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    Missing flight MH370 ‘found’ on Google Earth riddled with bullet holes...

    Missing flight MH370 ‘found’ on Google Earth riddled with bullet holes, crash investigation expert claims
    Mar 18, 2018 - Images have emerged showing what could be the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and it’s covered in bullet holes, an expert has claimed.
    The Google Earth pictures show what appears to be the outline of the plane, which vanished along with 239 passengers and crew, under the surface of waters just north of Mauritius. Australian amateur crash investigator Peter McMahon has spent years poring over NASA and Google Maps images since the plane disappeared in the Indian Ocean four years ago and claims he now thinks he has found it. He believes the aircraft is 10 miles south of small islet Round Island – an area not included in the search operation by experts.

    Mr McMahon said he sent his findings to the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau, which confirmed it could be the missing craft. But he claims they were then told by US officials to stick to the assigned area of the Indian Ocean. Could this be part of the front cabin of missing MH370 in waters south of Rodrigues Island?Mr McMahon, 64, told Daily Star Online: “Four Americans were sent to Australia to oversee the findings of MH370. “They have made sure that all information received has been hidden from the public, even our government – but why?”


    He said authorities “do not want it found as it’s full of bullet holes, finding it will only open another inquiry.” According to reports, along with the main section, Mr McMahon claims to have found part of the front cabin in waters south of Rodrigues Island, also near Mauritius. Mr McMahon, a mechanical engineer, as spent 25 years working on crash investigations. Search teams have never found the bodies of the missing passengers and crew.

    Earlier this year Malaysia’s government approved US-company Ocean Infinity to dispatch a vessel to search more than 9.000 sq m of Australian waters for the missing Boeing 777. Its exact location has never been known. Debris was found by volunteers clearing a beach in St Andre, Reunion in 2015 and Australia released satellite imagery in 2017 showing 12 objects floating near the suspected crash site.

    http://nehandaradio.com/2018/03/18/m...expert-claims/

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcfieldz View Post
    It's too bad they didn't have a record to look for it like this:
    https://www.flightradar24.com/-2.05,101.02/5
    It appears the pilot deliberately evaded radar coverage. Investigators wouldn't even have known what part of the ocean he was in if it wasn't for engine monitors transmitting via datalink.


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    Quote Originally Posted by waltky View Post
    Missing flight MH370 ‘found’ on Google Earth riddled with bullet holes...

    Missing flight MH370 ‘found’ on Google Earth riddled with bullet holes, crash investigation expert claims
    Mar 18, 2018 - Images have emerged showing what could be the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and it’s covered in bullet holes, an expert has claimed.
    Fun conspiracy theory but also one pretty easily proved or disproved.

    Where are the pictures of the entire plane underwater?


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    Latest theory in disappearance of MH370...

    MH370 experts think they’ve finally solved the mystery of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight
    May 14,`18 - 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.”

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    Malaysia to release report on missing flight MH370 on July 30...


    Malaysia to release report on missing flight MH370 on July 30
    July 20, 2018 - Malaysia will release on July 30 a long-awaited report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the transport minister said on Friday.
    In May, Malaysia called off a privately-funded underwater search for the aircraft, which became one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries when it vanished with 239 aboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. The investigation team would brief families of those aboard on the report at the transport ministry on July 30, said the minister, Anthony Loke. “Every word recorded by the investigation team will be tabled in this report,” he told reporters, adding that a news conference would follow the closed-door briefing. “We are committed to the transparency of this report,” Loke added. “It will be tabled fully, without any editing, additions, or redactions.”


    The report will be put online, with hard copies distributed to families and accredited media, among others, Loke said, adding, “The whole international community will have access to the report.” Voice 370, a group representing the relatives, has previously urged the Malaysian government for a review of the flight, including “any possible falsification or elimination of records related to MH370 and its maintenance”. The only confirmed traces of the Boeing 777 aircraft have been three wing fragments washed up on Indian Ocean coasts.


    The search Malaysia called off on May 29, by U.S.-based firm Ocean Infinity, covered 112,000 sq km (43,243 sq miles) in the southern Indian Ocean within three months, ending with no significant new findings. It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200-million ($147.06 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq miles) last year. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia would consider resuming the search if new clues came to light.


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    Someone deliberately 'manipulated’ MH370’s controls...

    MH370 report says someone deliberately 'manipulated’ plane’s controls30 July,`18 - Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was likely steered off course deliberately by someone and flew over the Southern Indian Ocean for over seven hours after communications were severed, according to a safety report into the disaster released Monday.

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    The report by a 19-member international team provided no firm conclusions about what happened, and the head of the MH370 safety investigation team said that more definitive answers could come if the plane's wreckage and black boxes are found. The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished March 8, 2014, and is presumed to have crashed in the far southern Indian Ocean. The report noted that it was difficult for the aircraft's course change to be attributed to mechanical or system failures. "It is more likely that such maneuvers are due to the systems being manipulated," the report said.


