The 21st century is an era of total digitization of all spheres of human life: from health to entertainment. An unfaithful husband is given out by a phone, a lost child - a special bracelet, a stolen car - a GPS tracker. It is all the more surprising that in 2014 an airplane with 239 people on board disappeared from the face of the earth.

It was regular international flightby Malaysian Airlines twice a day.

On the night of March 8, 227 passengers and 12 crew members boarded the Boeing 777. The plane departed from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to land in 5 hours and 34 minutes. International airport Beijing.

Preparation for the flight went without incident: there were no problems either with passengers, or with luggage, or with the crew. The plane took off on time - at 00:35 local time - gained altitude and lay down on a standard course.

At 01:06 the dispatcher received an automatic report on the position of the board, according to which he was moving strictly on the course. The report included information on the amount of fuel - 43 800 kg with a projected consumption of 37 500 kg.

At 01:19 the captain of the ship Zakhari Shah contacted the Lumpur Radar dispatch center. The dispatcher warned the aircraft crew that they were leaving his area of \u200b\u200bresponsibility, and should contact the dispatcher from the neighboring control center "Ho Chi Minh". But the flight MH370 did not get in touch with the dispatchers from Ho Chi Minh.

It was established that the Boeing 777 disappeared from the radars of the Lumpur Radar dispatch center at 01:20 am, that is, one and a half minutes after the last communication session. At about the same time, the plane disappeared from the radar of the Ho Chi Minh control center, with which it was supposed to get in touch.

Employees of both centers tried to detect the Boeing using a signal from a spare transponder, which is available on all planes, but it turned out that it was turned off the very minute the board disappeared from the radars of both centers - that is, at 01:20.

The latest data received from the Boeing 777 indicated that it was moving strictly on the course at the recommended altitude at a speed of 842 km / h, which corresponded to the norm.

Later it became known that the captain of another plane flying nearby tried to contact the crew of the missing Boeing. With this request he was approached from the dispatch center, informing that the Malaysian Airlines flight had ceased to communicate. The first attempt to establish contact with MH370 was made at 01:30, that is, 11 minutes after the captain's conversation with the dispatcher from Lumpur Radar and 9 minutes after the disappearance of the aircraft from radar. According to the captain who was trying to establish communication, he heard some kind of "muttering" and static interference.

The only one who continued to see the Malaysian Boeing was a military satellite. He also recorded that at 01:22 the plane turned right, and then made an unexpected turn to the left, leaving the course and flying almost in the opposite direction.

Boeing continued to hold altitude, crossing the Malaysian peninsula at a speed of 919 km / h. The data from the military satellite was confirmed at the Sultan Izmail Petra airport, whose radars detected an "unidentified aircraft" flying through their zone of responsibility from 01:30 to 01:52 at night.

Malaysia's military satellite continued to track Flight MH370 until 02:22, when it left the area. During this time, the Boeing flew to Penang Island, after which it changed direction again, starting to move towards the North.

Countries that the missing Boeing flew past were reluctant to share data collected by their military satellites on the night of the plane's disappearance. Over time, investigators were informed that Indonesia did not receive a signal from flight MH370, despite the fact that it flew near northern Sumatra. It is possible that the country's authorities decided not to disclose this information, fearing to declassify the capabilities of their military satellites.

Similar statements came from Thailand and Vietnam, where they reported that they saw the missing Boeing before 01:21 at night, after which it disappeared from their radars. Later, the Thai authorities said that that night, their military satellite still recorded a signal from an unknown aircraft, but the latter did not contain identification data, so it cannot be said that it belonged to a Malaysian Boeing.

Australia also reported the lack of information on MH370. Despite the fact that the plane was moving in the opposite direction, Canberra still checked the data from its satellites, but did not find any trace of the missing Boeing. Later it became known that the Australian over-the-horizon radar station with a range of 3,000 km was turned off that night.

