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

[winger]

A somber video

 

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Man Claims to Have Found Missing MH370 Plane on 'Google Earth'
By Kate Buck/ News/ World/ Metro/ metro.co.uk

"An amateur crash investigator claims to have found the remains of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 while looking on Google Earth.

Peter McMahon, 64, an Australian mechanical engineer who says he has worked in crash investigations for more than 25 years, insists he has discovered the missing aircraft.

Flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 during its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with all 239 passengers and crew on board declared dead.

Australia, China and Malaysia ended an unsuccessful £115million search in January 2017.

The aircraft has yet to be discovered and the cause of its disappearance is still unknown.

Could this be missing flight MH370? (Picture: Google)


Richard

 

[x3 skier]

Still “floating” after 4 years? While “full of bullet holes”? What next, it was dropped there last week from an Alien Spaceship?

Cheers

 

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No Sign of MH370 Found in New Scan of Indian Ocean Floor
By Trevor Marshallsea/ AP News/ apnews.com

SYDNEY (AP) — A new scan of the Indian Ocean floor for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has searched nearly 80,000 square kilometers (31,000 square miles) since January without finding any sign of the wreckage. But the company looking for the plane, which has been missing for more than four years, said it is still determined to find it.

This comes despite earlier hopes that a 25,000-square-kilometer (9,650-square-mile) area most likely to contain the missing aircraft had been identified.

Ocean Infinity, the American technology company conducting the latest search, said in an update Monday that it had scanned up to 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) per day since launching its mission far off the west coast of Australia in late January. It has searched both inside and outside an area identified by Australian authorities.

“Whilst it’s disappointing there has been no sign of MH370 in the Australian Transport Safety Bureau search area and further north, there is still some search time remaining,” Ocean Infinity chief executive officer Oliver Plunkett said in a statement.

“Everyone at Ocean Infinity remains absolutely determined for the remainder of the search,” he said...."

Richard

 

[DaveNV]

Are they expecting to find the aircraft intact? I'd think after finding a piece of the wing clear across the ocean, that anything remaining of the aircraft would long ago have disintegrated and been moved all over the place, due to ocean currents and such.

Dave

 

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Mathematician Theorizes What Happened to MH370
From Texas A&M Today/ today.tamu.edu

Note this article is from June 8, 2015

"The plight of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370) is one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, but an interdisciplinary research team led by a Texas A&M University at Qatar math professor has theorized the ill-fated plane plunged vertically into the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014.

The researchers’ computer simulations lead to the forensic assertion that a 90-degree nosedive explains the lack of debris or spilled oil in the water near where the plane is presumed to have crashed. The research was the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (see the team’s paper here.)

Dr. Goong Chen is an applied mathematician who teaches and researches at Texas A&M at Qatar and Texas A&M University’s main campus in College Station, Texas, USA. He led the interdisciplinary team of collaborators from Texas A&M, Penn State, Virginia Tech, MIT and the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in simulating and modeling what might have happened to the plane. His research is supported by the QNRF National Priority Research Project Grant #5-674-1-114.

The researchers used applied mathematics and computational fluid dynamics to conduct numerical simulations on the RAAD Supercomputer at Texas A&M at Qatar of a Boeing 777 plunging into the ocean, a so-called “water entry” problem in applied mathematics and aerospace engineering. The team simulated five different scenarios, including a gliding water entry similar to the one Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger skillfully performed when US Airways flight 1549 landed in the middle of New York City’s Hudson River, a feat that’s referred to as “the miracle on the Hudson.”...."

Richard

 

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Two 19th-Century Shipwrecks Discovered During Search for Flight MH370
By Brigit Katz/ Smart News: Keeping You Current/ Smithsonian.com/ smithsonianmag.com

"For the past four years, experts have been searching the Indian Ocean in the hopes of finding Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which vanished under mysterious circumstances in March of 2014. With the exception of several pieces of debris, these searches have not been able to locate the plane. But during the hunt for MH370, researchers discovered the remains of two shipwrecks that went missing in the 19th century, as the Associated Press reports.

The submerged ships were found some 1,430 miles off the coast of Australia in 2015, during a nearly three-year, state-sponsored search by Malaysia, China and Australia. (That initiative came to an end last year, but the Malaysian government has since approved a new attempt by a private American-based company to locate MH370.) Last week, the Western Australian Museum announced that it had identified the ships as 19th-century merchant vessels, which had been transporting cargo holds of coal when they sank to the ocean floor.

