The British pilot’s new claim about the missing Malaysian plane

Last Updated on March 15, 2024 1:11 pm

In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suddenly disappeared. The mystery of the disappearance of the Boeing 777 with 239 passengers has not been revealed even today. However, British Boeing 777 pilot Simon Hardy is talking about a new theory about the incident behind the loss of the plane.

After seeing some last-minute preparations on the plane, Hardy surmises that Captain Zahari Ahmed Shah was planning to crash the plane. Before the flight, several changes were made to the aircraft, including taking additional fuel and oxygen, according to the report of the British newspaper The Independent.

Hardy worked with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau during the 2015 recovery of the plane. He told The Sun newspaper, “The strange thing is that the crew oxygen is increased before take-off, which is only supplied to the cockpit and not to the cabin crew.”

Aviation experts expressed concern about the “unusual” additions to the flight plan and questioned whether proper protocol had been followed.

Hardy said the plane’s flaperons, found on Reunion, a French volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, suggest a pilot was active toward the end of the flight. Since the plane’s flaps were rendered useless and it contained liquid fuel, this meant that someone was controlling the levers. This is not possible without a good knowledge of aircraft. Everything points to one event.

Hardy is pointing to the meticulous planning of the pilot. According to him, the pilot avoided any kind of fuel spill on the sea surface. This makes it difficult to find the final destination of the aircraft.

Hardy’s other hypothesis is that the pilot intentionally depressurized the cabin. Passengers lost consciousness before it u-turned and crashed the plane. He claimed to have found the location of the aircraft by analyzing the data from the satellite.

His guess is that the plane is in an underwater trench in the Gilvink Fracture Zone in the southern Indian Ocean, outside of the areas officially being searched.

On March 3, the Malaysian government announced the resumption of the search for the missing plane as new theories surfaced. US Texas-based company Ocean Infinity has offered a ‘no find, no fee’ system to find this plane that disappeared 10 years ago.

Incidentally, the Boeing 777 aircraft disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers on board.