The oddities did not end there. At 02.29 at night, the aircraft's satellite communications system (SSS), which had not previously responded to requests from the ground, suddenly connected to the Inmarsat ground station, sending a request to enter the network. This means that for some reason the CCC was disconnected from the network, and at 02:29 it was connected back. After that, the ground station, to which the aircraft's CCC connected, sent her several requests. The requests were automatic - Inmarsat stations send them every 60 minutes, if during this time there were no signals from the plane. That night, Inmarsat sent 5 such requests - each of them was recorded by the aircraft's CCC, which indicates the health of the onboard systems. In addition to these requests, the aircraft's CCC recorded two calls from the ground - at 02:39 and 07:13 in the morning - these were the second and third attempts to contact the crew. Despite the fact that the signals reached the plane, the pilots did not answer these calls.

At 08.19 am the situation repeated itself - the aircraft's CCC sent a second request to connect to the Inmarsat network. That is, shortly before this, the aircraft systems were turned off again. The logon was successful, but when Inmarsat sent another automatic request to Boeing an hour later, the Boeing did not respond.

Who was responsible for the search for the missing Malaysian Boeing?

The search operation for the missing Boeing became the largest in the history of aviation. Initially, it was conducted in the waters of the South China and Andaman Seas, over which the plane flew at about 2 am. Later, after a detailed analysis of communication sessions with the Inmarsat station, the search zone shifted to the southern part Indian Ocean.

The operation lasted three years and ended only in January 2017. During this time, 120,000 square kilometers were searched. sea \u200b\u200bsurface.

Debris of Boeing MH370 found off the coast of Africa

The first wreck of the missing plane was found at the end of July 2015 on the shores of Reunion Island, located in the western part of the Indian Ocean - 4,000 km from the search zone. In September 2015, French investigators reported that the serial number found on the wreck belonged to an aircraft on flight MH370. It was also found that the debris is part of a flaperon, a type of wing control surface that combines the functions of flaps and ailerons.

After the wreck was found, all the beaches of Réunion were searched. Investigators were able to find pieces of a suitcase that could have been on board the Boeing, a bottle of Chinese mineral water and a package of Malaysian cleaning products.

In 2016, several more pieces of MH370 were found, including on the beaches of Mozambique, as well as on the islands of Mauritius, Rodriguez and Pemba. They were probably carried by ocean currents.

Versions of the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing

In the course of the investigation, a variety of versions were considered - from the most probable to almost fantastic.

Initially, the emphasis was on terrorism, but the check of the crew members and passengers of the plane did not reveal any suspicious links confirming the version of the terrorist attack. Investigators found that at least two people on board used stolen passports to purchase tickets. However, it was later proved that, despite the ambiguity of the situation, these passengers were refugees and not terrorists.

The second most likely scenario was a system failure that caused the plane to crash. But the fact that the CCC on board the aircraft continued to exchange data with the Inmarsat station was denied this version - in order for the CCC to continue working, it needs electricity. The fact that at 08:19 the system sent a request to enter the network indicates that at that time the plane was in good order and continued its flight.

It was these communication sessions that prompted investigators to think about the most likely reason for the disappearance of the plane. Let me remind you that in the period from 01:19 to 02:29 the plane was completely inaccessible. The SSS on board did not respond to automatic requests and signals from the ground, and also did not register a call from another aircraft trying to contact the MH370 crew at the request of the dispatchers. But at 02:29, she suddenly sent a request to log in to Inmarsat. Such a request is sent in several cases: a) power problems, b) software failure, c) shutdown of critical systems responsible for the operation of the CCS, or c) loss of communication due to too high an altitude.

After that, the plane answered 5 automatic requests from the Inmarsat ground station, sent every hour, and also recorded two calls from the ground - at 02:39 and 07:13 in the morning. According to investigators, this indicates that the reason for sending the request was a power outage.

At 08.19 the situation was repeated - the plane again sent a request to enter the system. This means that at some point the board was again de-energized. And already at 09:15 the Boeing stopped communicating.

Most of the experts who worked on the case believe that the uncontrolled slow decompression of the plane was the cause of the disappearance and the likely crash of the plane. Slow decompression is the drop in air pressure in an enclosed space (for example, the cabin of an aircraft) due to depressurization. Sometimes the air leaves so slowly that you can only find out about the problem after the first signs of hypoxia (suffocation) appear.