Museum experts were approached by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to review sonar and video data collected during the search for MH370. Because records of ships lost in the area during the 1800s are incomplete, the museum was not able to conclusively determine the identity of the shipwrecks. But Ross Anderson, the museum’s curator of maritime archaeology, reveals in a press release that experts “can narrow the possibilities to some prime candidates based on available information from predominantly British shipping sources.”...."

Shipwrecks discovered off the coast of Western Australia. (Australian Transport Safety Bureau)


Richard

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

How MH370 pilot avoided being detected by radar

 

[Panina]

How MH370 pilot avoided being detected by radar

My heart still is heavy for the families that have not gotten closure. This deliberate act still doesn’t answer why?

 

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How MH370 pilot avoided being detected by radar

And to piggyback on the article that Steve posted - here is another article: MH370 Captain 'Deliberately Evaded Radar' During Final Moments of Doomed Flight
By Rob Crilly, New York/ News/ The Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk

"Aviation experts believe they may have solved the mystery of the disappearance of flight MH370, saying the 239 passengers and crew were the victims of a deliberate, criminal act carried out by the plane’s captain.

The fate of the Boeing 777 has mystified investigators ever since it went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.

However, a panel of experts assembled for the Australian TV programme 60 Minutes says the evidence suggests Captain Zaharie Amad Shah executed a careful series of manoeuvres to evade detection and ensure the plane disappeared in a remote location.

Martin Dolan, former head of the Australia Transport Safety Bureau, who led the two-year search for the missing plane, said: “This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time.”

The plane was presumed to have flown on autopilot before running out of fuel and plunging into the southern Indian Ocean. However, the wreckage has never been found and the search was suspended in January last year...."

Zaharie Amad Shah was the captain of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 when it disappeared in 2014

Richard

 

[ace2000]

Gee, all of sudden the article I posted in post #4 of this thread has a whole new light (I also posted the link to the article below - and it's still available). Based off of the clues provided in the recent articles, it really took them all these years to come up with that analysis??? Don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it does appear that someone's hiding something here. I've suspected the pilot from the beginning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html

 

[visor]

Gee, all of sudden the article I posted in post #4 of this thread has a whole new light (I also posted the link to the article below - and it's still available). Based off of the clues provided in the recent articles, it really took them all these years to come up with that analysis??? Don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it does appear that someone's hiding something here. I've suspected the pilot from the beginning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html

Wow... So sad, considering now that Mahathir has just recently few days ago regained power and will likely pass on control to Ibrahim.

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

Once the Goodfellow "the pilots became incapacitated while navigating toward an emergency landing" theory and the spirited away to a hidden airport theory were shown untenable, almost everyone has accepted that it was a suicide. The only that seemed to be in the air was whether the plane was actively being flown until it went down or whether everyone on board was dead or unconscious as it flew.

So the real "new" item in the story is the probability that the plane was being piloted. That expands the potential crash area. It also means there's a possibility of a softer landing, which would leave more of the plane intact.

 

[ace2000]

Wow... So sad, considering now that Mahathir has just recently few days ago regained power and will likely pass on control to Ibrahim.

Interesting!

 

[VacationForever]

This theory that it was intentional had long been circulated. There is an elephant in the room, they have not established why the pilot was suicidal. He was not in financial trouble, no marital issues, not part of a terrorist group, nothing. I don't buy it that it was suicide-murder. The airplane manufacturer obviously likes the suicide theory over a faulty plane issue.

 

[ace2000]

This theory that it was intentional had long been circulated. There is an elephant in the room, they have not established why the pilot was suicidal. He was not in financial trouble, no marital issues, not part of a terrorist group, nothing. I don't buy it that it was suicide-murder. The airplane manufacturer obviously likes the suicide theory over a faulty plane issue.

It has been widely circulated that he actually did have marital issues. And he was also "fanatical" about his support for the government opposition party at the time. There are definitely several clues to motives for a suicide-murder out there, including the fact that the authorities were able to tell that he had been practicing a similar run on his home aircraft simulator just prior to the flight.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

This theory that it was intentional had long been circulated. There is an elephant in the room, they have not established why the pilot was suicidal. He was not in financial trouble, no marital issues, not part of a terrorist group, nothing. I don't buy it that it was suicide-murder. The airplane manufacturer obviously likes the suicide theory over a faulty plane issue.

