, spent two weeks scouring the ocean floor for the missing plane.

The company had signed a deal with the Malaysian Government to search for 90 days and receive payment between $20 million (£16million) and $70 million (£56million) if it found the plane.

Aviation expert, Juan Valcarcel dismissed speculation surrounding Ocean Infinity’s AIS going down during the search.

He explained they had a target and wouldn’t receive payment if they didn’t find anything.

A spokesman for Ocean Infinity told ABC News: “The stop was a quick turnaround of the vessel and then continuing with the search.”

While aviation experts added with the AIS turned off, the ship was still visible on marine radar systems.

In 2018, Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity’s CEO, said: “I would firstly like to extend the thoughts of everyone at Ocean Infinity to the families of those who have lost loved ones on MH370.

“Part of our motivation for renewing the search was to try to provide some answers to those affected. It is therefore with a heavy heart that we end our current search without having achieved that aim.”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Sep 01, 2019 7:45 pm

MH370 expert revealed
what happened to plane


‘It couldn’t have happened any other way'

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur and went missing en route to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. To this day, the plane has not been found, but the official investigation concluded that the most likely location of the wreckage is at the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean.

The working theory is that the plane was hijacked and then flown out over the ocean until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.

Aviation journalist David Learmount explained to the Channel 5 documentary ‘Flight MH370’ what he believes to be true, because it “couldn’t have happened any other way”.

He said: “I believe that what happened to this aeroplane was not an accident, it was planned.

“It was then carried out by somebody on board. Somebody on board did that, because it couldn’t have happened any other way.”

The evidence that the plane was hijacked, rather than suffered an accident like an on-board technical incident, is its flight path after it disappeared from air traffic control radar.

The plane turned 180 degrees and flew up the Malacca Strait before turning again and heading out over the Indian Ocean.

This is the presumed flight path, based on evidence from military radar and communications between the plane and a satellite belonging to British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat.

What makes the flight path particularly suspicious is that it flew exactly along the boundary between airspace belonging to different countries

Mr Learmount said: “The aircraft almost turned back on itself and flew along the division of airspace between Vietnam and Malaysia, so each thought the other was in charge of it.

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David Learmount insisted that MH370 was not an accident

“For you that might be a coincidence, for me that was incredibly deliberate, because the accuracy of the flying was remarkable.

“And there was, in this aircraft, no pre-programmes – ie. automatic pilot – piece of software which would have done that.”

Reflecting on what a potential hijacker’s motive might be, Mr Learmount suggested that the MH370 mystery could be what they intended all along – that confusing the world was in fact their objective.

He said: “If you have somebody who has a mindset of wanting to do something really clever, somebody who actually really enjoyed flying and the science of flying and the science of navigation.

“The greatest thing they would really like to do is absolutely baffle the world forever as to how he did this and then die."

This psychological picture also matches the evidence, because the hijacker would have had to be highly experienced in flying this sort of plane.

This is because whoever was in charge of the plane turned the aircraft’s transponder off, which meant it could no longer be seen on civilian radar

Turning this off reportedly requires “intimate knowledge” of the cockpit controls.
MH370: Expert discusses 'psychological profile' of hijacker

What’s more, the alleged hijacker would have understood about dead zones in air traffic control, as they managed to escape undetected.

According to science journalist and MH370 expert Jeff Wise, the plane was being flown “aggressively” – higher and faster than such a plane normally would.

He claimed this indicates “signs of evasion and signs of escape”.

Mr Wise has a controversial theory that it was Russian military intelligence who are to blame for MH370’s disappearance.

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Aviation expert Jeff Wise

His argument is that Russians on board the plane could have interfered with the data being sent out to satellite 3F1 to create a “false trail of breadcrumbs”.

In the Channel 5 documentary, he claimed that Russia wanted to distract the world from the conflict in Crimea, which occurred around the same time.

He added that the debris found in the Indian Ocean could have been “planted evidence”.

However, this is just one theory – while there is relatively strong evidence that MH370’s disappearance was not an accident, precisely who was behind it is more up for debate.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:54 pm

MH370 investigators silenced
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Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared without a trace on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. It is still unknown what happened to the plane and devastated families are left with many questions unanswered. A group dedicated to helping the families have started a campaign to increase public awareness.

With the help of donors, they are offering prize money to anyone who might have information related to the tragedy.

They printed flyers about MH370, with the link to their website on it, and started handing them out in public places in Malaysia

One investigator linked to the group, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Express.co.uk how the police questioned him after seeing him hand out flyers in Putrajaya, a city south of Kuala Lumpur.

He said: “When me and my team went to Putrajaya, we had an unexpected moment there.

“I went to distribute flyers at Putrajaya Square, my friend at Alamanda Shopping Centre, and my other friend at Putrajaya Central.

“When I first arrived in the morning at Putrajaya Square, I was about to start distributing flyers, but a group of police came up to me and grabbed all the flyers that I was going to distribute.

“They asked me: ‘What is this?’

“It is MH370 and I told them it is from the organisation I work for.

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Families of those on board MH370 are still looking for answers

“They took me to the police station nearby.

“I was very shocked at this moment.

“They asked me ‘Why are you bringing this issue up after so long? Why didn’t you a long time ago?’

“I didn’t know how to answer the questions.”

Families of those on board MH370 marked the five year anniversary this year

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The organisation handing out flyers aims to help the MH370 families find some answers

The investigator explained to the police that he found the job on Facebook.

The police reportedly asked him for the name of the Facebook account that hired him, but he said he could not remember.

The investigator added: “Fortunately, my phone was out of battery at the time.

“After that, they released me and asked me to go home and avoid texting the organisation again.”

