777 crash. Why Boeing, missing over the Indian Ocean, will never be found
05/16/2014 at 14:11, views: 64720“The Asian passenger of the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village called Shahraz (to be confirmed). In about a week, data on this will be transferred to China (it is not known whether this will become the property of world publicity). As it turned out, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian airliner Boeing-777-200-ER was to prevent the American side from trying to get a group of special specialists from Malaysia to China. " An anonymous source in the special services told the MK correspondent about this on special confidence. This information is published in the world media for the first time.
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The day before, a source from the special services informed MK on condition of anonymity that, according to available data, the captured passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on flight MH370, began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.
In the first ten days of April, "MK", \u200b\u200bciting special services, reported that the name of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack the Malaysia Airlines plane, which had a total of 239 people on board, was Hitch. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 are not guilty of hijacking, a rather authoritative source from the special services assured the correspondent of "MK" on condition of anonymity.
The Boeing 777-200ER, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines made a joint
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The lost Boeing-777 flew for several hours after the "loss" of communication between the crew and the dispatchers.
Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under the age of 5 and 12 crew members (including two pilots). Most of the passengers - 153 - had Chinese citizenship (one is a permanent resident of Hong Kong). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a diving vacation in Bali. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: Iranians - Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyed-Mohammadreza bought tickets and got on the flight using their passports ...
Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, the Kuala Lumpur Control dispatcher transferred flight MH370 to the dispatchers in Ho Chi Minh City, for which confirmation was received from the airliner crew. The last time flight MH370 was recorded on the radar at 01:21:13, however, the pilots did not contact the dispatchers in Ho Chi Minh City. After that, communication with the plane was completely lost. At 01:38, the Vietnamese dispatchers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur, where did the MH370 flight go?
After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, dispatchers in Kuala Lumpur contacted the flight control center of Malaysia Airlines at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, air traffic controllers in Cambodia noted that the crew did not contact them. The Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, stressed that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, dispatchers and airline representatives tried in vain to establish at least some kind of communication with the plane and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to start an official search and rescue operation.
Seven messages are known to have been received from Flight MH370 via the Aeronautical Communications Reporting System (ACARS) since the loss of communication with the aircraft, including the last at 08:19.
So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the machinations of the missing plane, which will now focus more on the study of the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring any results).
At the end of April, tired of the uncertainty and unconvincing methods of searching for the missing airliner, with a letter to verify the version of the missing plane's location, first put forward (March 31) by the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets (website) citing anonymous sources in the special services. Extra-exclusive information "MK" was urgently published in languages \u200b\u200band was instantly replicated by the world media (example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages \u200b\u200bof the world).
An expert in the field of investigation of aviation accidents from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), the most experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov explained to the correspondent of MK that “such an aircraft could well have landed on an ordinary dirt road of a less dense surface with a length of about 2000 meters ... Although, of course, for this there should be free approaches to the landing strip - that is, there should be no trees and mountains. During a hard landing on a "bad" surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even a wing could break "(the estimated weight of the hijacked Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar landing of an airliner that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which.
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This information was not published in the world media : " A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by "unknown terrorists" and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to a Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: "Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is" Hitch . "The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan". Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan .
DUSHANBE, 9 Mar - Sputnik. Five years ago, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar. There were 239 people on board.
All were recognized as dead, but neither the remains nor the liner itself were found. About how the search operation went and why it did not give results - in the material of RIA Novosti.
Shrouded in secrets
The Boeing-777 of Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur Airport on March 8, 2014 at 00:41 local time (20:41 Moscow time on March 7).
Six hours later, he was supposed to land in Beijing. Onboard there were 239 people, including 12 crew members. Mostly Chinese, Malaysian and Taiwanese.
Nothing foreshadowed trouble. Ten days before the flight, the plane went through a full check. The weather was fine. Everything was calm on board: the crew did not send disturbing messages. 40 minutes after takeoff, the airliner disappeared from radar.
It later became clear that everything was done with a delay.
