Chilling flight path clue: "How MH370 pilot flew undetected"
Aviation experts have made a chilling discovery about flight MH370, explaining how the pilot “deliberately” avoided detection while flying between two countries.
Senior Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy appeared on 60 Minutes last night, sharing his belief that MH370 was used in a murder-suicide mission by Captain Zaharie Amad Shah.
As the world continues to grapple with how the airliner seemingly vanished into thin air on a route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Mr Hardy contends the pilot deliberately flew over his hometown of Penang for an “emotional goodbye”.
Mr Hardy contends the pilot then ditched the aircraft in the Southern Indian Ocean “where it could never be found”.
During the 60 Minutes episode, Mr Hardy claimed he made the discovery after reconstructing the flight plan from military radar, and believes the pilot managed to avoid detection by flying along the border of Thai and Malaysian detection.
“As the aircraft went across Thailand and Malaysia, it runs down the border, which is wiggling underneath, meaning it’s going in and out of those two countries, which is where their jurisdictions are,” Mr Hardy told the program.
“So both of the controllers aren’t bothered about this mysterious aircraft. Cause it’s, ‘Oh, it’s gone. It’s not in our space anymore’.”
Mr Hardy says this indicates the moves were deliberate.
“If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing,” he said.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s very accurate flying and I think it did the job, because we know, as a fact, that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft.”
Mr Hardy addressed questions about why the plane diverted so far off course.
“I spent a long time thinking about what this could be, what technical reason is there for this?” he said.
“And after two months, three months of thinking about it, I finally got the answer — somebody was looking out the window.
“It might [have been] a long, emotional goodbye or a short, emotional goodbye to his hometown.”
Former Senior Investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Larry Vance, backed these claims up when he spoke with 60 Minutes.
“I think the general public can take comfort in the fact that there is a growing consensus on the plane’s final moments,” he said.
What are your thoughts? Did you watch 60 Minutes last night?