The police allegedly confiscated around 1500 flyers from the investigator and told him that MH370 is a subject which is forbidden to speak about under the current Government.

They took his details and told him to go home.

However, he explained that he did not go home immediately.

He said: “After that, I went to Alamanda Shopping Centre to help my friends and I hoped that there would be no more police there.

“I finished my job as quickly as I could, handing out the flyers.

“I am very shocked about what happened.

“I thought this was going well, but now this has happened I don’t know.”

One of the organisers told Express.co.uk that the investigator was “panicked and afraid” after the encounter with the police, but that the cause is so important to the families he went back and helped the other members.

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The Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on March 8, 2014

After the incident, members of the organisation tried to avoid the police at other locations.

The organiser added: “It is unbelievable to suddenly understand that the Malaysian Government is silencing attempts to help the grieving families from reaching any closure for their loss.

“Is it illegal to talk about anything regarding MH370?

“As if it is not enough that the administration gave up all hope of solving the mystery and to ease the families’ pain by giving them answers – now it is illegal to even try.”

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Commemoration event took place to mark the 5th anniversary of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370

He explained that identities of members must be kept anonymous as they are now fearing a backlash from the Government and police.

He said: “We do not reveal our identities, because we fear the Government will harass us and try to silence us.”

The official investigation into MH370 ceased over a year ago but grieving families are desperate for the conversation to continue.

The organiser said all they wanted to do was help the families and bring attention to the fact that information is still missing.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:46 pm

Just 39 minutes into its journey on March 8, 2014, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the plane lost contact with Malaysia Airlines and completely vanished with 239 people on board:

Mum's last words to daughter
as she boarded flight MH370


As Anne Daisy Nathan hurried to catch flight MH370, she said something through the phone that caught her daughter Grace off guard - "I love you."

Like in many Asian families, Grace says, it was rare for the pair to openly display their affection. It took her a few seconds to say "I love you" back and tell her mum "have a safe flight".

These were among their final words just hours before the Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people on board mysteriously vanished from the sky seven years ago.

About seven hours later, Grace's mobile rang again. The then-University of Bristol law student answered, thinking her mum had just arrived safely, but it was her "panicked" dad telling her to get on the next flight from London to Kuala Lumpur.

Anne Daisy Nathan and daughter Grace, who wants the search for MH370 to resume

Grace, who recently got married without her mother by her side, told the Mirror: "I last spoke to my mum just before she boarded the flight. I spoke to her every day, sometimes for hours at end.

"I had one of my usual calls with her. She said she was in a rush and she couldn’t stay on the phone for long because she was on her way to the airport, but we stayed on the phone for an hour.

"Usually, Asian families are quite repressed and it’s not common for us to say ‘I love you’ to each other, but my mum told me she loved me before she hung up that night.

"It was one of those weird things. I waited like 10 seconds before I said 'I love you, too'.

MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing, on March 8, 2014

"I asked her to have a safe flight, and six or seven hours later I was coming back from the library really late and my dad was calling."

Grace, a criminal lawyer who lives in Kuala Lumpur, said her mum was supposed to fly to China the week before but delayed her flight, booking a seat on MH370, to care for her own mother, who was ill and in hospital.

MH370 was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it turned around and disappeared from radar on the night of March 8, 2014. Systems were switched off so the plane could not be tracked.

No official explanation has been given and it remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

One of the leading theories was mass murder-suicide by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who was piloting the Boeing 777-200ER. There was a suspicion that the pilot, who flew a similar path on his flight simulator at home, was clinically depressed.

Two major underwater searches were fruitless - with the last ending in the spring of 2018 - and it doesn't appear the effort will resume any time soon despite calls from a Grace and group of family members.

Grace has become a voice for those who were lost in the tragedy and is helping to lead a campaign for answers.

The 31-year-old has called on Malaysia to revive efforts to find the missing state-owned plane, which is thought to have been deliberately flown far out over the South Indian Ocean before crashing into the sea.

Grace said: "The search is the big thing for us. We believe that unless the plane is found we will not know what happened or why it happened, and therefore we will not be able to prevent it from happening again."

When her phone rang the night of the disappearance, Grace assumed it was her mum calling her from Beijing to tell her she had landed safely.

But it was her dad, then a senior official in Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation, telling her to catch the next flight from London to Kuala Lumpur.

She said he sounded "scared" and "panicked", and in another call he said "something happened to the plane your mother was on".

Grace was in such a rush to get to Heathrow Airport she didn't bother to pack a bag.

She said: "I took a direct flight. It was the most excruciating 14 hours of my life because I couldn’t go on the internet and I didn’t know what was happening or if they had found it.

"When I took off from Heathrow they didn’t know where the plane was.

"When it landed I got off and was met by staff at door of plane, and I asked if there was any news, but there was no news.

"I remember feeling so relieved because no news is good news, because maybe they had landed somewhere.

"From that day until now, nothing has changed and we are still waiting.

"Sometimes it feels like no time has changed."

Grace has marked milestone after milestone without her mum - birthdays, becoming a lawyer and her wedding in May this year.

On the day her mum would have turned 62 this year, she was a "complete wreck emotionally".

Grace said: "It has been really hard, it still is really hard.

"I knew (the wedding) was going to be a difficult day for me.

"My younger sister was the last person to see and speak to my mum.

"The last conversation they had was that (my mum) couldn't wait for one of us to get married and she couldn’t wait for us to get dressed up.

"It just stuck with me. It's still with me. It was very difficult and it is still difficult."

Grace has become a spokeswoman for Voice 370, a support group for next-of-kin which organises an annual remembrance event in Kuala Lumpur and continues to press for answers.

