Online historical: Last hours of flight MH370. Anonymous source: A passenger of a Malaysian Boeing, who escaped from captivity, went to a village in the southeast of Afghanistan Why the society was misinformed

On the night of March 8, 2014, an event occurred that is difficult to imagine even now, five years later. Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia Airlines with 239 people on board flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Thirty minutes later, the plane becomes an unidentified target for radar. The liner changes direction and flies somewhere to the south of the Indian Ocean for about seven more hours. Then, presumably, the plane runs out of fuel and falls into the water. All passengers and crew are presumed dead. Neither the body nor the liner itself have been found. Why the plane deviated from the course and what actually happened is still unknown. They spent $ 200 million in search of the liner. The result is just a few bags and debris that were discovered by accident.

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The Boeing 777 turned out to be successful in all respects. There is still a stable demand for the plane (a new generation of co-workers is being prepared for release), the liner is extremely reliable - the first serious incident with fatalities happened in 2013, 18 years after the start of operation. An Asiana Airlines plane hit the embankment in front of the runway at the San Francisco airport due to a crew error. The liner caught fire, but almost all survived - out of 307 people on board, three died.

Flight MH370 Kuala Lumpur - Beijing was overnight: it took off at about 0:30, and after almost six hours the travelers were already in the capital of China. In total, there were 227 passengers, the crew included 12 more people. The plane was flown by 53-year-old commander Zahari Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Farik Abdul Hamid (the guy is only 27 years old, but he managed to fly a Boeing 737 and Airbus A330, and now he was mastering the “three sevens”).

Timeline of strange events

The liner took off from the runway on March 8 at 0:41. Half an hour later, at 1:19, the dispatcher at Kuala Lumpur airport will receive the last voicemail from the Boeing 777. Two minutes later, something strange happens. The transponder is turned off on the plane. The device constantly transmits up-to-date information to the radars - flight number, altitude, and so on. When the transponder is deactivated, the airliner turns into an unidentified flying object for dispatchers: the radars still display it, but what kind of plane it is is not clear - just a dot on the screen without any information.

The transponder was turned off exactly at the right time: the Boeing 777 left the airspace of Malaysia, it was supposed to be picked up by Vietnamese air traffic controllers, but they did not immediately realize that they had missed the plane. In the meantime, the ship changes direction and heads south-west, while the voyage assumes movement to the north-east. During the investigation, it will be established that the maneuver could not be made by the autopilot - at least during the turn, the plane was under human control.

The airliner was caught by Thai military radars, but local dispatchers did not attach any importance to the unknown object. They later explained that the ship did not pose a threat to the country's airspace, so no one asked what kind of plane it was. Civilian dispatchers in Vietnam caught on only 12 minutes after the silence of MH370.

An hour after departure, another unusual thing happens: the ACARS system is turned off. Once every 30 minutes, it sends a lot of technical data via satellites that airlines, manufacturers of aircraft and Boeing 777 components need - system status, on-board information, and so on. Attempts by dispatchers to contact MH370 have failed.

By 2:40 am, the Malaysia Airlines management receives bad news - the plane has disappeared, and it is impossible to get in touch. Only in the morning, an hour after the Boeing 777 was supposed to land at Beijing airport, the airline announced the loss of flight MH370.

Even then, the plane was still in the air. The satellites tried to contact the liner to exchange data at 8:11 am - apparently, the session failed due to the communication systems disconnected on the Boeing 777. Alas, there is not even the approximate coordinates of the plane at the time of the attempt to contact the satellites. This would help narrow the search area: after seven hours in the air, the fuel was already running out, which means that the crash area should have been close to the place of the satellite request. In the following months, one of the largest search operations unfolded, but it yielded absolutely nothing. Rescuers studied tens of thousands of square kilometers of the surface of the Indian Ocean, but they were able to say only one thing: the plane is nowhere to be found.