Uncontrolled decompression can be caused by human factors (fatigue, inattention), material fatigue, system failure or external influences.

Slow decompression most often occurs during climb. This is probably what happened with the MH370, the crew of which stopped communicating just 38 minutes after taking off from the airport.

According to investigators, the crew went off course and turned off the power of the aircraft, being delirious due to lack of oxygen. An hour later, they somehow managed to restore power, after which the satellite communications system began to send signals to the Inmarsat station. Probably, at about the same time, the crew finally lost consciousness, and the plane continued its flight on autopilot.

6 hours later, at 8 am, the missing Boeing ran out of fuel. Its shortage led to the shutdown of all systems, including the CCC. It took the plane a while to launch the emergency aircraft turbine, which restored power to some critical systems, including the satellite communications system. Once the power was restored, the CCC contacted the satellite again, sending a request to enter the network. However, at this time, the plane, most likely, had already fallen into a tailspin, rapidly approaching the surface of the Indian Ocean.

It took investigators time to decipher the data from the Inmarsat station, which confirmed that the plane continued its flight until 8 am. If this information had been deciphered earlier, the search zone would have been shifted to the side, and then, most likely, the relatives of the 239 people who remained forever in March 2014 would have someone to mourn.

British virtual tracker Ian Wilson is a video engineer by profession. An object similar to an airplane, he discovered using the resource Google Maps. Saw lying in the hard-to-reach jungles of Cambodia.

Yang has no doubts: the object is the plane - most likely the same - the Malaysian Boeing 777-200, which on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared in the most mysterious way along with 239 passengers.

According to the outlines of the discovered liner - what you need. Only almost 6 meters longer - not 63.7 meters, but 70.

The tail has fallen off, - explains the pathfinder, - lies a little further from the fuselage. Hence the "lengthening".

The main objection of skeptics is that a photo from space used by Google maps could have accidentally been hit by an airplane flying over the jungle. In addition, the four years that have passed since the moment of loss is quite enough for the lush tropical vegetation to completely hide the liner. And it’s strange that the car in the photo is almost intact. Even if the plane did not crash from a great height, but tried to land in the jungle, it would most likely fall apart into several large fragments.

No, says Wilson. Like, I checked it using one of the resource options - "escape ground view". The plane is lying.

Could the virtual tracker have "come across" not the MH370, but some other Boeing 777-200? Excluded - other such in this area of \u200b\u200bCambodia did not fall. At least, aviation experts do not know anything about such accidents.

Wilson said that he would like to get to the crash site himself. After all, Malaysian and Australian specialists, who, albeit unsuccessfully, are officially engaged in the search for the remains of the liner, as a rule, do not react to the "signals" of virtual trackers. Or brush them off.

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And here's another Boeing

Wilson is competing with Australian Peter McMahon, who has long been fascinated with the investigation of plane crashes. Using Google Maps, he also saw the silhouette of a crashed Malaysian Boeing. But elsewhere - under water. If you get to him, you have to dive.

In March 2018 McMahon: Boeing lies in shallow water about 16 kilometers south of Round Island, one of the Seychelles. In the satellite photo, both the wings and the fuselage are visible.

The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau told McMahon that the plane he found could very well be the one he was looking for. But no action was taken. The Malaysian authorities also responded. But more severely: they asked not to mislead people.

McMahon somehow realized that the liner's fuselage was full of holes. As if stitched with machine gun bursts.

And one more

In 2016, the Malaysian Boeing was found by Scott Waring, a renowned ufologist and virtual archaeologist who is looking for anomalies in images transmitted from other planets, such as Mars.

Scott assures that he did not specifically search for the missing liner. Searched for UFO tracks that were seen in the Cape of Good Hope in 2013. And for this purpose, I looked at the images of the terrain posted in Google Earth. I saw the outline of the plane. He lies under water. Almost intact.