The coronavirus pandemic and political turmoil in Malaysia have disrupted their work this year.

Voice 370 was also working with seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity on a proposal to resume the search, said Grace, and calling for more information, including military radar data, to be made public.

Its members are hoping to arrange a meeting with Malaysia's new transport minister to find out where he stands on the matter.

Grace said: "It’s a live issue. You can’t pretend it didn’t happen or you can’t say 'enough time has passed, let’s forget about it'.

"The Malaysian government, being the owner of the carrier, should really show that they have really left no stone unturned and they have not done that in my opinion.

"A lot of the other countries can step in and do something. There were so many other nationalities on board.

"There’s nothing stopping them from stepping up and offering help and highlighting the issues. Everyone’s afraid of stepping political toes.

"These companies like Boeing and Airbus can make more of an effort to push for the search to continue."

Top aviation experts probing the mystery have identified a probable crash site that they say warrants a new search of the ocean floor.

They believe the jet flew 2,700 miles south of Indonesia before crashing and disintegrating near to the coordinates of S34.2342 and E93.7875.

American engineer and entrepreneur Victor Iannello, who assisted Australian officials during a previous search, previously told the Mirror "there are better than even odds" that the plane was within 100 nautical miles (115 miles) of the last estimated point.

After analysing all the known evidence, he suspects the plane was deliberately turned around by a crew member and flown over the sea until it crashed

People often ask her what she thinks happened that night, but "as a form of self-preservation" Grace doesn't believe in any particular theory.

Experts believe the plane crashed about 2,700 miles south of Indonesia

She has had to deal with conspiracy theorists and trolls contacting her on social media.

She said: "A lot of the time they tell you, 'I consulted with a psychic' or 'I saw it in the stars and this is where the plane is'.

"People send photos of potential debris.

"I find it very hard to engage with them because I am very evidence based."

Grace hopes the mystery will be solved in her lifetime. She refuses to give up because she knows how much her mum sacrificed for her.

She said: "I think it will be a real mockery of the technology we have if a Boeing 777 can vanish into thin air.

"We still haven’t found out why the plane made a U-turn and I think that’s ridiculous, that this day in age we can’t find a humongous aircraft.

"I really hope that I find out not only for my own sake but for the sake of the flying public. This could happen again at any time."

Grace added: "I ask myself this all the time, why am I still doing this?

"Sometimes I think I have done my best, I have done my part.

"But I remember how much my mum has done for me and how many sacrifices she has made.

"I can’t give up on finding her, it is not a thought I can entertain.

Grace told of her heartbreak after missing milestones with her mum

"My mum always pushed me to never give up no matter how hard it was.

"Where I am today, it’s all because of the sacrifices she made."

French businessman Ghyslain Wattrelos, whose wife Laurence, 51, and two of his children, Hadrien, 17, and Ambre, 13, were on the doomed jet, has echoed Grace's calls for the search to resume.

He urged Malaysia to reveal what happened to the plane, telling the Mirror earlier this year: "We cannot accept what they are telling us. We cannot just say, 'yes, this plane has disappeared'.

"This plane has not disappeared, it is not a mystery, so please tell us what happened."

Malaysia, China and Australia ended a two-year, £101.86 million underwater search in January 2017 after finding no trace of the plane.

In 2018, Ocean Infinity, an American marine robotics company with bases in Austin, Texas, and Southampton, Hampshire, was contracted by the Malaysian government to carry out an underwater search on a “no-cure, no-fee” basis.

One of the leading theories was mass murder-suicide by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah

It meant Malaysia would pay the firm up to $70 million (£53.5 million) if it found the plane. But the 138-day search was fruitless.

In July 2018, Malaysia's 495-page official report said the Boeing 777’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course, but investigators could not determine who was responsible.

The report also highlighted mistakes made by the Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control centres and issued recommendations to avoid a repeat incident.

Investigators stopped short of offering any conclusions about what happened to MH370, saying that depended on finding the plane’s wreckage.

Malaysia's government said it will consider resuming the search only when credible new evidence is found.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport said: "The Government of Malaysia reiterates that the aspiration to locate MH370 has not been abandoned.

"Should credible new information emerge which can be used to identify the specific location of the aircraft, consideration will be given in determining future search operations and re-establishment of the investigation team."

New Transport Minister Wee Ka Siong is open to meeting the families and "is willing to listen should there be any new assistance and facilitation required by the next-of-kins", the spokesman added.

Mirror Online has contacted Ocean Infinity for comment.

In February, chief executive officer Oliver Plunkett told Reuters that “no new search is imminent”, but the firm continues to engage with experts to identify where any new search might be launched.

He added: “The Malaysian government, rightly in our view, set a high bar before they will engage in that discussion."

“It was and remains our position that we hope to be able to offer our services to the Malaysian government again at some point in the future.”

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Re: All Malaysian Flight 370 could be still alive and kickin

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:59 pm

What happened to Flight 370?

At 12.42am MYT on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur heading for Chinese capital Beijing

Passengers included Chinese calligraphers, a couple on their way home to their young sons after a long-delayed honeymoon and a construction worker who hadn't been home in a year.

But at 1.21am, the plane lost contact with the Kuala Lumpur Area Control Centre while over the South China Sea heading towards Beijing.

Before that, Malaysian authorities believe the last words heard from the plane, from either the pilot or co-pilot, was "Good night Malaysian three seven zero".

Satellite "pings" from the aircraft suggest it continued flying for around seven hours when the fuel would have run out

Experts have calculated the most likely crash site around 1,000 miles west of Perth, Australia, but a huge search of the seabed failed to find any wreckage:

    1.21am March 8, 2014: Thirty-nine minutes after take-off, over the South China Sea, the position symbol of flight 370 vanishes from the radar at the Kuala Lumpur Area Control Centre. Data from a Malaysian military radar shows the plane "almost immediately" turn southwest and back towards the Malay peninsula.