Many suicides occur with no apparent reason.

Lots of people live with near-debilitating mental health issues that they have learned to effectively conceal.

 

[VacationForever]

It has been widely circulated that he actually did have marital issues. And he was also "fanatical" about his support for the government opposition party at the time. There are definitely several clues to motives for a suicide-murder out there, including the fact that the authorities were able to tell that he had been practicing a similar run on his home aircraft simulator just prior to the flight.

I went back and did a search and found what you have posted here. So it is possible it was a deliberate act by the pilot.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I went back and did a search and found what you have posted here. So it is possible it was a deliberate act by the pilot.

Even without that information, pilot suicide-murder seems far more plausible than faulty plane. The plane didn't just drop out of the sky; it flew in a controlled manner. Unless you can come up with a good reason why a plane malfunction would cause the plane to navigate through a precise set of navigational waypoints, fly along the border in two countries in a manner that hides the plane from air trafffic control, as well as other items.

If course, there could be a mechanical explanation for all of those. But then you wind up compounding assumptions on top of assumptions. Occam's Razor says to prefer the simplest explanation that is consistent with the facts. Pilot suicide-murder meets that test, regardless of any information on mental health. When you add in those elements, that makes the arguement even more compelling.

 

[visor]

Interesting!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/10/asia/mahathir-malaysia-election-intl/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/asia/malaysia-mahathir-anwar-ibrahim-pardon-intl/index.html

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MH370: Malaysia Airlines' Captain Deliberately Crashed Plane in Murder-Suicide, Investigators Conclude
By Simon Calder/ Travel/ Independent/ independent.co.uk

"Leading air safety experts have concluded that the captain of flight MH370 deliberately crashed the plane. They include the man who spent two years heading the search, who now says Captain Zaharie Amad Shah carefully planned a murder-suicide mission.

The Malaysia Airlines jet was on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board when it disappeared.

Analysis of satellite data indicates it ran out of fuel and crashed in the Indian Ocean west of Australia, thousands of miles from its intended destination.

Some debris from the Boeing 777 has been washed up on Indian Ocean beaches. But the biggest underwater search in history, coordinated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), was called off in January 2017 after two years.

The seabed search was led by Martin Dolan, who told a special edition of the 60 Minutes Australia programme: “This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time.”...."

Richard

 

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MH370 Experts Think They've Finally Solved the Mystery of the Doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr/ WorldViews/ News/ The Washington Post/ washingtonpost.com

"All but one of the 239 people on the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had probably been unconscious — incapacitated by the sudden depressurization of the Boeing 777 — and had no way of knowing they were on an hours-long, meandering path to their deaths.

Along that path, a panel of aviation experts said Sunday, was a brief but telling detour near Penang, Malaysia, the home town of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

On two occasions, whoever was in control of the plane — and was probably the only one awake — tipped the craft to the left.

The experts believe Zaharie, the plane's pilot, was taking a final look.

That is the chilling theory that the team of analysts assembled by Australia's “60 Minutes” have posited about the final hours of MH370.

They suspect that the plane's 2014 disappearance and apparent crash were a suicide by the 53-year-0ld Zaharie — and a premeditated act of mass murder.

But first, the experts said, they believe that Zaharie depressurized the plane, knocking out anyone aboard who wasn't wearing an oxygen mask. That would explain the silence from the plane as it veered wildly off course: no mayday from the craft's radio, no final goodbye texts, no attempted emergency calls that failed to connect.

That would also explain how whoever was in control had time to maneuver the plane to its final location...."

Richard

 

[VacationForever]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/10/asia/mahathir-malaysia-election-intl/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/asia/malaysia-mahathir-anwar-ibrahim-pardon-intl/index.html

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Mahathir was a good man. He was good for the region during his reign.

 

[visor]

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-of-flight-mh370

Ottawa air crash investigators say they've solved the mystery of Flight MH370

(BY BLAIR CRAWFORD
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: MAY 19, 2018)



The mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has captivated the world for more than four years, but for two retired Ottawa air accident investigators, it all comes down to six seconds.

And the evidence from those final moments before the Boeing 777 disappeared into the Indian Ocean is irrefutable, say Larry Vance and Terry Heaslip.

