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- Interesting picture that resumes all theories about the Plane disappearance.
- I like this kind of "public imaging" as it informs the reader without making a 10 minute video about theories and other non sense.
- Only thing i don't like about this is its credibility. Saying Associated press doesn't really tell you if the information is veridic or not. Also The author that put the picture together may not know anything about the subject so it doesn't add much credibility.

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-Another similar point of view from an expert in aviation.
- Reason to belief is that this may be the closest theory to believe in considering the circumstances.
- Even though this guy is an expert on the Aviation field, he was not there, and he can't be 100% certain on what happened, because that would be heavily biased with no evidence to support his theory, which is the problem with this event, there is no evidence to support any theory.

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A Canadian aviation expert and former airplane crash investigator says he can state with "100 per cent certainty" that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was intentionally ditched in the ocean by one of the pilots in an act of murder-suicide.

"This is a criminal event. It's not an accident," Larry Vance, a former investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, told CBC News in a phone interview.

"This was planned and conducted, carried out by one individual who had control of the airplane via his job to have control of the airplane," Vance said.

Either the pilot or co-pilot made the decision, "for whatever reason, to take it to a remote part of the ocean and make it disappear forever."

Many theories have circulated about the fate of the plane, with some believing it may have been hijacked or shot down, but Vance says his examination of some wreckage that was eventually found shows the plane was deliberately landed in the ocean.

Vance spent 18 months researching and writing his soon-to-be released book MH370 Mystery Solved. He was not part of the official investigation conducted by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

He teaches courses in accident investigation and used the crash as course material. From there, he said, he and a few of his colleagues began to look at some of the details of the evidence that was available.

'Murder suicide'

Vance was also part of a group of international aviation experts who recently appeared on 60 Minutes Australia to share their conclusions that the crash was an intentional act.

"It would certainly fit to call it a murder suicide," he said.

This view contradicts a report put out in 2016 by the ATSB, which concluded that the plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean during a high-speed descent. It was the bureau's belief that the plane had been flying on auto pilot or without pilot input.

The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. local time on March 8, 2014, destined for Beijing.

According to the Malaysian government, the final voice transmission received by controllers at Kuala Lumpur's international airport at 1:19 a.m. local time on March 8 was "Good night Malaysian three-seven-zero."

After 40 minutes of flight time, the plane disappeared from radar, as the plane's transponder stopped transmitting.

Malaysian military radar later identified the plane way off course, in the northern part of the Strait of Malacca. A satellite, however, picked up seven signals, or "pings" over the next hours. This led investigators to conclude the plane flew another six hours, south to the Indian Ocean.

The plane has never been found, but pieces of wreckage have floated to the shores of eastern Africa.

Vance and his team examined detailed photographs of some of the wreckage and concluded the plane was deliberately crashed. Their belief was based on two pieces of wreckage from the flap system on the right wing of the airplane - the flaperon, and the section of flap that's next to it.

By examining the marks on the wreckage, they theorized that the flaps had been down when the airplane hit the water. This would mean that the plane had entered the water at a relatively low speed.

"We would call that a controlled ditching into the water. And the only way that could happen is if somebody was flying the airplane. In particular, if somebody selected the flaps to be in the extended position."

And if the flaps were extended, it meant the engines were still running and that the plane had not run out of fuel.

"I believe with 100 per cent certainty that the airplane entered the water in a controlled ditching with the flaps extended," said Vance.

The plane was piloted by Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah and 1st Officer Fariq Ab Hamid.

Vance said he can't say for certain if the pilot or co-pilot was the perpetrator, although it's his belief that it's more likely Shah was responsible because he had ordered two extra hours of fuel.

Turned off transponder

It was Shah, he believes, who turned off the transponder to make the airplane disappear from radar, and then turned off the lights in the passenger cabin and depressurized the airplane.

"And that's just one switch, he can flick one switch and the airplane is depressurized."

This would render the passengers unconscious and they would have died quickly from lack of oxygen, he said.

During that small window of time, Vance believes, Shah somehow eliminated the co-pilot. He may have made up some reason to get the co-pilot out of the cockpit and then locked the door, leaving him to die from the lack of oxygen in the passenger cabin. Or, Vance said, "He eliminated him in the cockpit."