For some reason, the dispatchers in Ho Chi Minh City reported that the plane did not enter their airspace only 20 minutes after it disappeared from the radar, and not within two minutes, as required by the regulations. Malaysia Airlines itself belatedly responded, declaring an emergency five hours after the last contact with the crew.
As a result, the rescue operation was launched only ten hours after the loss of the airliner. Representatives of 26 states, whose passengers were on board, hastily sent military and fishing vessels and helicopters on a search operation.
We tried everything. They tried to determine the location of the aircraft even by the signals of smartphones belonging to passengers, but to no avail.
Soon, oil spills were found near the coast of Vietnam, and after a while, debris. Oddly enough, all this had nothing to do with the missing plane.
The search operations expanded, but they did not bring results. Rescuers combed the sea and land all day long. There were no clues, more and more unexpected versions of what happened were put forward.
One of the main ones is the explosion on board. This explained the lack of visible debris.
But other questions arose: why did not a single satellite detect the explosion? The possibility of hijacking the liner was also not discounted.
So, it turned out that two passengers got on board with stolen passports. Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel had their documents stolen in Thailand in 2012-2013.
But this was also not connected with the catastrophe - according to the documents of the Europeans, two Iranians were flying, hoping to settle in the European Union.
What we managed during this time
The search operation for flight MH370 has already been called the largest in the history of aviation.
In total, over $ 150 million was spent on it. Six fragments of the liner hull were found in five years.
The first was found by a scavenger in July 2015 on Reunion Island - four thousand kilometers from the alleged fall site. According to him, he also came across suitcases and a chair that looked like an aviation one, but he burned it all, "like all the rubbish." And the scavenger did not hear anything about the missing plane, because he does not watch TV.
A couple more pieces of debris were found on the coast of Mozambique, Mauritius and on a beach in South Africa. The authorities admitted that these were indeed fragments of a missing plane.
Relatives of the deceased passengers have repeatedly complained about the international investigation team and tried to organize their own searches. We launched a campaign on a crowdfunding platform to raise $ 5 million.
However, they collected a little more than 100 thousand dollars, and this was enough only for several months of the investigation, which, however, also did not lead to anything.
What does the pilot have to do with
But there is evidence that "unlawful interference was committed, as a result of which communication systems ceased to work and the plane was manually deployed."
The liner was piloted by the aircraft commander, 53-year-old Malaysian Zahari Ahmad Shah, who had flown 18.5 thousand hours, and 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid, for whom this flight was a checkout.
Various accusations were made against Zachary. Former Canadian Transportation Security Bureau chief Larry Vance suggested that the first pilot committed suicide and killed the rest of the passengers and crew with him.
Australian experts hypothesized that the ship's commander was trying to confuse air traffic controllers. Say, for this he turned off the detection systems and piloted the plane on the border of the areas of responsibility of Thailand and Malaysia, which is considered a blind spot. And near the Malaysian state, he made an unnecessary detour, as if saying goodbye to the house in which he was born. Nobody has officially confirmed this information.
According to the Director General of the ICAA "Flight Safety", a member of the World Flight Safety Fund (FSF) Sergei Melnichenko, the pilots were not found guilty - there are no sufficient grounds.
But the crew commander is a really curious person. With his own hands, he assembled a special simulator, on which he trained to fly an aircraft in the basement of the house. The route entered in the simulator coincided with flight MH370.
Zachary's call sign was "Twin Towers 777" ("twin towers 777").
"Many knew him as a person who can be relied on, who will give good advice in a difficult life situation. It is interesting that he supported the opposition in Malaysia. A year before the disappearance of the plane, there were elections, the opposition lost. There is a photograph of him on the Internet. it says “June 13 - the end of democracy.” He had a distant relative - one of the opposition leaders, ”the expert says.
"But the most interesting thing that we found: the Muslim Zakhari became an atheist. For Muslims, this is a more serious step than for Christians. There is too much mystery in the personality of the ship's commander," Melnichenko admits.
And he adds that shortly before the flight, Zachary gave his daughter, who lives in Australia, a large amount of money. In the coming years, he was looking to retire and may have planned to build a house somewhere nearby.
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According to the expert, there are too many inconsistencies in the investigation.