The submarine was found, the plane is not

The first fragments of flight MH370 were found only by mid-summer 2015. Residents of Reunion Island, which is seven hundred kilometers from Madagascar, found several bags and a fragment of a wing called a flaperon. If the personal belongings could theoretically be lost by travelers from a cruise ship, then the metal piece was clearly from an airplane, and a large one. Later it was possible to confirm that the flaperon belonged to the missing Boeing 777. It would seem that a little more and the mystery will be solved: it is enough to study the currents to understand where the wreckage came from. But everything turned out to be more complicated.

At the end of the year before last, the young American company Ocean Infinity entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Transport of Malaysia: if the search vessel of the company does not find MH370 in ninety days, the specialists will not receive remuneration; if the liner is found - Malaysia will pay the team $ 20-70 million, depending on a number of conditions. Ocean Infinity's motivation turned out to be serious, and so did the equipment - the company leased the Norwegian research vessel Seabed Constructor with top-of-the-line equipment designed to study the seabed.

At first, the team planned to explore 25 thousand square kilometers of the ocean, but at the end of the expedition, experts collected data from an area of ​​112 thousand square kilometers. And not a trace of the Boeing 777. There are practically no clues left. However, there was still one more chance to find the plane. A few weeks after the disappearance of MH370, the Chinese warship Haixun 01 picked up two signals at a frequency of 37.5 kHz, which is usually used by black boxes. Moreover, about 90 kilometers from the ship, there were some white objects on the surface of the water. Last summer, Ocean Infinity went to explore the area, but there was no more news - it looks like another dead end.

But the company was lucky to solve another puzzle: Ocean Infinity was able to find the San Juan submarine, which disappeared with its entire crew (44 people) a year earlier. The submarine rests at a depth of 920 meters, 600 kilometers east of the coast of Argentina, all people on board were declared dead. Apparently, finding the Boeing 777 was a matter of principle for Ocean Infinity: the company announced that it was ready to continue the search. The team plans to explore the new location using underwater drones that will scan the bottom in search of the liner.

"Designated" culprit

Along with the crash site of the Boeing 777, investigators are haunted by another question: what really happened. The disappearance of such an aircraft before March 8, 2014 seemed impossible. Yes, in history there have been cases of disappearance without a trace, but not a 63-meter-long liner and not in the 21st century. The main story of the aviation experts who studied the mystery of the flight revolves around the hijacking. This theory explains the main mystery: why the transponder and ACARS turned off on the plane, it turned around and flew like a ghost for about seven more hours.

But here, too, not everything is unambiguous: after all, no one put forward demands and did not take responsibility for what happened. Suppose the plane was hijacked by terrorists, the passengers and the crew intervened, and the invaders had to abandon some primary goal in order to simply crash the plane - as was the case with United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, there are questions about the chronology: the liner was in the air for about seven hours, and no one tried to get in touch by, for example, a satellite phone. Based on this, some experts came to the most unpleasant theory for all - the plane was hijacked by the crew.

First of all, suspicion fell on the commander and co-pilot. The fact is that only two minutes elapsed between the last phrase (said in an ordinary, calm voice without signs of excitement) with the Boeing 777 and the aircraft's 180-degree turn. The invaders could hardly have guessed so accurately the moment of farewell to the dispatcher and the hijacking of the ship. The trajectory of the airliner maneuvers indicates that the plane was flown by a professional pilot. Investigators studied the biographies of the passengers - no one had a flight license. At the same time, it turned out that two Iranians were traveling with forged documents. But the detectives did not find any connections with the terrorists - the people were probably just illegal migrants.

One of the plane was hijacked by the commander - Zahari Ahmad Shah. In the foreign press, the pilots hypothesized that it was more within the power of Shah than for the young Farik Abdul Hamid to program the aircraft navigation system (FMS) to manually set latitude and longitude points where liners do not fly (to the south of the Indian Ocean). There were also rumors about the commander's family problems and his hobby for girls, if you can call it compliments on social networks.

However, it was not possible to “appoint” the culprit: the investigation report says that nothing negative was found in relation to the commander and the co-pilot. The Shah's family and relatives have been declaring the PIC's innocence all the time, and at the moment the reasons for the crash have not yet been officially established. At the same time, experts hint that although they are not accusing anyone, the main fact cannot be ignored: a random person could not turn off the transponder and ACARS, and also set a new route - this was definitely done by an experienced pilot.

