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Why was the Boeing that went missing over the Indian Ocean first looked for in the wrong place, and when the wreckage was found, they looked for it for only a few days, and then abandoned the search altogether? And no one is embarrassed that new plane wreckage continues to be found, but let’s talk about everything in order.
New information has appeared about the Boeing 777-200 Malaysia Airlines Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board.
The plane disappeared on the night of March 8, 2014, but despite the development of modern search engines, it has not been possible to find the 63-meter plane until today.
Even after a year and a half, the search did not yield much results, only mysterious white objects were periodically found, which, it is assumed, could be fragments of the missing plane.
The last hope for continuing the search was fueled by the found radio signal of the black box, but soon it too disappeared. Whether this was a signal from the missing plane is still unknown.
On July 29, 2015, a fragment of a wing and an airplane door were found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
After the Malaysian authorities confirmed that the found fragments belonged to the missing airliner, relatives of the passengers of the missing Boeing staged a real protest in Beijing. After all, the search was initially conducted in the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca. The enormous resources of the 26 states that took part in the search were essentially wasted, because, according to relatives dead passengers, in Kuala Lumpur they had long known about the deviation of the plane’s course, but continued to conduct searches in the areas indicated above.
Why was society misinformed?
An interesting version was put forward by the former head of the French airlines Proteus Airlines, Marc Dugen. In his opinion, the plane was deliberately shot down by the American military. This was done due to US Security Service suspicions that the airliner had been hijacked by terrorists and, In order to prevent terrorist attacks similar to those of September 11, the Americans were forced to shoot down the plane.
Ground controllers lost contact with the plane as it was over the South China Sea and entering Chinese airspace.
Malaysian authorities say the airliner turned into westward and, according to military radar data, was last seen over the Strait of Malacca, heading in the opposite direction from its original route. Based on these arguments, it can be concluded that the aircraft changed course after contact was lost.
According to Dugen, the United States even knows where to look for the wreckage of the Boeing 777-200, so they are officially searching in another place, distant from where the plane actually crashed. He suggests that the airliner crashed near military base USA, located in the Indian Ocean on the island of Diego Garcia.
In order not to be held responsible for the murder of 227 passengers and 12 crew members, the Americans are trying to lead the search for the missing Boeing to a dead end. And perhaps we would never have known the truth about this disaster if the wreckage of the plane had not been washed ashore on Reunion Island.
By the way, searches in this area have been suspended, and they lasted only 10 days.
This raises a completely logical question: If the search for the plane took months in the South China Sea, then why in this case was the search completed so quickly?
Don't you think this is strange? And maybe there really is something upstream?
The found debris was sent for examination to Australia. A number on one of the recovered aircraft pieces indicates it belongs to the missing Boeing 777 flight MH370.
Now everything comes together.
The wreckage of the plane was carried away by the current. Some of them were carried by the Mozambique Current.
It doesn’t take several years to come to this conclusion. It’s just that over time, the secret still becomes apparent and the intention to hide the facts becomes obvious.
23.07.16
The FBI has revealed the secret of the commander of the missing Malaysian Boeing.
The US FBI has released one of the versions of the plane crash Malaysian Boeing, following the route Kuala Lumpur - Beijing, in March 2014, TASS reports citing the American magazine New York.
From all this we can conclude that some people decided to prevent the development of camouflage technologies in order to maintain a monopoly on their ownership or, conversely, to steal scientists along with the technologies. In any case, it is clear that someone is slowing down the investigation and leading on the wrong trail.
06 01 18 The Malaysian government approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of flight MH 370. The Ocean Infinity campaign will do this. The costs of searching for the missing aircraft will only be paid if it is found. Ocean Infinity will search near Australian waters over an area of 25,000 km².
For comparison, the search area for this aircraft in the Indian Ocean was 710,000 km². According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), it was the largest aviation search in history. At the same time, satellite images were studied and ocean drifts were studied. The ATSB report said the chances of finding the plane were now much higher. Let's see what happens.
On the night of March 8, 2014, an event occurred that is difficult to imagine even now, five years later. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Thirty minutes later the plane becomes an unidentified object on radar. The airliner changes direction and flies somewhere south Indian Ocean about seven more hours. The plane then presumably runs out of fuel and crashes into the water. All passengers and crew are presumed dead. Neither the bodies nor the plane itself have been found. Why the plane veered off course and what actually happened is still unknown. They spent $200 million searching for the plane. The result is only a few bags and debris that were discovered by chance.
