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

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The Search for Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 Is Ending After 4 Years
By Eli Meixler/ World/ Malaysia/ Time/ time.com

"The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 will finally come to an end next week, with millions of dollars spent and little more certainty than when the plane disappeared four years ago.

Malaysia had agreed to a final extension the search, currently led by American seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity, but Minister for Transport Anthony Loke Siew Fook said Wednesday that it would not be interested in prolonging the effort after May 29, CNN reports.

“This morning I raised this in cabinet and agreed to extend to May 29,” Anthony Loke told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, according to Reuters. Loke confirmed there would be no additional extensions...."


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MH370 Search to Be Called Off As Investigators Insist It Was an Accident and Not 'Murder-Suicide' By Pilot
By Sophie Williams/ News/ World/ Evening Standard/ standard.co.uk

"The search for missing flight MH370 will end next week, it was confirmed today.

The flight, carrying 239 people, disappeared as it made its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

The Malasyian government had previously promised the families of those onboard that they would continue the search "whatever happens."


Najib Razak, the country's Prime Minister at the time, said: "I promise the families of those lost that we will not give up."

Investigators insist that it was “unlikely” that the pilot was conscious at the time the plane crashed into the ocean and that the crash was therefore an accident...."

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Crew members of Chinese icebreaker Xuelong scan the sea to search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the area where Chinese aircraft spotted some suspicious objects in the southern Indian Ocean


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A Search for MH370, Missing Since 2014, Ends 'With a Heavy Heart'
By Megan Specia/ World/ Asia/ The New York Times/ mobile.nytimes.com

"The latest search for MH370 — the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared four years ago en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard — has ended in failure, the company behind the search said on Tuesday.

The company, Ocean Infinity of Houston, which scoured the seabed for any sign of wreckage with support from the Malaysian government, announced that the search was winding down with no evidence of the plane’s whereabouts.

“Part of our motivation for renewing the search was to try to provide some answers to those affected,” Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity’s chief executive, said in a statement. “It is therefore with a heavy heart that we end our current search without having achieved that aim.”

He did not rule out a future resumed hunt...."

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The Seabed Constructor, a ship operated by Ocean Infinity, set out in January for the search of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.CreditOcean Infinity, via EPA



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Search for Missing Plane MH370 Heads For One Last Spot of Interest
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen, South-East Asia Correspondent/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

"Ocean Infinity vessel to investigate area where Chinese ship detected ultrasonic pulse.

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is not quite over, the company leading the mission has said, despite the Malaysian government stating on Monday that it had ended.

Ocean Infinity said it was heading to one last spot of interest before it turns back for good.

The Guardian has learned that the seafront exploration company’s Seabed Constructor vessel will sail to the spot in the southern Indian Ocean where a Chinese patrol ship detected an ultrasonic pulse – which could have been consistent with that from a black box – in 2014.

A spokesperson for Ocean Infinity confirmed the company was aware of the reports of the possible black box signal four years ago, and it was heading to the area to check it out for themselves “before we head to port and bring this search to a close”.

The Malaysian government at the beginning of the week said its search agreement with Ocean Infinity had ended and would not be extended.

Speaking on Monday, the transport minister, Anthony Loke, said the US-based company had requested an extension to conclude its undersea search for the missing plane.

Ocean Infinity’s arrangement with the Malaysian government was made on a “no-find, no-fee” basis, where the company would receive about $70m (£53m) if it found the aircraft wreckage, and no payment if it found nothing.

After five months of extensive searching, Ocean Infinity admitted defeat on Tuesday and its chief executive, Oliver Plunkett, said it was with “a heavy heart that we end our current search without having achieved that aim”.

However, it appears that in a last-ditch effort, the Seabed Constructor will continue for at least two more days to survey a spot 25 degrees south and 101 degrees east within the original 84,000-sq-mile search zone.

The pulse detected by the Chinese ship had a frequency of 37.5kHz, the same as is emitted by flight recorders, and it was seen as one of the few hopeful moments in the first few weeks of the search for the Boeing 777, which went missing in the early hours of 8 March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Chinese planes had also reportedly detected debris in the area but no wreckage has subsequently been found, despite an international hunt the past four years...."