Following the route Kuala Lumpur - Beijing, there were 239 people on board. The most expensive search and rescue operation in history, worth more than $ 200 million, was organized to find the plane. However, the crash site was never found. The official investigation has reached a dead end. But all this time, in parallel, relatives and groups of enthusiasts from all over the world tried to get to the bottom of the truth. The book Flight MH370: A Flight to Nowhere was recently published in a limited edition. What the investigation is silent about ”. Its authors are Sergey Melnichenko, General Director of the International Consultative and Analytical Agency "Flight Safety", a person with extensive flying and expert experience, and Pavel Tyapkin, a former physicist, specialist in radar installations and air defense systems. They conducted their investigation and tried to solve the greatest mystery in history. civil aviation... How did they manage it? Pavel and I talked about this on the air of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Flight MH370 "Flying to Nowhere: What the Investigation Is Silent About". New details of the disappearance of the Malaysian "Boeing"

The captain transferred a large sum to his daughter ...

Pavel, this story does not fit in the head: the plane stuffed with electronics disappears without a trace in the world stuffed with electronics and radars. What was it? Terrorist attack? Suicide attempt? Accident?

The pilot's suicide version became, as we call it with a co-author, "the unofficially official version." She is pushed by both the Malaysian and English-speaking press with all her might, but, in our opinion, she is limping in both legs. Well, first of all, why kill yourself so strange and for a long time? After all, the plane flew for many hours after deviating from the course. And suicide is still either impulsive or a well-thought-out but quick act. When we were writing the book, we carefully studied everything that we could "dig up" about the captain - 53-year-old Zahari Ahmad Shah. And they came to the conclusion that suicide is not his type of character, especially suicide with so many innocent victims - ordinary passengers.

However, a whole dossier was made on him! And it's full of suspicious details. For example, on a home flight simulator, he worked out the same route with a flight to a completely deserted point in the Indian Ocean. Shortly before the last flight, he transferred a large sum of money to his daughter, allegedly to buy a house. Finally, a few minutes before departure, he received a strange call from a SIM card purchased with fake documents.

But this call just refutes the version of suicide! Rather, he indirectly pushes us towards a version of a terrorist attack.

- If it was a terrorist attack, then why did no one take responsibility?

We have two reasons here. What if the attack failed? What if something more grandiose was conceived, like an attack on the Twin Towers in New York, and the plane simply did not reach the target, crashed for some reason? And the second thing. The attack could have been conceived and completely carried out by a loner. In this case, the captain of the liner. We see that in Europe there are many such terrorist attacks, when a person does not enter any cell at all, does not have any leaders over him. It's just that he himself conceived a terrorist attack, hijacked a truck and crashed into a crowd, suppressed people. But there is one more circumstance that further confuses the situation. One gets the impression that someone is doing everything to ensure that Boeing is never found.

- Why?

For example, in the middle of an investigation, quietly and unnoticed, a paper document is discovered, which indicates that more fuel has been poured into Boeing than indicated in the official electronic records. Based on this, the crash site is calculated much further than the original official flight range. Then there is the strange position of the Malaysian military, who control the situation in their airspace by 100 percent, but for some reason indifferently watch how in the first days after the disappearance of the Boeing they are looking for the coast of Vietnam, where it certainly does not exist. Then four days later, on March 12, they wake up and say: and you know, the plane turned around and flew back across Malaysia towards the Andaman Islands. And then, on March 13, the Americans appear and say: and according to satellite data, based on eight telemetry signals from the Boeing 777 engines, the plane flew for another seven hours and seemed to fall far to the south, in the Indian Ocean. Okay, no question! But Australia has installed a powerful over-the-horizon radar worth $ 1.5 billion, it "penetrates" 3000 kilometers. If the Boeing crashed at that calculated point in the Indian Ocean, then the Australians should have seen it. But they are silent on all inquiries, referring to military secrets. Finally, the wreckage of the Boeing, which was thrown by the ocean onto the coast of Reunion Island (this is in the Indian Ocean, 700 east of Madagascar - Ed.), Judging by the map of sea currents, could not come from the place where the search operation was going on. There are a lot of such inconsistencies. There is a distortion of the data: they are looking for the liner where it could not fall.

