MH370 ‘deliberately flown into the ocean’

MH370 ‘deliberately flown into the ocean’
By Kate Webster


A world-leading air crash investigator claims the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was deliberately flown into the ocean in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

Larry Vance spoke on news programme 60 Minutes about the findings that erosion along the trailing edge of recovered wing parts indicated a controlled landing of the Boeing 777, which disappeared while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

“Somebody was flying the airplane at the end of its flight, somebody was flying the airplane into the water. There is no other alternate theory that you can follow,” Vance said.

The official investigation team has said it is investigating whether the aircraft was piloted in its final moments.

Questions remain as to if the Australian-led search for the missing 777, which has focused on an area of the ocean floor 1,242 miles off Australia’s west coast, is searching in the wrong place.

The zone was selected based on the theory the flight was running on autopilot after veering off course. But an official co-ordinating the search effort told 60 Minutes the wreckage could be outside that search zone, if someone had been in control of the aircraft when it crashed.

Vance, who has led more than 200 air crash investigations, was formerly investigator-in-charge for the Canadian Aviation Safety Board and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

He was the chief author of a report into the 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crash off Nova Scotia, Canada which killed 229 people. The force of that crash broke the aircraft into more than two million pieces.

Vance concluded that an absence of such wreckage was one factor suggesting MH370 landed in controlled circumstances.

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