Boeing 777 crash in March. Someone turned the missing Malaysian Boeing around. Air traffic controllers failed to work properly

Airliner Boeing 777-200 Malaysia Airlines Airlines (MAS) with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, flying jointly with the Chinese China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), (March 7, 22.40 Moscow time), without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course. The last message from the plane was: “Everything is fine, good night.”

At the moment of last contact - literally a minute before entering the air control zone of Vietnam - the airliner was 220 kilometers from east coast Malaysia. The weather in the area of the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

On board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three US citizens, two each New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one resident each from Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, the real nationality of at least two of those on board was then called into question due to evidence that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians were traveling on the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to the international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were heading to Europe as illegal migrants.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorolla, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing was carrying not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named. transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

The transportation of the unknown cargo was carried out by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, but another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, had to pick up the delivered goods on its behalf.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China participating in search operation, the search doubled, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom had been surveyed Indian Ocean(more than 50 thousand square kilometers). However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from a number of governments, by that time there was no sign of the aircraft.

The first in 16 months as part of the investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines was a fragment of a wing (flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 at French island Reunion in the Indian Ocean is thousands of kilometers from the area of the main exploration work being carried out near Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After the found fragment of the plane, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, as well as the French prosecutor's office, believed that it belonged to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015 there were search areas. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

Summer 2016. In July, media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, had taken a simulator flight into the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane allegedly disappeared in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, said that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrolled crash. According to the automatic signals that the airliner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - “first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one.”

On January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China lost the Malaysian Boeing MH370, which lasted more than two years. According to the joint statement of the three states, despite all efforts made, the use latest technologies, modeling methods and consultations with highly qualified and best-in-class specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Conducting searches for the missing MH370 Malaysia for individuals and organizations.

At the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 debris had been confirmed. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with African countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side pledged to help recover any likely debris that might wash up on its shores.

Team investigating the disappearance of the aircraft, which will be published within a year.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti

TALLINN, March 7 – Sputnik. The Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Boeing 777-200 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, flying jointly with China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), disappeared from radar screens at 02:40 Malaysian time on March 8, 2014 (March 7, 22:40 Moscow time), without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course. The last message from the plane was: “Everything is fine, good night.”

At the time of last contact - literally a minute before entering Vietnam's air control zone - the airliner was over the South China Sea, 220 kilometers from the eastern coast of Malaysia. The weather in the area of the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorola, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing carried not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named in the transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

The transportation of the unknown cargo was ordered by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, but another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, had to pick up the delivered goods on its behalf.

The investigation into the fate of MH370 is being carried out by an independent body led by Malaysia, the state of registry and operator of the aircraft, with assistance from seven countries: the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.

According to the investigation, the airliner remained in flight for several hours after air traffic controllers lost contact with it, and made three turns, one of them to the left. As a result, the plane headed west, and then south, towards Antarctica.

Experts reconstructed the plane's route using military radar records. Means of objective control (radar of the Royal Air Force base at west coast Malacca Peninsula) recorded that flight MH370 did not fly for long in the direction of Beijing. Over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, located near the coast of the South China Sea, the liner changed course and crossed Malaysia for the second time in the opposite direction. southwest direction. Radars lost it over the Gulf of Malacca, south of the city Kuala Lumpur.

About 40 minutes into the flight, someone turned off the plane's navigation instruments, communications with ground services, even the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) system, which is accessible only from the cockpit.

Almost at the same time, the airliner strayed from its intended course, remaining unnoticed in air traffic control zones.

The board indicated its existence in space only by electronic messages to Inmarsat satellites. According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, after the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200, Inmarsat telecommunications satellites received electronic pulses from the on-board terminal for another seven hours, informing about the status of the aircraft's systems. Later, based on analysis of satellite information, Inmarsat concluded that the flight could have ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

Signals from the missing plane's black boxes were not recorded. Meanwhile, under favorable circumstances, they should have been heard several hundred miles away.

A full-scale search and rescue operation was organized to search for the missing airliner. 26 countries took part in it, including Russia.

A massive multinational search and rescue operation was carried out sequentially, first in the South China Sea, then in the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea, and when results could not be achieved there, searchers focused on a wide area in the southern Indian Ocean. The joint actions of almost 80 ships and aircraft from 15 countries of the world, dozens of satellites, hundreds of fishing vessels, ground monitoring stations, hundreds of thousands of “cyber volunteers” and even sorcerers on the anniversary of the tragedy did not produce the slightest result: not even the tiniest fragment of the missing airliner was found and drops of fuel from its tanks.

At the end of January 2015, the department civil aviation Malaysia officially declared everyone on board the airliner dead and what happened to the plane as an accident.

On March 8, 2015, on the anniversary of the tragedy, an expert report was published on the results of a year-long investigation into the disappearance of the airliner, conducted by order of the Malaysian Ministry of Transport. It contained many technical details, such as the fact that the power source for the underwater acoustic beacon had expired a year before the plane disappeared, but it is not clear whether this fact had any impact on the investigation. In addition, in the published report, experts came to the conclusion that there were no technical anomalies on board and that the aircraft crew had nothing to blame. Experts noted that the 580-page report is interim and technical, since the most massive and expensive search operation in world history has not yet led to success.

By that time, the Malaysian authorities alone had spent about 20 million euros searching for the missing airliner.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China, participating in the search operation, announced a decision to double the search area, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (more than 50 thousand square kilometers) had been surveyed. However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from the governments of a number of countries, by that time no traces of the aircraft could be found. The first discovery in 16 months as part of the investigation into the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines was a fragment of a wing (a flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean - thousands of kilometers from the main area. exploration work ongoing in Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After studying the found fragment of the plane, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and the French prosecutor's office confirmed that it belongs to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015, 80 thousand square kilometers of the search area were surveyed. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

In the summer of 2016, new versions of the plane crash appeared. In July, media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, had taken a simulator flight into the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane allegedly disappeared in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, reported that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrolled crash. According to the automatic signals that the airliner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - "first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one."

