At the beginning of the year, new searches began. The Malaysian government has signed an agreement with one of the American firms, which provided a vessel capable of carrying out deep-sea research. The contract is drawn up quite interestingly: no result - no payment. If within 90 days this ship does not find anything, then the Malaysians will not pay a cent. If something is found, the search engines will be rewarded with $70 million. Moreover, the search for this aircraft has already cost 160 million. They became the most expensive in history civil aviation.
And the most mysterious...
Oh yeah. After all, the search ship also disappeared ...
- What a twist!
Calmly! It was found three days later: someone turned off the tracking systems on it (like on the plane they were looking for). Why is not clear.
- What exactly are they looking for?
First of all, black boxes. Hope, however, only on the registrar technical parameters. There seems to be nothing in speech - every two hours the recording goes over the old one. The audio was erased three times in the seven hours of the flight.
Walked along the border
Was the alarm raised right away?
She was raised only after 5 hours, when the board did not arrive on schedule in Beijing. Very interesting place disappearance of radar marks. These are the boundaries of the Malaysian and Vietnamese Flight Information Regions.
- That is the boundary of the sectors of responsibility of controllers. Everyone thought the plane was in a foreign zone?
Not certainly in that way. At the end of radio contact with the Malaysian controller, the crew said goodbye. And the Malaysian dispatcher was absolutely sure that the aircraft had passed to the control of the Vietnamese center. The Vietnamese dispatcher waited 18 minutes for the Boeing to get in touch with him.
- But according to international rules, he had to declare a special regime in 7 minutes!
It happens that the radio station does not have enough range. This is a daily recurring situation. But even after 18 minutes the alarm was not raised. The Vietnamese controller simply called the Malaysian one and asked: “Where is your board? Why don't we see it?" Malaysian air traffic controllers have called their airlines' operations and dispatch service - they must have direct communication with the pilots. The techies answered: everything is fine, the plane is already over Cambodia. But they established it hypothetically - just by estimating by the clock where it should be. In general, they guessed so until Beijing raised the alarm. They began to search at the point where the connection was lost ... And only a few days later they picked up information from military locators, establishing that the plane had not crashed, but at the moment of crossing the air border, it simply cut down the communication and identification equipment. But the Boeing remained in the air, because there was a corresponding mark on the radar. From it it was impossible to determine the level and speed, only the trajectory of movement. And then they realized that there was no board in either Cambodia or Vietnam. After disconnecting communications, he turned back towards Malaysia, crossed it, headed northwest, reached the Andaman Strait, and there he disappeared from the field of view of military locators. Moreover, he walked exactly along the air border of Malaysia and Thailand.
External control
- Does all this data indicate malicious intent?
I'm sure of it.
- And the attacker was on board?
But one cannot be completely sure of this.
After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the Boeing company thought about how to prevent the terrorists who had seized the cockpit from doing tragic things. So the autopilot was invented, which can be controlled from the outside.
- Does the plane turn into a giant drone in this case?
About. The external control system was developed, tested...
- ... and installed on this aircraft?
And here is another mystery. It was not possible to find out whether such an autopilot was on that particular Boeing. We have carefully studied the voluminous report of the investigators. There are hundreds of pages. And not a word about autopilot. Although many journalists asked this question. But the company never responded.
But if this Boeing had a remote control, could someone hack it and take the plane to where it needs to go?
This is one of the versions.
Commander Oddities
Let's look at another version. Investigators had many questions about the commander of the aircraft - Zachariah Ahmad Shah ...
There are too many facts that cannot be a mere coincidence ... In general, the person who hijacked this Boeing did not look like the September 11 terrorists, who only had the basics of control. This hijacker had vast experience in piloting. Naturally, suspicion immediately fell on the captain. To turn off all tracking equipment, you need to know how to do it. You need to know that a Boeing can be "hidden" if you go exactly along the border of Thailand and Malaysia ...
- They also found a professional flight simulator in Shah's basement!
Well, I don't see any crime in this. There are pilots who are so in love with their profession that it is not enough for them to fly in the air. They are constantly improving, creating for themselves difficult situations in training to be ready for them in reality...