    2.22am: Having crossed back over the peninsula and turned north towards the Bay of Bengal, the plane has its last contact with the military radar.

    Shortly after: Satellite data shows the plan make what investigators said was its "final major turn" and head south, into the Indian Ocean.

    2.39am: A ground-to-aircraft phone call, made through the plane's satellite link, goes unanswered.

    5.30am: A search-and-rescue effort is launched
    .
    7.24am: Malaysia Airlines released a statement announcing that Flight 370 is missing.

    Over the following weeks: A major search effort scours 1,700,000 square miles over a period of 52 days.

    April 28: The surface search is called off having failed to find any debris from the plane. Another phase is launched that will use sonar to scan the ocean floor.

    January 2017: Almost three years after the crash, the underwater search for the plane is officially suspended. The search covered more than 46,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean floor but failed to locate the wreckage.

    October 2020: Plane debris found on Australian beach sparking theory it is from missing plane, it was not.
US shootout

French ex-airline director Marc Dugain accused the US military of shooting down the plane because they feared it had been hijacked.

A book called Flight MH370 – The Mystery also suggested that it had been shot down accidentally by US-Thai joint jet fighters during a military exercise and that the incident was covered up.

Suicide

Malaysia police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar suggested the disappearance could have been the result of a suicide.

He claimed someone on board could have taken out a large life insurance package before getting on the plane, so they could treat their family or pay back the money they owed.

In hiding?

Historian and writer Norman Davies suggested MH370 could have been remotely hacked and flown to a secret location as a result of sensitive material being carried aboard the jet.

Cracks in the plane

Malaysia Airlines found a 15-inch crack in the fuselage of one of its planes, days before MH370 disappeared.

The Federal Aviation Administration insists it issued a final warning two days before the disappearance.

But the Daily Mirror claimed the missing jet "did not have the same antenna as the rest of the Boeing 777s" so it did not receive the warning.

Stowaway

An engineer claimed a “mysterious 14st load” was added to the flight list after take off, sparking theories there was a stowaway.

Aviation security expert Tim Termini told Channel 5’s Flight programme that a stowaway is one of the possible hijacking scenarios.

Ghost plane

Aviation expert Christine Negroni has speculated that the plane's cabin suffered a sudden depressurisation.

She said if Captain Shah had been on a break at the time, co-pilot Abdul Hamid would have been the only person left alive for hours before the plane crashed.

Speaking to the Star, she said: “The sudden lack of oxygen would have killed all passengers and crew within 15 minutes.

"However, Hamid was insulated from its worst effects in the cockpit."

She said a degree of oxygen deprivation for Hamid would explain why the plane made a series of such dramatic turns before disappearing.

Pilot planned the incident

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unexpectedly said it was “very likely that the captain planned this shocking event”.

He claimed the pilot wanted to "create the world's greatest mystery".

Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott also claimed it was made “crystal clear” to him within a week of the infamous disappearance that the aircraft was almost certainly deliberately downed by the pilot.

Another theory claimed that he hijacked his own plane in protest of the jailing of then-Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, and as a way to destabilise the corrupt government of Najib Razak.

Another seemingly far-fetched idea said the pilot had deliberately crashed the plane to cover his track as he had parachuted out of the plane so he could spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend who was waiting in a boat in the sea.

North Korea took the plane

In the wake of the incident, South Korea noted that North Korea nearly took out a Chinese plane which had 220 passengers on board, on March 5, 2014.

Some fear Pyongyang shot the plane down, but others believe it was hijacked and diverted into the communist nation.

The families of those on board have demanded answers after a probe by the Malaysian government offered little insight into the crash.

Victims mobile phones ringing

One theory claims that many relatives were able to hear a ringing tone for up to four days after the crash so the doomed jet could not have smashed into the Indian Ocean.

Nineteen families have claimed the devices of their loved ones rang for up to four days after the jet went missing.

However, wireless analysts claim that phone firms sometimes use a phantom ringing sound when the device is not active.

Snowden revelations

One theory links the disappearance of the plane to Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of US surveillance in 2013, The Week reports.

It involves the fact that on board the plane were 20 employees of a company called Freescale Semiconductor, which the Snowden documents suggested could have helped the National Security Agency to develop technologies used in surveillance.

Discussing the theory, Reddit user DarkSpectre wrote: "This bunch of US chip guys working for a global leader in embedded processing solutions (embedded smart phone tech and defence contracting) all together... on a plane... and disappeared. Coincidence?"

Crashed in the Cambodian jungle

In September 2018, British video producer Ian Wilson claimed to have found the missing aircraft using Google Maps.

Despite millions being spent on the search to located the wreckage, the Brit sleuth believes he has found the jet in a mountainous area of the Cambodian jungle.

In response, the Chinese government used observation company Space View to focus in on the high-altitude area on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

However, the firm claims there was no sign of any plane, least of all the Malaysian Airlines aircraft which has been missing since March 2014.

An MH370 sleuth has claimed that locals in Cambodia told him they saw a plane believed to be the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight crashing in the jungle.

CIA claims by ex-Malaysian PM

Ex-Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has speculated without evidence that the CIA was involved in the incident.

“Airplanes don’t just disappear,” he wrote in a blogpost.

“Certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities.

"For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA.”

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The plane was heading for Kazakhstan

If the jet was flying north then possible crash locations could stretch as far as the border between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Thailand.

