MH370 tragedy: Malaysia Airlines pilots 'had an accident' or 'killed themselves'

MH370 vanished without a trace on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. In the aftermath of its disappearance, there was much speculation about what happened to it. Some questioned whether the plane was hijacked or whether the pilot or co-pilot absconded with it.

According to Jeff Wise, author of The Plane That Wasn’t There, the evidence suggests the plane was in autopilot for most of its journey.

The evidence comes in the form of Burst Timing Offset and Burst Frequency Offset data from Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company.

He premised that, as this journey necessarily meant the death of everyone on board it was “reasonable to assume that either those in control of the plane had fallen victim to an accident or killed themselves”.

Mr Wise said that the plane was most likely in autopilot because it travelled in a straight line.

He claims that its flight path indicates it simply flew until it ran out of fuel.

He said: “With the engines no longer running, the plane’s electric systems would have failed until a back-up generator could kick in.

“When this happened, the sat-com system would have come back online and initiated the final ‘handshake’ at 0.19 UTC.

“By then, the plane was either in a steep spiral dive or about to enter one and impacted the sea within minutes.”

Describing his theory, he explained that once the destination was set on autopilot, there did not need to be anything controlling the plane.

Most commercial aircraft in fact spend the majority of their time in the air on autopilot.

Mr Wise explained: “In this scenario, no human needed to be controlling the aeroplane during its endgame.

“Indeed, given that such a flight would necessarily end with the death of everyone on board, it seemed reasonable to assume either those in control of the plane had fallen victim to some kind of accident, or killed themselves.”

source: express.co.uk