- The captain of the Boeing lost some very strange flight situations ...
You're right. Managed to recover some of the files it erased on the computer simulator. Several files concerned flights over Indian Ocean and landings on five different islands... They are not named in the report. But many experts agree that one of them could be the island of Diego Garcia, where the American military base with a huge airfield is located. And there are hangars where you can easily hide a Boeing 777.
- Weird...
Not that word! Isn't it strange that a few days before leaving for the last flight, Captain Zakharia erases all information from his simulator? In addition, shortly before the flight, he transfers a significant amount to his beloved daughter, who lives in Australia, ostensibly to buy a house.
There is another strange fact. This man was a Muslim. And a year before the disappearance of the plane broke with Islam. Few people know about this.
- Did you convert to another faith?
Rather, he became an atheist - for many reasons. What is important here? In other religions, as we managed to find out, this transition is not as tragic and painful as it is for Muslims. For a Muslim, breaking with Allah is a colossal stress. And if a person breaks with his religion, then obviously his inner state is not cloudless. Problems in the family piled up on this - everything went to a divorce. And finally, an imminent job loss loomed on the horizon: he planned to quit. And, as I said, the man was very in love with his profession - it was not for nothing that he had a flight simulator at home. Three losses at once - family, work, faith. Few will survive. Well, in the appendage - the disappointment of the political plan. On the Internet there is a picture of the captain in a T-shirt, which says the date of the elections in Malaysia and the phrase: "Democracy is no more." The pilot, by the way, had a distant relative, who was just one of the leaders of the local opposition. And whom the authorities greatly offended: this man was put on trial for homosexuality. And it seems like there were talks that political competitors removed him like that. Perhaps the captain shared this resentment against the authorities.
Enough to suspect the pilot...
Perhaps! But that's not all! When the investigators studied the captain's training on a flight simulator, then, in addition to the already indicated routes to the Indian Ocean, there were even stranger ones ... He intended to fly over the central part of Kuala Lumpur. There is a high TV tower and the famous Malaysian Petronas Twin Towers. So, the nickname of this captain in training sounded like “Twin Towers-777”.
- Was he planning a ram, like in 2001 in the USA?
It's scary to talk about it, but this version cannot be discounted either. Judging by the restored simulator information, he considered two options - a flight to the Indian Ocean and a flight to the center of Kualu Lumpur.
- In the end, it seems, he chose the ocean ...
Board - less than a needle
Why hasn't the plane been found yet? Or is it like looking for a needle in a haystack?
If we compare the size of the aircraft with the search area, then the comparison with the needle is incorrect. The plane in this case is much smaller than a needle. Yes, there are tracking systems, satellites, radars, but all this is aimed at areas of permanent routes. No one sets the task of tracking the movements of an aircraft in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where no one flies. Useless and expensive.
- But is there still a chance that the flight recorders will find it?
There is a chance. The board, one can definitely say, broke into separate components upon contact with water, since the flaperon (part of the wing. - Ed.) was found on the coast of Reunion Island and then fragments were found on the coast of Africa and nearby islands. It is precisely established that these fragments belong to the missing Boeing-777. So the plane just crashed. Most likely due to running out of fuel. Of the passengers by that time, most likely, no one was left alive.
- Who killed them?
Perhaps the one who seized control. He could deliberately depressurize the aircraft at high altitude - simply by depressurizing the cabin. In this case, the amount of oxygen in the air decreased so much that people began to massively lose consciousness, and later die due to hypoxia.
- But then the hijacker should have died!
But he could be conscious until the last moment. There is another oddity. Before departure, the captain asked to fill the Boeing's oxygen system to failure. These are the cylinders that feed the oxygen masks in an emergency.
- Is it oxygen for the crew and passengers?
Nothing prevented them from not letting oxygen to the passengers, but leaving it only for themselves. Technically it is possible.
- That is, the hijacker was going to fly somewhere for a very long time?