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Canadian accident investigator Larry Vance claims to have solved the mystery of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. In an interview, he explains why he believes the plane's captain deliberately ditched the aircraft.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the 239 people it had been carrying appears to have been solved -- at least according to the author of a new book. The jet took off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, but never arrived at its destination in Beijing. Instead, the Boeing 777 flew for more than seven hours -- first in a westerly and then in a southward direction. The whereabouts of the aircraft are now largely known: Based on satellite data and drift analysis of the pieces of wreckage that haven been found so far, researchers were able to show that the airplane hit the water somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
But how did it get there? It was another case of murder-suicide, Canadian accident investigator Larry Vance, 69, argues in his new book "MH370: Mystery solved." The book claims that one of the pilots, most likely flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, probably got rid of his colleague in the cockpit and flew the airplane through the night into a remote region uncovered by radar that could have tracked it. There, in daylight, he intentionally ditched his fully functional aircraft to make it disappear forever as undamaged as possible.

The official Australian investigators do not agree with Vance. They're sticking to their conviction that MH370 somehow became pilotless, maybe after a fire or a catastrophic depressurization event. According to their version of events, the aircraft flew on autopilot in its final hours, without any human input. When the fuel ran out, the airplane nosedived and crashed at a very high speed into the ocean.

Based on this scenario, the investigators defined a search area where they assumed MH370 would most likely be found. The official search took three years, cost more than $100 million and ended without a trace of the plane's exact location. A second private search is due to be suspended this week. Who's right, Vance or his Australian colleagues?

DER SPIEGEL sat down for an interview with Vance on the occasion of the publication of his new book on the flight's disappearance, "MH370: Mystery Solved."

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Vance, how many pieces of MH370 wreckage have been found?

Vance: The official investigation in Australia has identified 20 pieces as belonging to MH370, mostly coming from the wings, the fuselage and the tail. Importantly, there's a flap and a flaperon from the right wing. There are a handful of pieces that originate from inside the aircraft, parts of the interior paneling for example. And there are maybe 10 pieces that may or may not come from MH370.

DS: How many of those remains offer support for your theory of a pilot-controlled ditching?

Vance: Every single one of them. That's why our case is so strong. Some have a lot of very clear witness marks on them. Those on the flap for example prove that the flaps had been fully extended at the time the aircraft hit the water at a relatively slow speed. This is an all-important detail because only a pilot in the cockpit can manually lower the flaps. Other pieces do not provide any direct evidence for what happened, but the existence of each of these can nevertheless be explained by our theory.

DS: Some of the pieces are conspicuously small. Aren't they ample proof of a crash into the water at high speed?

Vance: This is where the official investigation went wrong. When they saw the tiny pieces, they assumed there would be thousands of similar ones floating on the ocean. And that would indeed have been a proof for their view. But more than four years after the disappearance of MH370, we know: Only a few pieces have made it to the African beaches, not thousands. Had they been created, we would have seen them by now. They haven't been created because there was no crash. It was a ditching.

DS: Not a single seat cushion nor a life vest has washed up. What does this tell you?

Vance: It tells me they are still inside the airplane. It tells me the fuselage of the airplane is basically intact and resting on the bottom of the ocean. The few pieces that have escaped from inside the aircraft did so because the fuselage was punctured, most likely at the apt end of the right wing. This happened after severe compression forces acted on the wing when it entered the water.

DS: In your book, you provide 13 pieces of evidence that you say individually and collectively prove the flaps were extended in the last moments of the flight. Is this going to end the argument?

Vance: I would hope so. If anybody wants to challenge us on our conclusion: We have more to offer. There is more evidence on those pieces that I don't mention in the book because it is aimed at the ordinary citizen and what he can understand. With all the additional tiny witness marks we have, we could easily defend our view of the story even in front of the most critical and professional audiences.

DS: You don't even have access to the actual wreckage -- yet you claim to have a better picture of what happened than the Australian investigators. Doesn't this make your analysis a bit suspicious?

Vance: A lot of accident investigation is done using high-res photographs, even when the wreckage is available to you. I have been doing this for 30 years and my partners Elaine Summers and Terry Heaslip for even longer. We have all the evidence we need. And we have all the experience we need to interpret the evidence properly. This is expertise the official investigators sadly are clearly lacking. But I make the prediction that they will change their minds once they see the evidence in my book.