The pilots have oxygen supplies that can last for hours. But after he depressurized the plane, it would have been very easy for the pilot to repressurize the airplane, Vance said.

Vance believes that after flying another six hours, the pilot made a controlled ditch to ensure there would not be massive amounts of wreckage, and instead, the plane would sink to the bottom of the ocean.

"My contention is that he had a destination in mind, he took it to that destination," he said. "He took an airplane and made it disappear so that nobody could ever find where it went and nobody would find it ever."

Vance's conclusions challenged

​Martin Dolan, former head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau who appeared with Vance on the 60 Minutes episode, challenged Vance's certainty on his conclusions.

"The evidence is not yet sufficient to draw as firm a conclusion as you appear to have done," Dolan said.

Dolan, who led the search for the missing plane, said there are two viable theories - that someone was in control of the flight when it crashed, "or they were not."

"There's evidence that supports both of those theories," he said.

It's only speculation that the flaps were down and that the plane did not run out of fuel, he said.

But Vance disagrees and believes the official investigators were not experienced enough to see the evidence on the pieces of wreckage .

"I think they got wedded to a theory."

As for the motive of the perpetrator, Vance said that's not his area of expertise.

"People who are specialists in human behaviour and psychology and those sorts of things can answer that."

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Evidence shows MH370 was deliberately crash-landed in murder-suicide, ex-investigator says | CBC News

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A Canadian aviation expert and former airplane crash investigator says he can state with "100 per cent certainty" that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was intentionally ditched in the ocean by one of the pilots in an act of murder-suicide. "This is a criminal event.

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- Another simulation to help people see what possibly happened minutes before disaster.
- Positive thing about this is, that after all these years and the public is still demanding for answers, and this puts pressure on authorities to not give up on closing the case, as families of the affected are still looking for closure.
- Negative side is that its nothing new, and it probably wont do anything.

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THE final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been traced in a new documentary.

National Geographic's Drain The Oceans series, which details some of the most intriguing secrets that lie in the world's oceans, explores a "handful of clues" about the jet's disappearance in an episode set to air on Tuesday night.

Perth-based Electric Pictures worked closely with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the official government investigation team on the episode. It is the only documentary team to be given such access.

The team of experts used groundbreaking technology and the latest scientific data from underwater systems, combined with expert opinions and digital recreations, to analyse the world's biggest aviation mystery.

Electric Pictures CEO and executive producer Andrew Ogilvie told news.com.au the footage in the documentary is like nothing ever seen before.

" Drain The Oceans uses a range of data - from bathymetric sonar scans to video footage and photogrammetry - with sophisticated computer-generated graphics to create highly accurate three-dimensional models of the bottom of our oceans, lakes and rivers," Mr Ogilvie said.

"This process allows the filmmakers to recreate natural wonders, shipwrecks, ancient ruins and other human artefacts that can be found on the sea floor - revealing them in unprecedented detail, as if they were on dry land."

This episode asks how did MH370 crash without a trace, and why has modern technology failed to find the wreckage?

Let's take a look inside the longest - and most expensive - search in commercial aviation history.
DRAIN THE OCEANS: TIMELINE OF THE MH370 SEARCH 1. Flight MH370 disappears from radar
The documentary first explores the moment MH370 vanishes, detailing how the defence radar detected the plane turning back across Malaysia, heading northwest up the Strait of Malacca then disappearing out of range just north of Sumatra.

Then comes a "shocking discovery" - after it disappeared from civilian radar it didn't crash but instead it continued flying.

Captain John Cox, CEO of Washington-based aviation body Safety Operating Systems, summed up the uncertainty of the situation.

"Initially, when the plane made a turn without talking to air traffic control in my mind all bets were off.

"It could be a terrorist event, it could be a deliberate act by a crew member, it could be a mass failure in the electrical system."

And so the search for answers that would stretch for years begins ...
2. Looking to space for answers
Although lost to radar, the plane continued to exchange signals with a satellite above the Indian Ocean. The signals occurred once an hour, and experts were able to use this to calculate its direction of travel.

They established that after its initial track to the northwest, MH370 turned south and flew for six more hours.

Using the fuel load and cruising speed, investigators recreated a range of possible flight paths from the arcs of the signals.