Maybe. But for now, we can only say one thing for sure. Someone deliberately took the plane to the most bearish corner of the Indian Ocean, very professionally planning this special operation. Who, why, why? The answers to these questions are now being sought at the bottom of the ocean ...
TO THE POINT
Other versions of the missing MH370
✔ Hijacking by third world intelligence agencies in order to capture 20 Chinese and Malaysian specialists flying on this flight who developed microchips for military equipment.
✔ Hijacked by kamikaze terrorists to attack the US military base, where he was shot down on approach.
✔ UFO encounter.
✔ Abduction by aliens.
✔ Failure in time (as in the Bermuda Triangle).
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The most mysterious disappearances of planes
2003 Boeing 727. At the airport of Luanda (Angola), an airbus without passengers suddenly taxied onto the runway and, without getting in touch with the controllers, went to take off. Having successfully lifted off the ground, he soon disappeared from sight. Two people were on board at that time - aircraft mechanic Ben Padilla and pilot of private light aircraft John Mutantu. However, none of them knew how to fly aircraft of this class. Both specialists are missing. Just like the Airbus itself.
1979 Boeing 707. The cargo plane disappeared from radar half an hour after taking off from Tokyo to Rio. On board were 153 paintings by artist Manabu Mabe worth about two million dollars. So far, nothing is known about the aircraft, paintings and six crew members. One of the versions is an air robbery.
1962 Super Constellation. The military transport aircraft was transporting army personnel from Vietnam to the United States. Mysteriously disappeared over Pacific Ocean in the Guam region. 96 passengers and 11 crew members are missing.
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Lost Malaysian Boeing hijacked to US military base?
The President of the Institute expressed his version of the "mystery of the century" scientific research of the third millennium Ilya Belous
At the end of July 2015, the wreckage of a Malaysian Boeing 777 was found on the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean. The same one that flew from Malaysia to China on March 8, 2014 and disappeared without a trace. There were 239 people on board. This catastrophe is already becoming the mystery of the age, covered by the darkness of the waters. And the French expert Jean Serra even called her “the most big mystery throughout the history of world aviation."
The 21st century is the era of total digitization of all spheres of human life: from health to entertainment. An unfaithful husband is betrayed by a phone, a lost child by a special bracelet, a stolen car by a GPS tracker. It is all the more surprising that in 2014 a plane with 239 people on board disappeared without a trace.
It was a regular international flight operated by Malaysian Airlines twice a day.
On the night of March 8, 227 passengers and 12 crew members boarded the Boeing 777. The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to land in 5 hours and 34 minutes in International airport Beijing.
Preparation for the flight went without incident: there were no problems with passengers, luggage, or crew. The plane took off on time - at 00:35 local time - gained altitude and lay down on a standard course.
At 01:06, the controller received an automatic report on the position of the aircraft, according to which it was moving strictly along the course. The report included information on the amount of fuel - 43,800 kg, with a predicted consumption of 37,500 kg.
At 01:19, the captain of the ship, Zakhary Shah, contacted the Lumpur Radar control center. The controller warned the aircraft crew that they were leaving his area of responsibility and should contact the controller from the neighboring Ho Chi Minh control center. But flight MH370 never got in touch with controllers from Ho Chi Minh.
It was established that the Boeing 777 disappeared from the radar of the Lumpur Radar control center at 01:20 at night, that is, one and a half minutes after the last communication session. Around the same time, the plane disappeared from the radar of the Ho Chi Minh control center, with which he was supposed to get in touch.
Employees of both centers tried to detect the Boeing using the signal from the spare transponder, which is on all aircraft, but it turned out that it was turned off at the same minute when the plane disappeared from the radars of both centers - that is, at 01:20.
The latest data received from the Boeing 777 indicated that it was moving strictly on course at the recommended altitude at a speed of 842 km / h, which corresponded to the norm.
Later it became known that the captain of another plane flying nearby tried to contact the crew of the missing Boeing. With this request, he was approached from the control center, saying that the Malaysian Airlines flight had stopped communicating. The first attempt to establish contact with MH370 was made at 01:30, that is, 11 minutes after the captain's conversation with the Lumpur Radar controller and 9 minutes after the aircraft disappeared from radar. The captain, who was trying to establish a connection, said that he heard some kind of “mumbling” and static.