On January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China agreed to suspend the search for the missing Malaysian Boeing MH370, which had been going on for more than two years. According to a joint statement of the three states, despite all efforts made, the use of the latest technologies, modeling techniques and consultations of highly qualified and best-in-class specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Malaysia has allowed individuals and organizations to conduct the search for the missing MH370.

The team investigating the disappearance of the plane is preparing a final report, which will be published within a year.

Ilya Oganjanov

Authorities in Australia, China and Malaysia announced the end of the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200. The plane was flying flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and disappeared from radar screens on the night of March 8, 2014. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. 26 states tried to unravel the mystery of the crash. The total cost of the investigation into the crash was close to $200 million. The fragments found did not help shed light on the reasons for the disappearance of the aircraft. Read about the main versions of the tragedy, including mystical ones, and why none of them have received confirmation.

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Chronicle of the tragedy

On March 8, 2014 at 00:42 Malaysia time, Boeing MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The flight took place as usual. The last time the crew made contact was at 01:19 - when moving from the area of responsibility of the Malaysian controllers to the Vietnamese ones. The pilots wished their Malaysian colleagues “Good night”. At 01:21, the transponders transmitting information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data were switched off. At 01:22, the Boeing disappeared from the radar screens of air traffic control services. After that, he was in the air for about seven more hours, but radically deviated from the planned route. At 08:11, the last signal was sent from the plane to the Inmarsat satellite, through which the Boeing 777 transmitted technical information about the operation of its Rolls-Royce engines to ground services. At 09:15, the airliner no longer responded to a communication request from Inmarsat.

The liner was searched in the South China and Andaman seas, in the Strait of Malacca and in the Indian Ocean. The area of the study territories is 7.7 million km². Deep-sea searches were also carried out over an area of 60,000 km².

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Restore by fragments

The first fragment of the airliner was discovered only a year after the disappearance of MH370 - in July 2015, a wing part and a door were found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The rest of the finds occurred in 2016: in March, aircraft wreckage was discovered on the shore of the strait between Madagascar and Mozambique, in May a fragment of a wing was found on the island of Mauritius, and in June another part of the wing was found off the coast of Tanzania. However, all this did not help narrow the search area for the airliner and determine its location.

Uncontrolled fall

One of the versions put forward by experts is that the plane crashed. According to this hypothesis, the airliner was not controlled by the pilot at the fatal moment. This, according to Greg Hood, a spokesman for the Australian Transport Safety Authority, is indicated by an analysis of Boeing signals. Presumably the airliner fell on March 9, 2014 at 08:19. At that moment, it ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire. According to experts' calculations, the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean at tremendous speed - up to 20 thousand feet (6096 m) per minute. The board most likely collided with the ocean surface at almost a right angle. This explains his disappearance without a trace.

Human factor

Many people call the crew commander, Zachary Ahmad Shah, the culprit of the tragedy. The FBI searched his home and found a simulator simulating an airliner cockpit. Decryption of the hard drives showed that about a month before the crash, the pilot was practicing a route that would lead to the ship crashing into the Indian Ocean. This is exactly what investigators believe Ahmad Shah did in reality. The alleged reason for this action is depression due to the upcoming divorce from his wife.

Boeing crew commander Zachary Ahmad Shah (right) with friend Peter Chong (left).
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Information or life

Among the scenarios for the disappearance of Boeing, there are also truly detective ones - the plane was hijacked and landed at one of the military airfields. The target of the hijacking was the 20 leading scientists on board (12 Chinese and 8 Malaysians) of Freescale Semiconductor, who were developing cutting-edge technologies for aircraft, making them invisible to radars and camouflage devices.

This version is confirmed by the fact that Zachary Ahmad Shah also practiced landing on his home flight simulator at five airfields in the Indian Ocean region, including on the airfield runway military base USA "Diego Garcia". Shortly before the fateful flight, for some reason he erased this data, as well as all his work and social plans in his diary.

An even more twisted version of hijacking for the sake of obtaining invaluable information on stealth technology belongs to former pilot Delta airlines to Field McConnell. He claims that the plane's crew was eliminated, after which MH370 was intercepted by the US military and remotely landed on the island of Diego Garcia on secret base US Air Force. The plane was then allegedly lifted into the air again using the same remote control and sank in the Indian Ocean.

A suspected plane wreck was discovered off the east coast of Africa.

Mysterious cargo

The conspiracy theories don't end there. The reason for the disappearance of Boeing is also called a certain mysterious cargo that was on board. In addition to luggage, the plane allegedly carried about 4 tons of exotic mangosteen fruit, 220 kg of lithium batteries for phones and computers, as well as 2 tons of some electronic equipment, the sender of which was “classified by agreement with the airline.”

Operation anti-terror

Another version says that the Boeing was captured by terrorists and shot down. According to the former head of the French airlines Proteus Airlines, Marc Dugen, the plane was destroyed by the American military, who suspected that the airliner was hijacked by terrorists. This is how the Americans played it safe to prevent a repeat of the events of September 11, 2001. This option is supported by the fact that there were two passengers on board using false passports - Iranians Puriya Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delavar Seyed-Mohammadreza.

Simply fantastic

There are absolutely fantastic versions of the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing. Over the course of two years, a lot of them accumulated: the plane became invisible, fell into a black hole or into a new one Bermuda Triangle. However, so far no one has been able to test either these or more realistic hypotheses.