Missing Malaysian Airlines: ‘Disappearance of MH 370 was well-planned by the plane’s crew’

Kuala Lumpur: Nearly two weeks after the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 went missing, the search is still on and there is no clue of the whereabouts of the plane. Latest reports suggest that a Norwegian ship had reached the area of search in the Indian Ocean after possible debris was spotted by Australia. The Royal Australian Air Force has also dispatched an aircraft to the designated spot. The plane has not been relay any possible information due to poor visibility owing to bad weather. However, the exhaustive search operation for the MH370 has resumed in a much clearer weather, with air teams joined by both military and commercial ships as officials scramble to cover the search area. According to Daily Mail, “Officials are preparing for the worst possible news, with several aviation experts now claiming the remote location of the debris would almost-certainly point to deliberate cockpit intervention, either by the pilots, the crew or passengers. Neil Hansford, chairman of Strategic Aviation Solutions, told Network 10 that he was convinced that what had happened to MH370 wasn't an accident, and said the evidence pointed to the plane's crew being involved. 'I think it's been put there either by one of the crew or both, and they've picked an area where the aircraft won't be found,' Hansford said. This was a crew-related incident. It wasn't a catastrophic explosion. It wasn't hit by military ordnance. (The debris is) in about 10,000ft of water. In that part of the world there's currents. Whether it's terrorism or activism, it's certainly something that has been well structured and well planned’.” The report said, “Hansford pointed to the amount of fuel likely on board the Boeing 777-200, at nearly full capacity with 31,000 gallons instead of the 45 per cent loading required to pilot a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, as being a strong indicator that MH370's disappearance was not accidental. He added that given the location of the debris, the plane very well could have headed for mainland Australia, blaming the co-ordination effort in Malaysia for the slow and frustrating search. He said, ‘[Malaysian investigators] have never had control of this incident from the time the passenger manifest was never checked against the stolen passport. We've only seriously been involved for really five for six days. We were all out looking in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand until they realised they didn't have a clue.' A statement from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said four planes had searched an area of 8,800 square miles (23,000 square kilometres) about 1,550 miles (2,500m) south-west of Perth without success.” Daily Mail said, “Hansford suggests the pilots on MH370 may have used their knowledge to their advantage and dropped the plane in a part of the ocean it would never be found. 'If I was trying to lose an aircraft, and make sure there was no evidence... you'd certainly be looking to put the aircraft it in very, very deep water a long way from land,' he said. 'In the end if it is in the area it's only going to be found by sonar and other maritime assets, not by aircraft assets. There's unlikely to be any naval ships in the area [for days]. You've almost been able to put it (MH370) in with little chance of anything floating up too quickly to be able to isolate the wreck.' Aviation experts are still today trying to unravel the enduring mystery of flight MH370 after debris thought to belong to the missing plane was spotted in the Indian Ocean some 1,500miles south-west of Australia.”

According to Daily Mail, “Commercial pilot Robert Mark, who is editor of Aviation International News Safety magazine, said the site of the new search area off the coast of Perth in relation to the plane's last-known location reduced the likelihood that it was hijacked. In the absence of any other evidence that suggested it may have deviated from its path in between those two points, he said it adds strength to the theory that an on-board emergency may have knocked out the crew, leaving it to fly on auto-pilot until running out of fuel. What lends further weight to this idea is the fact the new search is being conducted in one of the remotest parts of the planet which offers few, if any, terror targets or landing areas. Mark told MailOnline: 'What I think is interesting is that if you look at where the plane was last seen on radar and where the debris has been found, it is almost a straight line. I would say it means that once the aircraft turned, it didn't change course. A mechanical fault or emergency seems more plausible to me’.” Meanwhile, Marks said speculation that the plane had been taken for a suicide mission was also now more unlikely. 'If you've taken a plane to commit suicide, why fly for seven hours?' he added.

Daily Mail said, “The Bangkok-based specialist said it could only have occurred with human involvement – either by passengers, crew or pilots Capt Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid. ‘If this debris does turn out to be the missing MH370 then, given its location, we can definitely rule out technical malfunction,’ he said. ‘There is no way with (some) sort of technical calamity or fire that it could have travelled to where it appears to be. It would in the first instance confirm human intervention.’ Another aviation expert believes the plane may have crashed as a result of foul play and a technical fault. Peter Marosszeky, from the University of New South Wales School of Aviation, told the Sydney Morning Herald: 'It looks there was foul play and whoever was the in cockpit couldn't get the plane to work the way they wanted it to.' He believes all electronic signals and lights would have been disabled at the time communication was cut off.”

According to the report, “A top air-crash investigator said the fate of MH370 may forever remain a mystery unless a human cause can be found for its disappearance. Thomas Anthony, a former security chief with the Federal Aviation Administration, told Sky News: 'If the aircraft breaks, the technical investigation will likely disclose the causes. If the human breaks, the technical investigation may actually provide no answers to what caused the accident, incident or crash.' His comments come as investigators were reportedly trying to identify a mysterious phone call made by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah while he was in the cockpit.”