The only one who continued to see the Malaysian Boeing was a military satellite. He also recorded that at 01:22 the plane turned right, and then made an unexpected turn to the left, going off course and flying almost in the opposite direction.
The Boeing continued to maintain altitude as it crossed the Malaysian peninsula at a speed of 919 km/h. The data from the military satellite was confirmed at the Sultan Izmail Petra airport, whose radars detected an "unidentified aircraft" flying through their area of responsibility from 01:30 to 01:52 at night.
The Malaysian military satellite continued to track flight MH370 until 02:22, when it left its coverage area. During this time, the Boeing flew to the island of Penang, after which it again changed direction, starting to move towards the North.
The countries that the missing Boeing flew by were reluctant to share data collected by their military satellites on the night of the plane's disappearance. Over time, investigators were told that Indonesia did not receive a signal from flight MH370, despite the fact that it was flying near the northern part of Sumatra. It is possible that the country's authorities decided not to disclose this information, fearing to declassify the capabilities of their military satellites.
Similar claims came from Thailand and Vietnam, where they said they saw the missing Boeing until 01:21 a.m., after which it disappeared from their radar. Later, the Thai authorities reported that that night their military satellite still recorded a signal from an unknown aircraft, but the latter did not contain identification data, so it cannot be argued that it belonged to a Malaysian Boeing.
Australia also reported a lack of information on MH370. Despite the fact that the plane was moving in the opposite direction, Canberra still checked the data from its satellites, but found no trace of the missing Boeing. Later it became known that the Australian over-the-horizon radar station with a range of 3,000 km was turned off that night.
The oddities didn't end there. At 02:29 AM, the aircraft's satellite communication system (SCC), which had previously not responded to requests from the ground, suddenly connected to the Inmarsat ground station, sending a request to enter the network. This means that for some reason the CCC was disconnected from the network, and at 02:29 it was connected back. After that, the ground station, to which the CCC of the aircraft connected, sent her several requests. The requests were automatic - Inmarsat stations send them once every 60 minutes if there were no signals from the aircraft during this time. That night, Inmarsat sent 5 such requests - each of them was recorded by the CCC of the aircraft, which indicates the health of the on-board systems. In addition to these requests, the CCC of the aircraft recorded two calls from the ground - at 02:39 and 07:13 in the morning - these were the second and third attempts to contact the crew. Despite the fact that the signals reached the plane, the pilots did not answer these calls.
At 08.19 am, the situation repeated itself - the CCC of the aircraft sent a second request to connect to the Inmarsat network. That is, shortly before this, the aircraft's systems were again turned off. The network login was successful, but when an hour later the Inmarsat station sent another automatic request to the Boeing, he no longer answered.
Who was responsible for searching for the missing Malaysian Boeing?
The operation to search for the missing Boeing was the largest in the history of aviation. Initially, it was conducted in the waters of the South China and andaman seas over which the plane flew at about 2 am. Later, after a detailed analysis of communication sessions with the Inmarsat station, the search area shifted to southern part Indian Ocean.
The operation lasted three years and ended only in January 2017. During this time, 120,000 sq. km were searched. sea surface.
Boeing MH370 wreckage found off African coast
The first fragment of the missing aircraft was found at the end of July 2015 on the coast of Reunion Island, located in the western Indian Ocean, 4,000 km from the search area. In September 2015, French investigators reported that the serial number found on the wreckage belonged to the MH370 flight. It was also found that the fragment is part of a flaperon, a type of aircraft wing control surface that combines the functions of flaps and ailerons.
After the discovery of the wreck, all the beaches of Reunion were searched. Investigators managed to find pieces of a suitcase that could have been on board the Boeing, a bottle from Chinese mineral water and packaging of Malaysian cleaning products.
In 2016, several more pieces of MH370 were found, including on the beaches of Mozambique, as well as on the islands of Mauritius, Rodrigues and Pemba. They were probably carried by ocean currents.