DS: As you write, you used to warn people not to accept any conclusions that come from outside an investigation. Now you are one of those people offering advice from far away. Isn't that ironic?

Vance: It is. I have never been in this position -- but there was never something like MH370 before. We teach accident investigation in courses worldwide. We often use pictures from MH370 as an example. We teach what witness marks mean, what the evidence is showing. I found it strange that the results we got to weren't coming up in the official updates on the case. As a matter of fact, those updates that were appearing were even contrary to our analysis. That's when I decided to write this book. It took me 18 months and it wasn't easy.

DS: Why are the Australian investigators unable to see what you say is plain obvious?

Vance: It's even more astonishing. Dozens of experts from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia, China, Boeing and Rolls Royce have participated in the investigation into MH370. Some of them are the best and brightest the world has to offer, and some of their work has been intellectually breathtaking. Why is it that three investigators from Canada can see evidence that such an elitist group has simply overlooked?

DS: Well?

Vance: Maybe some basic skills in wreckage analysis have been lost. Nowadays, accident investigators tend to focus on flight data and cockpit voice recorders to reconstruct an incident. It's a high-tech approach. The ability to read a piece of wreckage isn't widely taught anymore. This is a worry to me. It's clear that this deficiency must be dealt with -- otherwise future investigations will be hugely error-prone.

DS: What was the biggest error on part of the Australians?

Vance: Some of them had their minds made up early in the investigation that this airplane was unpiloted, went into a high-speed dive and hit the water at high speed. They probably weren't mentally prepared to change their view when the wreckage came up and wreckage analysis was done. They were biased and blinded by that.

DS: Was this the most difficult investigation you've ever done?

Vance: No, it wasn't even hard at all. If this was truly a technical fault, it would have been very, very difficult to solve. But when you accept the fact that this was a criminal act, then it becomes very simple. It is easy for a pilot who already has control of the airplane to do whatever he or she decides they want to do with it. There is nothing to stop a pilot from doing what this pilot did. There is a complication of course in eliminating the other pilot. Take that aside, and everything that happened with MH370 is perfectly explainable and all the evidence supports it. A few other things of course aren't explainable: We will never fully know when and how the people on board died.

DS: We have Andreas Lubitz, a co-pilot with Germanwings, who flew his Airbus with 150 people on board into the Alps in 2015. We have MH370 in 2014, and in 2013, a suicidal captain with LAM Mozambique Airlines crashed his Embraer 190 intentionally in Namibia, killing all 33 people on board. Are suicidal pilots giving rise to a new type of fear of flying?

Vance: I don't think so. The day-to-day traveler can be assured that pilots just want the airplane to arrive safely. But the phenomenon of the suicidal pilot is certainly something that should be studied, especially from a prevention point of view. This was one of the reasons for me putting this book together.

DS: Will MH370 ever be found?

Vance: Maybe in the distant future. Searching the vast ocean with today's technology is just not effective.

DS: Mr. Vance, we thank you for this interview.
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MH370 Didn't Just Disappear, It Was Caught in a Swamp of Corruption
By Clive Irving/ End Game/ Daily Beast/ thedailybeast.com

"From the beginning, the crash investigation fell victim to a regime in Malaysia now revealed to have been one of the most corrupt in the world. There are other scandals, too.

It seemed that they did not want to quit. Even as the end of the search for the remains of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was announced the crew of the ship conducting the search continued to scour the deep ocean floor in one last sweep.

But it’s over now. Any hope of finding the remains of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 any time soon—or maybe ever—has died. The Texas-based deep-sea search company Ocean Infinity has pulled the plug on its self-funded search in the Indian Ocean after three months.

This means that the world’s most advanced deep-sea search technology has been defeated by the same challenges that ended the previous 27-month search. It also means that the fate of the 239 souls on board the Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8, 2014, remains part of the most baffling mystery in modern aviation history.

But this is so much more than a mystery. It is a calamity that indicts the organizations charged with setting the safety standards for international air travel for their failure to anticipate and remove a long-evident weakness in regulations.

And, equally seriously, it highlights the problem that air crash investigations can be seriously compromised by the political culture of the nations under whose jurisdictions they fall. In the case of MH370, that has exposed a singularly egregious example...."

