Where Flight MH370 actually crashed and why it is Malaysia’s ‘disgrace’
- MH370 crashed in 2014 and has by no means been discovered
- Expert says Malaysia would not need it discovered because it’s ‘shameful’
- Aerospace engineer has charted its location on sea mattress
Malaysia is aware of the place the wreckage of doomed flight MH370 is however refuses to acknowledge the ‘shameful fact’ concerning the crash, Australia’s main aviation skilled says.
Geoffrey Thomas, a 50-year aviation trade veteran, mentioned the Malaysia Airlines airplane’s stays lie 1,933km due west of Perth after consultants traced the ultimate flightpath of the airplane.
Mr Thomas mentioned aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey has tracked the route of airplane utilizing radio waves and believes ‘yet one more search in 2024’ will reveal its ultimate resting place.
Analysis of the airplane’s ultimate moments and the recovered particles discovered the pilot was ‘was pushing down on the management column’ to crash the airplane in a high-speed dive, designed to ‘make sure the plane broke up into as many items as potential’.
Mr Thomas mentioned the last decade of hypothesis for the reason that airplane vanished had left kinfolk of the victims ‘on a ghastly rollercoaster journey as ridiculous theories are floated’.
‘What the MH370 crash was, is pilot suicide and mass homicide of the worst variety, as a result of no-one may escape,’ he advised Daily Mail Australia.
But Mr Thomas mentioned the Malaysian authorities has beforehand refused to instigate a recent search and the pilot’s household had rejected ‘what clearly occurred’.
Captain Zaharie had constructed his personal flight simulator in a bed room on which investigators discovered the doomed MH370 flight path he’d examined then wiped earlier than March 7, 2014
The diverted flight path of MH370 flew virtually seven hours south and crashed into the ocean ‘in a high-speed dive designed to make sure the plane broke up into as many items as potential’
On Monday, Malaysian Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook lastly introduced the nation could renew the hunt for the lacking airplane, which disappeared 10 years in the past.
‘OBSESSED AND SUICIDAL’ PILOT
It comes after rising worldwide concern amongst aviation and aerospace consultants that Malaysia was refusing to revive the search which was halted in 2018, regardless that it had been provided a ‘no-find, no-fee’ proposal by a US marine search firm.
The Malaysia Airlines flight departed for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on the night of March 7, 2014 however diverted from its deliberate flight path and turned south earlier than it vanished.
The airplane, carrying 227 passengers together with seven Australians, and 12 crew, is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
It was later revealed the pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had practised the flight on his personal home-made flight simulator, and had been having well-documented psychological and marital issues, mentioned Mr Thomas.
He was additionally brazenly ranting towards the Malaysian authorities on Facebook and sending obsessive, sexualised messages to a pair of dual sister fashions aged of their 20s.
‘The pilot dedicated suicide clearly. He flew the identical route that he had taken on his personal flight simulator, going off the usual route and flying due south,’ Mr Thomas mentioned.
‘(Captain Zaharie) wiped it off his simulator, however the Malaysians recovered it. My understanding is Malaysia Airlines knew that evening that the captain was accountable.
‘He had exhibited all kinds of unusual tendencies – he was stalking the fashions, posting anti-government stuff on Facebook.
‘No nation needs to personal an air crash. It’s a large dent to their nationwide delight, and no-one needs to personal a suicide.’
Debris from the MH370 crash fashioned a path throughout the Indian Ocean, washing up on islands like Reunion and Madagascar and the coast of japanese Africa
Zaharie was obsessive about twin sister Malaysian fashions Qi Min Lan and Lan Qi Hui, then 26, begging them to return to Kuala Lumpur and sending creepy feedback on Facebook
Mr Thomas mentioned Zaharie’s rabid political rants within the yr main as much as the MH370 catastrophe ought to have seen him fired.
‘It ought to have raised critical alarm bells with the airline that you’ve somebody flying who has such sturdy anti-government views,’ he mentioned.
‘If a Qantas pilot did one thing like that, he can be spoken to and grounded.
‘In 50 years [as an aviation expert] I’ve lined 10 pilot suicides – there’s been 13 or 14 of main plane, and normally you could have essentially the most monumental cover-up.
‘I do not suppose the Malaysians need to discover MH370 and want it could go away.’
