[2014] Most plausible explanation of mystery of Malasyian Flight 370

[Tia]

Very very sad indeed

The Evidence is Mounting That Disappearance of MH370 Was a Deliberate Act By The


http://www.businessinsider.com/moun...appearance-deliberate-act-by-pilot-2016-8?amp


Richard

 

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MH370 Was Flown into Water 'Deliberately', Says Senior Crash Expert - by Chiara Palazzo, Sydney and James Rothwell/ News/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk

"One of the world's leading air crash investigators says he believes flight MH370 was "deliberately" crashed into the sea by a rogue pilot in a possible murder-suicide bid.

Larry Vance said erosion on the edges of recovered wing parts suggested the plane was lowered to its doom in a controlled fashion.

The erosion was caused by a part of the plane's wing – called a flaperon – being exposed to the elements when it was extended.

The flaperon can only be extended by a pilot in full control of his plane, he said...."

A piece of debris identified as a flaperon from missing flight MH370 Credit: EPA


Richard

 

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Malaysia Admits MH370 Pilot Flew Indian Ocean Route on Flight Simulator - by Agence France-Presse/ News/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk

"Malaysian officials have said that one of MH370's pilots plotted a path over the Indian Ocean on a home flight simulator, but warned this did not prove he deliberately crashed the plane.

The Malaysia Airlines jet was carrying 239 passengers and crew when it disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

It is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean, but an extensive hunt off Australia's west coast is drawing to a close without any sign of the plane.



Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had used a home-made flight simulator to plot a very similar course to MH370's presumed final route, said Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.

But he emphasised this was just one of thousands of practice routes discovered on Zaharie's hard drive.

"There is no evidence to confirm that (the pilot) flew the plane into the southern Indian Ocean," he told reporters at a press conference on Thursday.
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Richard

 

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Malaysia Confirms Flight 370 Course Was On Pilot's Simulator - by Eileen Ng/ World/ Aviation/ Time/ time.com

"Malaysian officials had previously refused to confirm the findings.

(KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia) — Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed.

Australian officials overseeing the search for the plane last month said data recovered from Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s simulator included a flight path to the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysian officials at the time refused to confirm the findings.

On Thursday, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told local journalists that the flight path was found on the simulator. He also cautioned there were “thousands” of destinations on the simulator and no evidence that Zaharie flew the plane in that area or deliberately crashed it...."

Richard

 

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MH370 Was Flown into Water 'Deliberately', Says Senior Crash Expert - by Chiara Palazzo, Sydney and James Rothwell/ News/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk

"One of the world's leading air crash investigators says he believes flight MH370 was "deliberately" crashed into the sea by a rogue pilot in a possible murder-suicide bid.

Larry Vance said erosion on the edges of recovered wing parts suggested the plane was lowered to its doom in a controlled fashion.

The erosion was caused by a part of the plane's wing – called a flaperon – being exposed to the elements when it was extended.

The flaperon can only be extended by a pilot in full control of his plane, he said...."

A piece of debris identified as a flaperon from missing flight MH370 Credit: EPA


Richard

If a pilot was going to crash into the ocean, why would he lower the flaps to slow the speed down????? Did he shoot the copilot??? Where they both suicidal???

The expert sounds like a publicity hound.

Cheers

 

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MH370 Search Ship Fugro Discovery Ends Mission Without Success - by Alistair Jamieson/ News/ Missing Jet/ NBC News/ nbcnews.com


"One of the three ships searching the depths of the Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will end its mission Thursday, authorities said.

The Fugro Discovery will leave the remote search zone ahead of the anticipated suspension of efforts to locate the wreckage of the missing Boeing 777.

The Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) said in an operational update Wednesday that the contracted vessel will "transit to Singapore to be readied for its next project, unrelated to the search for MH370."

It leaves Fugro Equator and Dong Hai Jiu 101 to search the remainder of the 46,000 square mile zone that experts say is the most likely place where the plane crashed in 2014..."

Fugro Discovery has covered 50,000 miles and found no trace of MH370. ABIS Chris Beerens / ABIS Chris Beerens


Richard

 

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If a pilot was going to crash into the ocean, why would he lower the flaps to slow the speed down????? Did he shoot the copilot??? Where they both suicidal???

The expert sounds like a publicity hound.

Cheers

Who knows? There are many aspects of this situation that seem to defy logic.

That being said I could see where a pilot might have wanted to see how long he could keep the plane airborne after running out of fuel.

 

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Australian Transpotation Safety Board corrects the record

https://www.atsb.gov.au/newsroom/correcting-the-record/

"False and inaccurate media report on the search for MH370
25 July 2016

An article published in The Australian today by Byron Bailey in relation to the search for MH370 contains inaccurate information and false assertions. In the interests of providing a transparent and accurate account, the ATSB considers it necessary to correct the record.