Versions of the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing
During the investigation, a variety of versions were considered - from the most probable to almost fantastic.
Initially, the emphasis was on terrorism, but a check of the crew and passengers of the aircraft did not reveal any suspicious links confirming the version of a terrorist attack. Investigators determined that at least two people on board used stolen passports to purchase tickets. However, it was later proven that, despite the ambiguity of the situation, these passengers were refugees, not terrorists.
The second most likely version of what happened was a systems failure that caused the plane to crash. But the fact that the CCC on board the aircraft continued to exchange data with the Inmarsat station disproved this version - in order for the CCC to continue working, it needs electricity. The fact that at 08:19 the system sent a request to enter the network indicates that at that time the aircraft was operational and continued its flight.
It was these communication sessions that led investigators to the idea of the most likely reason for the disappearance of the aircraft. Let me remind you that in the period from 01:19 to 02:29 the plane was completely unavailable. The CCC on board did not respond to automatic requests and signals from the ground, and also did not record a call from another aircraft trying to contact the MH370 crew at the request of the controllers. But at 02:29 she suddenly sent a login request to Inmarsat. Such a request is sent in several cases: a) power problems, b) software failure, c) shutdown of critical systems responsible for the operation of the CCC, or c) loss of communication due to too much high altitude.
After that, the aircraft responded to 5 automatic requests from the Inmarsat ground station sent every hour, and also recorded two calls from the ground - at 02:39 and 07:13 in the morning. According to investigators, this indicates that the reason for sending the request was a power outage.
At 08.19 the situation repeated itself - the plane again sent a request to enter the system. This means that at some point the board was again de-energized. And already at 09:15, the Boeing stopped communicating.
Most of the experts who worked on the case believe that the uncontrolled slow decompression of the aircraft was the cause of the disappearance and the likely crash of the aircraft. Slow decompression is a drop in air pressure in an enclosed space (for example, an aircraft cabin), due to its depressurization. Sometimes the air leaves so slowly that you can find out about the problem only after the first signs of hypoxia (suffocation) appear.
Uncontrolled decompression can be caused by human error (fatigue, inattention), material fatigue, system failure or external influence.
Slow decompression most often occurs during climb. This is likely what happened to MH370, whose crew stopped communicating just 38 minutes after taking off from the airport.
According to investigators, the crew went off course and turned off the aircraft's power while delirious due to lack of oxygen. An hour later, they somehow managed to restore power, after which the satellite communication system began to send signals to the Inmarsat station. Probably, around the same time, the crew finally lost consciousness, and the plane continued flying on autopilot.
6 hours later, namely at 8 am, the missing Boeing ran out of fuel. Its shortage led to the shutdown of all systems, including the CCC. It took the aircraft time to fire up the emergency aircraft turbine, which restored power to some critical systems, including the satellite communications system. As soon as power was restored, the CCC contacted the satellite again, sending a request to enter the network. However, at this time, the plane, most likely, had already fallen into a tailspin, rapidly approaching the surface of the Indian Ocean.
It took investigators time to decipher the data from the Inmarsat station, which confirmed that the plane continued its flight until 8 am. If this information had been deciphered earlier, the search area would have been moved aside, and then, most likely, the relatives of the 239 people who remained forever in March 2014 would have someone to mourn.
British virtual tracker Ian Wilson is a video engineer by profession. He discovered an object similar to an airplane using the Google Maps resource. I saw him lying in the hard-to-reach jungles of Cambodia.
Jan has no doubt: the object is the plane - most likely the same one - the Malaysian Boeing 777-200, which on March 8, 2014, following from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared in the most mysterious way along with 239 passengers.
According to the outlines, the discovered liner is what you need. Only almost 6 meters longer - not 63.7 meters, but 70.
The tail fell off, - explains the tracker, - lies a little further from the fuselage. Hence the "elongation".
The main objection of skeptics is that the photo from space used by Google Maps could have been accidentally taken by a plane flying over the jungle. In addition, four years have passed since the loss, it is quite enough for the lush tropical vegetation to completely hide the liner. And it's strange that the car in the photo is almost intact. Even if the plane did not crash from a great height, but tried to land in the jungle, it would most likely fall apart into several large fragments.
