Two top air crash investigators have concluded that the Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight was lost in a murder-suicide plot. The flight, which went missing above the Indian Ocean, was carrying 239 passengers and crew.
During the Sky News documentary MH370: The Final Search, which aired on Tuesday night, retired pilot and top aviation safety investigator John Cox stated that the loss of MH370 was not an accident.
The baffling disappearance of the plane led to search efforts and speculation when it went missing in 2014.
Cox believes that existing theories do not align with the evidence. He stated that the plane’s twisting route indicates that it had been commandeered by one of the captains.
“I think the evidence is pretty overwhelming that the aeroplane could not have flown the route it did with all the respective turns without that being a commandeered manoeuvre,” Cox told News Corp Australia.
He added that the route had to have been flown by someone with expert knowledge and ability, leading him to suspect the pilot and the First Officer were responsible for the flight’s path.
Cox also claimed that the pilot, Shah, was the only one aboard with the knowledge and experience to disable MH370’s datalink system, thereby excluding the co-pilot, First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, from having a role in the disappearance.
Canadian aviation crash investigator Larry Vance, who was also featured in the documentary, asserted that MH370 was a criminal act and that the aircraft was intentionally ditched.
An Australian widow, Danica Weeks, who lost her husband on MH370, initially believed the crash was due to a mechanical failure. However, after new expert analysis of satellite data, she now believes the crash was an act of murder.
‘I was so staunch about saying it wasn’t the pilot. But now I have to throw all of that out after nearly eight years (since the disappearance) and three years of searching (for the plane, by the authorities),” she told Sky News.