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MH370: Memorial to Missing is Put on Hold
By Call Wahlquist/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

Plans to build a memorial to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been put on hold until after the wreck is found.

The Australian and Western Australian governments committed to build a memorial in Perth in 2014 and had already put the $126,000 project out to tender.

But the WA premier, Mark McGowan, said he and the deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, had decided that building a memorial before the plane was found was insensitive.

“This is a complex and highly sensitive matter, and the wellbeing of the relatives of those missing has always been our number one priority,” McGowan said in a statement.

“While some relatives were supportive of the memorial, others had concerns. It was decided in the best interests of all concerned not to proceed with the memorial at this point in time.

“We are very confident, after consulting with the Australian relatives, that we have made the right call.”....."

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The Mystery of MH370 is About to be Laid to Rest for Good - Here are All the Theories, Dead Ends, and Unanswered Questions From the Most Bizarre Airline Disaster of the Century
By Sinead Baker/ Transportation/ Business Insider/ amp.businessinsider.com

  • "Flight MH370 disappeared four years ago with 239 people on board.
  • It vanished on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and only fragments have ever been found.
  • Years of investigations failed to make sense of what happened to the plane.
  • Conspiracy theories have grown as families of victims accuse the government of not releasing information.
  • Malaysia's government hopes a report out on Monday will draw a line under the mystery, but it's unclear what it could say to stop the questions.
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from air traffic control radar screens, never to be seen again - and in the process spawned the most incredible aviation mystery of the 21st century.

The 239 people on board were never found, and are presumed dead.

Investigations dedicated to finding the plane, the victims, or any substantial evidence of what really happened, have come up with next to nothing, inviting speculation and conspiracy to fill the vacuum.

This Monday, the Malaysian government, which has taken chief responsibility for investigating the disappearance, will issue what it claims is the final report on the fate of the plane.

Transport minister Anthony Loke has promised total transparency in the document, with no redactions or obfuscations - but it's unclear what the authorities could say to truly draw a line under the disaster.

Here's what we know, what theories have been put forward and the unanswered questions the report might be able to address...."


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The fate MH370 has become one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries.



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The Mystery of MH370 is About to be Laid to Rest for Good - Here are All the Theories, Dead Ends, and Unanswered Questions From the Most Bizarre Airline Disaster of the Century
By Sinead Baker/ Transportation/ Business Insider/ amp.businessinsider.com

  • "Flight MH370 disappeared four years ago with 239 people on board.
  • It vanished on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and only fragments have ever been found.
  • Years of investigations failed to make sense of what happened to the plane.
  • Conspiracy theories have grown as families of victims accuse the government of not releasing information.
  • Malaysia's government hopes a report out on Monday will draw a line under the mystery, but it's unclear what it could say to stop the questions.
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from air traffic control radar screens, never to be seen again - and in the process spawned the most incredible aviation mystery of the 21st century.

The 239 people on board were never found, and are presumed dead.

Investigations dedicated to finding the plane, the victims, or any substantial evidence of what really happened, have come up with next to nothing, inviting speculation and conspiracy to fill the vacuum.

This Monday, the Malaysian government, which has taken chief responsibility for investigating the disappearance, will issue what it claims is the final report on the fate of the plane.

Transport minister Anthony Loke has promised total transparency in the document, with no redactions or obfuscations - but it's unclear what the authorities could say to truly draw a line under the disaster.

Here's what we know, what theories have been put forward and the unanswered questions the report might be able to address...."


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The fate MH370 has become one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries.



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MH370 Mystery Finally Laid to Rest? Malaysian Government to Release a 1500-Page Report on What Really Happened to Doomed Flight
By Kate Darvall and Josh Hanrahan for Daily Mail Australia/ News/ dailymail.co.uk

  • "After four years the mystery surrounding flight MH370 could be laid to rest
  • The Malaysian government will release its final report on the aircraft on Monday
  • The flight went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014
  • 'Every word recorded by the investigation team will be tabled in this report'
  • It comes after years of conspiracy theories surrounding the doomed flight
After years of investigations, the mystery surrounding doomed flight MH370 could finally be laid to rest.