"Back in 2017, the Malaysian government was supposed to give two new wreckage found, which are at the disposal of the government of Madagascar. They were going to be presented by the honorary consul of Malaysia in Madagascar. As soon as it became known, the consul was killed. It is not clear whether this is due to the disappearance of the plane. And the wreckage is still in Madagascar. Is it really not very interesting for Malaysia? " - Melnichenko is surprised.
The Director General of the ICAA "Flight Safety" also drew attention to the fact that the flight plan and the final report indicated different alternate aerodromes for this flight in China.
The disappearance of the airliner with 239 passengers and crew on board remains unsolved, sums up Melnichenko. Although the investigation lasted five years, experts were unable to answer two main questions: what happened to the plane and where.
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Ships of several countries up to January 2017 and conducted fruitless searches. They were carried out on a narrow strip of the Indian Ocean west of the Australian coast, their area was 120 thousand km. Failing to achieve a result, Australia, Malaysia and China stopped searching in January 2017, on which $ 160 million was spent in three years.
Recently, the Malaysian authorities announced that they are ready to start searching for the plane again if new evidence of its crash site is found. We hope that someday this mystery of the century will be solved. Thanks for being with us!
For all the time, in various regions of the Indian Ocean, more than 30 wreckage was found that could be related to the missing liner, but the examination confirmed that only three of them belonged to the missing aircraft. Last Sunday, two of them, including a section of a 4.3-meter wing, were on display for the first time in Malaysia.
Here's everything there is to know about the sequence of events aboard the tragically missing liner that unfortunate night. What happened to the plane - the hijacking by malefactors, or the purposeful actions of the crew - after five years remains a mystery.
It was only much later that mathematicians from the United States and Qatar found an explanation for why neither debris nor traces of fuel were found in the ocean at the site of the loss of the Malaysian Boeing 777 aircraft. They calculated the behavior of the plane in five possible fall scenarios and came to the conclusion that the plane entered the water vertically or at an obtuse angle. Only with such a fall, bending moments almost do not act on the fuselage, which break it into pieces. “The final moments of the MH370 liner will most likely remain a mystery until the black boxes are found and deciphered. But experts support the version that the plane was diving into the ocean, ”the scientists said.
Due to the fact that the signals were sent with a frequency of an hour, there was a problem with the accuracy of determining the possible place of the crash of the liner. It was only possible to outline it using calculations of the estimated fuel remaining.
The last, seventh technical signal is recorded from the flying plane by satellites. His analysis made it possible to eventually establish the approximate area of \u200b\u200bthe crash of the liner. The northern arc on the world map stretched to the countries of Central Asia and to Turkmenistan, the southern arc - to the west of the coast of Australia. The publication of these calculations a few days after the incident stirred up the whole world - this forced them to build conspiracy theories. about the possibility of hijacking an aircraft and landing it on abandoned airfields in the world.
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By this time, the real search for the missing plane begins, all interested services are involved. However, it is known for certain that the plane was still in the air at that time, its engines were working. What was happening on board at that moment is a mystery.
Malaysia Airlines has officially announced the loss of the aircraft on its Facebook page.
These signals communicate to the ground various technical parameters of the aircraft - heading, altitude, engine operation. During the entire time of this mystical flight, seven such "pings" took place, and their analysis played an important role in subsequent searches. Despite the fact that these signals do not transmit the true coordinates of the aircraft to the ground, it turned out that something about its position can be learned from them. Taking into account the height of the satellites during ping reception and the signal delay, the experts were able to draw two possible arcs on the world map, from where the last signal of the liner could come.
The signals of this SATCOM system are not transmitted constantly, but once an hour. This system, using the Inmarsat network of geostationary communication satellites, provides coverage of the entire globe, with the exception of polar regions with latitudes greater than 70 °.
Only a few days after the loss of the liner, valuable information will be announced. All modern liners, in addition to the mentioned transmitters operating in the VHF range, regardless of the pilots' will, communicate with satellites and transmit them technical information about the flight.
