A bizarre 22-minute manoeuvre could prove the doomed MH370 flight was actually a murder-suicide plot by one of the pilots, a top Australian pilot has claimed.
On March 8 in 2014, the Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared from the skies along with 239 people on board – including six Australians.
They included Queensland couples Catherine and Robert Lawton as well as Mary and Rodney Burrows.
Many wild theories have since followed, but now a flight holding pattern – detected through an invisible trail – may finally provide closure for those who lost loved ones.
In Wednesday night’s Sky News documentary MH370: The Final Search, a number of aviation leaders stated it was deliberate sabotage from senior flight Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah – and said a 22-minute-long holding pattern proved it.
‘My theory has always been that it was the captain who is responsible …probably as a political protest,’ aviation writer and former Qantas Captain Mike Glynn said.
In Wednesday night’s Sky News documentary MH370: The Final Search, a number of aviation experts stated their belief it was deliberate sabotage from senior flight Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured)
This graphic shows the predicted location for MH370’s wreckage at the bottom of the Indian Ocean
On March 8 in 2014, the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from the skies with 239 people on board – including six Australians
A relative of a person on board MH370 seconds after news emerged the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had disappeared on March 8 in 2014
To support his claim, Mr Glynn pointed to the ‘holding pattern’ on MH370 from 3.12am onwards.
A holding pattern is where a plane holds a particular flight path while awaiting approval to land, but in this case it was done mid-flight.
He said there was ‘no reason’ for the aircraft to engage in the pattern mid-flight, before adding there is a ‘possibility’ it was the timeframe Mr Shah used as a ‘form of negotiation.’