Hijacked remotely?

Such rigging gives rise to the emergence of various conspiracy theories. The version was circulated that the attackers were targeting a group of developers of a secret microchip from the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which was on board. Others drew attention to the large number of namesakes who checked in for the flight. But most of all they talk about the "American track". The essence of this conspiracy theory is that after the explosion of the Twin Towers in New York, the American special services ordered Boeing to develop a remote control system for aircraft. In the event of the seizure of the liner by terrorists, it will make it possible to intercept control and remotely land it in a safe place. Allegedly, such a system was installed on the missing Boeing, but the secret services did not use it at all ...

I don't believe in these conspiracy theories. Technically, it is quite possible to build such a system into an aircraft and control it from the ground via satellite. But not a single secret service of the world will take this step, because it carries a terrible danger for them. Indeed, in this case, they open a window of opportunity for terrorists. If there is a remote control system, then sooner or later hackers will hack it and vice versa - they will take the plane to a skyscraper. And they will kill two birds with one stone: they will commit a terrorist attack, and they themselves will remain alive. Most conspiracy theories are born out of a lack of information. A striking example is the story with namesakes. They immediately began to inflate: the group was preparing to hijack the plane. Then it turned out that the namesakes were Chinese artists from several generations of the same family, who were flying home after the exhibition.

If the plane could not be hijacked remotely, then someone on board did it. Were there people with flying skills among the passengers?

There was a version that among the passengers there was a Malaysian specialist in aviation electronics, who was sitting in business class right under the satellite communication antenna and theoretically could "hack" the liner. But to be honest, the evidentiary part of this version is sewn with white thread. We went through all the passengers by name, but did not find potential hijackers. We were more attracted to the captain of the aircraft.

- What exactly?

We have dug up some very strange facts. I would even say multidirectional. On the one hand, he is a distant relative and a formidable fan of a Malaysian opposition politician, Anwar Ibrahim, who appears to be closely associated with Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabis.

Are the passengers the victims of a political showdown?

- Was Zahari Ahmad Shah a religious person?

The fact of the matter is that no. We analyzed his activity on the Internet and found that in the last six months he liked several lectures on YouTube by the famous English biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. That is, the captain was carried away by atheism, which is very unusual for a Muslim. And completely kills the version about terrorism with an Islamic bias. The captain turned out to be a contradictory personality. He was not an Islamist, but rather a human rights activist who stands for freedom, equality and brotherhood. It is known that he posted his photo on a social network wearing a black T-shirt with the words "Democracy is dead." Because, from his point of view, democracy really died, since his idol Anwar Ibrahim was not allowed to win the elections in Malaysia. Again charges were brought against Anwar, on March 7, 2014, the politician was sentenced to 5 years in prison ...

And on March 8, 2014, the Boeing, driven by Zahari Ahmad Shah, disappeared in an unknown direction! That is, purely theoretically, in case of hijacking, passengers could be used as hostages, if bargaining arose: passengers in exchange for the freedom of Anwar Ibrahim? And then something went wrong?

I have heard such versions too, but we have too little information to say something definite.

“There was also a co-pilot on board. What can you say about him?

Farik Abdul Hamid is much younger, he was 27 years old, and I do not believe that he could have hijacked the plane because of his position on board. This flight was his last exam before obtaining a certificate for this type of aircraft. If Zachary signed his flight certificate, Farik would become the co-pilot of the Boeing 777. That is, there is a career jump ahead, a different salary ... Therefore, he could not undertake anything suspicious on this flight. And this once again points to the captain - it was the commander who hijacked the plane. At this moment Farik Abdul Hamid was the most dependent on the captain. And one more circumstance. The co-pilot proposed to his girlfriend a few days before the flight.

- It is logical. If you are going to hijack a liner, you have no time to arrange your personal life.