No, Wilson dismisses doubts. Like, I checked it using one of the resource options - “escape ground view”. The plane is down.
Could the virtual pathfinder "stumble" not on the MH370, but on some other Boeing 777-200?. Excluded - no other such in this area of Cambodia fell. At least, aviation experts do not know anything about such disasters.
Wilson said that he would like to get to the crash site he discovered. After all, Malaysian and Australian specialists, who, albeit to no avail, are officially busy searching for the remains of the liner, as a rule, do not respond to the "signals" of virtual trackers. Or brush them aside.
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And then there's Boeing
Competing with Wilson is Australian Peter McMahon, who has long been passionate about air crash investigations. Using Google Maps, he also saw the silhouette of a crashed Malaysian Boeing. But in another place - under water. If he gets to him, then he will have to dive.
In March 2018, McMahon: The Boeing lies in shallow water about 16 kilometers south of Round Island - one of the Seychelles. The satellite photo shows both the wings and the fuselage.
The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau told McMahon that the plane he discovered could very well be the one he was looking for. But no action was taken. The Malaysian authorities also responded. But more harshly: they asked not to mislead people.
McMahon somehow saw that the fuselage of the liner was full of holes. As if stitched with machine-gun bursts.
And one more
In 2016, a Malaysian Boeing found Scott Waring, a well-known ufologist and virtual archaeologist among those who look for anomalies in images transmitted from other planets, such as Mars.
Scott assures that he did not specifically search for the missing liner. I was looking for traces of UFOs that were seen in the Cape area Good Hope(Cape of Good Hope) in 2013. And for this purpose, I looked at the pictures of the area posted in Google Earth. I saw the outline of the plane. He lies under water. Almost whole.
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“An Asian passenger on the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village called Shahraz (to be confirmed). In about a week, data on this will be transferred to China (it is not known whether this will become world publicity). As it turned out, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian airliner Boeing-777-200-ER was the suppression by the American side of an attempt by a group of special specialists to get from Malaysia to China. An anonymous source in the special services told the MK correspondent about this with special confidence. This information is published in the world media for the first time.
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The day before, a source from the special services told MK, on condition of anonymity, that, according to reports, the hijacked passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying on flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.
In the first ten days of April, MK, citing special services, reported that the nickname of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane with a total of 239 people on board was Hitch. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 were not guilty of the hijacking, a fairly authoritative source from the special services assured the MK correspondent on condition of anonymity.
The Boeing 777-200ER, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines made a joint
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The missing Boeing-777 flew for several more hours after the "loss" of communication between the crew and the controllers.
Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under the age of 5 and 12 crew members (including two pilots). Most of the passengers - 153 - had Chinese citizenship (one is a permanent resident of Hong Kong). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a vacation in Bali, where he went diving. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: the Iranians Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyyed-Mohammadreza bought tickets using their passports and got on the flight .
Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, the Kuala Lumpur Control controller handed over flight MH370 to controllers in Ho Chi Minh City, which was confirmed by the flight crew. Flight MH370 was last seen on radar at 01:21:13, but the pilots did not contact controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. After that, communication with the aircraft was completely lost. At 01:38 a.m., Vietnamese air traffic controllers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur where flight MH370 had gone?
After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers contacted Malaysia Airlines' flight control center at 02:15 a.m., where they assumed the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, the controllers of the ATC center of Cambodia noted that the crew did not contact them. The Vietnamese air traffic controllers, in turn, emphasized that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 was not supposed to fly through air space Cambodia. Over the next few hours, controllers and representatives of the airline tried in vain to establish at least some kind of contact with the aircraft and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to start an official search and rescue operation.
Seven messages are known to have been received from Flight MH370 via the Aviation Communications Address Reporting System (ACARS) after losing contact with the airliner, including the last one at 08:19.
So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the intrigues of the missing aircraft, which will now be more focused on studying the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring results).
