Netflix has released a documentary mini-series titled MH370: The missing plane and with it he renewed all the mysteries about the fateful Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in 2014.
On March 8 of that year, MH370 took off with 239 people on boardAt some point during the voyage, he lost all communication with the mainland and there was no more news of it. It was a Boeing 777 bound from Kuala Lumpur to China.
One of aviation’s greatest mysteries has led to one of aviation’s greatest investigations. It was one of the longest and most expensive in history.
Even with a lot of doubts about what happened, the miniseries examines in three intense episodes some of the more disturbing theories as to why the plane disappeared.
Theory 1: The pilot
The first theory has to do with the pilot: Zaharie Ahmad Shah. The documentary suggests that, six hours after losing communication with radar, the plane was “still talking electronically” to a satellite from the British company Inmarsat.
As MH370 remained airborne for those six hours at an undetermined destination, two speculative routes were plotted showing how and where the aircraft would have diverted.
In both, the aircraft returns west over Malaysia. In this way they understand that the flight could have headed north over Central Asia or south of the Indian Ocean, through Australia.
Taking these data into account, some believe that Shah, the pilot, intended to commit mass suicide by throwing the plane into the Indian Ocean.
The most incriminating evidence in this regard is that a flight simulator was found in his home where a simulation similar to the plane’s alleged route over the ocean appeared a month before MH370 took off.
However, a final commission report on MH370 found that “the team is unable to determine the true cause of the disappearance”.
Mike Exner of the Independent Group, a watchdog group of aviation experts, admitted: ‘I don’t think taking simulator data alone proves much… Simulator data isn’t the whole puzzle, it’s just one piece of the puzzle. that fits”.
The final pilot report noted that “there is no evidence to suggest any recent behavioral changes for him”.
Theory 2: Russian hijackers
For the aviation journalist Wise Jeff Everything could have been more complex, since the disappearance would have to do with another plane which was shortly afterward shot down by a missile over Ukraine as Russia invaded Crimea.
Reviewing the flight logs, the reporter noted that there were three Russian passengers on board MH370 and they were all seated near a hatch.
His theory is wildly delusional: Wise believes that two of the three have created a diversion for the other to sneak below decks and remotely control the plane and take it to Kazakhstan.
The idea was rejected because they realized it is impossible to fly the plane from the avionics compartment.
Theory 3: American interception
The third theory mixed into the miniseries has to do with the US military: Some believe a training group in the South China Sea shot down MH370 at the point where it lost radar contact.
The French journalist florence dechangy it has been leaked that, for reasons of political interest, the United States tried to electronically remove the plane from radar and order Shah to land.
The United States, according to her, did so with two radar jamming aircraft equipped with an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWAC) that the country had in its vicinity on the night of MH370’s takeoff.
When Shah decided to keep flying on course, de Changy says that “either through a rocket attack or a mid-air collision, MH370 met its doom.”
Likewise, de Changy has no evidence for his theory.
Source: Clarin
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