By the way, a striking detail has surfaced. When the liner was flying back through Malaysia with the communication systems turned off, for some reason he made a semicircle around the city of Penang. And this is the hometown of Zahari Ahmad Shah. It feels like he was saying goodbye to his home. And, just imagine, there is unofficial information that at that moment one of the cell phones on board the Boeing contacted a base cellular station in one of the districts of Penang.

The co-pilot tried to call from the plane

- Is that possible?

In principle, yes, especially if the plane is flying slower and lower than it was that night. Enthusiasts from the Malaysian police specially drove a small propeller-driven aircraft there for this purpose, it turned out that the phone "grabs" the network at an altitude of 3-5 kilometers. But that time the call failed, there was just a connection, but that was enough to identify the caller's phone number. It was the copilot's number.

- And how much has passed since the hijacking?

More than an hour.

- That is, he could already understand that the liner was captured?

We can speculate that he was trying to communicate something to the ground. But these are just guesses.

- How big are the chances that we will find out the truth about the missing Boeing?

I hope that the ocean will throw something out to us. There are some hints that it makes sense to look on deserted islands, shallows closer to the center of the Indian Ocean. The wreckage has something to tell. And the second hope is that if the conspiracy theorists are still right, and there was a conspiracy, then sooner or later someone will blabber.

Either true or not ... Anonymous source: Escaped from captivity, passenger malaysian Boeing went to a village in the southeast of Afghanistan ...
The United States is most likely connected with the hijacking of Boeing on March 8, 2014 - we can talk about the "non-moral" state interests of this country ...

“The Asian passenger of the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village in southeastern Afghanistan called Shahraz (to be confirmed). In about a week, data on this will be transferred to China (it is not known whether this will become the property of world publicity). As it became known, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian Boeing-777-200-ER was the suppression by the American side of the attempt of a group of special specialists to get from Malaysia to China. An anonymous source in the special services told the MK correspondent exclusively about this, with special confidence. According to some speculations, the United States could thus thwart China's industrial espionage attempt. No matter how disgusting it may sound, politicians and security officials of states have now armed themselves with the well-tried methods of terrorists. This information is published in the world media for the first time.

The day before, a source from the special services told MK on condition of anonymity that, according to available data, the captured passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on flight MH370, began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.

According to a spokesman for the special services, the search for the "black box" of the liner is most likely a senseless undertaking, albeit understandable.

In the first decade of April, MK reported that the name of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack the Malaysia Airlines plane, which carried a total of 239 people, was Hitch. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 are not guilty of hijacking, a rather authoritative source from the special services assured the MK special correspondent on condition of anonymity.

“Rolls-Royce collects data on the operation of the Trent 800 engines, which are installed on the Boeing 777, every 30 minutes. Five hours of flight at cruising speed (about 900 km per hour) gives a flight range of 4000-4400 km "(The Wall Street Journal via Vedomosti). This means that the Boeing 777 could land, including in Afghanistan ...

At the end of March 2014, MK turned out to be the only publication in the world to report for the first time that “a Malaysian airliner is on a small road southeast of Afghan Kandahar (in the mountains, on the border with Pakistan), with a broken wing. This means that the liner could have made a very hard landing. All passengers on flight MH370 were alive at the time. According to available information, the people taken hostage were divided into seven groups and placed in huts (in very difficult conditions). "

According to intelligence, "the purpose of hijacking an entire plane was to hijack 20 specialists flying from Malaysia to China." According to the data reported by MK, it became known that “the captured specialists were transported back in March to one of the Pakistani bunkers (presumably, there is some kind of production there). Among the specialists mentioned there is one Japanese, although his nationality was different in the official list of passengers on the flight.

Stepan Anikeev, press attaché of the Russian embassy in Kabul, was unable to clarify the situation: “We have not received this information,” a Russian diplomat told the NSN publication. “But we have a lot of interesting things happening in Afghanistan. Maybe there is this liner here, why not. If everyone is alive, that would be great. But so far there is nothing to comment on, ”Anikeev said from Kabul.

