A new theory based on the pilot’s intentions places most of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 about 3,500 miles north of the search target, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator told Fox News Digital.
Alan Deal, who has more than 30 years of experience investigating plane crashes, believes the missing Boeing 777 crashed into the Andaman Sea off northwest Malaysia.
The plane disappeared 10 years ago on Friday, March 8, 2014. Mr Deal suspected that the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, “wanted to make a political statement against the current government by commandeering the plane, secretly flying it all over Malaysia and bringing it into Malaysia”. There is. At the US military base in Diego Garcia, he intended to broadcast a manifesto en route, land the plane, and release the passengers. ”
There are countless theories with varying levels of plausibility, but Deal’s new idea, if true, could completely change the search effort, which has focused primarily on the southern Indian Ocean near Australia’s southwest coast. It will happen.
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The original planned flight of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, according to Dr. Alan Diehl’s book. (Dr. Alan E. Deal/”The Best Plans”)
Ten years later, these theories, no matter how outlandish, are all the families and friends of the 239 victims can hold on to. This is because the reality is that the governments involved do not have a definitive answer.
On March 8, 2014, a scheduled flight from Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, veered off course and lost radar contact after undergoing a series of bizarre and harsh turns. It is still difficult to understand why he disappeared.
Diehl, a research psychologist who has dedicated his life’s work to reproducing the possible actions of pilots and crew members by analyzing their mental states, said the turns and the blackout of the plane’s electronics were intentional. I think it was.
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“This plane was electrically dark and he (the pilot) probably had his lights off as well, flying across Thailand and Malaysia in and out of the airspace,” Diehl said. A “small blip” for radar operators “if they are awake and keen enough to see it.”
At 1:19 a.m. local time, the pilot sent a verbal message to Malaysian air traffic: “Good night. Malaysian 3-7-0.” This was the last known communication, but the system was shut down.
Then the flight pattern went awry. Air traffic control was unable to see the plane, but Malaysian military radar was able to track it and found that it had made an unexpected sharp turn.
According to Dr. Alan Diehl’s book, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 made a sharp turn. (Dr. Alan E. Deal/”The Best Plans”)
Mainstream theory vs Deal’s new theory
Some believe the pilot was suicidal and intended to make the plane disappear in one of the most remote locations in the world, off the southwest coast of Australia, where it is believed to have crashed.
The theory is that the pilots would lock co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid from the flight deck, cut off all communications, and depressurize the plane until the passengers died of hypoxia before plummeting into the ocean.
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However, publicly available information does not suggest a motive for a suicide mission, and there is a way for the co-pilot to return to the cabin through the electronics room, Diehl said.
An official report published in 2018 said: “There was no history of apathy, anxiety or irritability. There were no significant changes in his lifestyle, interpersonal conflicts or family stress.”
“So that’s not really the case,” Diehl said, but he didn’t rule out the idea that the co-pilot was locked out.
Grace Nathan, whose mother was on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, showed the serial number of a piece of debris found in Madagascar at the Ministry of Transport in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Friday, November 25, indicating it belonged to Flight MH370. It was shown that there is a high possibility that 30th, 2018. (AP Photo/Vincent Tian)
Diehl believes that if it had wanted to disappear, it would have flown in the opposite direction, towards the Mariana Trench. The Mariana Trench is a trench in the Pacific Ocean that is more than a mile farther from sea level than the summit of Mount Everest, approximately 1,580 miles long, and more than 40 miles above sea level. mile wide.
“That tells you he didn’t want to disappear,” Deal said.
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Another theory that has received a lot of attention is that the pilot, known as an activist, was trying to embarrass the country’s regime and was shot down before carrying out a 9/11-style suicide flight into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The idea is that
Diehl said the target would have been mid-flight, so there would have been no need to make that sharp left turn. It wasn’t anything, but it leads to my theory that something may have happened to the aircraft.”
According to Dr. Alan Diehl’s book, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was tracked by military radar. (Dr. Alan E. Deal/”The Best Plans”)
There are countless other outlandish ideas, such as a pilot doing a “DB Cooper” type hijacking or jumping out of a plane to meet his girlfriend. Of course, there are also conspiracies involving aliens and black holes.
“During this initial uproar, some of these theories seem credible,” Diehl writes in his book Best Laid Plans.