Airplane No. 404
The Boeing 777 model turned out to be successful in all respects. There is still a stable demand for the aircraft (a new generation is being prepared for release), the airliner is extremely reliable - the first serious incident with human casualties occurred in 2013, 18 years after the start of operation. An Asiana Airlines plane crashed into an embankment in front of the runway at San Francisco Airport due to a crew error. The liner caught fire, but almost everyone survived - out of 307 people on board, three died.
Flight MH370 Kuala Lumpur - Beijing was a night flight: departure at about 0:30, and after almost six hours the travelers were already in the capital of China. In total there were 227 passengers, the crew included 12 more people. The plane was flown by 53-year-old commander Zachary Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Farik Abdul Hamid (the guy is only 27 years old, but he managed to fly a Boeing 737 and an Airbus A330, and now mastered the “three sevens”).
Chronology of strange events
The airliner took off from the runway on March 8 at 0:41. Half an hour later, at 1:19, the dispatcher at Kuala Lumpur Airport will receive the last voice message from the Boeing 777. Two minutes later, something strange happens. The transponder is turned off on the plane. The device constantly transmits to radars up-to-date information- flight number, altitude, etc. When the transponder is deactivated, the airliner turns into an unidentified flying object for dispatchers: the radars still display it, but what kind of plane it is is unclear - just a dot on the screen without any information.
The transponder was turned off exactly at the right moment: the Boeing 777 left Malaysian airspace and was supposed to be picked up by Vietnamese air traffic controllers, but they did not immediately realize that they had missed the plane. Meanwhile, the ship changes direction and heads southwest, while the voyage involves moving to the northeast. During the investigation, it will be established that the maneuver could not have been performed by the autopilot - at least during the turn, the plane was under human control.
The airliner came across Thai military radars, but local dispatchers did not attach any significance to the unknown object. They later explained that the ship did not pose a threat to the country's airspace, so no one asked what kind of plane it was. Civilian air traffic controllers in Vietnam realized it only 12 minutes after MH370 remained silent.
An hour after departure, another unusual thing happens: the ACARS system turns off. Once every 30 minutes, it sends through satellites a lot of technical data that is needed by airlines, manufacturers of the aircraft and components of the Boeing 777 - the status of systems, on-board information, and so on. Attempts by air traffic controllers to contact MH370 were unsuccessful.
By 2:40 the management of Malaysia Airlines receives bad news - the plane has disappeared and it is impossible to get in touch. Only in the morning, an hour after the Boeing 777 was supposed to land at Beijing airport, the airline announced the loss of flight MH370.
But even then the plane was still in the air. The satellites tried to contact the plane to exchange data at 8:11 - apparently, the session was unsuccessful due to the communications systems on the Boeing 777 being disabled. Alas, there are not even approximate coordinates of the aircraft at the time of the attempt to contact the satellites. This would help narrow the search area: after seven hours in the air, the fuel was already running out, which means that the crash area should have been close to the site of the satellite request. In the following months, one of the largest search operations unfolded, but it yielded absolutely nothing. Rescuers examined tens of thousands of square kilometers of the surface of the Indian Ocean, but could only say one thing: the plane was nowhere to be found.
The submarine was found, but the plane was not
The first fragments of flight MH370 were found only in mid-summer 2015. Residents of Reunion Island, which is located seven hundred kilometers from Madagascar, found several bags and a fragment of a wing called a flaperon. If personal belongings could theoretically be lost by travelers from some cruise ship, then the metal piece was clearly from an airplane, and a large one at that. Later, it was possible to confirm that the flaperon belongs specifically to the missing Boeing 777. It would seem that in a little more time the mystery will be solved: it is enough to study the currents to understand where the debris washed up from. But everything turned out to be more complicated.
At the end of the year before last, the young American company Ocean Infinity entered into an agreement with the Malaysian Ministry of Transport: if the company’s search vessel does not find MH370 within ninety days, then the specialists will not receive a reward; if the airliner is discovered, Malaysia will pay the team $20-70 million, depending on a number of conditions. Ocean Infinity's motivation turned out to be serious, and so was its equipment - the company rented a Norwegian research vessel, Seabed Constructor, with top-of-the-line equipment, which is designed to study the seabed.