    Malaysia issues a safety investigation report with detail analysis after a renewed search by a private U.S. firm for missing Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean ended two months ago without finding the wreckage.








    Officials said Monday's report is still not a final accounting because the plane hasn't been found. Malaysia's government has said it is open to resume searching if credible evidence of the plane's location emerges. The "rogue pilot" theory still arises in public discussions despite Malaysian authorities saying there was no evidence linking Zaharie or Hamid to any wrongdoing. Kok said it was "human nature" to speculate on sensational conspiracy theories but that the team relied on facts. Authorities retrieved over 2,700 coordinates from various file segments found in Zaharie's home flight simulator. This included seven "manually programmed waypoint coordinates" that when linked could fly from the Kuala Lumpur airport to the southern Indian Ocean, but police could not determine if the coordinates were found in a single file or from different files, he said.
    ​​ Police didn't find any data that showed a similar route flown by Flight 370 and concluded that there were "no unusual activities other than game-related flight simulations," Kok said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    Fun conspiracy theory but also one pretty easily proved or disproved.

    Where are the pictures of the entire plane underwater?
    The Loch Ness Monster has them.

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    The simple and that the pilot did it deliberately is the most likely.

    Quote Originally Posted by waltky View Post
    Someone deliberately 'manipulated’ MH370’s controls...

    MH370 report says someone deliberately 'manipulated’ plane’s controls30 July,`18 - Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was likely steered off course deliberately by someone and flew over the Southern Indian Ocean for over seven hours after communications were severed, according to a safety report into the disaster released Monday.

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    Very sad and interesting.
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    Third party intervention possible in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mystery...

    Third party intervention possible in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mystery, report says
    Jul 30, 2018 — A Malaysian-led independent investigation report released Monday, more than four years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, highlighted shortcomings in the government’s response and raised the possibility of “intervention by a third party.”
    The report, prepared by a 19-member international team, reiterated Malaysia’s assertion the plane was deliberately diverted and flown for over seven hours after severing communications. Chief investigator Kok Soo Chon said the cause of the disappearance cannot be determined until the wreckage and the plane’s black boxes are found. He said there was no evidence of abnormal behavior or stress in the two pilots that could lead them to hijack the plane but all passengers were also cleared by police and had no pilot training. “We are not of the opinion that it could be an event committed by the pilot,” Kok told a media briefing. “We cannot rule out unlawful interference by a third party,” such as someone holding the pilots hostage, he said. But he added that no group has said it hijacked the plane and no ransom demands have been made, compounding the mystery. Kok said it was up to police to investigate.


    He said the investigation showed lapses by air traffic control, including a failure to swiftly initiate an emergency response and monitor radar continuously, relying too much on information from Malaysia Airlines and not getting in touch with the military for help. The plane carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished March 8, 2014, and is presumed to have crashed in the far southern Indian Ocean. The report said there was insufficient information to determine if the aircraft broke up in the air or during impact with the ocean. Scattered pieces of debris that washed ashore on African beaches and Indian Ocean islands indicated a distant remote stretch of the ocean where the plane likely crashed. But a government search by Australia, Malaysia and China failed to pinpoint a location. And a second, private search by U.S. company Ocean Infinity that finished at the end of May also found no sign of the wreckage. Family members of those on board the plane said after a briefing by the investigation team that they were frustrated because there were many gaps in the probe and questions left unanswered. “There is nothing new but it highlighted failings of some government agencies” that did not follow protocol and guidelines, said Grace Nathan, whose mother was on board the plane.



    A woman writes a message on a banner for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, Malaysia, in March 2014.




    She said the scope of the safety investigation was also too limited, depended too much on information supplied to them by other parties rather than on their own probe, and didn’t discuss the scope of the searches. Sakinab Shah, sister of senior pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, said she felt “relieved and happy” that Zaharie was again cleared of blame. “But still, it cannot end here. They have to continue the search until they find the plane,” she said. Officials said Monday’s report is still not a final accounting because the plane hasn’t been found. Malaysia’s government has said it is open to resume searching if credible evidence of the plane’s location emerges. The “rogue pilot” theory still arises in public discussions despite Malaysian authorities saying there was no evidence linking Zaharie or his co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, to any wrongdoing. Kok said it was “human nature” to speculate on sensational conspiracy theories but that the team relied on facts.


    He said police retrieved over 2,700 coordinates from various file segments found in Zaharie’s home flight simulator. This included seven “manually programmed waypoint coordinates” that when linked could fly from the Kuala Lumpur airport to the southern Indian Ocean, but police could not determine if the coordinates were found in a single file or from different files, he said. Police didn’t find any data that showed a similar route flown by Flight 370 and concluded that there were “no unusual activities other than game-related flight simulations,” Kok said. He said investigators couldn’t find any flaws with the plane and dismissed the theory that it was remotely controlled. Boeing has such technology to foil plane hijacking but hasn’t used it on any commercial planes, he added. New Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the government will investigate and take action against any misconduct based on the report findings.


    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/third-party-intervention-possible-in-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-mystery-report-says

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