At the end of April, they were tired of the uncertainty and unconvincing methods of searching for the missing airliner with a letter about checking the version of the location of the missing aircraft, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets (site site) with reference to anonymous sources in the special services. The extra-exclusive information of "MK" was urgently made public in both languages and instantly replicated by the world media (an example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages of the world).
An expert in the field of accident investigation from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), an experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov, explained to the MK correspondent that “such an aircraft could well land on an ordinary dirt road on a more or less dense surface about 2000 meters long . Although, of course, for this there must be free approaches to runway- that is, there should be no trees and mountains. With a hard landing on a “bad” surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even the wing could break ”(the estimated weight of the stolen Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar landing of an airliner that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which.
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This information was not published in the world media : " A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by "unknown terrorists" and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to a Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: "Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch ." The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan". Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan .
The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in March 2014 shook the world. Versions of what happened, put forward a variety of. But until now, nothing really is known about the fate of the aircraft.
Did the flight go “normally”?
On March 8, 2014, Boeing operated joint flight MH370 with China Southern Airlines from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. There were 227 passengers on board. different countries and 12 crew members. The crew commander was an experienced 53-year-old pilot Zahari Ahmad Shah, the co-pilot was 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid. The liner took off from Kuala Lumpur at 0.41 local time and, according to the schedule, was supposed to land at the Beijing airport at 6.30. [S-BLOCK]
At 02.40 Malaysian time, the plane disappeared from the radar screens. At the same time, the dispatchers did not receive any information about technical problems, course changes or other problems. The last message received from the crew read: "It's all right, Good night". At this point, the liner was over South China Sea 220 kilometers from the east coast of Malaysia. [S-BLOCK]
In search and rescue
The operation was attended by 26 countries, including Russia. But no trace of the missing airliner was found. At the end of January 2015, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department officially declared everyone on board the aircraft dead. [S-BLOCK]
July 29, 2015 at french island Reunion in the Indian Ocean, near the city of San Andre, beach cleaners found a wing fragment of an unidentified aircraft covered with shells. Specialists confirmed that this fragment most likely belongs to the missing liner. Other fragments were later discovered, but it was not possible to prove their indisputable belonging to the disappeared Boeing.
oddities
Meanwhile, an investigation carried out by Malaysia jointly with seven other states - the United States, Great Britain, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became unavailable for radar, he spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After about 40 minutes, communications with ground services were disabled, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to be received from the onboard terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that the Boeing changed course over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, crossed Malaysia for the second time in a southwestern direction and headed south. Presumably the flight ended in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The "black box" signals were never registered.
The plane was hijacked by the Americans?
During a search of the home of Captain Ahmad Shah, a makeshift Boeing flight simulator was found. It turned out that for some reason Shah was training to land the liner at five airfields in the Indian Ocean. He also erased all entries from his electronic diary. [S-BLOCK]
Therefore, the main version of the investigation was the hijacking of the liner by unknown persons who were allegedly in collusion with the pilots. Another argument in favor of the crew's involvement in the disappearance of the plane was the fact that a few minutes before departure, Ahmad Shah was talking on a mobile phone with some woman who purchased a SIM card using fake documents. [S-BLOCK]
It was the hijackers who could turn off the appliances. But where did the plane go? One of the points where Ahmad Shah “planted” him with the help of a simulator is the US military base Diego Garcia, located on an atoll island with an area of about 27 square kilometers, which is part of the Chagos archipelago. [S-BLOCK]
Why did the US military need to hijack the Boeing? President of the Institute for Scientific Research of the Third Millennium Ilya Belous points out that among the passengers were 20 employees of the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which manufactures chips, semiconductors and other electronic equipment, including military technology. Moreover, these employees were not Americans. 12 of them were Malaysians, 8 were Chinese. And they had a number of patents in the military field. Perhaps they wanted to force them to work for the American government under supervision. And the plane with the rest of the passengers was simply liquidated. [S-BLOCK]
But if all this is true, then it is very unlikely that we will ever know about the true fate of the fatal Boeing. After all, the secret services know how to hide the ends in the water.