At first, the team planned to explore 25 thousand square kilometers of the ocean, but at the end of the expedition, experts collected data from an area of 112 thousand square kilometers. And not a trace of the Boeing 777. There were practically no clues left. However, there was still one more chance to find the plane. A few weeks after MH370 disappeared, the Chinese warship Haixun 01 picked up two signals at 37.5 kHz, the frequency that black boxes usually operate on. Moreover, about 90 kilometers from the ship there were some white objects on the surface of the water. Last summer, Ocean Infinity set out to explore the area, but there was no more news - it seemed like another dead end.
But the company was lucky with solving another puzzle: Ocean Infinity was able to find the San Juan submarine, which disappeared with its entire crew (44 people) a year earlier. The submarine rests at a depth of 920 meters, 600 kilometers east of the coast of Argentina, all people on board are considered dead. Apparently, finding the Boeing 777 has become a matter of principle for Ocean Infinity: the company stated that it was ready to continue the search. The team plans to explore the new location using underwater drones that will scan the bottom in search of the liner.
"Designated" culprit
Along with the place Boeing crash 777 investigators are haunted by another question: what really happened. The loss of such an aircraft before March 8, 2014 seemed impossible. Yes, there have been cases of disappearances without a trace in history, but not of a 63-meter-long airliner and not in the 21st century. The main version of aviation experts who studied the mystery of the flight revolves around the hijacking. This theory explains the main mystery: why the plane's transponder and ACARS turned off, it turned around and flew like a ghost for about seven more hours.
But here, too, not everything is clear: after all, no one put forward demands or took responsibility for what happened. Let's say a plane was hijacked by terrorists, the passengers and crew intervened, and the hijackers were forced to abandon some primary objective to simply crash the plane - as happened with United Airlines Flight 93 during the attacks of September 11, 2001. However, there are questions about the chronology: the plane was in the air for about seven hours, and no one tried to get in touch by, for example, a satellite phone. Based on this, some experts came to the most unpleasant theory for everyone - the plane was hijacked by the crew.
Suspicion primarily fell on the commander and co-pilot. The fact is that between the last phrase (said in an ordinary, calm voice without signs of excitement) from the Boeing 777 and the airliner turning 180 degrees, only two minutes passed. It is unlikely that the invaders could have so accurately guessed the moment of farewell to the dispatcher and the hijacking of the ship. The trajectory of the airliner's maneuvers suggests that the plane was flown by a professional pilot. Investigators examined the biographies of the passengers - no one had a license to fly. At the same time, it turned out that two Iranians were traveling with fake documents. But detectives found no links to terrorists - the people were probably just illegal migrants.
According to one of them, the plane was hijacked by the commander, Zachary Ahmad Shah. In the foreign press, pilots hypothesized that programming the aircraft navigation system (FMS) to manually set latitude and longitude points at which airliners do not fly (to the south of the Indian Ocean) was more likely to be within the power of the Shah, rather than the young Farik Abdul Hamid. Rumors also appeared about the commander’s family problems and his passion for girls, if you can call it compliments on social networks.
However, it was not possible to “assign” the culprit: the investigation report states that nothing negative was found against the commander and co-pilot. Shah's family and relatives have always maintained the PIC's innocence, and this moment The causes of the crash have not yet been officially established. At the same time, experts hint that although no one is accused, the main fact cannot be ignored: turn off the transponder and ACARS, and also set new route a random person couldn't - an experienced pilot definitely did.
What does the debris indicate?
From time to time there appear “sensational discoveries in Google Maps": for example, allegedly MH370 was found in the jungle of Cambodia. But this is difficult to take seriously: the satellite was simply lucky to take a photograph at the moment when a large airliner was flying over the thickets.
Also, experts do not have a consensus on the cause of the plane crash. Experts agree that the airliner has exhausted all its fuel. Then the disagreements begin. According to one version, the uncontrollable airliner went into the ocean with its nose down. During the fall from a height of 10-11 thousand meters, the Boeing 777 would have gained enormous speed. The impact with the water in this case would destroy the plane into the smallest parts.
But the fragments washed up on the shores of Reunion are quite large. It is unlikely that the same flaperon measuring about two meters would have survived a vertical impact on the water (unless it came off due to overloads during a dive). Therefore, they have now begun to talk about another version of the last minutes of the airliner: the plane was smoothly descending at low speed, as if it was landing on water. It is unclear who was flying the plane in this case.