ATSB crash investigator Peter Foley said: "The data was extraordinary ... you're trying to establish an aircraft's position based on info that was never intended for that purpose.

"This is something extraordinary that was captured by Inmarsat (satellite) at the time the aircraft was in the air, which very few people knew about and which is absolutely key to the search."

It was the biggest breakthrough so far, shifting the search around 500km south of the last military radar contact and into the jurisdiction of the Australian Government.

The experts then started looking around the final arc - also known as the seventh arc - which is located deep in the Indian Ocean.
3. Final sound from the plane?
A team from Western Australia's Curtin University use hydrophones - sensitive underwater microphones - positioned all around the Australian coast to monitor a range of sounds including earthquakes and wildlife.

One hydrophone picked up an unusual noise approximately 1hr 14 minutes after MH370's last communication with the Inmarsat.

Dr Alec Duncan, an underwater acoustician from Curtin University, was intrigued: "When we looked at the data from that hydrophone we found one signal that looked as though it had interesting characteristics."

Was this the sound of the plane hitting the water?

As the direction of the sound couldn't be determined by the hydrophone, the researchers searched for other audio clues. It turned out that the exact noise was also picked up off the coast of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia by a listening post set up by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation in order to detect and locate illegal nuclear tests.

It was detected by three hydrophones that were set up in a way that allowed them to determine the direction of a sound to within half a degree, as well as calculate the distance to the source.

They determined the noise came from the northwest. However this "tantalising clue" ended up being traced to a location extremely far away - and well beyond the current search area - so was deemed not worth considering.

"Our conclusion was the signal was most likely to be of geological origin such as a small undersea earthquake," Dr Duncan said. "But we can't completely rule out the possibility that it came from something to do with the aircraft."
4. Mapping the ocean floor, and a Boeing simulation
So the investigators moved to a different approach; searching the sea floor with sonar scans. First, they had to map the sea floor as it had never been chartered, so they used computer technology to "drain the oceans".

Once the water flows away, you can see why the hunt is so complex. The team has to navigate a landscape that includes cliffs more than twice the height of the Empire State Building, massive canyons and a volcano-dotted valley.

At the same time as this is happening, a "game-changing" new clue also arose, which was to guide the search.

Further analysis of the Inmar satellite showed that in its final moments the plane descended rapidly, almost certainly because it ran out of fuel.

Boeing engineers then conducted a simulation of what happens when a Boeing 777 runs out of fuel, making it possible to recreate the final moments of the mysterious flight.

According to Drain The Oceans, the right engine flamed out first, the autopilot compensated for the imbalance with a hard left turn, then the second engine flamed out minutes later. With no power, the autopilot shut down, leaving MH370 in a "long spiral descent".

Every Boeing simulation shows the crash site lying within 46km of the seventh arc, so they are able to reduce the size of the search area from 745,000sq km to 37,000sq km.

After having no luck searching 80 locations in detail, in May 2015 the sonar picked up a debris field that looked like a possible wreck site. So the team investigated closer up with the "drained the oceans" technique, revealing a discovery; A pile of chains, a 7m-long metal box, rusted machinery, and three metal anchors.

It wasn't MH370, but they'd found a shipwreck. Three more wrecks were also found.

Alas, after 15 months of detailed scanning, covering the whole 37,000sq km search area, there was still no sign of the missing plane. So they determined that it must not be in that search area, after all.

The investigation continues with two key pieces of evidence - the Boeing flight performance data and the Inmarsat. Then, in July 2015, a third piece of information comes to light.
5. Debris provides new clues
At a remote island, almost 5000km from search area, a piece of metal had washed up on the beach of Reunion Island. It was a flaperon from the wing of a plane, and Boeing confirmed the serial number matched that of MH370.

This is where amateur wreck hunter Blaine Gibson comes in. Eager to help solve the MH370 mystery and give grieving families answers, he travelled to Mozambique where he located a triangular piece of wreckage with the words "no step" on it, 7000km from the main search zone.

Boeing confirmed it was also from the plane.

Mr Gibson kept searching on the western side of the Indian Ocean and found 15 more pieces of wreckage. He said the most significant discovery was the case that sits around the TV screen on the back of seats.

