https://www.yahoo.com/news/depressed-mh370-pilot-made-series-175919026.html The pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 made a series of deliberate turns and speed changes to avoid radar detection before plunging into the Indian Ocean, new research suggests. Aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, who has spent years investigating the flight's 2014 disappearance, said his research suggested that pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah took a "carefully planned" flight path to avoid "giving a clear idea where he was heading". The Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, dropped off radar screens after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, bound for Beijing. The plane took an unexplained U-turn from its planned flight path and headed back across the Malay Peninsula and the Malacca Strait before vanishing. Mr Godfrey said the plane's final movements could be mapped out using data from Weak Signal Propagation (WSPR), a global network of radio signals that can trace the movement of planes as they cross signals and set off invisible "electronic trip-wires". "WSPR is like a bunch of trip-wires or laser beams, but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe," Mr Godfrey said in his report. His research found MH370 crossed eight of these "trip-wires" as it flew over the Indian Ocean, which is consistent with previous studies of the plane's flight path. But he said the plane's change in movements and speed appeared to suggest it was trying to avoid leaving clues about where it was heading. "The flight path appears carefully planned," he added. "The level of detail in the planning implies a mindset that would want to see this complex plan properly executed through to the end." Friends of the pilot said he was “lonely” and “sad” while aviation specialist William Langewiesche wrote in The Atlantic that “there is a strong suspicion among investigators in the aviation and intelligence communities that he was clinically depressed." One theory put forward by electrical engineer Mike Exner, from Colorado, is that the pilot probably made a climb which "accelerated the effects of depressurising, causing the rapid incapacitation and death of everyone in the cabin." With oxygen still available in the cockpit, Mr Ahmad Shah could have kept flying for hours. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's (ATSB) $200 million search for MH370 scoured more than 120,000sq km of Indian Ocean floor using high-resolution sonar between 2014 to 2017 but could not locate the plane. A second search sponsored by the Malaysian government was also fruitless. In its final report, the ATSB identified an area of less than 25,000sq km "which has the highest likelihood of containing MH370". While the aircraft has not been located, 33 pieces of debris – either confirmed or highly likely to be from MH370 – have been discovered in Mauritius, Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa.
We watched the Netflix series. It was interesting. Biggest thing I got out of it is that it is a giant mystery and the pilot theory doesn't quite fit, it just fits better than the other theories. The whole thing is weird and doesn't make sense at all.
Only through three episodes so far. I'm going to put this in the same category as the covid origins. We will never know the truth.
The pilot theory is too convenient and still very difficult to pull off. Biggest question I have is that if you are going to take a while plane down as a pilot, then why go through all the trouble he did that was unnecessary when he could have just dunked the plane in the South China Sea. He also had, by all accounts, a happy and satisfying life. Also why didn't other countries and military bases notice a dark plane flying in their airspace? Why is it that ONE person, with Russian connections, finds all the debris from the supposed South Indian ocean crash site? The other two theories they present are even more problematic though and less likely.
Didn't they find the same flight path the plane took on the flight simulator in the pilots house? It's true he could have just crashed the plane in the south china sea, but maybe he wanted it to be a mystery or maybe he planned and wanted to do it a certain way. Maybe he fantasized about flying a plane south into the ocean until it ran out of gas and going out that way. The other thing that points to him is that communication systems on the plane were seemingly turned off manually. It could have been some mass depressurization event. Let's say it was and the captain was trying to turn the plane around and head back. Why the strange maneuvers and cut off of communications? Why wouldn't he have radioed something? The last radio communication was that everything was ok. If he had turned the plane back and somehow was becoming incapacitated and managed to put autopilot on and program a return, why would he have programmed a path way out into the Indian ocean past the destination?
They did, but even that is kind of weird. The FBI had possession on the simulator and after two years or so, the FBI just said "oh yeah, by the way we found that flight plan on his simulator a long time ago and forgot to tell you all." It also was not an exact flight plan, but it was close. Before the Las Vegas shooter I would have said this was not probable, but people just do weird shit. Still tho he really didn't seem like the type (whatever that is) and there is no clear motive or even a remote motive. If they didn't just crash in the South China sea then it was deliberate by the captain or a hijacker. Both would have taken an extreme amount of planning and execution for no obvious motive. The path taken was taken for a reason to avoid detection and the plane itself went dark at a specific time between communication hand off from Malaysia to Vietnam air traffic control. There was also some mystery package loaded on the plane under armed guard and not scanned, which could be nothing but is also suspicious.
Yeah, I had wondered about Hijacking. The communications were definitely shut off manually, so it was indeed deliberate action by someone on that plane. There was an unscented/checked mystery package with armed guard on board? I didn't know that. I knew there was a large shipment of ion batteries. That could be the motive, this mystery package. Someone hijacked the plane or took control, likely depressurized the cabin in order to subdue the passengers, set a course out to the ocean, and maybe bailed somewhere over the straight or Malaysia...but all to make a passage disappear into the ocean? That seems pretty crazy...some James Bond shit. The plan never landed and took off again so that makes a hijacking less likely in my mind. Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is likely the right one. The captain waited until he could get the co-captain to leave the cockpit, locking him out. The Captain then turned off transponders, set the cabin to depressurize and climbed to 45,000 feet to kill the passengers and the co-pilot. This way no one could phone for help, or otherwise interfer...also it was quick and painless. He then descended to 20,000 feet in order to duck out of radar range and manually changed the flight path first east, then a south west, north west, and finally south toward the Indian ocean where he crashed the plane, or the plane finally on auto pilot and out of gas entered into a dive into the deepest and most remote recesses of the Indian Ocean. Why? So, the plane would never be found and his guilt never truly ascertained... The two other next likely causes can be mostly ruled out. If an accidental hypoxic event or massive system failure had occured...even a fire from the ion batteries...the plane wouldn't have likely been able to manually have been manipulated and kept in the air for the many hours following the event, in which it was still being pinged. A hijacking also does not make sense. Who hijacks a plane only to fly into the Indian Ocean and crash it? If it was hijacked, there is low probability it would have been landed without witnesses. If the plane had gone north it would have been seen on radars. Same if it landed in Malaysia or elsewhere. It wasn't used as a weapon and no demands given.