The Malaysian government will release its final report on the aircraft on Monday, more than four years after the plane went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.

Years of investigations have found no firm evidence as to what happened to the Malaysia Airlines plane, which was carrying 239 people including six Australians.

The Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke said the report would be released on Monday after families of those on board were briefed.

'Every word recorded by the investigation team will be tabled in this report,' he said.

'It will be tabled fully, without any editing, additions or redactions.'....."

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MH370 Report: Queensland Woman Furious at 48-Hour Notice to Attend Briefing in Malaysia
By Kathy Sundstrom and Sarah Howells/ ABC Sunshine Coast/ News/ abc.net.au

"A Queensland woman has been left fuming after being given only 48 hours' notice to attend a government briefing in Kuala Lumpur on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Danica Weeks's husband Paul was among the 239 people aboard the Boeing 777 when it vanished between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in March 2014.

The Malaysian Government is today releasing its final report on its investigation into the missing plane, but with two days' notice to travel 6000 kilometres, the Sunshine Coast mum said it was impossible for her to attend.

"I couldn't turn myself around in 48 hours to get there," Ms Weeks said.

"I wanted to be there, to be briefed on the report, I've been waiting to see what is in it."

Ms Weeks said if she had been given more notice of the briefing and that the flights would be paid for, she would have made sure she was there.

She is angry she will miss out on her opportunity to ask questions of the government as to what happened.


"We miss out on the one-to-one question time," she said.

Travel confusion 'a slap in the face'
A representative from a Malaysian support group phoned Ms Weeks early last week and advised there would be a briefing today, but that the families would need to get there at their own expense.

Ms Weeks ruled that out, but was then advised on Thursday that "they were going to pay for our flights."

She was also concerned whether any of the Australian families would make the briefing in time.

"They would be in the same boat as me, with not enough time to organise getting there," she said....."

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MH370 Was 'Manipulated' Off Course To Its End, Report Says
By Angus Whitley and Pooi Koon Chong/ Business/ News/ Bloomberg/ bloomberg.com

"Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since 2014, was probably steered off course deliberately and flown to the southern Indian Ocean, according to the Malaysian government’s safety report into the disaster.

MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Investigators have never been able to explain why the jet abandoned its route shortly into the flight, traversed Malaysia and then cruised south over the Indian Ocean.

It’s difficult to attribute the change in course to any system failure, according to the report released Monday. “It is more likely that such maneuvers are due to the systems being manipulated,” the report said.

Experts mapped the Boeing 777’s course only after picking through hourly data hookups with a satellite. Extensive sonar searches of remote waters off Australia’s west coast failed to locate the wreckage.

Monday’s 449-page report offered little to solve modern aviation’s biggest mystery -- and stopped short of apportioning specific blame. There’s nothing to suggest the plane was evading radar, or evidence of behavioral changes in the crew, it said. Significant parts of the aircraft’s power system, including the autopilot function, were probably working throughout the flight, the report said.

“We are unable to determine with any certainty the reasons that the aircraft diverted from its filed planned route,” Kok Soo Chon, chief inspector of the MH370 investigation team, told reporters in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. “The possibility of intervention by a third party cannot be excluded.”

Without the help of cockpit data recorders, search teams could only guess what happened in the flight’s final moments. Analysis by the Australian government suggested MH370 ran out of fuel before plummeting -- at as much as 25,000 feet a minute -- into the water. Other investigators speculated that a person was at the controls until the very end, gliding the plane into the ocean beyond the furthest limit of any search area.

Monday’s report didn’t support either theory explicitly, but struggled to come up with a mechanical explanation for the aircraft’s deviations.

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“The change in flight path likely resulted from manual inputs,” it said. Similarly, the plane’s loss of communications before veering off track was more likely due to systems “being manually turned off or power interrupted to them” than a malfunction, it said.

A few pieces of wreckage from MH370 did wash up in Africa but no bodies have ever been recovered. A fresh underwater search this year by U.S. exploration company Ocean Infinity ended without success.

The jet’s disappearance produced a slew of safety recommendations aimed at preventing a repeat of the tragedy.

New aircraft must broadcast their locations every minute when they’re in trouble, but only from January 2021. A gradual tightening of requirements starts in November, when airlines must track planes every 15 minutes under regulations adopted by the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization.

