7 The Truth
For now the official investigations have petered out. The Australians have done what they could. The Chinese want to move on and are censoring any news that might inflame the passions of the families. The French are off in France, rehashing the satellite data. The Malaysians just wish the whole subject would go away. I attended an event in the administrative city of Putrajaya last fall, where Grace Nathan and Gibson stood in front of the cameras with the transport minister, Anthony Loke. The minister formally accepted five new pieces of debris collected over the summer. He was miserable to the point of being angry. He barely spoke, and took no questions from the press. Nathan was seething at the minister’s attitude. That night, over dinner, she insisted that the government should not be allowed to walk away so easily. She said, “They didn’t follow protocol. They didn’t follow procedure. I think it’s appalling. More could have been done. As a result of the inaction of the air force—of all of the parties involved in the first hour who didn’t follow protocol—we are stuck like this now. Every one of them breached protocol one time, multiple times. Every single person who had some form of responsibility at the time did not do what he was supposed to do. To varying degrees of severity. Maybe in isolation some might not seem so bad, but when you look at it as a whole, every one of them contributed 100 percent to the fact that the airplane has not been found.”read more
MH370 Plane Disappearance Mystery May Have Been Finally Solved Once And For All
MH370 plane route similar to simulator record
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished over the Indian Ocean in March 2014, along with all 238 people on board.
Now, 5 years later, the mystery may finally be explained after The Atlantic published an extensive report detailing the probable turn of events that fateful night.
Most chilling was the discovery that first pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, had practised a similar route on his flight simulator at home, as though plotting the plane’s fatal trajectory.
related: MH370 Was Deliberately Steered Off Course, Says Investigators After 4 Years
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MH370 mystery solved? New report says pilot was depressed and might have deliberately crashed the plane
It has been over five years since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared, with no explanation as to what happened on board the flight, and what caused the Boeing 777-200ER to go down, killing all 239 crew and passengers.
Countless multi-country searches have been fruitless, and millions of dollars have been spent with very little to show for it, leading many to wonder if the mystery of why the plane went down will ever be solved at all. Despite the extensive searches, it seems that flight MH370 has simply vanished, and the the wreckage has never been found, though pieces of debris have washed up from the Indian Ocean.
However, a new lengthy and detailed report in The Atlantic, published on June 17, Monday, shows that evidence points to a deliberate attempt by the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, to depressurize the plane until everyone on board suffered from a gentle and peaceful death, and then Captain Zaharie programmed the plane to fly for several hours until its fuel ran out and it rapidly descended into the ocean, shattering into a million pieces.
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Five years on, five theories about MH370's disappearance
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, triggering the biggest hunt in aviation history.
Only a few fragments of the jet have been found, all on western Indian Ocean shores, and search efforts ended last year.
The disappearance has spawned a host of theories - some credible, some outlandish. Here are five of them:
- MECHANICAL FAILURE
- ROGUE PILOT
- TERROR PLOT
- REMOTE TAKE OVER
- PUTIN PERHAPS?
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Five years on, MH370 families band together to seek closure
Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished
The group of Malaysians meet about once a month - usually at a coffee shop or a home in Kuala Lumpur - to support each other and try to keep missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the public eye.
Their relatives were among the 239 people onboard the Boeing 777 when it vanished enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, and became the world's greatest aviation mystery.
Scraps of aircraft debris have washed up on the east African coastline, but two underwater searches in the southern Indian Ocean proved fruitless, leaving few clues as to what happened.
related: Pain lingers on for MH370 next of kin
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5 years on, Malaysia open to proposals to resume MH370 search
Five years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, the Malaysian government has said it is open to continuing the search. Search efforts ceased in May 2018. Malaysia's transport minister on Sunday said the government was open to proposals to resume the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, as family and friends of the passengers marked the fifth anniversary of the Boeing 777's disappearance.
There were 239 people on board MH370 when it vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Its unexplained disappearance became one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke planted a commemorative tree with the family members of passengers at an event to mark the fifth anniversary of the plane's disappearance, during which he said the government was willing to explore further search options.
"If there are any credible leads or specific proposals ... we are more than willing to look at them," Loke said.
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MH370 theories revealed - what REALLY happened to the missing plane?
A new report casts a fresh spotlight on the captain at the controls of the Malaysian Airlines plane, suggesting he hijacked the jet and deliberately crashed into the Indian Ocean, where the aircraft disintegrated into "confetti", in a murder-suicide plot.
The claim matches with the findings of independent investigators who have pored over data and other evidence gathered since MH370 vanished on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
They concluded that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah turned around and flew out over the sea until the Boeing 777 ran out of fuel and violently slammed into the water - but that hasn't stopped conspiracy theorists.
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MISSING PLANE MYSTERY Flight MH370 theories – has the Malaysia Airlines plane mystery been solved and what’s the latest?
Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people on board. Just 38 minutes into the flight, MH370 lost contact with Malaysia Airlines.
Investigators thought the most likely location for the jet was in the Indian Ocean after analysing information from the British satellite telecommunications company Immarsat.
Likely locations for the airliner could be tracked by knowing the distance from the fixed satellite, but it would also change depending which direction the plane was flying in after its last known position and at what speed it was travelling at.
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Unanswered questions leave MH370 families angry at official ‘safety report’ on missing plane
Street art featuring Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on a wall outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: EPA
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which mysteriously vanished in 2014, was probably “manipulated” off course, investigators into the tragedy concluded on Monday.
But in a 495-page report, they were not able to offer concrete reasons as to why the Boeing 777 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, sparking anger and disappointment among grieving relatives of passengers and crew.
“The team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of MH370,” concluded the largely technical report, noting that Malaysian government investigators were hindered in their probe as neither the plane’s wreckage nor its black boxes had been found.
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MH370 bombshell: 'Lonely' pilot PLANNED fatal crash in home simulator report claims
MH370’s pilot practised his flight’s fatal crash on a home installed flight simulator a new report has claimed
The captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah of the Malaysia Airlines jet, which disappeared five years ago experimented with a flight similar to that of MH370 before the fatal crash a report by US aviation writer William Langewiesche has claimed. The report from US magazine, The Atlantic, reports that an FBI examination has shown that he tried to simulate with a flight profile very similar to that of MH370. While investigating the flight simulator, Dr Victor Iannello revealed that of all the flight simulations the pilot ran, the one closest to MH370 was not a continuous flight
Every other experiment involved Mr Zaharie taking off with the aeroplane and landing. However, with the plane profile that matched MH370, the captain continually jumped forward before releasing some fuel until it was all used up.
Dr Iannello believes that the near identical simulation was the captain’s way of replicating his fatal crash. Speaking of the crash he said: “It’s as if he was simulating a simulation.”
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SEARCH FOR MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370
Ocean Infinity has begun searching the Southern Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 MH370 that went missing on the 8th of March 2014.
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SEARCH FOR MH370
Fugro’s expertise, experience and equipment played a key role in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Three Fugro specialist survey vessels, equipped with deepwater search technology, were involved in the survey and search for the missing Boeing 777 in the Southern Indian Ocean search area.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
9M-MRO, the aircraft that disappeared, shown here on take-off in 2011
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (also referred to as MH370 or MAS370)[a] was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to its destination, Beijing Capital International Airport.[1] The crew of the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft last communicated with air traffic control (ATC) around 38 minutes after takeoff when the flight was over the South China Sea. The aircraft was lost from ATC radar screens minutes later, but was tracked by military radar for another hour, deviating westwards from its planned flight path, crossing the Malay Peninsula and Andaman Sea. It left radar range 200 nautical miles (370 km) northwest of Penang Island in northwestern Malaysia. With all 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard presumed dead, the disappearance of Flight 370 was the deadliest incident involving a Boeing 777 and the deadliest in Malaysia Airlines' history, until it was surpassed in both regards by Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine, four months later. The combined loss caused significant financial problems for Malaysia Airlines, which was renationalised by the Malaysian government in December 2014.
The search for the missing airplane, which became the most costly in aviation history, focused initially on the South China and Andaman seas, before analysis of the aircraft's automated communications with an Inmarsat satellite identified a possible crash site somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. The lack of official information in the days immediately after the disappearance prompted fierce criticism from the Chinese public, particularly from relatives of the passengers; most people on board Flight 370 were of Chinese origin. Several pieces of marine debris confirmed to be from the aircraft washed ashore in the western Indian Ocean during 2015 and 2016. After a three-year search across 120,000 square kilometres (46,000 sq mi) of ocean failed to locate the aircraft, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre heading the operation suspended their activities in January 2017. A second search launched in January 2018 by the private contractor Ocean Infinity also ended without success after six months.
The disappearance of Flight 370 has been dubbed one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. Relying mostly on analysis of data from the Inmarsat satellite with which the aircraft last communicated, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau proposed initially that a hypoxia event was the most likely cause given the available evidence, although there has not been any consensus concerning this theory among investigators. At various stages of the investigation, possible hijacking scenarios were considered, including crew involvement, and suspicion of the airplane's cargo manifest; many unofficial theories have also been proposed by the media. The Malaysian Ministry of Transport's final report from July 2018 was inconclusive, but highlighted Malaysian air traffic controllers' failures to attempt to communicate with the aircraft shortly after its disappearance. In the absence of a definitive cause of the disappearance, safety recommendations and regulations of the air transport industry, citing Flight 370, have been intended mostly to prevent a repetition of the circumstances associated with the loss. These include increased battery life on underwater locator beacons, lengthening of recording times on flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, and new standards for aircraft position reporting over open ocean.
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