"This is the one (find) that brought tears to my eyes," Mr Gibson said. "This is perhaps the last thing that somebody saw, this is what anyone who flies on a plane would recognise."

This kind of debris, from inside the cabin, confirmed the plane hit the water with force.

"Some of the items indicate there was quite a large amount of energy at the time the aircraft entered the water," Mr Foley said.

The discovery also opened up new line of inquiry.
6. Water currents
Next, the team analysed three locations on the seventh arc where the current could have pushed debris towards Africa. One of the directions matched CSIRO oceanographer David Griffin's calculation of the flaperon's journey - a piece of evidence he believed crucial to the investigation.

Mr Griffin attempted to recreate the journey of the flaperon across the ocean, using a replica flaperon and comparing its movement to "ocean drifter" buoys. He then compared it to known data about the currents at the seventh arc at the day of the crash, to estimate the flaperon's travels during the 500 days it was afloat.

It was hailed an "extraordinary" discovery.

He also wondered why no debris had washed ashore in Australia. With some of the ocean currents flowing east towards the country, surely evidence should be left here?

"This immediately tells us that all those potential paths of the seventh arc where the flow is strongly towards Australia, they're essentially ruled out (of the search)," Mr Griffin said.

He looked at historic drifter data from the day the plane disappeared, and found three places on the seventh arc where the current would have pushed debris towards Africa. If the plane crashed in one of these areas, it would explain why debris wasn't found on Australia's beaches.

Critically, only one of those areas matched his calculation of the flaperon's journey. So that led Mr Griffin to propose a new theory, that 35 degrees south is most likely area for the crash site - an area not checked initially.

However, the theory came too late - the search was suspended by authorities after almost three years.
7. Satellite snaps possible debris near 35 south
Almost a year later, new evidence from the skies prompted the search to be reopened.

It turned out that 15 days after MH370 disappeared, a French military satellite had captured images of possible man-made debris near 35 south.

"I remember the day when I first saw those images in high resolution and I thought, my god, this really helps," Mr Griffin said.

"I thought that this is really exciting, this could be used to restart the search."

At that time, the location wasn't considered a high priority area. Four years later, it was significant.

So in January this year, Ocean Infinity began a new, privately funded mission, expanding the search area and moving to Mr Griffin's proposed search area. Unfortunately, they found no sign of the plane and in May the Malaysian Government announced it would not support any new searches.

Drain The Oceans ponders: "Is the wreckage of MH370 waiting to be discovered in the 386,000sq m (620,000sq km) of seventh arc search zone that remains unexplored? Do clues to the mystery lie a few feet outside the circle of light and knowledge already cast by the search teams?

"Only time, money and the continued desire for answers separate us from the moment of discovery."

The documentary ends by "draining the ocean", revealing images of what the wreckage of MH370 may look like once it's found on the seventh arc, based on the data gathered by hundreds of investigators.

"The debris will stretch out over thousands of yards, the engines will be in one piece, the fuselage in thousands. The nearby black boxes will reveal if anyone was in the cockpit at the end, emergency oxygen cylinders may show if the plane depressurised in-flight, whether intentionally or the result of an accident, and personal electronic devices could reveal the experiences and fate of individual passengers and crew."

If you don't look, you don't find, the program concluded.
For more intriguing details on underwater sites, Drain The Oceans airs on Tuesday at 8.30pm on Foxtel. Visit the website for more details.

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MH370 clues: Final moments detailed in new documentary

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THE final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been traced in a new documentary. National Geographic's Drain The Oceans series, which details some of the most intriguing secrets that lie in the world's oceans, explores a "handful of clues" about the jet's disappearance in an episode set to air on Tuesday night.

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-This link talks about 4 years after the Aircraft event took place, with still nothing found, a couple companies partnered up in order to get the search for the plane done so the affected families could get closure. Were they successful?
- So there's a few points of view here. start with the one where Families and friends of t he affected can have one more hope of finding out what happened to their loved ones, it also attracts media and other nations with the message that "they haven't forgotten" about the tragic event.
- The problem i have with this is that, after 4 years, these companies decide to pitch in, but they aren't doing it because of free will and compassion, i mean yeah sure, they are "helping" but in reality they are just using the accident as a way to advertise who they are and potential deals with other companies.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A Malaysian official said Saturday that the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. company will likely end in June, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane's disappearance with renewed hope that the world's biggest aviation mystery will be solved.