Firstly, Mr Bailey claims that the company contracted by the ATSB to conduct the search, Fugro, believes they are looking in the wrong place. In fact, Fugro has publicly denied this claim and issued a statement to say:

Fugro wishes to make it very clear that we believe the search area to have been well defined based on all of the available scientific data. In short, we have been thoroughly looking in the most probable place – and that is the right place to search.

Mr Bailey also claims that FBI data from MH370 captain’s home simulator shows that the captain plotted a course to the southern Indian Ocean and that it was a deliberate planned murder/suicide. There is no evidence to support this claim.

As Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester said in a statement, the simulator information shows only the possibility of planning. It does not reveal what happened on the night of its disappearance nor where the aircraft is located.

While the FBI data provides a piece of information, the best available evidence of the aircraft’s location is based on what we know from the last satellite communications with the aircraft. This is indeed the consensus of international satellite and aircraft specialists."

The ATSB corrects several other statements.

Cheers

 

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Off hand, I'd say it's pretty obvious that they're searching the wrong area. If they were searching in the right place, they'd have found it.

 

[Beefnot]

Off hand, I'd say it's pretty obvious that they're searching the wrong area. If they were searching in the right place, they'd have found it.

It is not that obvious if the consensus of most experts evaluating the data is that this was the right search area. The area is wide enough and the ocean there is deep enough that perhaps it is not unreasonable that they have been unable to locate the plane.

 

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MH370 Search: Tanzania Debris 'Part of Missing Plane', From BBC News.

http:/xwww.bbc.com/news/world-asia--37377514.


Richard

 

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MH370 Search: Tanzania Debris 'Part of Missing Plane', From BBC News.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37377514

Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Image caption The part number and date stamp helped investigators trace the origins of the piece




Richard

 

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MH370: Debris Found in Madagascar in June Still Not Collected by Malaysia - by Elle Hunt/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

"Debris thought to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been languishing in storage for months awaiting collection by Malaysian authorities, prompting questions about the ongoing search effort.

Blaine Gibson, the US independent investigator who has previously discovered debris confirmed to be from MH370, found several further pieces on beaches in Madagascar in June that that he believed to be from the missing plane.

He told the Guardian that he notified Australian and Malaysian authorities, but the items have not been picked up by Malaysia, which oversees the retrieval and analysis of evidence in the plane’s disappearance.

Six pieces of possible aircraft debris remain with authorities in Madagascar, awaiting collection, Gibson said, three months after he discovered them. There were also “possible personal effects” of the plane’s passengers, he added...."




Richard

 

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Scorched Debris Could Suggest Missing MH370 Plane Suffered Fire - by Oliver Holmes and Elle Hunt/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

"Fragments of what appear to be burnt debris found on a beach in Madagascar could lead to a breakthrough in the case to solve how Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished more than two years ago.

Discovered by American independent investigator Blaine Gibson – who has previously found other parts that were confirmed to be from MH370 – the material is the first to show signs of exposure to heat or fire.

“If they are confirmed as MH370 and if the fire was before the crash, this is significant evidence of what caused the plane’s demise,” Gibson, who has been hunting for the aircraft for more than a year, told the Guardian by phone..."

Richard

 

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MH370 Wreckage Hunter Won't Give Up Until Mystery Solved - by Rod McGuirck, Associated Press/ News/ Salon/ salon.com

"CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The fedora, the bomber jacket and the consuming quest invite comparisons to Indiana Jones. Blaine Gibson, though, hasn’t matched the film hero’s triumph in finding the legendary chest containing the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.

Not that he didn’t try. “The Ark of the Covenant, I did not find it. However, I do believe that it’s in Ethiopia somewhere,” Gibson told AP recently.

The amateur sleuth has had far greater success finding clues from a modern mystery: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370...."

In this Sept. 12, 2016 photo, Blaine Gibson speaks to the media during an interview about his on-going quest to find the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Canberra, Australia. Gibson is the first person searching for the plane who's actually found any trace of it and says he won't quit gathering clues until the mystery is solved. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)(Credit: AP)


Richard

 

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Third Piece of Plane Wreckage Confirmed as MH370 Debris - by Ben Westcott, CNN/ World/ cnn.com

"(CNN)A fragment of plane wing discovered in Mauritius in May has been confirmed as coming from missing plane Malaysia Airlines MH370, Australia's Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said in a statement on Friday.

It is the third piece of debris to be definitively linked to MH370, Australia's transport minister Darren Chester said Friday.

"It does not, however, provide information that can be used to determine a specific location of the aircraft," Chester said...."

Left outboard flap trailing edge section confirmed as MH370 debris.