Flight 370 is scheduled to arrive in Beijing, but there is no one to meet at the airport. The relatives of the passengers begin to worry and try to find out something about the fate of the plane.
However, there is still some connection (if you can call it a connection) with the aircraft. In general, the loss of the liner fueled interest in the construction of modern civilian liners among the inhabitants, who, thanks to the incident, learned a lot about the planes they fly, often without thinking about how they function.
It is not known what happens to the plane for all the following hours, whether its crew, conductors, passengers are alive, in the minds.
All subsequent hours the plane will fly without contact with the ground in complete obscurity for ground services.
Realizing that the plane was indeed missing, and this was not a tracker error, airline announces red alarm.
"In this period of uncertainty, Malaysia Airlines needs to establish the facts by contacting other dispatchers and the planes on that route," the airline later explained.
At this time, the airline is trying to contact the missing aircraft by all means and determine its location.
Malaysia Airlines said their plane, en route to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens.
By this time, the plane had deviated from its route for hundreds of kilometers, finding itself on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. It was around this time that civilian and military radars last recorded the aircraft's location. The Malaysian authorities will later pass on their radar data to US and British officials. From them, the first conclusion will be drawn that the plane did not go north, but in a completely different direction.
Despite the fact that the aircraft's transmitters are turned off, the airliner is recorded by military radars, which see it, irradiating it themselves with radio waves. The Malaysian Air Force will later report that the plane was spotted flying over Pulau Perak Island in the Strait of Malacca.
The co-pilot is Farik Abdul Hamid, 27, who worked for the airline for seven years. Flight hours over 2800 hours.
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The aircraft commander is 53-year-old Zahari Ahzmad Shah, an experienced pilot who has worked for the airline for 33 years. As a Boeing 777-200 commander since 1998. Flew 18 423 hours, 8659 of them on Boeing 777-200. Married, father of three children.
The expected next ACARS signal, transmitted every half hour, is not sent from the aircraft... It means. That the system stopped working between 21.07 and 21.37 Moscow time. This is an important circumstance, since only knowledgeable people can turn off the system. If the plane were hijacked by terrorists or hijacked, the system would continue to transmit to the ground all the evolutions of the plane.
Malaysian trackers lost the aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand at coordinates 06 55 15 N and 103 34 43 E.
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The plane disappears from the screens and the Malaysian military radar.
After turning off the transponders, the plane disappears from the screens of ground radars. "From this moment, from the point of view of the dispatcher, the plane flies blindly," explains Quest. The Vietnamese dispatchers at Ho Chi Minh airport no longer see the mark. Turning off the transponder is not that difficult - just flip a switch in the cockpit.
Transponder devices that transmit information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data are suddenly turned off. These transmitters automatically send signals from the aircraft, transmitting aircraft number, flight altitude, speed and course. The range of their action is low, but it is thanks to them that the air traffic controllers on the ground see the plane's mark and know which side is in front of them and the parameters of its flight.
On the night of March 8, 2014, an event occurred that is difficult to imagine even now, five years later. Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia Airlines with 239 people on board flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Thirty minutes later, the plane becomes an unidentified target for radar. The liner changes direction and flies somewhere to the south of the Indian Ocean for another seven hours. Then, presumably, the plane runs out of fuel and falls into the water. All passengers and crew are presumed dead. Neither the bodies nor the liner itself have been found. Why the plane deviated from the course and what actually happened is still unknown. They spent $ 200 million in search of the liner. The result is just a few bags and wreckage that were discovered by accident.
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The Boeing 777 turned out to be successful in all respects. There is still a stable demand for the aircraft (a new generation of COs is being prepared for release), the liner is extremely reliable - the first serious incident with human casualties happened in 2013, 18 years after the start of operation. An Asiana Airlines plane crashed into an embankment in front of the runway at San Francisco airport due to a crew error. The liner caught fire, but almost all survived - out of 307 people on board, three died.
Flight MH370 Kuala Lumpur - Beijing was overnight: it took off at about 0:30, and after almost six hours the travelers were already in the capital of China. There were 227 passengers in total, the crew included 12 more people. The plane was flown by 53-year-old commander Zahari Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Farik Abdul Hamid (the guy is only 27 years old, but he managed to fly a Boeing 737 and Airbus A330, and now he was mastering the “three sevens”).