The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak originally asked the Kazakhstan leader Nursultan Nazarbayev to set up a search operation in the country but this quickly got sidelined as the rescue efforts focused on the Indian Ocean.

Still a frightening mystery

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:31 am

MH370 bombshell:

Startling 'secret' cargo 'weighing more than a hippo' sparks new theory

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur Airport on March 8, 2014, destined for Beijing, China, with 239 people on board. The Boeing 777, under the control of captain Zaharie Shah, last communicated with air traffic control at 1.19am while travelling over the South China Sea, before disappearing altogether.

There have been varying theories put forward over the years to explain how the jet vanished, including a sensational hypothesis that it was a “flying bomb”.

MH370 had in its cargo hold four-and-a-half tonnes of mangosteens – a sweet tropical fruit about as big as a tangerine – along with 221kg of lithium-ion batteries.

Aviation expert Clive Irving claimed the plane hit the Indian Ocean in a remote area following an uncontrollable fire on board after these two items mixed.

However, after a report by the Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 said it was ”highly improbable” in 2018, investigative journalist Florence de Changy uncovered more about the cargo.

In her new book, ’The Disappearing Act,’ Ms Changy claimed documents on the load “could have been made public within minutes of the plane going missing,” but were not.

MH370 is still being debated today

Malaysia’s political opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim told her: “I wonder what kind of cargo could be so secret that the cargo manifest of a commercial flight is treated as a classified document."

According to Ms Changy, it took more than two months to obtain documents on the plane’s cargo, and even then they were incomplete.

But she was “struck” by what she found nonetheless, and it sparked a new theory regarding the plane's cargo.

She stated in the book: “The fruit allegedly came from Muar in Johor state, south of Kuala Lumpur.

“Flight MH370 was carrying 4,566 kilograms of them. Four and a half tonnes, equivalent to the world’s largest hippopotamus carrying its offspring on its back.

Some have questioned the jet's cargo

“This quantity seems even more staggering given that it was not even mangosteen season.

“March is well past the harvest date for mangosteens. Moreover, when word of this cargo got out, the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) declared that there were no mangosteen trees in Johor state likely to bear fruit in that season.”

Khalid Abu Bakar Tan, Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police, later clarified that the fruit had not come from Muar but had merely been packaged there.

But, despite this, Ms Changy was left suspicious as the small town of Muar is more than 100km from Kuala Lumpur.

Summing it up, she noted that “the cargo of mangosteens therefore seemed about as probable as a monsoon rain in the dry season”.

The investigator found that between March 3 and April 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines transported around 50 cargoes of “fresh mangosteens” to Beijing.

A huge search operation was launched to find MH370

A new theory speculates the cargo may have been destined for the wildlife trade

She eventually reached the conclusion that “something shady” was going on.

In 2015, she attended a press conference on at Hong Kong University on the trafficking of ivory and wild animals in Asia.

Ms Changy said one of the slides showed the region’s “various hubs for this illegal trade, and Kuala Lumpur International Airport was by far the biggest circle on the whole map”.

She speculated that the “fresh mangosteens” were “merely a cover for cargoes of pangolin scales, elephant tusks or rhinoceros horns”.

She added: “This interpretation would explain away most of the anomalies relating to that part of the cargo, at least."

'The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370' is published by Mudlark

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:12 am

Sstartling new theory on missing jet

The US was responsible for downing missing flight MH370, which disappeared in 2014 with the loss of all 239 passengers on board, a new book claims

The American military used electronic jamming technology to make the plane disappear from radar screens before finally shooting it down after a failed bid to re-route it and seize highly-sensitive electronic gear to China.

That’s the startling theory put forward by French journalist Florence de Changy in her new book 'The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370'.

De Changy has been reporting and investigating on the missing airline since the mystery dominated news channels for weeks and months after March 2014.

In the 400-page book, the investigative journalist and Far-Eastern correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde delves into the numerous theories that have been put forward to explain the mystery of what happened to the plane.

But the idea that the case is a mystery, de Changy argues, is a fabrication in and of itself, perpetuated by those responsible and in-the-know about what really happened to the Boeing 777 on March 8, 2014.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished in 2014. Pictured: The missing aircraft taking off in France in 2011

As de Changy writes, 'It was not possible […] for a Boeing 777 to have simply disappeared.' She ironically calls the disappearance 'the greatest mystery in the history of aviation' which, she believes, is its biggest con.

After the writer goes into great detail over 14 chapters dispelling a number of theories that have been put forward - that the plane was hijacked; that the captain had run amok; that there had been a fire on-board; that there was a hypoxia event in the cabin - de Changy puts forward her own hypothesis in the book's epilogue.

Flight MH370, she suggests, was brought down by the United States Air Force after a failed attempt to intercept the plane and seize a shipment of 'electronic equipment' that was en-route to Beijing, and that the US did not want China to have.

In the months that followed the failed mission and downing of the airliner, de Changy says the governments involved in the aftermath - the US, China, Malaysia, Australia, Vietnam, and the UK and France in an investigative capacity - embarked on a campaign of distraction and disinformation to hide the atrocity.

The journalist prefaces her hypothesis by saying that it is based on her seven years of investigations across a number of continents that she recalls in the book, but that it is purely her own theory of what happened to flight MH370

From day one, when the plane vanished as it was flying from Kuala Lumpar to Beijing but vanished off the radar, de Changy says she was struck by the incompetence of the Malaysian authorities, by their blatant disregard for truth and obvious desire not to tell anyone anything of importance.

The details of what happened were reconstituted by trial and error, and ‘assembled like a jigsaw puzzle over subsequent weeks, months and years, in the light of information that was released in dribs and drabs, for the most part diluted in an ocean of false or inaccurate data’, she writes.

