MH370 pilot crashed deliberately in pre-planned plot to kill everyone on board, investigation reveals

Robin de Peyer14 May 2018

Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was deliberately crashed in an act of premeditated murder, experts have said.

The plane, which vanished over the Indian Ocean in one of the biggest aviation mysteries in history, was crashed in a meticulously planned mission during the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.

The plane’s wreckage, along with the bodies of the 239 people on board, have never been found.

Experts have now suggested the plane’s fate was the result of a deliberate plot by its 53-year-old captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, to kill himself and everyone on board.

Martin Dolan, who led the Australian search effort off the country’s west coast, told 60 Minutes Australia he believed the crash was a murder plot.

“This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time,” he said.

Mr Dolan was part of a panel of experts - assembled by the programme - who agreed that Mr Zaharie has flown the plane to the most remote area he could in order to enable it to disappear.

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Simon Hardy, an experienced Boeing 777 captain, said the plane was flown along the border of Thai and Malaysian waters.

“As the aircraft went across Thailand and Malaysia, it runs down the border, which is wiggling underneath, meaning it's going in and out of those two countries, which is where their jurisdictions are,” he said.

“So both of the controllers aren't bothered about this mysterious aircraft. Cause it's, 'Oh, it's gone. It's not in our space anymore'.

“If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing.

“As far as I'm concerned, it's very accurate flying because think it did the job and we know, as a fact, that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft.”

Mr Zaharie was accompanied by an inexperienced first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, who was on his first Boeing 777 mission without being accompanied by a training captain.

Some fragments of MH370 have been discovered since the crash, but the full wreckage has never been found.

In a separate incident of murder suicide, 150 people were killed when Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz seized control of the passenger jet and crashed it into the French Alps in March 2015.

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