Malaysia Airlines flight 370: the conspiracy theories
Suicide, hijack ... aliens?
PILOT SUICIDE
One of the earliest theories to surface following the plane’s disappearance was that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shad deliberately steered the aircraft into the ocean. Leaked Malaysian police documents, first reported by New York magazine, alleged the pilot had flown a similar ‘suicide route’ on a home flight simulator. Media pounced on the idea the pilot was heartbroken. Malaysian police dismissed the theory.
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HIJACK
A survey of air crash investigators by The Australian last year found the dominant theory to be that Captain Zaharie hijacked the aircraft and flew ‘it to the end’. The news outlet said the most likely scenario was that Zaharie locked the co-pilot out of the cockpit, killed all on board but himself by depressurising the plane, and then re-pressurised it to fly far into the southern Indian Ocean, glide it onto the water and sink it.
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