PM’S BOMBSHELL CLAIM
Australian Prime Minister on the time, Tony Abbott, mentioned prime Malaysian officers believed Captain Zaharie had intentionally downed the jet quickly after it vanished.
UK aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey has charted MH370’s flight path as soon as it was hijacked by the captain and flown till it ran out of gasoline and crashed into the Indian Ocean
Aishah Zaharie (pictured along with her father, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of MH370) left Australia after the crash and didn’t reply to inquiries concerning the catastrophe 10 years on
‘My very clear understanding, from the very prime ranges of the Malaysian authorities, is that from very early on, they thought it was murder-suicide by the pilot,’ Mr Abbott mentioned.
A Malaysian-led investigation in 2018 mentioned the airplane’s course was modified manually however didn’t title a suspect, and mentioned the reason for the disappearance couldn’t be decided till the wreckage and the airplane’s black containers are discovered.
Mr Thomas mentioned it was unsure if they might be operational after 10 years on the ocean ground, and there was an pressing want to seek out them now that Mr Godfrey had charted Captain Zaharie deadly flight path.
TELL-TALE RADIO TRACES
Mr Godfrey, former lead engineer for the European Space Agency Spacelab, tracked the flight path utilizing weak radio indicators frequently produced by novice radio operators that cowl the earth.
The expertise, often known as ‘weak sign propagation report’ or WSPR, used the radio waves as ‘digital tripwires’ that triggered invisible indicators when plane crossed them.
Mr Thomas mentioned that since 2009 a report of all of the waves has been stored on a global knowledge base.
‘If you return to March 8, 2014 you can begin monitoring MH370 by the disturbance,’ he mentioned.
Richard Godfrey’s report tracks MH370 from take-off, on its accepted flight path to the purpose the place it was nearing Vietnamese air house when the airplane dropped out of contact, after which for the six-and-a-half hours it flew till it crashed into the ocean.
Captain Zaharie together with his spouse Faizah Khan (above) was mentioned by a 777 pilot pal to be in a fragile emotional state together with his marriage crumbling within the months earlier than the catastrophe
MH370’s stays lie 1933km due west of Perth at a depth of 4,000m in a really mountainous space with deep ravines and a volcano in response to Richard Godfrey’s evaluation
Leading aviation skilled Geoffrey Thomas mentioned the MH370 subsequent of kin ”have been on a ghastly curler coaster journey’ for the reason that crash and it was as much as the Malaysian authorities to acknowledge the reality
An hour into the flight Zaharie spoke the final phrases the world would hear from MH370 earlier than turning the airplane round and heading south: ‘Good evening. Good evening. Malaysian three-seven-zero.’
The Boeing 777 crashed as a result of it ran out of gasoline, however Mr Thomas believes the passengers and crew would lengthy have been useless.
PASSENGERS ‘PUT TO SLEEP’
‘Hopefully (Zaharie) put all of them to sleep by depressurising the airplane, to disable everyone, to forestall individuals from breaking into cockpit,’ he mentioned.
‘The co-pilot may simply have been gotten rid of – “get me a glass of water” – and as quickly as he’s out of cockpit you place the “deny entry” on lock. He then would have donned his own oxygen supply.’
In the immediate wake of the disaster, Captain Zaharie’s family and friends angrily refuted that the pilot had been distracted, withdrawn and possibly suicidal before the doomed flight.
The pilot’s daughter Aishah Zaharie, then a Deakin University architecture student in Geelong, wrote on Facebook in the weeks afterward about a Daily Mail report of the pilot’s mental state ‘You can bet your ass I will not forgive you’.
Zaharie’s wife, Faizah Khanum Mustafa Khan, denied she had said her husband ‘retreated into a shell’, spending time alone in the room with the flight simulator he had built himself.
However, It has since emerged that Zaharie was probably clinically depressed, that his wife had moved out of the house where he had the flight simulator and into their second house.
‘Family hit out, they always do,’ Mr Thomas said. ‘But it is important to recover the plane and solve the mystery … it’s closure for the relatives [of the passengers and other crew].’
A young Captain Zaharie (above) became a senior Malaysia Airlines pilot but a year before the crash began anti-government rants on Facebook which should have set off alarm bells
The daughter of the MH370 pilot Aishah Zaharie was studying architecture in Melbourne at the time of the disaster and now works as an architect in Malaysia, for firm Akiprima
Aishah Zaharie has since been quoted as saying she her father had changed and during her final conversation with him ‘she barely recognised him’.