MAP - where the disappeared airliner may be

The Boeing 777-200ER, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777-200ER made a joint venture with China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under the age of 5 and 12 crew members (including two pilots). Most of the passengers - 153 - had Chinese citizenship (one is a permanent resident of Hong Kong). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a diving vacation in Bali. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: Iranians bought tickets and got on board with their passports - Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyed-Mohammadreza ...

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble: "It is of great concern that anyone can get on an international flight using a stolen passport held in Interpol bases."

Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24 the dispatcher of Kuala Lumpur Control transferred flight MH370 to the dispatchers in Ho Chi Minh City, for which confirmation was received from the airliner crew. The last time flight MH370 was recorded on the radar at 01:21:13, however, the pilots did not contact the dispatchers in Ho Chi Minh City. After that, communication with the plane was completely lost. At 01:38, Vietnamese dispatchers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur, where did the MH370 flight go?

After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, dispatchers in Kuala Lumpur contacted the flight control center of Malaysia Airlines at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, the Cambodian ATM center dispatchers noted that the crew did not contact them. The Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, stressed that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, dispatchers and airline representatives tried in vain to establish at least some kind of connection with the plane and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to start an official search and rescue operation. Seven messages are known to have been received from Flight MH370 via the Aeronautical Communications Reporting System (ACARS) since the loss of communication with the airliner, including the last at 08:19.

On May 1, the Malaysian Ministry of Transport published a preliminary report on the circumstances of the disappearance of the Boeing 777. In it, the Minister of Transport of Malaysia, Hisamuddin Hussein, confirmed information that one of the military radars of Malaysia recorded a heading westward on the morning of March 8 ... ("Aviation Business Portal")
So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the machinations of the missing plane, which will now focus more on the study of the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring any results).

At the end of April, relatives of the passengers of the missing Boeing, tired of the uncertainty and one-sided methods of searching for the missing airliner, turned to the Malaysian authorities with a letter to verify the version of the location of the disappeared aircraft, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, citing anonymous sources in the special services ... Extra-exclusive information "MK" was urgently made public in English and French and instantly replicated by the world media (example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages \u200b\u200bof the world).

MH370: Check Kandahar, say family members

An expert in the field of investigation of aviation accidents from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), the most experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov explained to the correspondent of MK that “such an aircraft could well have landed on an ordinary dirt road of a less dense surface with a length of about 2000 meters ... Although, of course, for this there should be free approaches to the landing strip - that is, there should be no trees and mountains. During a hard landing on a “bad” surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even a wing could break "(the estimated weight of the hijacked Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar landing of an airliner that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which all the passengers remained alive, and the plane survived.

The Boeing 777 is the world's largest twin-engine jet airliner. Its engines are the largest and most powerful in the history of aviation. jet engines... Increased flight range up to 14,316 kilometers. Wingspan: 60.90 m, length: 63.70 m.
For foreign media

This information was not published in the world media: “A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by“ unknown terrorists ”and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to a Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: “Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch." The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan. " Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan.

SEARCH HISTORY of the "escaped" flight MH370 (from Wiki)

The previous case of a civilian plane disappearing without a trace occurred on January 30, 1979, during a Varig cargo flight Boeing 707-323C. Half an hour after taking off from Tokyo, the plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Despite extensive searches, no traces of the plane or signs of its fall were found. This incident was considered until now the only fact of the disappearance of a jet airliner without a trace and one of the most mysterious cases in the history of world aviation ...

Flying on the night of March 8, 2014 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 suddenly disappeared from the radar without giving any signals of a malfunction. The forces of more than 25 countries were thrown in search of the board and 239 people on it. The work was carried out for almost three years, stopped and resumed again, but did not lead to anything. On the contrary, over time, the number of questions increases, and the number of answers decreases.

Hijack a plane and fly to the Maldives

During the entire search, rescuers managed to find only a few insignificant wreckage, the belonging of which to flight MH-370 was officially established by the experts. In July 2015, 700 kilometers from Madagascar, on the coast of Reunion Island, a part marked "657ВВ" was discovered. Later, in August, investigators found out that the wreck they found was part of the wing of a Malaysian Boeing. Almost a year later, not far from the Mozambican coast, a horizontal flight stabilizer was found, the belonging of which to the 777 was also established by specialists.

