The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), currently leading the search for the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in the vast ocean floor of a large portion of the Indian Ocean, has recently come out to quash the pilot suicide theory that came out in reports over the weekend.
Based on a newly-released information by the FBI, Malaysian pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah used to record simulated flight sessions on an elaborate home-built flight simulator.
Based on the six deleted data points recovered by the FBI from the Microsoft Flight Simulator X program in the weeks before the plane went missing, it contains the simulated airplane’s altitude, speed, the direction of flight, and key parameters at a given point in time.
The deleted data points show a flight departing from Kuala Lumpur and then headed northwest over the Malacca Strait, then turned left and headed south over the Indian Ocean continuing on the same stretch of the sea until fuel exhaustion.
Investigation officials believe that Flight MH370 followed a similar route, based on signals the plane transmitted to a satellite after ceasing communications and veering off course.
But the actual and the simulated flights were not identical, though, with the simulated endpoint some 900 miles from the remote patch of southern ocean area where officials believe the plane went down.
A mere coincidence
ATSB said that there is no evidence to support such claim, alluding that the simulator data is just a coincidence and not a deliberately planned murder or suicide, notes the International Business Times.
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester recently stated that the simulator information shows only the possibility of planning and does not reveal the information of the aircraft. The ATSB seconded such notion.
It added that the FBI data only provides a piece of information, but the evidence of the aircraft’s location is based on the last satellite communications with the aircraft.
They also debunked claims of any possibility that Flight MH470’s disappearance was the result of a person taking control of the aircraft.
ATSB stated that the search is now its focus more than the reason on what might have caused the disappearance of the aircraft. The board added that for search purposes, the relevant facts and analysis most closely match a scenario in which there was no pilot intervening in the latter stages of the fight. However, it added that they have never stated that hypoxia or any other factor, for that matter, was the cause of such circumstance.
Putting the foundation of the search in question
The search for the missing wreckage of the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to end this year but with the recent revelation about the pilot’s supposed deliberate attempt, it has put the foundation of the search in a shaky situation, notes The Christian Science Monitor.
In addition to the simulator document, there is now a theory saying that the fact that the plane may be located further south of its projected crash site indicates that there is a human hand to make it possible.
It was Paul Kennedy, project director of Fugro, the Dutch company leading the underwater search for the wreckage of the missing plane, who made the assessment.
He said that if the plane was manned, it could glide for a long way. The pilot or somebody could have glided the plane further than the identified search area so there is a logical conclusion to such theory.
During the investigation launched at the time of the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, authorities probed passengers, crew, Shah, and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid for evidence of motive or involvement.
Malaysia’s Police Inspector-General Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told local media Saturday 23 July that no information had been passed to investigators in the U.S. including the FBI. More importantly Malaysian authorities deny any such report ever existed.
It is either that Jeff Wise is making this story up which is character for Jeff Wise, or worse that somebody else has perpetrated a hoax by passing him a fraudulent false document.
When conspiracy theorists stoop as low as inventing false evidence to falsely corroborate their convictions, then nothing they say should be listened to. They have discredited themselves and their silly pilot suicide theory.