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发帖数: 7881 | 1 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was likely steered into the sea intentionally,
by its own captain, in a pre-planned mass murder-suicide, a new report
reveals.
In an exclusive story posted online Friday, New York magazine says that the
plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, “conducted a simulated flight deep
into the remote southern Indian ocean less than a month before the plane
vanished under uncannily similar circumstances.”
The story cites as its source a confidential document from the Malaysian
police investigation.
It took the FBI to discover the grim news of the captain’s apparent suicide
test runs, the magazine said.
After the plane disappeared in march of 2014 — with 239 passengers and crew
aboard — Malaysian investigators seized the hard drives that Zaharie used
to record sessions on “an elaborate home-built flight simulator,” the
magazine said.
But key data on the hard drives had been deleted. Malaysian investigators
handed them over to the FBI, which was able to recover six deleted “data
points” that had been stored by the Microsoft Flight Simulator X program in
the weeks before the plane vanished, the magazine said.
Each data point records something about the simulated flight, including
altitude, speed, location and direction. The deleted records showed that the
captain’s simulated flight departed from Kuala Lumpur, veered over the
Southern Indian Ocean, and then kept going to the point where fuel would be
exhausted over an empty stretch of sea.
Search officials believe Flight 370 did exactly that, veering off course and
then ceasing communications before plummeting into the water without a
trace.
Malaysia has kept under wraps any news of the captain’s apparent suicide
test run, but rumors of what the FBI had uncovered have long circulated, the
magazine said.
Earlier Friday, officials announced that the more than two-year long hunt
for any remains from the flight would soon be called off, an announcement
that angered families of the passengers and crew.
So far, the futile search for remains has been the most expensive in
aviation history, costing the equivalent of $135 million. |
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