But neither bodies, let alone black boxes, could be found - all this, probably, sank into the depths of the sea. The lack of remains that could shed light on the tragedy led to the fact that the most fantastic versions of what happened began to be put forward. So, the Malaysian authorities seriously considered the version that the plane could be hijacked - at first glance, a very logical explanation for the missing wreckage. Possible "destinations" were even named: Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Maldives. But the authorities of these countries promptly denied such assumptions, noting that the tracks of the liner were not detected by their radars. Although this rather confirmed the assumptions: experts say that the kidnappers could intentionally fly at low altitude so that they would not be spotted.

Of course, a terrorist attack was not ruled out either. According to some experts, only when destroyed in the air could the debris disappear without a trace. The news added fuel to the fire that two of the passengers who were supposed to be on board reported the theft of their passports. With the help of their documents, the terrorists could just get on the plane. However, there is another explanation for this: Kuala Lumpur is a large center for the transfer of migrants to Europe who travel with stolen passports. So, it is possible that the loss of passports has nothing to do with the loss of the plane.

Say goodbye to home and crash

Be that as it may, after some time - once off the coast of South Africa, then in Tanzania, then in Thailand, they began to find wreckage - the versions of theft and terrorist attack faded into the background. Gradually, more and more questions began to appear about the role of the Boeing pilot - Zachariah Ahmad Shah in the tragedy.

The 53-year-old captain of the aircraft has worked for Malaysian Airlines since 1981 and during this time has flown almost 18.5 thousand hours. The weather in the Lost Zone was good, so the version of a pilot error was discarded almost immediately.

After a detailed analysis of the negotiations, the suggestion that Ahmad Shah was “out of his mind” was also rejected. Pilot's last contact with terrestrial services did not raise questions: to the dispatcher's message that he was transferring control to his Vietnamese colleagues, the pilot replied in a calm voice: "Okay, good night."

True, 12 minutes before this, the Boeing changed course, and all communication and detection systems on the plane were turned off. Apparently, at the same time the board descended to an extremely low height to become "invisible" to radars. Further, presumably, he followed south, skillfully maneuvering between air spaces different countries, and flew to the center of the Indian Ocean to the west of the Australian city of Perth - the most remote area from possible landing sites.

The fact that all this is the work of Ahmad Shah is indirectly indicated by several facts. First, during a search of his apartment, the FBI found a flight simulator loaded with information on five runways in the Indian Ocean. Second, the Boeing made an unnecessary detour near the Malaysian state of Penang, where the pilot was from.

Based on these facts, aircraft designer Simon Hardy later suggested that the loss of the plane was nothing more than the suicide of Ahmad Shah. How he managed to "neutralize" the other crew members and passengers, apparently, will remain a mystery. Former head of the Canadian Transportation Security Bureau, Larry Vance, suggested that the pilot, after putting on an oxygen mask, could depressurize the cabin so that people on the plane would lose consciousness.

70 Million Puzzle

It will probably not be possible to find out whether the plane was directed straight into the water or continued flying until it ran out of fuel. At the same time, the researchers found that the Boeing was not preparing for landing on the water - its flaps were simply not released. For certain, no one can even say exactly where the plane fell. Only the "priority zone" of the fall is 93 kilometers long, and its area exceeds 60 thousand square kilometers.

It turns out that "the Malaysian Boeing case consists almost entirely of dark spots. What really happened and what should be considered the priority version of the loss of the aircraft? Could the ship's commander be so disappointed in life that he decided to commit suicide in such a sophisticated way, at the same time interrupting the fate of 238 more people? Did they understand what was happening to them? Did the liner crash, and if so, where? And if not, is there anyone left alive? Finally, are there Boeing's black boxes?

Until there is an answer to at least one of these questions, it is unlikely that the mystery of this story will be solved. However, hopes remain: only one private company is currently engaged in prospecting. The Malaysian government promised her $ 70 million if the liner or its black boxes were found. So here's another question - is this a sufficient incentive to see it through?