Topics: MH370, Travel, Crime, Conspiracy Theories
A British aviation expert who was part of the team dedicated to finding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has claimed that the plane went missing as part of a suicide mission by the pilot.
Pilot Simon Hardy was part of the team investigating the disappearance of flight MH370, which went missing while flying over the South China Sea on March 8, 2014.
The plane disappeared 39 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, and was never seen again after losing signal with Air Traffic Control.
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The flight was carrying 239 passengers and crew members onboard at the time of it's disappearance.
Hardy's role in the search was to make use of the best flight simulators in the world to pinpoint the aircraft's location.
Following in-depth research, he revealed to The Sun that he now believes the plane was crashed into the sea as part of a murder-suicide plan conducted by the pilot.
He shared his - as yet unproven - theory that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah took 'great pleasure' in taking the passengers with him as part of a suicide mission.
Hardy explained that his investigation led him to believe that the pilot allegedly aimed to bury the plane in the Geelvinck Fracture Zone, a trench running hundreds of miles under the southern Indian Ocean.
The FBI is said to be in agreement with the theory, and allegedly arrived at a 'similar conclusion' amid their own investigation.
The investigation into the whereabouts of the flight came to an end in 2017, and Hardy didn't have the time to 'prove' his theory - but he is convinced that the flight ended up in the earthquake-prone area.
“If you did manage to get [the plane] in there, you might find it buried after a few years by rocks, so it might even be at the bottom of the sea, covered.” He told The Sun.
The theory of a murder-suicide came after Hardy explored clues and eventually asked if there were any requests made for additional fuel and oxygen for the cockpit, but not the cabin.
This would have allowed Shah to fly the plane without detection for an additional seven hours into the middle of nowhere, with the passengers and crew falling unconscious before he ditched the jet; which, if true, would add more weight to Hardy's theory.
“Imagine Miracle on the Hudson but everyone is already dead,” he said.
“Nobody gets out and it sinks to the bottom of the Southern Indian Ocean.”
“Where does all the wreckage go? Well, there isn’t any, that’s why we’ve been deprived of wreckage.”
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which was part of the initial investigation, said in a report that “the simulator information shows only the possibility of planning."
The ATSB's statement continued: “It does not reveal what happened on the night of its disappearance nor where the aircraft is located."
