Petaling Jaya: Since MH370 first disappeared, experts and conspiracy
theorists alike have been wracking their brains, trying to piece
together what actually happened on March 8.
Everything — from a mistaken target to terrorism to former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s belief the CIA was behind the plane’s disappearance — was thrown in the ring for public debate.
The most popular theory had been based on the most credible evidence to date — that one of the crew members was suicidal.
Most of the focus had been on Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah but co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid also came under scrutiny.
The police then said hijacking was an angle they were investigating after checks on the passengers’ manifest revealed two passengers on the plane had boarded with stolen passports.
The duo were cleared after police found that neither had a criminal record and that both had bought tickets to get to Europe, where it was believed they hoped to obtain asylum.
A more mechanical theory was introduced by aviation expert Ron Bishop, who said a fire or some other accident could have led to a gradual decompression of the plane.
He also said the pilots may have attempted to fly back to Malaysia but passed out after turning the plane which continued flying until it ran out of fuel.
New Zealand oil rig worker Mike McKay claimed he saw a burning plane going down the Gulf of Thailand at the time the plane disappeared.
Nigel Cawthorne, an author, said that at the same the plane went missing, a series of war games involving Thailand, the US, China, Japan, Indonesia and others were taking place in the South China Sea.
According to him, the plane might have been shot down by one of the weapons used in the game.
This last theory that came up was the plane landed on either the Andaman or Nicobar island off India.
This was dismissed by a newspaper, which said that if the plane had landed there, it would have been spotted.
However, a former BA777 pilot, Steve Buzdygan, said there were more than 570 islands around the area, and only 36 were inhabited.
Read news in full 15/06/14 Nawar Firdaws/The Malay Mail
Everything — from a mistaken target to terrorism to former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s belief the CIA was behind the plane’s disappearance — was thrown in the ring for public debate.
The most popular theory had been based on the most credible evidence to date — that one of the crew members was suicidal.
Most of the focus had been on Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah but co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid also came under scrutiny.
The police then said hijacking was an angle they were investigating after checks on the passengers’ manifest revealed two passengers on the plane had boarded with stolen passports.
The duo were cleared after police found that neither had a criminal record and that both had bought tickets to get to Europe, where it was believed they hoped to obtain asylum.
A more mechanical theory was introduced by aviation expert Ron Bishop, who said a fire or some other accident could have led to a gradual decompression of the plane.
He also said the pilots may have attempted to fly back to Malaysia but passed out after turning the plane which continued flying until it ran out of fuel.
New Zealand oil rig worker Mike McKay claimed he saw a burning plane going down the Gulf of Thailand at the time the plane disappeared.
Nigel Cawthorne, an author, said that at the same the plane went missing, a series of war games involving Thailand, the US, China, Japan, Indonesia and others were taking place in the South China Sea.
According to him, the plane might have been shot down by one of the weapons used in the game.
This last theory that came up was the plane landed on either the Andaman or Nicobar island off India.
This was dismissed by a newspaper, which said that if the plane had landed there, it would have been spotted.
However, a former BA777 pilot, Steve Buzdygan, said there were more than 570 islands around the area, and only 36 were inhabited.
Read news in full 15/06/14 Nawar Firdaws/The Malay Mail
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