TWISTED FAREWELL
MH370 pilot flew missing Malaysia Airlines jet over hometown for ’emotional goodbye before deliberately ditching in Indian Ocean’
THE "suicidal" pilot of missing flight MH370 is believed to have performed a bizarre U-turn so he could fly over his home town to say an "emotional goodbye."
Twisted Captain Zaharie Amhad Shah is then thought to have deliberately "landed" his packed passenger Boeing 777 jet onto the waves of the Indian Ocean.
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Experts forensically reconstruct the final moments of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in The Situation Room
The amazing claims comes after a panel of aviation experts were called in to probe the notorious disappearance for an Australian TV programme.
Simon Hardy, a pilot and instructor, quickly discovered the captain made the unexplained turn to fly over his hometown of Penang, Malaysia.
"So I spent a long time thinking for this about what this could be, what technical reason is there?," he said.
"And after two months of thinking about it, I finally got the answer - somebody was looking out the window.
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Aviation experts believe missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 remains largely intact because of the lack of debris found
"It might be a long, emotional goodbye or a short, emotional goodbye to his hometown."
Some of those on the panel also reckon Shah carried out what is known as a "controlled water landing" so the aircraft remained largely intact.
Wreckage of a flaperon - which help jets land and take off - from the right wing back up the claim. It was found near South Africa.
Air crash investigator Larry Vance said: "If this was a high speed dive this piece (the flaperon) would not exist.
"What would have happened was the front of this would be crushed in."
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The flaps on the wing were also extended which points to the fact they were being controlled by a pilot right up until the last minute.
The experts were assembled for the Australian TV programme 60 Minutes and claimed they may have finally solved the aviation mystery.
They also reveal evidence suggests Shah executed a careful series of manoeuvres to evade detection and ensure the plane disappeared in a remote location.
He even flew across the Malaysian and Thai borders to avoid military radar as part of his plans to ensure the Malaysia Airline flight disappeared forever.
They all agreed the probability of the disappearance being an accident was "one in a trillion" adding Shah "deliberately" ditched the plane in the Indian Ocean west of Australia.
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They say the 239 passengers and crew were the victims of a "deliberate" and "suicidal" act carried out by the jet’s Malaysian captain.
"I think the general public can take comfort in the fact that there is a growing consensus on the plane's final moments," said Vance.
He believes the pilot "was killing himself" and took the passenger aircraft to the most remote place possible so it would "disappear" for ever on March 8, 2014.
"Unfortunately, he was (also) killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately," he added.
Former Australia Transport Safety Bureau head Martin Dolan added: "This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time."
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Hardy revealed Shah dodged Malaysian and Thai military radar by skirting along their borders.
"As the aircraft went across Thailand and Malaysia, it runs down the border, which is wiggling underneath, meaning it's going in and out of those two countries, which is where their jurisdictions are," Mr Hardy said.
"So both of the controllers aren't bothered about this mysterious aircraft. If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's very accurate flying because it did the job and we know, as a fact, that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft."
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John Dawson, a lawyer who represented nine families from MH370 , recently told News Corp Australia the evidence pointed squarely to one of the aircrew being responsible.
“In MH370, you have the pilot flying between Malaysia and Beijing who turns back the aircraft. The evidence is so heavily weighted to involvement by one of the aircrew taking this aircraft down.
“That aircraft has probably depressurised, the people died of asphyxiation, it was premeditated murder.
"It was highly planned. The bodies have never been found.”
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But despite experts’ observations, the Malaysian government, which has signed a “no cure, no fee” deal with Texas-based company Ocean Infinity to resume the hunt for the plane, remains silent on the question of Zaharie’s possible involvement.
Ocean Infinity started the search on January 22 this year, following a failed £111million search for the plane. At the time, experts said they expected to have answers within a matter of weeks.
The company has 90 search days to look for the plane, which has been spread over several months. Officials said there was roughly an 85 per cent chance of finding traces of the wreckage in a new 15,000 square mile search area.
The investigation is expected to end in mid-June but those on the TV show said they feared MH370 may never be found.
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