Debris that may belong to flight MH370 continues to be found: last December, a piece of the floor of a Boeing 777 and several other fragments were spotted off the coast of Madagascar. But Malaysia is not yet resuming an active search: the government requires significant leads before giving millions again. Until new debris is discovered, investigators are unlikely to be able to get closer to the solution.
British virtual tracker Ian Wilson is a video engineer by profession. He discovered an object similar to an airplane using the Google Maps resource. I saw him lying in the inaccessible jungles of Cambodia.
Yang has no doubt: this object is the plane - most likely, the same one - the Malaysian Boeing 777-200, which on March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared in the most mysterious way along with 239 passengers.
Based on the outline of the discovered airliner, it is the right one. Only almost 6 meters longer - not 63.7 meters, but 70.
The tail fell off, the tracker explains, and lies a little further from the fuselage. Hence the "extension".
The main objection of skeptics: the photo from space used by Google Maps could have been accidentally captured by a plane flying over the jungle. In addition, four years have passed since the loss, quite enough for lush tropical vegetation to completely hide the liner. And it’s strange that the car in the photo is practically intact. Even if the plane had not crashed from a great height, but had tried to land in the jungle, it most likely would have broken into several large fragments.
No,” Wilson dismisses doubts. Like, I checked it using one of the resource options - “escape ground view”. The plane is down.
Could the virtual tracker have “stumbled upon” not MH370, but some other Boeing 777-200? Excluded - no other similar ones fell in this area of Cambodia. At least, aviation experts know nothing about such disasters.
Wilson said he would like to get to the crash site he discovered himself. After all, Malaysian and Australian specialists, who, albeit to no avail, are officially busy searching for the remains of the liner, as a rule, do not respond to the “signals” of virtual trackers. Or they brush them off.
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And here's Boeing
Competing with Wilson is Australian Peter McMahon, who has long been passionate about investigating aircraft accidents. Using Google Maps, he also saw the silhouette of a crashed Malaysian Boeing. But in another place - under water. If he gets to it, he will have to dive.
In March 2018, McMahon: The Boeing lies in shallow water about 16 kilometers south of Round Island, one of Seychelles. The satellite photo shows both the wings and the fuselage.
The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau told McMahon that the plane he discovered could well be the one he was looking for. But no action was taken. The Malaysian authorities also responded. But more harshly: they asked not to mislead people.
McMahon somehow saw that the fuselage of the airliner was full of holes. It’s as if it’s been pierced by machine-gun fire.
And one more
In 2016, the Malaysian Boeing was found by Scott Waring, a famous ufologist and virtual archaeologist among those who look for anomalies in images transmitted from other planets, for example, from Mars.
Scott assures that he did not specifically search for the missing airliner. I was looking for traces of UFOs that were seen in the Cape area Good Hope(Cape of Good Hope) in 2013. And for this purpose, I looked at the photographs of the area posted in Google Earth. I saw the outline of the plane. He lies under water. Almost whole.
DUSHANBE, March 9 - Sputnik. Five years ago, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared from radar while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were 239 people on board.
All were declared dead, but neither the remains nor the plane itself were ever found. About how the search operation took place and why it did not produce results, see the RIA Novosti article.
Shrouded in mystery
Boeing-777 of Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur airport on March 8, 2014 at 00:41 local time (20:41 Moscow time March 7).
In six hours he was scheduled to land in Beijing. There were 239 people on board, including 12 crew members. Mostly Chinese, Malaysians and Taiwanese.
There were no signs of trouble. Ten days before the flight, the plane underwent a full inspection. stood good weather. Everything was calm on board: the crew did not send alarming messages. 40 minutes after takeoff, the airliner disappeared from radar.
Subsequently it turned out that everything was done with a delay.
For some reason, Ho Chi Minh City air traffic controllers reported that the plane did not enter their airspace only 20 minutes after it disappeared from radar, and not within two minutes, as required by regulations. Malaysia Airlines itself reacted belatedly, declaring an emergency five hours after the last contact with the crew.
As a result rescue operation deployed only ten hours after the airliner went missing. Representatives of 26 states whose passengers were on board hastily sent military and fishing vessels and helicopters to a search operation.
We tried everything. They tried to determine the location of the aircraft even by signals from smartphones belonging to passengers, but to no avail.