“For example, there may have been a cargo fire or a passenger or stowaway may have hijacked the jet.
“The idea that the CIA shot down the plane because it had American computer experts on board and could defect to China, or that KGB operatives once controlled the plane electronically, or that it was shot down at an abandoned space base in the former Soviet Union. Some of them seemed strange, such as the idea that they had flown to the Soviet Union.”
Revisiting why the co-pilot was locked out and how it fits into Diehl’s theory
Diehl delves deeper into his theory in his new book, Best Laid Plans, which uses fictional characters (excluding the pilot and co-pilot) and dialogue to introduce the theory.
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Deal told Fox News Digital that he offered a fictional but plausible theory that the co-pilot was intentionally kept out of the pilot’s political commentary conspiracy.
However, the co-pilot said he knew he could reopen the cockpit by going through a hidden trapdoor leading to the E&E (electronics and equipment) bay. The E&E bay is an area with “electronic racks, black boxes, and spaghetti-like bundles of wires strung everywhere.” In Deal’s book.
While in the E&E bay, the pilot may have attempted to pull himself together and made a sharp turn, potentially causing a catastrophe.
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“There’s high voltage, so if he bumped into something, he could have accidentally started a fire, possibly killed himself, and caused a big problem,” Diehl said. “The plane would have filled with smoke, probably punctured the fuselage…and caused explosive decompression at 35,000 feet.
“And the rest, as they say, is history.”
Diehl looked back at the history of the Boeing 777 itself, which he called a “safe aircraft,” but which has had high-profile crashes involving fires in E&E Bay.
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The search for the missing plane covered more than 2 million square nautical miles and focused on areas off the coast of Australia.
The underwater search was officially halted in January 2017 after the governments of Australia, Malaysia and China searched nearly 50,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean floor, reportedly costing about $150 million. There is.
According to Dr. Alan Deal’s book, the search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. (Dr. Alan E. Deal/”The Best Plans”)
In January 2018, the Malaysian government began a partnership with a private contractor called Ocean Infinity, which is still involved.
Since the crash in 2014, debris has been found along the coast of South Africa and on the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues.
If Diehl’s theory is correct and the plane was headed for the US military base in Diego Garcia, he said the search should be focused on the Andaman Sea near Malaysia.
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“Right now, they’re basing their assumptions on whether or not the pilot was suicidal and wanted to fly as far as possible and maintain altitude to get the best fuel economy and maximum range and then jump into the Indian Ocean. “The autopilot was set to high altitude,” Deal told Fox News Digital.
“I don’t think either theory is correct…someone should have entered the Indian Ocean alive at 2:25 a.m. (local time) and discovered it when the sun rose at 7 a.m. in Indonesia or Australia. We needed to head east to get there, but we ran out of fuel.”
That’s why Diehl believes a “much more fertile region” to explore would be along the eastern edge of the 2,500-mile “Seventh Arc.”
The wreckage is the “Rosetta Stone”
Diehl said the biggest mysteries of the aviation disaster would likely remain unsolved without the wreckage.
“That’s the Rosetta Stone that reveals this. That’s the biggest proof,” he said. “And until they start looking again, or maybe not, as they have been claiming, to the eastern end as well.”
Malaysian officials said earlier this week that the government would discuss new search efforts after being approached by Ocean Infinity.
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke (C) looks at a wing flap discovered on Pemba Island, Tanzania. This wing flap was identified as the missing part of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by a unique part number dating back to 9M-MRO during the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 commemorative event. March 3, 2019 marks the 5th anniversary of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 going missing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Adri Ghazali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Plunkett said in a statement to the press that the company has been analyzing data since the initial investigation to narrow the scope of the search.
“This investigation is probably the most difficult and certainly the most relevant,” he said. “We will continue to work with a number of experts, including those outside of Ocean Infinity, to analyze the data and narrow the search to areas with the potential for success.”
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Diehl said he hopes publishing the book, which incorporates new theory, will accomplish two things.
“One, we want the Malaysian government to sign the contract. And two, there might be some other theories about the East Arc, and we might get people involved. is.”
At the end of Mr. Diehl’s book, he says, “What happened after the plane disappeared was the largest, most expensive, and longest air search operation ever undertaken. Unfortunately, the location of the wreckage of the Malaysian plane has not yet been located.”
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Curto contributed to this report.
