A suicide that dragged the whole plane: the hypothesis of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight

Seven years have passed since the Boeing 777-200 from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 239 people (227 passengers and 12 crew), disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. The plane last contacted air traffic controllers at 1:30 a.m. on March 8. and lost radar contact with the air traffic control center in Subang, Malaysia, at 2:40, one hour and fifty-nine minutes after take-off.

Faced with the lack of evidence of his fall, but without material news about the theft, on March 24, Prime Minister Razak confirmed at a press conference that the plane had landed in the Indian Ocean, west of the Australian port of Perth. That day, Malaysian Airlines released a statement on its website assuming the completion of the flight at the location mentioned.

While they understood the most fanciful theories about the disappearance of the plane, for example, that he was abducted by a black hole, that he was the victim of a jihadist attack or that he mysteriously landed in the jungle of Cambodia, among other crazy ideas, the most sensible one seems to be the hypothesis of a depressed pilot who committed suicide and who, with him, took the lives of the passengers of the MH 370.

That’s how he said it Atlantic in an article that had read records, published in 2018: was the most read in the world with over 30 million minutes of reading. Aviation journalist author William Langewiesche had sources, knew the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was depressed and had seen the test report of the cursed route in his flight simulator.

Today, we still do not know for sure what happened but the thesis with the greatest possibilities is that of the report of Atlantic what matters The pilot descended twelve thousand meters to depressurize the cabin, leaving the passengers unconscious and then dead – which is why no one arrived in time to send a distress message -, changed course and fell to an undetermined point in the ocean. after all the fuel is consumed.

According to the article, pilot depression it was linked to the fact that his wife had left him, that he spent a lot of time alone and that he was in a relationship with a married woman.

The ship has not disappeared. So far, 27 pieces of the theft have been recovered on the beaches of Réunion, Mozambique, Mauritius, South Africa and the island of Pemba (Zanzibar). In addition, they were found three wing fragments between La Réunion, Mauricio and Pemba, in addition to seven other rooms – including parts of the cabin interior – which “almost certainly” belong to the aircraft. Eight others are “very likely” the same.

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