Chronology of strange events
The liner pulled away from the runway on March 8 at 0:41. Half an hour later, at 1:19, the dispatcher at the Kuala Lumpur airport will receive the last voice message from the Boeing 777. Two minutes later, something strange happens. The transponder is turned off on the plane. The device constantly transmits up-to-date information to the radars - flight number, altitude, and so on. When the transponder is deactivated, the airliner turns into an unidentified flying object for dispatchers: the radars still display it, but what kind of aircraft it is is not clear - just a dot on the screen without any information.
The transponder was turned off exactly at the right moment: the Boeing 777 left Malaysian airspace, Vietnamese air traffic controllers were supposed to pick it up, but they did not immediately realize that they had missed the plane. In the meantime, the ship changes direction and heads southwest, while the voyage suggests a northeast direction. During the investigation, it will be established that the maneuver could not have been made on the autopilot - at least during the turn, the plane was under human control.
The liner was caught by Thai military radars, but local dispatchers did not attach any importance to the unknown object. They later explained that the ship did not pose a threat to the country's airspace, so no one asked what kind of plane it was. Vietnam's civilian dispatchers caught on only 12 minutes after MH370 was silent.
An hour after departure, another unusual thing happens: the ACARS system is turned off. Once every 30 minutes, it sends a lot of technical data via satellites that are needed by airlines, manufacturers of aircraft and Boeing 777 components - system status, on-board information, and so on. Attempts by dispatchers to contact MH370 have failed.
By 2:40 am, the Malaysia Airlines management gets the bad news - the plane has disappeared, it is impossible to get in touch. Only in the morning, an hour after the Boeing 777 was due to land at Beijing airport, the airline announced the loss of flight MH370.
Even then, the plane was still in the air. The satellites tried to contact the liner for data exchange at 8:11 am - apparently, the session failed due to the communication systems disconnected on the Boeing 777. Alas, there is not even the approximate coordinates of the plane at the time of the attempt to contact the satellites. This would help narrow the search area: after seven hours in the air, the fuel was already running out, which means that the crash area should have been near the place of the satellite request. In the following months, one of the largest search operations unfolded, but it yielded absolutely nothing. Rescuers studied tens of thousands of square kilometers of the surface of the Indian Ocean, but were able to say only one thing: the plane is nowhere to be found.
The submarine was found, the plane is not
The first fragments of flight MH370 were found only by mid-summer 2015. Residents of Reunion Island, which is seven hundred kilometers from Madagascar, found several bags and a fragment of a wing called a flaperon. If the personal belongings could theoretically be lost by travelers from a cruise ship, then the metal piece was clearly from an airplane, and a large one. Later it was possible to confirm that the flaperon belongs to the missing Boeing 777. It would seem that a little more and the mystery will be solved: it is enough to study the currents to understand where the wreckage came from. But everything turned out to be more complicated.
At the end of the year before last, the young American company Ocean Infinity entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Transport of Malaysia: if the search vessel of the company does not find MH370 in ninety days, the specialists will not receive remuneration; if the liner is found - Malaysia will pay the team $ 20-70 million, depending on a number of conditions. Ocean Infinity's motivation turned out to be serious, and so did the equipment - the company rented the Norwegian research vessel Seabed Constructor with top-of-the-line equipment, which is designed to study the seabed.
At first, the team planned to explore 25 thousand square kilometers of the ocean, but at the end of the expedition, experts collected data from an area of \u200b\u200b112 thousand square kilometers. And not a trace of Boeing 777. There are practically no clues left. However, there was still another chance to find the plane. A few weeks after the disappearance of MH370, the Chinese warship Haixun 01 picked up two signals at a frequency of 37.5 kHz - which is usually used by black boxes. Moreover, about 90 kilometers from the ship, there were some white objects on the surface of the water. Last summer, Ocean Infinity went to explore the area, but there was no more news - it looks like another dead end.
