The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777-200 in March 2014 rocked the world. The most varied versions of what happened. But until now, nothing is really known about the fate of the aircraft.
Was the flight "normal"?
On March 8, 2014, Boeing flew joint flight MH370 with China Southern Airlines, en route from the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing, China. It had 227 passengers from different countries and 12 crew members on board. The crew commander was an experienced 53-year-old pilot Zahari Ahmad Shah, the co-pilot was a 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid. The liner departed from Kuala Lumpur at 0.41 local time and was scheduled to land at Beijing airport at 6.30.
At 02.40 Malaysian time, the plane disappeared from the radar screens. At the same time, the dispatchers did not receive any information about technical problems, course change or other problems. The last message received from the crew was: "It's okay, good night." At that moment, the liner was over the South China Sea, 220 kilometers from the east coast of Malaysia.
26 countries, including Russia, took part in the search and rescue operation. But no trace of the missing airliner was found. At the end of January 2015, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department officially declared all who were on board the aircraft dead.
On July 29, 2015, on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, near the city of San Andre, beach cleaners found a wreck of an unidentified aircraft wing covered with shells. Experts have confirmed that this fragment most likely belongs to the missing liner. Later, other fragments were found, but it was not possible to prove their indisputable belonging to the disappeared Boeing.
Oddities
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Meanwhile, an investigation carried out by Malaysia with seven other states - the United States, Britain, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia - showed that after the plane became inaccessible to radars, it spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After about 40 minutes, communications with ground services were disconnected, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages from the on-board terminal to the Inmarsat satellites continued to arrive. It was thanks to them that it became known that over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, the Boeing changed course to the opposite, for the second time crossed Malaysia in a southwest direction and headed south. The flight presumably ended in the southern Indian Ocean. The last signal from the aircraft was received by satellites at 8:15 am local time. Signals from the black boxes were never registered.
The plane was hijacked by the Americans?
During a search of the house of Captain Ahmad Shah, a homemade Boeing simulator was found. It turned out that for some reason Shah was training to land a liner at five airfields in the Indian Ocean region. He also erased all entries from his electronic diary.
Therefore, the main version of the investigation was the hijacking of the liner by unknown persons who were presumably in collusion with the pilots. Another argument in favor of the crew's involvement in the disappearance of the plane was the fact that a few minutes before departure, Ahmad Shah spoke on a cell phone with a woman who had acquired a SIM card using fake documents.
It was the hijackers who could turn off the devices. But where did they hijack the plane? One of the points where Ahmad Shah "planted" him with the help of a simulator is the US military base "Diego Garcia", located on an atoll island with an area of about 27 square kilometers, which is part of the Chagos archipelago.
Why did the American military need to hijack the Boeing? President of the Institute for Scientific Research of the Third Millennium Ilya Belous points out that among the passengers there were 20 employees of the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which produces chips, semiconductors and other electronic equipment, including military technologies. Moreover, these employees were not Americans. 12 of them were Malaysians, 8 were Chinese. And they held a number of military patents. Perhaps they wanted to be forced to work for the American government under supervision. And the plane with the rest of the passengers was simply liquidated.
But if all this is so, then it is very unlikely that we will ever know about the true fate of the fatal Boeing. After all, the special services know how to hide the ends in the water.