Investigators Conclude The MH370 Pilot Deliberately Made The Plane Disappear

The Independent — Leading air safety experts have concluded that the captain of flight MH370 deliberately crashed the plane. They include the man who spent two years heading the search, who now says Captain Zaharie Amad Shah carefully planned a murder-suicide mission.

The Malaysia Airlines jet was on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board when it disappeared.

Analysis of satellite data indicates it ran out of fuel and crashed in the Indian Ocean west of Australia, thousands of miles from its intended destination.

Big plane crash update here. MH370 investigators conclude the pilot deliberately crashed the plane. They conclude he meticulously planned this operation to make the plane disappear. That he essentially sought to execute the exact outcome we got — complete bafflement. I mean we’ve all thought the exact same thing for four years now: how in the literal fuck does a giant passenger jet with 239 people onboard just disappear? How in today’s day and age, with technology, radar, beacons, checkpoints, satellites, etc, does something as technologically sophisticated as a huge aircraft just vanish? How can we not find it?

I guess the answer from the investigators is: because the pilot wanted it to disappear, and because the Indian Ocean is a real, real big ass place.

Captain Simon Harvey, a British pilot who has flown the 777 widely in Asia, said the mission was “planned meticulously to make the aircraft disappear”, including flying along the Thai-Malaysian frontier to avoid either side taking action.

“If you were commissioning me to make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing,” he told the programme.

A Canadian air-crash investigator, Larry Vance, said he believed that Captain Zaharie put on an oxygen mask before depressurising the plane to render the passengers and crew unconscious: “There is no reason not to believe that the pilot did not depressurise the cabin to incapacitate the passengers.”

Debris from the plane has (allegedly) been found on some Indian Ocean beaches.

All in all, pretty chilling stuff. I’m actually still pretty optimistic this thing’s on a LOST-like island and we’ll find it someday. Very optimistic.