Does anyone remember the disappearance of this 777 back in March of 2014?
I was super intrigued by it at the time. Pretty obsessed actually. I had CNN turned on the entire day for weeks, as they were doing round the clock reporting, and for months afterwards I'd google for updates. I was one of the people who dismissed all ideas that this was some sort of hijacking by terrorist groups, and even dismissed it as having been a mass murder/suicide by the chief pilot. I felt pretty confident that it was some sort of freak mechanical error in the plane where they both lost signal with control towers, and lost the ability to land... maybe something wrong with the flaps. So the pilot avoided flying over land as not to crash on people, and had no choice but to fly over ocean until he ran out of fuel.
That was my theory, anyway. I thought all the speculation on CNN and other news outlets about this being a deliberate act was just to make for a more interesting story so that people would watch their stuff.
As of this past weekend, I've changed my mind 180, after watching the two 60 Minutes documentaries below and following up with some of my own research. It was obviously the chief pilot in a mass murder/suicide. It explains everything. Why the signal was lost right after his last report to towers (he turned it off purposely at that time). Why the plane veered off course right after the signal was lost. Why it flew over the border of 2 countries (in order to avoid detection from either of their military bases), why it flew around Indonesia instead of over it (again, to avoid detection), and why it headed for the remotest part of the ocean until it ran out of gas.
The pilot's flight simulator had some deleted files on it from weeks before the incident that showed a very similar route. Where he flew the plane out of Kuala Lumpur towards the southern Indian Ocean until it ran out of gas. Also, the flaperon that was found was down. Meaning there was a water landing. This was all done to deliberately make it very difficult to find the plane. Basically, he flew as far south into the Indian Ocean as possible until he ran out of gas... at which time he glided farther south and did a water landing so that the plane would stay mostly intact, and thus, more difficult to find. All the searches have been around the area where he would have run out of gas, which is why they haven't found anything. They didn't account for anyone being in there gliding the plane so that it would go farther south. They've been looking in the wrong spot.
It is also speculated that at the time he veered off course, he also cut off the oxygen supply in the plane, so that everyone died of hypoxia (including the co pilot), and he wore the oxygen mask to stay alive. It explains why no one in the plane tried to contact their families.
Anyway, this is all extremely sad and horrible, and crazy that this pilot would do such a thing. But it's been a fascinating mystery nonetheless.
First 60 Minutes episode part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHl5SmA08A
First 60 Minutes episode part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmw0evr6uvI
Second 60 Minutes episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1j1fpldkc
I was super intrigued by it at the time. Pretty obsessed actually. I had CNN turned on the entire day for weeks, as they were doing round the clock reporting, and for months afterwards I'd google for updates. I was one of the people who dismissed all ideas that this was some sort of hijacking by terrorist groups, and even dismissed it as having been a mass murder/suicide by the chief pilot. I felt pretty confident that it was some sort of freak mechanical error in the plane where they both lost signal with control towers, and lost the ability to land... maybe something wrong with the flaps. So the pilot avoided flying over land as not to crash on people, and had no choice but to fly over ocean until he ran out of fuel.
That was my theory, anyway. I thought all the speculation on CNN and other news outlets about this being a deliberate act was just to make for a more interesting story so that people would watch their stuff.
As of this past weekend, I've changed my mind 180, after watching the two 60 Minutes documentaries below and following up with some of my own research. It was obviously the chief pilot in a mass murder/suicide. It explains everything. Why the signal was lost right after his last report to towers (he turned it off purposely at that time). Why the plane veered off course right after the signal was lost. Why it flew over the border of 2 countries (in order to avoid detection from either of their military bases), why it flew around Indonesia instead of over it (again, to avoid detection), and why it headed for the remotest part of the ocean until it ran out of gas.
The pilot's flight simulator had some deleted files on it from weeks before the incident that showed a very similar route. Where he flew the plane out of Kuala Lumpur towards the southern Indian Ocean until it ran out of gas. Also, the flaperon that was found was down. Meaning there was a water landing. This was all done to deliberately make it very difficult to find the plane. Basically, he flew as far south into the Indian Ocean as possible until he ran out of gas... at which time he glided farther south and did a water landing so that the plane would stay mostly intact, and thus, more difficult to find. All the searches have been around the area where he would have run out of gas, which is why they haven't found anything. They didn't account for anyone being in there gliding the plane so that it would go farther south. They've been looking in the wrong spot.
It is also speculated that at the time he veered off course, he also cut off the oxygen supply in the plane, so that everyone died of hypoxia (including the co pilot), and he wore the oxygen mask to stay alive. It explains why no one in the plane tried to contact their families.
Anyway, this is all extremely sad and horrible, and crazy that this pilot would do such a thing. But it's been a fascinating mystery nonetheless.
First 60 Minutes episode part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHl5SmA08A
First 60 Minutes episode part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmw0evr6uvI
Second 60 Minutes episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1j1fpldkc
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