MH370’s cargo included 221 kilograms (487 pounds) of lithium batteries and 4.6 tons of fresh mangosteen fruit, according to its manifest. After extensive tests, Monday’s report ruled out smoke or fire caused by those goods mixing in the plane’s hold as a cause of the tragedy.

The report documented shortcomings among Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers: they were too slow to initiate emergency procedures and there was no evidence to suggest they were continuously monitoring radar displays, it said. The report recommended better training to handle emergencies.

— With assistance by Adrian Leung, and Yudith Ho...."

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MH370 Safety Report 'Unable to Determine Real Cause for Disappearance'
By Alistair Jamieson/ NBC News/ nbcnews.com

"The possibility of intervention by a third party cannot be excluded," according to the investigation team.

LONDON — The anguish of families of those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was prolonged Monday as an official accident report offered no new findings to explain the disappearance.

Investigators said the lack of debris from the doomed flight made it impossible to reach any conclusions about what happened to the Boeing 777 at the center of one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

"The team is unable to determine the real cause for disappearance of MH370," Kok Soo Chon, head of the investigation team, told a news conference in Malaysia. "The answer can only be conclusive if the wreckage is found.”

The jet disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.

The safety report — required by the International Civil Aviation Organization after every accident — could not determine why the aircraft’s transponder stopped transmitting location information, nor whether it broke up in mid-air or as it hit the southern Indian Ocean.

Investigators repeated the original assertion of Malaysia’s government that the plane was deliberately diverted and flown for over seven hours after severing communications, but could not determine “whether the aircraft was flown by anyone other than the pilots.”....."

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A family member cries after an MH370 closed door meeting in Malaysia.STRINGER / Reuters

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The 495-page MH370 safety report.Sadiq Asyraf / Reuters



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Four Years Later, New MH370 Probe Finds Someone Veered the Plane Off Course
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr/ World Views/ News/ The Washington Post/ washingtonpost.com

On March 8, 2014, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah radioed air traffic controllers, “Good night, Malaysia,” as the Boeing 777 he was piloting left the country's airspace. A short time later, he and the 250-foot plane disappeared.

By daybreak, Zaharie and the 238 other people on MH370 would be at the center of the biggest airplane mystery since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

Authorities may never know the answers to crucial questions about what happened after that final communication:

Why did the plane end up thousands of miles off course? Who switched the transponder off, preventing anyone from tracking the aircraft? And why was there never a mayday message or a final phone call or a desperate text from a panicked passenger?

But on Monday, authorities in Malaysia conceded that they do know one thing about the final hours of flight MH370:

Inside the plane, someone was in control.

After four years spent scouring every available detail about the final moments of the Beijing-bound flight, investigators in Malaysia determined that the plane's disappearance was not caused by a mechanical or computer malfunction. Some person, the investigation concluded, was responsible for the plane veering off course — a direction change that doomed all 239 people aboard.

“The change in flight path probably resulted from manual inputs,” the government's report said. A system malfunction alone could not account for sudden shifts in the direction of the plane.

Investigators with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau have said that everybody on the plane — the captain, his co-pilot, the passengers and crew — was unconscious as the uncontrolled craft ran out of fuel and plunged into the Indian Ocean....."

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The brother of a missing passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 writes a message during an event marking the anniversary of its disappearance, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Azhar Rahim/European Pressphoto Agency)


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What happened to searching around Mauritius and apparently lots of debris that the MAS authorities haven't picked up yet from the locals who had collected?

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The Real Reason MH370 Was Never Found: Final 1,500 Page Report Exposes Why Investigators Were Unable to Find a Trace of Doomed Plane Despite $200 Million
Four-Year Search

By Sam Duncan for Daily Mail Australia/ News/ dailymail.co.uk

  • "Independent investigators released final 1,500-page MH370 report on Monday
  • The report revealed why the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has never been found
  • Family members of passengers on board the flight slammed the report findings
A final 1,500-page report on doomed flight MH370 has revealed why the missing plane has still not been found, four years after it vanished with 239 people on board.

Independent investigators released the document on Monday, but the inconclusive report left families without closure four years after the disappearance.

Despite containing little solace for grieving friends and relatives of the missing passengers, the report did explain why a $200million search effort failed.

