The MH370 hijacking, volume 2

Why Ocean Infinity didn’t find the wreck

If you think this was an accident, or that the messages recorded by Inmarsat were manipulated, and/or that the debris found in the western Indian Ocean does not belong to MH370, read on.

The data collected by the international company Inmarsat every hour for six hours after the plane’s trajectory northeast of the island of Sumatra cannot, on their own, be used to calculate a precise trajectory and, therefore, the plane’s final position.

There are thousands of trajectories compatible with the data collected by Inmarsat.

To determine a trajectory, you need to take into account the aircraft’s performance and, above all, make assumptions about the intentions of the person or persons who hijacked the aircraft, either on their own initiative or under duress.

Next, we need to check that this trajectory is compatible at each of the points on the trajectory, corresponding to the time of transmission of an Inmarsat message every six hours.

The intentions of the person or persons who hijacked the plane are important in calculating the plane’s final position and, therefore, in defining in which area to search for the wreckage. Inmarsat’s choice, and that of most of the competent amateurs who have worked on the subject, is a suicide programmed to take the plane down, in the middle of nowhere, after an eight-hour flight.

This is implicitly the choice made for the various research campaigns carried out over the last decade, including those by the American company Ocean Infinity.

But :

1. None of the few cases of pilot suicide have happened in this way.

2. There may be an infinite number of reasons to commit suicide, and an infinite number of ways to do it, but this scenario seems unlikely.
3. There is nothing known in the private and professional life of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the respected captain, to explain such a suicide.

To try and find a motivation for this hijacking, I delved into Malaysia’s political life.

I discovered a disturbing coincidence:

1. On March 7, 2014, Malaysia’s Court of Appeal, at the request of the government, overturned Anwar Ibrahim’s acquittal, found him guilty and sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment
2. On March 8, 2014, flight MH370 disappeared.

I’ll give some evidence to support my thesis of the link between the two events.

Of the two events, the first is the most important for the history of Malaysia and its political life, the second is a detail, and I’ll try to explain why.

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