Ten years have passed since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished into thin air, taking all souls on board with it. Various theories and speculations from experts have surfaced, one of which suggests that Malaysia actually knows the whereabouts of MH370's debris and the cause of the incident but refuses to acknowledge it.
Geoffrey Thomas, a veteran aviation industry figure with 50 years of experience and the editor-in-chief of Airline Ratings, claims that remnants of the Malaysia Airlines plane lie 1,933 km west of Perth after experts traced its final flight path.
Quoted from the Daily Mail, Thomas stated that aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey tracked its route using radio waves and is confident that another search would unveil its final location. Analysis of the aircraft's last moments and the debris found suggests the pilot may have deliberately crashed the plane at high speed to break it into as many pieces as possible.
"The MH370 accident is the worst pilot suicide and mass murder, as no one could escape," he claimed. According to him, the Malaysian government previously refused to conduct a new search, and the families of the pilots denied what clearly happened. In the latest development, Malaysian Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook finally announced the possibility of resuming the search for the aircraft.
Godfrey, a former engineer at the European Space Agency Spacelab, tracked the flight path using weak radio signals continuously emitted by amateur radio operators scattered around the Earth. This technology, known as Weak Signal Propagation Report (WSPR), uses radio waves to trigger invisible signals when the aircraft passes through them.
Godfrey tracked MH370 from takeoff, on its accepted flight path, until the point the aircraft approached Vietnamese airspace when it lost contact, and then for 6.5 hours as it flew until it plunged into the sea.
Flight MH370 departed for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on the night of March 7, 2014, but was diverted from its planned flight path and turned south before disappearing. The aircraft, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean.
Later, it was revealed by Thomas that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had practiced the flight on his own flight simulator and had mental and marital problems. He was also said to have opposed the Malaysian government on Facebook and allegedly sent obsessive messages to a pair of 20-something models.
"It's clear the pilot committed suicide. He flew the same route as he took on his own flight simulator, deviating from the standard route and flying south. He deleted it from his simulator, but Malaysia retrieved it. My understanding is that Malaysia Airlines knew that night that its captain was responsible," Thomas asserted.
"He displayed all sorts of odd tendencies, stalking models, posting anti-government things on Facebook. No country wants to go through an air crash. This is a big blow to their national pride," he added, regarding the possibility of this event being covered up.
Thomas said Zaharie's politically charged words leading up to the MH370 disaster should have gotten him fired. "This should be a serious warning for airlines that someone is flying with strong anti-government views. If a Qantas pilot did something like this, he would be talked to and banned from flying," he said.
Australian PM at the time, Tony Abbott, leaked that senior Malaysian officials believed Captain Zaharie deliberately crashed MH370. "My very clear understanding, from the very top levels of the Malaysian government, is that from the get-go, they thought this was a murder-suicide by the pilot," he said.
The Malaysian-led investigation in 2018 stated that the aircraft's course was changed manually but did not mention any suspects. The cause of the plane's disappearance cannot be determined until debris and the black box are found.
Immediately after the disaster, Captain Zaharie's family and friends denied that the pilot was disturbed, withdrawn, or possibly suicidal. His daughter wrote on Facebook a few weeks later regarding Daily Mail reports on the pilot's mental condition. "You can bet, I won't forgive you." His wife, Faizah Khanum Mustafa Khan, denied that her husband spent time in a room with a simulator he built himself.
However, it was later reported that Zaharie likely suffered from clinical depression, and his wife moved from the house where he had the flight simulator to their second home. "The family condemns, and they always have. But it's important to find that plane again and solve its mystery," Thomas added. check our software enginerr salary