The Boeing 777-200 was equipped with four Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs), in accordance with regulations at the time, but not a single one worked.

'There have been reported difficulties with the transmission of ELT signals if an aircraft enters the water,' the report stated.

'In these instances, the ELT does not activate, or the transmission is ineffective as a result of being submerged under water.

'This significantly hampers any search and rescue effort and may mean the aircraft location remains undetected for a considerable time.'

All four ELT batteries were within their expiry dates, the report noted.

ELT failures are common, however, with the report stating that 'in 173 accidents involving aircraft fitted with ELTs, only 39 cases recorded effective ELT activation'...."
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The Boeing 777-200 was equipped with four Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs), in accordance with regulations at the time, but not a single one worked


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Maylaysia Civil Aviation Chief Resigns Over MH370 Lapses
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"KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The chief of Malaysia’s civil aviation authority resigned on Tuesday after an investigation report on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 showed lapses by the air traffic control center in Kuala Lumpur.

The report released on Monday on the disappearance four years ago of the airliner during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board shed little fresh light on one of the biggest mysteries of modern aviation history.

In a statement announcing his resignation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the report had highlighted failures by air traffic control to comply with standard operating procedures, but had not suggested the aviation authority was to blame for the loss of the aircraft.

“Therefore, it is with regret and after much thought and contemplation that I have decided to resign as the Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia effective 14 days from the date of the resignation notice which I have served today,” he said in the statement....."

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France Reopens MH370 Investigation Amid Claims of Malaysian Cover-Up
By Marnie O'Neill/ Travel Updates: Incidents/ News.Com.Au/ news.com.au

"FRANCE has reopened its investigation into the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 after Malaysia’s long-awaited “final report” failed to provide an explanation for the aircraft’s disappearance.

French newspaper Le Parisien reports that investigators are keen to verify data from Inmarsat — the British operator of a global satellite network — which tracked the aircraft’s pings to the southern Indian Ocean off Western Australia, where it is believed to have crashed.

In response, relatives of those on board MH370 issued a statement urging the Malaysian government to release all data, including military radar data, for review and analysis by independent experts.

Malaysia’s 449-page report into MH370’s disappearance, released on July 30, was universally condemned and sparked accusations by victims’ families of a cover up at worst and incompetence at best....."

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Won’t be long before the Cable Channels explain everything including how the Aliens captured the plane with Tractor Beams and took it to Roswell or Area 51.

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MH370 Plane Spotted in Cambodian Jungle on Google Maps, Man Claims
By Mark Hodge/ Asia/ Fox News/ World/ foxnews.com

"A British tech sleuth believes he has found the wreckage of the missing MH370 plane on Google Maps.

Ian Wilson claims he has spotted the doomed jet, which vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, lying in a high altitude area of the Cambodian jungle.

Images from Google Maps show the outline of a large plane – which could simply be an aircraft flying directly below the satellite which photographed it.

But video producer Ian is convinced of his findings and says he intends to visit the sight to solve one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

He told the Daily Star: "Measuring the Google sighting, you're looking at around 69 meters, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane.

"It's just slightly bigger, but there's a gap that would probably account for that."

MH370 went missing people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014....."

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Ian Wilson claims he found the wreckage of MH370 plane on Google Maps. (Google Maps)


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MH370 Plane Spotted in Cambodian Jungle on Google Maps, Man Claims
By Mark Hodge/ Asia/ Fox News/ World/ foxnews.com

"A British tech sleuth believes he has found the wreckage of the missing MH370 plane on Google Maps.

Ian Wilson claims he has spotted the doomed jet, which vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, lying in a high altitude area of the Cambodian jungle.

Images from Google Maps show the outline of a large plane – which could simply be an aircraft flying directly below the satellite which photographed it.

But video producer Ian is convinced of his findings and says he intends to visit the sight to solve one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

He told the Daily Star: "Measuring the Google sighting, you're looking at around 69 meters, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane.

"It's just slightly bigger, but there's a gap that would probably account for that."

MH370 went missing people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014....."

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Ian Wilson claims he found the wreckage of MH370 plane on Google Maps. (Google Maps)


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But isn’t there that pesky piece of wing flap found on a beach by Madagascar? How does that work?

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