THEORIES of MH370 DISAPPEARANCE
Hijacking and/or Terrorist Attack
There are many points to this theory, including stolen passports. “Two flight 370 passengers were not who they claimed to be.” (Castillo) These passengers, Pouri Nourmohammadi, and Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza boarded Malaysia 370 with stolen passports. This information raised speculations about possible Hijacking. Another possibility could have been from the rapid elevation and course changes of the Boeing 777. “The combination of altitude changes and at least two significant course corrections could have a variety of explanations, including an intentional diversion by a pilot or a hijacker or uneven flying because of a disabled crew.” (Michael Forsythe) “Malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens and then dropping to 23,000 feet before climbing again, the official said.” (Barbara Starr) The rapid altitude changes of the plane could be from a problem in the cockpit or someone intentionally changing the altitude to impair, or to make the passengers or crew go unconscious.
fire/ Mechanical issues
There has been history of cockpit fires from a 777 Boeing. For example, in 2011 a “'blow torch' fire which ripped through the cockpit of a Boeing 777 in Egypt “, and it “could hold the clue to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, it has been claimed.” (Reilly) Stewarts Law believes the plane crashed after a fire, similar to the blaze on the Cairo airport runway which broke out in the cockpit. Stewart Law said,” his team decided one possibility is there was a form of electrical fire leading to a rapid decompression and that then resulted in the turn-back and the aircraft disappearing somewhere in the Indian Ocean.” “The British law firm, which is advising families of the missing passengers, drew comparisons with a 2011 fire that broke out on the flight deck of an EgyptAir Boeing 777-200 with 291 passengers on board as it prepared to depart for Jeddah from Cairo airport. The crew and passengers escaped without injury, although seven people including passengers, EgyptAir staff and fire fighters suffered from mild asphyxia and were transferred to hospitals. A fire broke out in the cockpit and the captain tried to put it out using the fire extinguisher available, but it was too powerful and firefighters worked at extinguishing it for over an hour. Investigators pinpointed a problem with the cockpit hose used to provide oxygen for the crew in the event of decompression.” (Reilly) A total of two hundred and ninety 777 Boeing aircrafts were advised to fix faulty wiring and replace the system, however, it was not clear whether Malaysian Airlines did this. The fault can cause a blow-torch type fire that will melt aluminum within a matter of seconds and it could take up to ninety seconds till the pilots are knocked unconscious. If that happened “the plane could continue to fly on using -fly-by-wire - a system that replaces the manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.” (Reilly) This system would continue to fly the plane until it ran out of gas. “The cockpit fire theory has been supported by Chris Goodfellow, a Canadian pilot with 20 years experience, who hailed captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah as a hero, not a hijacker, in his fascinating explanation, which claims to debunk all theories about the fate of the missing jet. He insists the only reasonable scenario is that a fire broke out aboard the plane and Shah was doing exactly what he needed to do in an emergency - get the plane to the nearest airport as soon as possible.” (Reilly) This would explain the aircrafts sudden change in direction to get to the closest airport possible.
Pilot involvement
In the investigations of the home of Captain Saharie Ahmad Shah found a flight simulator. “Officers from the Royal Malaysia Police visited the home of the pilot, they spoke to family members of the pilot, and experts are examining the pilot`s flight simulator. Zaharie, who had been flying with Malaysia Airlines since 1981, was an aviation enthusiast, known to offer lessons on the simulator. Today, we try to enter a gated community where the captain lived but found beefed- up security.” (Sharyn Alfonsi) Fariq Hamid’s house is fairly quiet. Neighbors say that they are a relatively quiet family that kept to themselves. “Ab Hamid, who according to Channel 9, Australia's "A Current Affair" invited these women into the cockpit back in 2011, allegedly taking pictures and smoking cigarettes with the women during the flight. Meanwhile, families of passengers, like American Philip Wood, are not giving up hope.” (Stephanopoulos) This is very strange for a pilot to do especially during the flight when he is suppose to be co-piloting the aircraft. “Zaharie is a member of the opposition party in Malaysia, whose party leader, Anwar Ibrahim, was jailed the very same day of the flight, March 7th. Chong says that despite Zaharie's t-shirt here, declaring democracy is dead, the pilot is not an extremist. 57-year-old Chris Nissen from Oregon has known Shah for over 18 years and says there's no way he was involved.” (Stephanopoulos) “I cannot man him doing anything to hurt himself, the passengers, the property. It really hurts when people would even suggest something like that.” (Stephanopoulos) Capitan Zaharie Ahmad Shah could have been suicidal because of imprisonment of his political figure Anwar Ibrahim. The planes captain, “Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who said the final words from the cockpit "Good night, Malaysian, 3-7-0."” (CNN) It is said that “the correct radio procedure for the final transmission from the crew would be something like, ‘MH370, contact Ho Chi Minh City 120.9, good night’.” (Shorten) This is very different than what a pilot is expected to do, especially when talking to air control he spoke as if he was retiring the 777 Boeing, Malaysia Flight 370, which raises suspicions of careless crew or suicidal captain.