Soon, oil spills were discovered near the coast of Vietnam, and after some time, debris was discovered. Oddly enough, all this had nothing to do with the missing plane.
Scale search operation expanded, but did not bring results. Rescuers combed the sea and land for days on end. There were no clues, more and more unexpected versions of what happened were put forward.
One of the main ones is an explosion on board. This explained the lack of noticeable debris.
But other questions arose: why did not a single satellite detect the explosion? The possibility of the plane being hijacked was also not discounted.
Thus, it turned out that two passengers boarded the plane using stolen passports. Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kotzel had their documents stolen in Thailand in 2012-2013.
But this, too, was not related to the disaster - according to European documents, two Iranians were flying, hoping to settle in the European Union.
What has been accomplished during this time?
The search operation for flight MH370 has already been called the largest in the history of aviation.
In total, over $150 million was spent on it. Over the course of five years, six fragments of the airliner’s hull were discovered.
The first was found by a scavenger in July 2015 on Reunion Island, four thousand kilometers from the supposed crash site. According to him, he also came across suitcases and a chair that looked like an airplane, but he burned it all, “like all the garbage.” But the garbage man didn’t hear anything about the missing plane because he doesn’t watch TV.
A couple more pieces of debris were found on the coast of Mozambique, Mauritius and on a beach in South Africa. Authorities admitted that these were indeed fragments of the missing plane.
Relatives of the dead passengers have repeatedly complained about the international investigation team and tried to organize own searches. We launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise five million dollars.
However, they collected a little more than 100 thousand dollars, and this was only enough for several months of investigation, which, however, also led to nothing.
What does the pilot have to do with it?
But there is evidence that "unlawful interference was committed, as a result of which the communication systems stopped working and the aircraft was deployed manually."
The airliner was piloted by the aircraft's commander, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, who had flown 18,500 hours, and 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid, for whom this flight was a test flight.
Various accusations were made against Zachary. Former Canadian head of the Transportation Safety Bureau, Larry Vance, suggested that the first pilot committed suicide and killed the rest of the passengers and crew along with him.
Australian experts hypothesized that the ship's commander was trying to confuse air traffic controllers. Allegedly, to do this, he turned off the detection systems and flew the plane on the border of the areas of responsibility of Thailand and Malaysia, which is considered a blind spot. And near the Malaysian state he made an unnecessary detour, as if saying goodbye to the house in which he was born. No one has officially confirmed this information.
As told CEO ICAA "Flight Safety", member World Fund flight safety (FSF) Sergey Melnichenko, the pilots were not found guilty - there are no sufficient grounds.
But the crew commander is a really interesting person. With his own hands, he assembled a special simulator, on which he trained to fly an aircraft in the basement of his house. The route programmed into the simulator coincided with flight MH370.
Zachary's call sign was "Twin Towers 777".
"Many people knew him as a person you could rely on, who would give good advice in a difficult life situation. Interestingly, he supported the opposition in Malaysia. A year before the plane disappeared, there were elections there, the opposition lost. There is a photo of him on the Internet that says “June 13th is the end of democracy.” He had a distant relative - one of the opposition leaders,” says the expert.
“But the most interesting thing we discovered: the Muslim Zachary became an atheist. For Muslims this is a more serious step than for Christians. There is too much mystery in the personality of the commander of this ship,” admits Melnichenko.
And he adds that shortly before the flight, Zachary gave his daughter, who lives in Australia, a large sum of money. He was looking to retire in the coming years and may have planned to build a house somewhere nearby.
Indian schoolgirls pray for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
According to the expert, there are too many inconsistencies in the investigation.
“Back in 2017, the Malaysian government was supposed to give two new pieces of debris that were found, which are in the possession of the government of Madagascar. They were going to be presented by the honorary consul of Malaysia in Madagascar. As soon as this became known, the consul was killed. It is unclear whether this is related to the disappearance of the plane. And the wreckage is still in Madagascar. Isn’t Malaysia really interested in it?” - Melnichenko is surprised.
The Director General of the ICAA Flight Safety also drew attention to the fact that the flight plan and the final report indicated different alternate airfields for this flight in China.
The disappearance without a trace of an airliner with 239 passengers and crew members on board remains unsolved, Melnichenko sums up. Although the investigation lasted five years, experts were still unable to answer two main questions: what happened to the plane and where.