What is known is that the plane took off from Kuala Lumpar at 12:21 a.m. on Saturday, March 8 2014. It was due to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. on the same day. On board the Boeing 777-200ER were 227 passengers and 12 crew.

The plane was last seen on civilian radar at 1:21 a.m., above the ocean where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand. Its intended flight path should have taken it over the South China Sea and Vietnam.

But officials maintain that the plane was tracked on military radar over the Malacca Strait - a narrow stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra - having made a U-turn over Malaysia, instead heading towards the Indian ocean.

At 2:25 a.m., officials say military radar detected what could have been the jetliner, 200 miles north-west of Penang Island, suggesting the plane had turned north towards the Andaman Islands.

What would become the world's most extensive and expensive ever search mission in the history of aviation was launched, which de Changy alleges was completely pointless, and was even carried out to conceal reality.

The journalist posits that when a magician does a trick, one tactic above all is required for it to be successful: Distraction. In the case of MH370, she argues, the distraction was widespread disinformation.

'In the case of MH370, many different means were deployed at the same time,' she writes. 'The advance of truth has been crippled from day one.'

Analysis of the aircraft's movements identified a 23,000 square mile (60,000 square kilometres) search area in the southern India Ocean, approximately 1,200 miles west of Perth, a city in southwest Australia.

Australia assumed charge of the search on March 17, which de Changy claims was thousands of miles away from the location the plane was actually downed.

The operation was ruinously expensive (£103 million) and an abject failure. Nothing was found, not even a seatbelt. ‘When it came to the art of bungling a search operation and providing deliberate or accidental misinformation, Australia ran Malaysia pretty close,’ writes de Changy.

But there was no U-turn, she claims.

De Changy argues that the simplest explanation - that MH370 crashed in the South China Sea shortly after it was last seen on regional signals - was 'quashed and tampered with in record time', despite corroborating evidence at the time.

This was not helped by 24-hour news coverage of the event, she writes, that perpetuated theories, such as that of two mysterious Iranian passengers with fake passports potentially being behind the disaster.

The Iranian passengers turned out to have bought their forged passports in Thailand. Malaysia Airlines refused, ‘for security reasons’, to explain how travellers with forged passports had been able to buy tickets.

Interpol said they were not known terrorists. Apparently Iranians do this all the time, to avoid being identified at Iranian at airports. The lead went cold, having been the focus of all the news coverage for 48 hours.

The character of the pilot - Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah - was also quickly brought into question, with suggestions that the event might have been a murder-suicide. However, De Changy argues that no pilot would know how to make a plane totally vanish in the way that MH370 did.

She also points out that for decades, militaries have been trying to make stealth aircraft that is undetectable to others. It's not that easy, she says. In addition, she says that even if the theory Shah had purposefully crashed the airliner, the 'mystery' of the whereabouts of a huge plane carrying 239 people is still not solved.

Chunks of plane started to turn up on beaches across the region. The best hope was a flaperon (what are now called ailerons), which washed up on the shore of Reunion Island near Madagascar. The French, who were investigating as Reunion is one of their departments, said they were ‘almost certain’ it came from MH370.

The Malaysian prime minister announced his certainty that it had come from MH370.

But the flaperon had lost its ID plate, and they are so securely attached it really shouldn’t have done. De Changy found out that ID plates are routinely removed when airport parts are recycled, so the flaperon could have come from any old plane. She thinks it might even have been planted there.

After hundreds of pages of telling the story of her investigation, and debunking the numerous theories put forward as explanations, de Changy offers her hypothesis.

In the Being-777's cargo was 2.5 tonnes of 'poorly documented Motorola electronics equipment,' she says. The author suggests that this belonged to the US, and that China wanted to get their hands on it. Investigating the cargo, de Changy writes that it had not undergone the proper security screening.

At the time, the US - under Barack Obama's administration - was withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. Some believe the mystery cargo to be the remains of a drone downed in Pakistan, or military equipment captured by the Taliban.

De Changy says whatever it was, Beijing - under the new leadership of Xi Jinping at the time - wanted to get its hands of it, and had routed it through Kuala Lumpar to be taken to Beijing on a nigh-time passenger jet.

But when the US caught wind of the plot, de Changy suggests the rival superpower came up with a plan to intercept the cargo, and to force MH370 to land, confiscate the cargo, and send it on its way to Beijing with just a two-hour delay.

At the time, de Changy reports that the US was participating in an air defence operation in the region, and that the plan could be masked as a training operation.

Furthermore, Waypoint IGARI - The 'transfer of control' point, when Malaysia air traffic control hands over to its Vietnamese counterparts on the route being taken by MH370 - is controlled by Singapore, a US ally.

At this point of the flight, de Changy suggests that two US Airborne Early Warning (Awacs) planes could have sandwiched MH370 - from above and below - completely blocking its magnetic field and all communications, rendering it invisible.

At this point, Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah would have been ordered by the US to land the plane at a nearby airbase, likely airbase U-Tapao in Thailand, de Changy says.

What the planning did not account for, however, was the pilot's refusal to follow such orders, instead perhaps saying he would maintain his course to Beijing until he was told otherwise by Malaysia Airlines.

It's possible that the pilot and co-pilot attempted to take a shortcut to reach Chinese airspace more quickly, de Changy suggests, but their attempt to escape the clutches of the US planes failed.

'The shooting down could have been a blunder,' she writes, 'but it could have also been a last resort to stop the plane and its special cargo from falling into Chinese hands.'

De Changy also says it's a possibility that it was in fact China that struck the plane, reacting to seeing a number of unannounced planes flying into its airspace in a region that is highly volatile.

