“MH370人为控制失踪”专家：找回可能性极小

 

马航MH370客机失踪逾4年，澳洲等多国的联合搜索行动亦已停止多时，即使马来西亚于今年1月重启搜索，客机的去向仍是未明。一批航空专家认为，MH370是在人为蓄意控制下飞到距已搜索范围更远的不明地方，如今已无必要再搜寻飞机下落。

 

（澳洲‧雪梨14日讯）马航MH370客机失踪逾4年，澳洲等多国的联合搜索行动亦已停止多时，即使马来西亚于今年1月重启搜索，客机的去向仍是未明。一批航空专家认为，MH370是在人为蓄意控制下飞到距已搜索范围更远的不明地方，如今已无必要再搜寻飞机下落。

 

有专家更认为，MH370失踪是机长自杀做成的结果。

澳洲新闻节目《60分钟时事杂志》邀请多名专家，探讨MH370失踪之谜，其中澳洲交通安全局长多兰表示，找到MH370的可能性已经极小，也没必要通过残骸来还原客机最后几小时的航程。

准确避开军方雷达

 

波音777高级飞行员及教练哈地则指，他根据军方雷达记录重组MH370的飞行计划，发现机长刻意沿马来西亚及泰国之间的空域不断进出飞行，此举令马泰两国军方雷达均以为飞机已飞离己方空域而没多加理会，要这样飞行必须很准确，绝对是刻意才做得到。

他更披露机长家中的飞行模拟器上，曾模拟一段没终点的航程，相信没计划在陆地上降落或坠毁，而是选择在海洋上消失，该位置可能比现时搜索过的范围远80公里。

槟上空掉头 疑与家乡告别

 

哈地甚至认为，MH370曾在槟城上空作奇怪地掉头，相信是打算自杀的机长向家乡告别。

资深空难调查员万斯万斯则表示，有人认为客机是以高速直插落海，在之前的搜索亦曾找到一些疑是MH370的大型残骸；但他指出，如果客机真的是高速直插落海，它应该会被撞至四分五裂，残骸亦应布满海底。

文章来源：星洲日报 ‧2018.05.15

MH370 experts think they’ve finally solved the mystery of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight

 

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. May 14 at 2:11 PM

All but one of the 239 people on the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had probably been unconscious — incapacitated by the sudden depressurization of the Boeing 777 — and had no way of knowing they were on an hours-long, meandering path to their deaths.

 

Along that path, a panel of aviation experts said Sunday, was a brief but telling detour near Penang, Malaysia, the home town of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

On two occasions, whoever was in control of the plane — and was probably the only one awake — tipped the craft to the left.

The experts believe Zaharie, the plane's pilot, was taking a final look.

 

That is the chilling theory that the team of analysts assembled by Australia's “60 Minutes” have posited about the final hours of MH370.

They suspect that the plane's 2014 disappearance and apparent crash were a suicide by the 53-year-0ld Zaharie — and a premeditated act of mass murder.

 

But first, the experts said, they believe that Zaharie depressurized the plane, knocking out anyone aboard who wasn't wearing an oxygen mask. That would explain the silence from the plane as it veered wildly off course: no mayday from the craft's radio, no final goodbye texts, no attempted emergency calls that failed to connect.

 

That would also explain how whoever was in control had time to maneuver the plane to its final location.

The wreckage has not been found, though hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into the four-year search. The secret of what happened in the final moments of the ill-fated flight — and the motive behind it all — probably died with its passengers and pilot.

 

But the “60 Minutes” team — which included aviation specialists, the former Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief in charge of investigating MH370's crash and an oceanographer — put forth what they believe is the most likely theory.

“The thing that gets discussed the most is that at the point where the pilot turned the transponder off, that he depressurized the airplane, which would disable the passengers,” said Larry Vance, a veteran aircraft investigator from Canada. “He was killing himself. Unfortunately, he was killing everyone else onboard. And he did it deliberately.”

 

Zaharie's suspected suicide might explain an oddity about the plane's final flight path: that unexpected turn to the left.

“Captain Zaharie dipped his wing to see Penang, his home town,” Simon Hardy, a Boeing 777 senior pilot and instructor, said on “60 Minutes.”

“If you look very carefully, you can see it's actually a turn to the left, and then start a long turn to the right. And then [he does] another left turn. So I spent a long time thinking about what this could be, what technical reason is there for this, and, after two months, three months thinking about this, I finally got the answer: Someone was looking out the window.”

“It might be a long, emotional goodbye,” Hardy added. “Or a short, emotional goodbye to his home town.”

Flight 370 disappeared March 8, 2014, shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing.

The craft is thought to have crashed in the far southern Indian Ocean.

The governments of Malaysia, China and Australia called off the official search in January 2017. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's final report said authorities were no closer to knowing the reasons for the plane’s disappearance or the exact location of its wreckage.

But the “60 Minutes” experts tried to answer one of the biggest questions surrounding the flight: How could a modern aircraft tracked by radar and satellites simply disappear?

Because, they say, Zaharie wanted it to. And the veteran pilot, who had nearly 20,000 hours of flight experience and had built a flight simulator in his home, knew exactly how to do it.

For example, at one point, he flew near the border of Malaysia and Thailand, crisscrossing into the airspace of both, Hardy said. But neither country was likely to see the plane as a threat because it was on the edge of their airspace.

“Both of the controllers aren't bothered about this mysterious aircraft because, oh, it's gone, it's not in our space anymore,” Hardy said. “If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try to make a 777 disappear, I would do the same thing. As far as I'm concerned, it's very accurate flying, and it did the job.”

Still, as News.com.au wrote, the experts' hypotheses are just theories — and not entirely new ones.

Zaharie and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid were prime suspects in the plane's disappearance from the beginning. There were rumors that Zaharie's marriage was ending and that he downed the plane after learning that his wife was about to leave, the news site said.

Another theory was that he hijacked the plane in protest of the jailing of Anwar Ibrahim, who was then the opposition leader in Malaysia.

A group called the Chinese Martyrs' Brigade claimed responsibility for the downing, although skeptical officials called this a hoax.

Two men on the plane were flying with phony passports, but one was apparently an asylum seeker, and neither had terrorism links.

The wreckage, of course, might provide some insight about what caused the airplane to crash, and crews were still looking for it as recently as this year.

The latest attempt to discover it was a $70 million effort by a Texas company called Ocean Infinity, according to the Associated Press. The mission scanned 500 square miles a day during a three-month search.

Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Plunkett said the company's technology had performed “exceptionally well” and collected “significant amounts of high-quality data.”

Still, it found no trace of MH370.

 

(Azhar Rahim/European Pressphoto Agency)

 

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