An unconfirmed News Corp report claimed Ms Zaharie added: ‘He wasn’t the father I knew. He seemed disturbed and lost in a world of his own’.
Ms Zaharie now works as an architect for the firm Akiprima in Selangor, Malaysia, after having worked for Port Philip Building Services in Melbourne and ZH&S architects in Kuala Lumpur, according to her linkedin.com profile.
Neither Ms Zaharie, nor her mother Faizah Khanum Mustafa Khan, nor the pilot’s sister Sakinab Shah responded to Daily Mail Australia’s inquiries about MH370 and Captain Zaharie.
CREEPY MESSAGES TO TWIN MODELS
According to a report by The Atlantic aviation expert William Langewiesche, Captain Zaharie’s chaotic personal life and fragile emotional state likely caused him to crash the plane.
A 777 pilot and lifelong friend of Zaharie told Langewiesche he had come to that conclusion reluctantly.
‘Zaharie’s marriage was bad. In the past he slept with some of the flight attendants. And so what? We all do,’ he said.
‘You’re flying all over the world with these beautiful girls in the back. But his wife knew.’
He admitted Zaharie’s emotional state ‘may have been a factor.’
Zaharie became obsessed with Qi Min Lan, one of two model sisters, sending 97 Facebook posts including invitations to visit and sexualised messages
Zaharie’s message to Qi Min Lan after she posted a photo of herself in the satin robe was ‘just shower?’
As well as sending Facebook messages to the twin models, Qi Min Lan and her twin Lan Qi Hui, then 26, begging them to come to Kuala Lumpur where he lived with his wife, Zaharie bombarded them with creepy comments.
When Qi Min Lan posted a photo of herself in a bathrobe, he wrote, ‘Just shower?’
Zaharie also revealed publicly on his own Facebook page his disgust with the ruling regime, branding then-Prime Minister Najib Razak a ‘moron’ and posting 119 times before the 2013 election.
‘The posts and messages in Malay were recorded,’ Mr Thomas said. The pilot directed 97 separate Facebook comments at Qi Min Lan, his ‘favourite’ of the sisters.
Ms Min said later that she did not know Zaharie at all, and that he had been ‘just a social network’s fan of mine’.
‘I have many followers in my social network – he is just one of them. Anyhow the pilot no disturb my life because I no reply to him at all.’
Captain Zaharie and his wife Faizah (above) had grown apart in the years leading up to the crash and a fellow pilot said his emotional state ‘may have a been a factor’ in the crash
LARGEST HUNT IN HISTORY
Immediately after the crash it was Australia, engaged on Malaysia’s behalf, which coordinated what turned the biggest and costliest search in aviation historical past.
From October 2014 to January 2017, a complete survey was fabricated from 120,000 km of sea ground about 1800km southwest of Western Australia.
During those years an extraordinary debris trail across the Indian Ocean left parts washing up on islands such as Reunion and Madagascar and on the coast of eastern Africa.
But the main body of the aircraft has never been recovered.
‘The level of damage with fractures on all sides and the extreme force of the penetration right through the debris items leads to the conclusion that the end of the flight was in a high-speed dive,’ he said.
On 22 January 2018, a search by private US marine exploration company Ocean Infinity began.
Ocean Infinity used the ship Sea Bed Constructor (above) to search for MH 370 in 2018 and the private US marine exploration company will now recommence the hunt for the plane
This last search for MH370 was approved by the Malaysian government, provided payment of up to $70m would be made only if the wreckage is found.
The search ended unsuccessfully in June that year, and in March 2019 the Malaysian Government said it was only willing to look at any ‘credible leads or specific proposals’ regarding any further searches.
‘Ocean Infinity stated it was ready to resume the search on the same no-fee no-find basis based on Richard Godfrey’s research, but the Malaysian Government has shown no interest, citing the “no new credible leads” reason,’ Mr Thomas said.
The Malaysian Government has now said it would be willing to recommence a search using Ocean Infinity.
Aishah Zaharie (above in Sydney) lived and studied in Australia but now works as an architect in Malaysia with her family not publicly commenting about MH370
On Monday, the company’s CEO, Oliver Plunkett said it hoped to ‘get back to the search soon’ now the government had invited the firm to discuss resuming the search called off six years ago.