“We call it an accident because that’s our terminology. But this is a criminal act. It’s not an accident,” says Vance, a former senior investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, who has written a book on MH370 that will be published next week.

"If someone does this intentionally, you can call that suicide. The pilot took his own life and he took the lives of everyone who was on board that aircraft.”

Just 20 confirmed and identifiable pieces of MH370 have been found since the plane and its 239 passengers and crew vanished on March 8, 2014. But those few pieces are enough, Heaslip said.

“When you start looking at them, there’s a story in every one of them. And the story is consistent,” said Heaslip, an expert on wreckage analysis who was the TSB’s director of engineering when he retired in 1983.

Heaslip and Vance, along with their partner, Elaine Summers, another retired TSB investigator, began looking into the MH370 crash as a training exercise for their Ottawa consulting company, HVS Aviation.

The more they saw, the more they became convinced that the crash was a deliberate act by one of the pilots, whom they say likely killed his passengers by depressurizing the plane, then deliberately flew into a remote area of the Indian Ocean and ditched. Their theory flies in the face of the official story, which says the plane flew in a straight line until it ran out of fuel, then plunged vertically into the sea.


In the basement of Heaslip’s Blackburn Hamlet home, the two men pore over photographs of the wreckage, maps of the flight path and schematic drawings of the aircraft. They’ve worked together so long, they sometimes finish each other’s sentences.

Vance was the deputy lead investigator on Swissair 111 and wrote the TSB’s final report on the 1998 crash off the coast of Nova Scotia that killed 229. He was also the one to give briefings to the families, something that made it clear the investigation was more than a cold analysis of engineering calculations and cockpit procedure.
“People accuse me of being insensitive to families,” Vance says. “I don’t mind taking the question, but if someone challenges me, I say, ‘I don’t need any lessons from you. How many grieving families have you talked to after an airplane accident? I’ve done it by the hundreds. Don’t tell me that I don’t have any sympathy. I’ve had people faint in my arms.’ ”

Among the pieces of MH370 that have washed ashore are the aircraft’s right flap, a part of the wing the pilot extends when the plane is flying slowly before landing, and the adjacent “flaperon,” which also is extended and used to control the plane in low and slow flight.

The largest piece of wreckage measured eight-by-12 feet, something that would be impossible to survive a high-speed vertical impact. Nor were the rounded leading edge of the flap and flaperon damaged, again indicating the plane hit the water low, slow and relatively level.
“When the airplane is coming in (vertically) at 300 to 600 feet per second, everything is shattering into a million pieces,” Heaslip said. “In a third of second to half a second, it’s gone. There’s no way you could end up with a piece like this with the leading edge absolutely intact.”

That the flaps were extended also means the pilot had fuel, electricity and hydraulic power when he put the plane down, again proving that the plane’s tanks hadn’t run dry, they say.
Heaslip and Vance relied on old-fashioned wreckage analysis for their theory, studying the stresses and fractures visible on the recovered pieces to deduce the forces that tore the plane apart. Not even the electronic data of a black box recorder can do that, Heaslip said.

“Wreckage analysis is a dying art. They’re depending on the recorders. They tell you what happened — maybe. But they don’t tell you the sequence or why things are happening. You need to be able to do wreckage analysis.”

The crash data fits well with Vance’s examination of the earlier parts of the flight, including how the pilot turned off the plane’s transponder to make it invisible to radar before reversing direction and flying along the boundary of two separate air traffic control regions where the plane would be easily missed by controllers.

The wreckage of MH370 has never been found, despite years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent scouring the seafloor.
“What they’re proving every day that they search is that their assumptions were wrong,” Vance said.

The Ottawa team’s work is not part of the official investigation, nor have they been paid for any of their research, but Vance hopes their findings provide some comfort to the families of MH370.
“This is an attempt by us to give some amount of closure by telling them what happened,” he said. “Because if people in the end — I don’t care who they are — if they know the truth it’s better in the long run than if they never know what happened.”
MH370 Mystery Solved will be available in bookstores next week and can be ordered online at hvsaviation.com/


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[Patri]

I remember the pilot's family denied this could be the cause. So, if the plane hit low, slow and level, did the pilot drown? Or did the plane break up enough to kill him? Or did he swim to a remote island where he lives to this day?