Suspect after unknown document: “MH370 landed”

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Suspect after unknown document MH370 landed

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A handwritten message is the new lead in the hunt for what happened to ghost plane MH370.

According to the theory, the pilot wanted to get as far as possible – and make the plane disappear forever.

– Then you don’t crash the plane, you land on the water, says pilot Simon Hardy.

  • A previously unknown handwritten message in the flight log sheds new light on the mystery surrounding missing plane MH370, which disappeared ten years ago between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
  • The message suggests that the pilot may have planned to make the plane disappear, as excess fuel and oxygen were added shortly before takeoff, which may indicate that the pilot wanted to extend the flight time and then land at sea to avoid searches.
  • The company Ocean Infinity plans to resume the search for the plane this summer.

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    On Friday, it is exactly ten years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared during a flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing with 239 people on board.

    For the first 40 minutes after starting, everything seemed normal. Just seconds after the plane entered Vietnamese airspace, it disappeared from radar.

    All contact was lost.

    The unknown fate of the plane is one of the greatest aviation mysteries in history.

    A few days ago, an American company announced that it is ready to resume the search and to present new evidence to the Malaysian government.

    Handwritten message

    Now publishes The Sun newspaper previously unknown additions to the flight log of the missing flight that may shed new light on its fate.

    Previously, one of the theories revolved around the pilot crashing the plane on purpose after swerving between different countries’ airspace to avoid detection.

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    full screen A New Zealand aircraft that took part in the search for MH370. Photo: Rob Griffith/AP

    The airline is said to have missed information that the pilot was depressed and thus may have posed a safety risk.

    The findings in the flight log can show how far the pilot went in his planning.

    At the last moment, the plane was filled with extra oxygen for the cockpit and extra fuel – even though it wasn’t really needed for the flight to Beijing.

    It shows a handwritten message on the technical log.

    Planned in detail

    – It is an incredible coincidence. Just before the plane disappears forever, one of the last things that happens is that the flight engineer first states that no additional oxygen needs to be filled and then someone states that it is a little low, says Boeing pilot Simon Hardy to The Sun.

    He believes that the information about the extra fuel and oxygen to the cockpit indicates that the pilot had already decided before takeoff to take everyone on board to their deaths.

    Hardy’s theory is that everyone else on board became unconscious and later died when there was a pressure drop in the cabin.

    Then the pilot himself had plenty of time to execute his plan without interference. The extra amount of fuel of 3,000 kilos that was added at the last moment also gave the pilot 30 minutes of extra flight time.

    Landed the plane

    Hardy believes the MH370 pilot landed on the water and let the plane sink rather than crashing it into the sea.

    He says that if you want to make a good landing on water, you do it in daylight. In the case of MH370, 30 minutes of extra flight time meant that the pilot could wait until dawn.

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    full screenParts in the sea, which may have come from the missing plane. Photo: Rob Griffith/AP

    Small pieces of wreckage have been found in several places.

    Among other things, parts of the plane’s wing flaps floated ashore at Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

    But the fuselage itself has never been found.

    And if Simon Hardy’s theory is correct, it may never be.

    He suspects that the main part of the plane was not disintegrated by a violent crash against the surface of the water, but sank to the bottom after a controlled emergency landing.

    “The only solution”

    – If your motive is to make the plane disappear, the only solution is to land it as smoothly as possible so that it sinks to the bottom with all the people on board, he tells The Sun.

    – If you want to make it disappear, you don’t crash the plane, you land it on the water.

    He states that for the pilot’s possible plan to have worked, he must have flown long enough to have gotten rid of basically all the fuel.

    Even if he landed the plane in a remote location, an oil slick from the crash site would be visible for years afterward otherwise.

    Simon Hardy, who is both a pilot and flight instructor, has been involved during the long investigation after the plane’s disappearance. He himself believes that MH370 is just outside the official search area.

    New searches for the plane may become relevant in the summer.

    The company Ocean infinity says that it has succeeded in reducing the search area to a size where “success becomes possible to achieve”.

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    full screen Photo: Lai Seng Sin / AP

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