But the company was lucky to solve another puzzle: Ocean Infinity was able to find the San Juan submarine, which disappeared with its entire crew (44 people) a year earlier. The submarine rests at a depth of 920 meters, 600 kilometers east of the coast of Argentina, all people on board were presumed dead. Apparently, finding the Boeing 777 was a matter of principle for Ocean Infinity: the company announced that it was ready to continue the search. The team plans to explore the new location using underwater drones that will scan the bottom in search of the liner.
"Designated" culprit
Along with the crash site of the Boeing 777, investigators are haunted by another question: what really happened. The disappearance of such an aircraft until March 8, 2014 seemed impossible. Yes, in history there have been cases of disappearance without a trace, but not a 63-meter-long liner or in the 21st century. The main story of the aviation experts who studied the mystery of the flight revolves around the hijacking. This theory explains the main mystery: why the transponder and ACARS turned off on the plane, it turned around and flew like a ghost for about seven more hours.
But here, too, not everything is unambiguous: after all, no one put forward demands and did not take responsibility for what happened. Suppose a plane was hijacked by terrorists, the passengers and crew intervened, and the hijackers had to abandon some primary goal in order to simply crash the plane - as was the case with United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, there are questions to the chronology: the liner was in the air for about seven hours, and no one tried to get in touch by, for example, a satellite phone. Based on this, some experts came to the most unpleasant theory for all - the plane was hijacked by the crew.
First of all, suspicion fell on the commander and co-pilot. The fact is that only two minutes elapsed between the last phrase (said in an ordinary, calm voice without signs of excitement) with the Boeing 777 and the aircraft's 180-degree turn. The invaders could hardly have guessed so accurately the moment of farewell to the dispatcher and the hijacking of the ship. The trajectory of the airliner maneuvers indicates that the plane was flown by a professional pilot. Investigators studied the biographies of the passengers - no one had a flight license. At the same time, it turned out that two Iranians were traveling with forged documents. But the detectives did not find any connections with the terrorists - the people were probably just illegal migrants.
One of the planes was hijacked by the commander - Zahari Ahmad Shah. In the foreign press, the pilots hypothesized that it was more within the power of Shah than for the young Farik Abdul Hamid to program the aircraft navigation system (FMS) to manually set latitude and longitude points where liners do not fly (to the south of the Indian Ocean). There were also rumors about the commander's family problems and his hobby for girls, if you can call it compliments on social networks.
However, it was not possible to "appoint" the culprit: the investigation report says that nothing negative was found in relation to the commander and the co-pilot. The Shah's family and relatives have been declaring the PIC's innocence all the time, and at the moment the reasons for the crash have not yet been officially established. At the same time, experts hint that although they are not accusing anyone, the main fact cannot be ignored: a random person could not turn off the transponder and ACARS, and also set a new route - this was definitely done by an experienced pilot.
What the wreck indicates
From time to time, "sensational finds in Google Maps" appear: for example, allegedly MH370 was found in the jungle of Cambodia. But this is difficult to take seriously: the satellite was just lucky to take a photo at the moment when a large liner was flying over the thickets.
Also, experts do not have a consensus about the cause of the plane crash. Experts agree that the liner has run out of fuel. Then disagreements begin. According to one of the versions, the uncontrollable liner went into the ocean with its nose down. During the fall from a height of 10-11 thousand meters, the Boeing 777 would gain tremendous speed. A hit on the water would then destroy the plane to the smallest detail.
But the fragments thrown to the coast of Réunion are quite large. It is unlikely that the same flaperon, about two meters in size, would have survived a vertical impact on the water (unless it broke off due to overloads during a dive). Therefore, now they began to talk about another version of the last minutes of the liner: the plane was smoothly descending at low speed, as if landing on water. Who, in this case, flew the liner, is unclear.
Wreckage, which may belong to flight MH370, continues to be found: last December, a piece of the floor of a Boeing 777 and several other fragments were spotted off the coast of Madagascar. But Malaysia has not yet resumed its active search: the government demands significant leads before giving millions again. Until the discovery of new wreckage, investigators are unlikely to be able to get close to the solution.