Malaysia inked a "no cure, no fee" deal with Houston, Texas-based Ocean Infinity in January to resume the hunt for the plane, a year after the official search in the southern Indian Ocean by Malaysia, Australia and China was called off.

Ocean Infinity started the search on Jan. 22 and has 90 search days to look for the plane. Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, said the 90-day term will spread over a few months because the search vessel has to refuel in Australia and bad weather could be a factor.

Azharuddin said the search is going smoothly and is expected to end by mid-June.

"The whole world, including the next of kin, have (new) hope to find the plane for closure," he told reporters at a remembrance event at a shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur. "For the aviation world, we want to know what exactly happened to the plane."

Officials have said there was an 85 per cent chance of finding the debris in a new 25,000-square-kilometre (9,650-square-mile) search area -- roughly the size of Vermont -- identified by experts.

If the mission is successful within three months, payment will be made based on the size of the area searched. Malaysia says it will pay Ocean Infinity $20 million for 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 square miles) of a successful search, $30 million for 15,000 square kilometres (5,790 square miles), $50 million for 25,000 square kilometres (9,653 square miles) and $70 million if the plane or flight recorders are found beyond the identified area.

The plane vanished March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The official search was extremely difficult because no transmissions were received from the aircraft after its first 38 minutes of flight. Systems designed to automatically transmit the flight's position failed to work after this point, according to a final report issued in January 2017 by the Australian Transport Safety Board.

Family members lit candles on a stage Saturday and observed a moment of silence during the three-hour event. Most are split over whether the search will be fruitful.

"It doesn't renew (any hope) because I also have to be realistic. It has been four years," said Intan Maizura Othman, whose husband was a flight attendant on the plane. She was pregnant when the plane disappeared and attended the event with her now 4-year-old son.

Jiang Hui of China, whose mother was on board the plane, said that he was grateful for Ocean Infinity's courage to mount the search, but that he hopes it will not be the end if the mission fails. He proposed for a public fund to be set up to continue the search.

"Without a search, there will be no truth," Jiang said.

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Four years after MH370 vanished, search for missing plane to end in June

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A Malaysian official said Saturday that the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. company will likely end in June, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane's disappearance with renewed hope that the world's biggest aviation mystery will be solved.

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-  Brief detailed description on one of the theories of what happened to the Flight MH-370.
- Again another theory explained but this time it focuses specifically on one area. It provides the reader with quick insight info without reading an extensive paragraph.
- Problem here is that it doesn't list any sources, there is no "sign of approval" per say, it isn't a very credible post.

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Oscar Cervantes

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-Sand sculpture made for people to support the terrible tragedy.
- There's not a whole lot to talk about this picture, the picture says more than a 1000 words. If you were to put yourself on one of the affected people by this event, just by looking at this it gives you a "chill" feeling. Not being able to have a closure on what happened, and not able to know if they are alive or not, it's probably not the best feeling in the world.

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-Point of view of what happened to Flight MH370 from a Canadian source.
- Reason for belief is that it was viral and in every news. it was real, it happened!
- Reason for flaw is that, up to this day the plane nor survivors or bodies have been found.

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The mysterious case of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

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- Another point of view about the flight with a visual simulation to help listeners understand what we believe happened.
-Reason to belief is that Discovery channel has been notorious for doing these visual simulations about unexplained phenomena.
- Since it is a created simulation with no one from the flight to confirm it nor evidence has turned up, it is inclined a bit biased

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What Happened to MH370 and its 227 Passengers? | D/CODE

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-4 years after the flight's disappearance, experts start considering the only possible scenario of what happened.
- Reason to belief, is that a lot of experts have come together to rule out impossible outcomes to what happened.
- After all these years and no evidence found aftermath the "crash" even if the experts rule out the impossible, their theory of that it was a mass murder by the pilots doesn't make much sense, it was a commercial flight with passengers, and if they wanted to "eliminate" someone in the flight, why would they take the entire plane down too? it just doesn't make sense.

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Has the disappearance of flight MH370 finally been solved?