With its huge navy presence in the region, de Changy says - under the cover of disinformation being spread at the time - the US could have cleared up the crash site while the international search for the plane took place thousands of miles away.

The journalist then details how the US and China responded in the aftermath of the crash, writing how she was struck the uncharacteristic discretion from US officials throughout the crisis, a country that is known for offering support in disasters.

She also notes that the US never issued 'the slightest reproach to Malaysian authorities for such a disaster,' which involved a US-made Boeing plane and thee US nationals on board.

It is also no secret, she writes, that the US has extensive satellite coverage in the region, yet no help has been offered in the form of satellite images from the numerous positions the country has above the South China Sea.

Neither has the US been forthcoming with help and resources in the search for the missing plane, de Changy says.

Despite this, she points to records of calls between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in the aftermath, the details of which were not fully released, and suggests that the pair could have both been in-the-know about what happened to MH370.

But why would China go along with this, with the majority of the passengers being Chinese citizens? In the crisis, de Changy says that China likely saw an opportunity.

Xi Xingping was less than a year into his time as President, and she writes that the leader was faced with a choice: Either expose the US' responsibility for the disaster, or use it to make a deal.

In the months and years that followed, China begun to aggressively expand in the South China Sea, with the US largely turning a blind eye, offering little resistance.

For example. on May 2, 2014, weeks after the disappearance of MH370, National Offshore Oil Corporation moved its $1 billion oil righ - the Hai Yang Shi You 981 - to a location 17 nautical miles from Triton Island, the southwesternmost island of the disputed Paracel Islands.

'Isn't it ironic that while Australia was attracting the world news headlines, with its claim to be overseeing the largest (bogus) search operation in the history of mankind, China was quietly performing an incomparable more ambitious, more costly and more consequential operation?', de Changy writes.

Other nations have also kept it quiet too, she claims. Malaysia, who bore the brunt of the majority of the criticism in the world's press; Vietnam, whose shores are closest to where de Changy believes the plane came down; France, who own Réunion island where a piece of debris washed ashore on; the UK, whose Air Accidents Investigations Branch established the final crash site of MH370.

All were either knowingly or unknowingly complicit, de Changy claims.

Why did everyone lie? Because although the Malaysians didn’t actually want the puzzle solved for reasons de Changy explains, they wanted it to be seen to have been solved, so they could forget about it.

France was trying to sell arms to Malaysia, and was happy to oil the wheels. The French report on a mysterious flaperon - that washed up on a far-away shore - was never published.

Malaysia and the US developed a surprisingly close relationship in the months that followed the disappearance, de Changy writes, and by 2016, Vietnam had become America's fastest growing export market.

While the reporter acknowledges - on numerous occasions - that her hypothesis is far-fetched, she stands by her debunking of the other theories that have been put forward, and that the accepted narrative and accusations about the pilot should be widely challenged.

'I have established that MH370 did not U-turn, did not fly over Malaysia and, to cut a long story shot, never crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean. Many more clues point to a covert interception attempt that went terribly wrong, with a fatal accident happening at 2:40 a.m. between Vietnam and China,' she writes.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MH370? SOME OF THE THEORIES INTO THE MYSTERY EXAMINED

DID THE PILOT HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE?

Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned mass murder because of personal problems, locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, closing down all communications, depressurising the main cabin and then disabling the aircraft so that it continued flying on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel.

That was the popular theory in the weeks after the plane's disappearance.

His personal problems, rumours in Kuala Lumpur said, included a split with his wife Fizah Khan, and his fury that a relative, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, had been given a five-year jail sentence for sodomy shortly before he boarded the plane for the flight to Beijing.

But the pilot's wife angrily denied any personal problems and other family members and his friends said he was a devoted family man and loved his job.

This theory was also the conclusion of the first independent study into the disaster by the New Zealand-based air accident investigator, Ewan Wilson.

Wilson, the founder of Kiwi Airlines and a commercial pilot himself, arrived at the shocking conclusion after considering 'every conceivable alternative scenario'.

However, he has not been able to provide any conclusive evidence to support his theory.

The claims are made in the book 'Goodnight Malaysian 370', which Wilson co-wrote with the New Zealand broadsheet journalist, Geoff Taylor.

It's also been rumoured that Zaharie used a flight simulator at his home to plot a path to a remote island.

However, officials in Kuala Lumpur declared that Malaysian police and the FBI's technical experts had found nothing to suggest he was planning to hijack the flight after closely examining his flight simulator.

And there are also theories that the tragic disappearance may have been a heroic act of sacrifice by the pilot.

Australian aviation enthusiast Michael Gilbert believes the doomed plane caught fire mid-flight, forcing the pilot to plot a course away from heavily populated areas.

IF NOT THE PILOT, WAS THE CO-PILOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MYSTERY?

Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, again for personal problems, was suspected by rumour-spreaders to have overpowered the pilot and disabled the aircraft, flying it to its doom with crew and passengers unable to get through the locked cockpit door.

Theorists have put forward the suggestion that he was having relationship problems and this was his dramatic way of taking his own life.

But he was engaged to be married to Captain Nadira Ramli, 26, a fellow pilot from another airline, and loved his job. There are no known reasons for him to have taken any fatal action.

There have been a series of outlandish theories about the disappearance of the plane

Others have suggested that because he was known to have occasionally invited young women into the cockpit during a flight, he had done so this time and something had gone wrong.

Young Jonti Roos said in March that she spent an entire flight in 2011 in the cockpit being entertained by Hamid, who was smoking.

Interest in the co-pilot was renewed when it was revealed he was the last person to communicate from the cockpit after the communication system was cut off.