Richard

 

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MH370: Officals Say Piece of Aircraft Wing Found on Mauritius Is From Missing Plane - From Associated Press/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

A piece of an aircraft wing found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysian and Australian officials said Friday.

The piece of wing flap was found in May and subsequently analysed by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane in a remote stretch of ocean off Australia’s west coast.

Investigators used a part number found on the debris to link it to the missing Boeing 777, the agency said in a statement.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai also confirmed the identification..."



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Missing MH370 Search Delayed Again By Bad Weather in Indian Ocean.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...elayed-again-bad-weather-indian-ocean-n668676.


Richard

 

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The Man Solving Malaysia Flight 370 - by Dave Seminara/ Adventure/ Travel/ BBC/ bbc.com

"Blaine Alan Gibson has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones – though in temperament he’s probably a lot closer to Sherlock Holmes.

Gibson, 59, made headlines around the world earlier this year after he found debris from a Boeing 777 that was later confirmed to be a piece of the infamous Malaysia flight 370 aircraft, which went missing shortly after take-off on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board.

After diligently working to transfer the panel to the authorities, Gibson stayed on the case, conducting his own unpaid investigation in 12 countries to solve the mystery of flight 370..."

Gibson has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones (Credit: Mark Graham/Getty)


Richard

 

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Report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Narrows Search Area, If Not Mystery - by Michelle Innis/ Asia/ Pacific/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com

"SYDNEY, Australia — Extensive tracking of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared more than two years ago in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people onboard, has further narrowed the search area in a remote swath of ocean off the coast of Western Australia.

The tracking was detailed in a report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau that was released in Canberra on Wednesday.

The report said it was likely that debris drifted from an area around the midpoint of the current search site, due west of Australia’s southwestern corner. Modeling and ocean tests showed it was unlikely the debris began to drift from farther north or south...."

French police officers carried a piece of airplane debris on the island of Réunion last year. The debris later proved to have been from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Credit Lucas Marie/Associated Press


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MH370: Data Suggests Plane was Out of Control as It Plummeted Into Ocean - by Elle Hunt/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ the Guardian/ theguardian.com

"Australia is mounting a case for a new search effort for MH370 bolstered by “important new information” about what investigators believe to have happened at the end of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

A new report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) suggests the plane was in a “high and increasing rate of descent” at the time of its final satellite communications, and that the right outboard wing flap found on Pemba island was not deployed at the time of the crash.

Both are consistent with an uncontrolled plane plummeting into the ocean in the final moments of a flight in which it was not configured for a landing or ditching.

The future of the hunt for MH370 hinges on whether this constitutes credible new evidence about the location of the wreck. A spokesman for the ATSB declined to say...."


Richard

 

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Flight MH370 Update: Search Report Delay Speculated to be 'Death Dive Theory' Cover-Up
- by Suman Varandani/ World/ The Search for MH370/ IBT/ ibtimes.com

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is leading the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, will not release a report by international experts reviewing the strategy to find the missing plane until the search is complete, authorities said.

The move by the Australian authorities has given rise to speculation that ATSB is using a public relations cover for its decision to base the search on its “death dive” theory of an unpiloted rapid descent at the end of the flight, the Australian reported Friday. Alternately, it is also suggested that authorities may be reviewing to identify a new search area...."

Richard

 

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MH370 Kin to Fly to Madagascar to Find Plane Debris
From DW (Deutsche Welle)/ Disasters/ dw.com

"Relatives of passengers of the crashed Boeing 777 flight are traveling to Madagascar in hopes of finding the plane's debris. The aircraft was carrying 239 passengers when it crashed into the Indian Ocean in March 2014.

Voice370, an organization advocating the grievances of family members of the air crash victims, announced on Monday that its members would travel to the island country to look for its kin.

The group, which will visit Madagascar from December 3 to 11 included four Malaysians, a French national and two Chinese nationals, dpa news agency reported. They would be accompanied by Blaine Gibson, a private investigator from the US who has been searching for the wreckage...."

Richard

 

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An Australian researcher suggests a windshield fire:

https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/10/20/61262/

https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/11/19/come-undone-mh370/

It's a plausible alternative to the standard suicide pilot theories.

BTW, I suggest Ben Sandilands' Plane Talking blog as a quality alternative to the silly speculations of the mainstream media on aviation matters.

 

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An Australian researcher suggests a windshield fire:

https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/10/20/61262/

https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/11/19/come-undone-mh370/

It's a plausible alternative to the standard suicide pilot theories.

BTW, I suggest Ben Sandilands' Plane Talking blog as a quality alternative to the silly speculations of the mainstream media on aviation matters.

Hi Maple Leaf,

Thanks for posting those two links. Interesting theories that definitely sound plausible.

Richard