Mr Thomas said despite Malaysia previously saying there had been no new credible leads, Mr Godfrey’s flight path and ocean drift analysis showed investigators had explored the wrong area of seabed.
He believed it was time for the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to take over the crash investigation and retrieve the plane from the bottom of the ocean.
Richard Godfrey’s report states that MH370 impacted the ocean west of Perth at 33.177°S 95.300°E and lies at a depth of 4,000m in a really mountainous space with deep ravines and a volcano.
He said the crash location area, found using the WSPR technology and drift analysis by the University of Western Australia, had not been previously searched.
‘MH370 is an extraordinary event almost unprecedented in modern history,’ Mr Thomas said.
‘But it has been made more of a mystery because of the reluctance of Malaysia, which seems to find every reason not to go look for it.
‘After Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009, they didn’t discover it for three years and the black boxes were both readable and they were able to extract all the data.
‘After 10 years, who knows?’
MH370 WHAT HAPPENED: 438 MINUTES FROM TAKEOFF TO DISASTER
16:42, March 7, 2014: MH370 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport with 239 passengers and crew including pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid. Six Australians are on board.
MH370’s flight path is initially in accordance with the flight plan from Kuala Lumpur International Airport runway 32 right to Beijing until the plane reaches waypoint IGARI.
17:20: MH370 is almost at waypoint IGARI and about to handover between the Singapore Flight Information Region (FIR) and the Ho Chi Minh FIR.
There are six other aircraft in the vicinity, including Finnair Flight 82 from Helsinki to Singapore, Lufthansa Flight 779 from Singapore to Frankfurt and Garuda Flight 890 from Chongqing to Beijing.
This is the likely point when Captain Zaharie locked the co-pilot out of the cockpit to turn the plane around onto the same flight path south that was later found on his flight simulator.
The WSPR technology uses the weak radio signals which cover the earth (above) and the disturbances recorded when an aircraft passes through the waves
17:38: Instead of continuing on its flight path to Beijing, MH370 takes a diversion flight path back across the Malaysian peninsula, crossing the coast of Malaysia close to Kota Bharu Airport and heading towards Penang and the Malacca Strait.
17:46:34: Terminal Area Radar at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base at Butterworth picks up MH370.
16:08 – 16:12: The aircraft follows the coastline of Sumatra. It is a dark night with no moon and by 16:22 the pilot would have been able to pick out the lights of airports like Banda Aceh.
16:30: The plane turns around the tip of Sumatra and at 19:41:03 crosses the 2nd Arc. MH370 was ‘interrogated’ ever hour for seven hours by an Inmarsat satellite over the Indian Ocean, and each of these are called ‘arcs’ numbered one to seven.
18:56 – 18:58: MH370 is detected turning South West then due West back on its track. It is a manoeuvre a pilot would employ to check he was not being followed.
17:58: MH370 is tracking towards a waypoint where the FIRs of Jakarta, Colombo and Melbourne meet. MH370 then heads towards Geraldton, Western Australia.
20:32: The plane turns due South.
21:54: MH370 turns towards the Zaharie Shah home flight simulator end point in the flight from fuel exhaustion. The aircraft increases to full speed at this point.
A UK aerospace engineer has tracked the flight path taken by MH370 before it crashed into the Indian Ocean and says a new search would find the aircraft
22:26: The aircraft turns South West for twenty minutes and then turns due magnetic South at 22:46.
23:54: With 1,521 kg estimated fuel remaining, MH370 crosses the 6th Arc then turns South East on a downwind leg.
00:02: MH370 has an estimated 605 kg of fuel remaining.
00:11: With an estimated 58 kg of fuel remaining, the plane turns downwind again towards the 7th arc.
Winds and turbulence increase and with fuel exhaustion, called dual engine flame out, MH370’s air speed starts to decrease and the aircraft starts to lose altitude.
00:18: The plane’s altitude of 33,000 feet drops to 12,194 feet by 00:19:29.
00:19:37 The altitude is estimated at 11,650 feet and the descent has increased significantly, leading analysts to believe that the pilot was pushing down on the control column at the end of flight.
00:20: MH370 crashes into the ocean with 239 individuals on board.