DID THE RUSSIANS STEAL MH370 AND FLY THE JET TO KAZAKHSTAN

An expert has claimed the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was hijacked on the orders of Vladimir Putin and secretly landed in Kazakhstan.

Jeff Wise, a U.S. science writer who spearheaded CNN's coverage of the Boeing 777-200E, has based his outlandish theory on pings that the plane gave off for seven hours after it went missing, that were recorded by British telecommunications company Inmarsat.

Wise believes that hijackers 'spoofed' the plane's navigation data to make it seem like it went in another direction, but flew it to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased from Kazakhstan by Russia.

However, Wise admits in New York Magazine that he does not know why Vladimir Putin would want to steal a plane full of people and that his idea is somewhat 'crazy'.

Wise also noted there were three Russian men onboard the flight, two of them Ukrainian passport holders.

Aviation disaster experts analysed satellite data and discovered - like the data recorded by Inmarsat - that the plane flew on for hours after losing contact.

Careful examination of the evidence has revealed that MH370 made three turns after the last radio call, first a turn to the left, then two more, taking the plane west, then south towards Antarctica.

MH370 WAS USED BY TERRORISTS FOR A SUICIDE ATTACK ON THE CHINESE NAVY

This extraordinary claim came from 41-year-old British yachtsman Katherine Tee, from Liverpool, whose initial account of seeing what she thought was a burning plane in the night sky made headlines around the world.

On arrival in Thailand's Phuket after sailing across the Indian Ocean from Cochin, southern India with her husband, she said: 'I could see the outline of the plane - it looked longer than planes usually do.There was what appeared to be black smoke streaming from behind.'

Ms Tee's general description of the time and place was vague and she lost all credibility when she later stated on her blog that she believed MH370 was a kamikaze plane that was aimed at a flotilla of Chinese ships and it was shot down before it could smash into the vessels.

Without solid proof of the satellite data, she wrote on her blog, Saucy Sailoress, the plane she saw was flying at low altitude towards the military convoy she and her husband had seen on recent nights. She added that internet research showed a Chinese flotilla was in the area at the time.

While the debris proved the plane went down in the Indian Ocean, the location of the main underwater wreckage — and its crucial black box data recorders — remains stubbornly elusive.

THE JET LANDED ON THE WATER AND WAS SEEN FLOATING ON THE ANDAMAN SEA

On a flight from Jeddah to Kuala Lumpur that crossed over the Andaman Sea on March 8, Malaysian woman Raja Dalelah, 53, saw what she believed was a plane sitting on the water's surface.

She didn't know about the search that had been started for MH370. She alerted a stewardess who told her to go back to sleep.

'I was shocked to see what looked like the tail and wing of an aircraft on the water,' she said.

It was only when she told her friends on landing in Kuala Lumpur what she had seen that she learned of the missing jet. She had seen the object at about 2.30pm Malaysian time.

She said she had been able to identify several ships and islands before noticing the silver object that she said was a plane.

But her story was laughed off by pilots who said it would have been impossible to have seen part of an aircraft in the water from 35,000ft or seven miles.

Ms Raja filed an official report with police the same day and has kept to her story.

'I know what I saw,' she said.

THE AIRCRAFT SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC SYSTEMS FAILURE AND CRASH-LANDED ON THE OCEAN

A catastrophic event such as a fire disabling much of the equipment resulted in the pilots turning the plane back towards the Malaysian peninsula in the hope of landing at the nearest airport.

Satellite data, believable or not, suggests the aircraft did make a turn and theorists say there would be no reason for the pilots to change course unless confronted with an emergency.

A fire in a similar Boeing 777 jet parked at Cairo airport in 2011 was found to have been caused by a problem with the first officer's oxygen mask supply tubing.

Stewarts Law, which has litigated in a series of recent air disasters, believes the plane crashed after a fire - similar to the blaze on the Cairo airport runway - broke out in the cockpit.

After an investigation into the Cairo blaze, Egypt's Aircraft Accident Investigation Central Directorate (EAAICD) released their final report which revealed that the fire originated near the first officer's oxygen mask supply tubing.

The cause of the fire could not be conclusively determined, but investigators pinpointed a problem with the cockpit hose used to provide oxygen for the crew in the event of decompression.

Following the 2011 fire, US aircraft owners were instructed to replace the system - it was estimated to cost $2,596 (£1,573) per aircraft. It was not known whether Malaysia Airlines had carried out the change.

If either pilot wanted to crash the plane, why turn it around? So the turn-around suggests they were trying to land as soon as possible because of an emergency.

THE US SHOT DOWN THE AIRCRAFT FEARING A TERROR ATTACK ON DIEGO GARCIA

The Boeing 777 was shot down by the Americans who feared the aircraft had been hijacked and was about to be used to attack the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian Ocean. So conspiracy theorists claim.

And former French airline director Marc Dugain said he had been warned by British intelligence that he was taking risks by investigating this angle.

There is no way of checking whether Dugain received such a warning or why he believes the Americans shot down the plane.

But adding to the theory that the aircraft was flown to Diego Garcia, either by the pilot Zaharie or a hijacker, was the claim that on the pilot's home flight simulator was a 'practice' flight to the island.

Professor Glees said: 'The Americans would have no interest in doing anything of the kind and not telling the world.

'In theory, they might wish to shoot down a plane they thought was attacking them but they wouldn't just fire missiles, they'd investigate it first with fighters and would quickly realise that even if it had to be shot down, the world would need to know.'

Mr Rosenschein said: 'The U.S. would not have been able to hide this fact and in any event, if it were true, they would have admitted their action as it would have prevented a successful terrorist action on this occasion and acted as a deterrent for future terrorist attacks.'

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