What the wreckage points to

From time to time there are "sensational finds in Google Maps": for example, allegedly MH370 was found in the jungle of Cambodia. But this is difficult to take seriously: the satellite was just lucky to take a photo at the moment when a large airliner was flying over the thickets.

Also, experts do not have a consensus about the cause of the plane crash. Experts agree that the liner has run out of fuel. Then disagreements begin. According to one of the versions, the uncontrollable liner went into the ocean with its nose down. During the fall from a height of 10-11 thousand meters, the Boeing 777 would gain tremendous speed. An impact on water would then destroy the plane to the smallest detail.

But the fragments thrown to the coast of Réunion are rather large. It is unlikely that the same flaperon, about two meters in size, would have survived a vertical impact on the water (unless it came off due to overloads during a dive). Therefore, now they began to talk about another version of the last minutes of the liner: the plane was smoothly descending at low speed, as if landing on water. Who, in this case, flew the liner is not clear.

Wreckage, which may have belonged to flight MH370, continues to be found: last December, a piece of the floor of a Boeing 777 and several other fragments were spotted off the coast of Madagascar. But Malaysia has not yet resumed its active search: the government requires significant leads before giving millions again. Until new wreckage is found, investigators are unlikely to be able to get to the bottom of the clue.

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Ships from several countries until January 2017 and conducted fruitless searches. They were conducted on a narrow strip of the Indian Ocean to the west of the Australian coast, their area was 120 thousand km. Failing to achieve a result, Australia, Malaysia and China in January 2017 stopped searching, on which $ 160 million was spent in three years.

Recently, the Malaysian authorities announced that they are ready to start searching for the plane again if new evidence of its crash site is found. We hope that someday this mystery of the century will be solved. Thank you for being with us!

For all the time, in various regions of the Indian Ocean, more than 30 wreckage was found that could be related to the missing liner, but the examination confirmed that only three of them belonged to the missing aircraft. Last Sunday, two of them, including a 4.3-meter wing section, were first displayed in Malaysia.

Here's everything there is to know about the sequence of events aboard the tragically missing liner that unfortunate night. What happened to the plane - the hijacking by intruders, or the purposeful actions of the crew - after five years remains a mystery.

It was only much later that mathematicians from the United States and Qatar found an explanation for why no debris or traces of fuel were found in the ocean at the site of the loss of the Malaysian Boeing 777 aircraft. They calculated the behavior of the plane in five possible fall scenarios and came to the conclusion that the plane entered the water vertically or at an obtuse angle. Only with such a fall on the fuselage are almost no bending moments that break it into parts. “The last moments of the MH370 will most likely remain a mystery until the black boxes are found and deciphered. But experts support the version that the plane was diving into the ocean, ”the scientists said.

Due to the fact that the signals were sent at a frequency of an hour, and there was a problem with the accuracy of determining the possible place of the crash of the liner. It was only possible to outline it using calculations of the estimated fuel remaining.

The last, seventh technical signal is recorded by the satellites from the flying plane. His analysis made it possible, in the end, to establish the approximate area of ​​the crash of the liner. The northern arc on the world map stretched to the countries of Central Asia and to Turkmenistan, the southern arc - to the west of the coast of Australia. The publication of these calculations a few days after the incident excited the whole world - this forced to build conspiracy theories. about the possibility of hijacking an aircraft and landing it on abandoned airfields in the world.

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By this time, the real search for the missing plane begins, all interested services are involved. However, it is known for certain that the plane was still in the air at that time, its engines were working. What was happening on board at that moment is a mystery.

Malaysia Airlines officially announces the loss of the aircraft on its Facebook page.

These signals communicate to the ground various technical parameters of the aircraft - course, altitude, engine operating mode. During the entire time of this mystical flight, seven such "pings" took place, and their analysis played a crucial role in the subsequent searches. Despite the fact that these signals do not transmit to the ground the true coordinates of the aircraft, something about its position, as it turned out, can be learned from them. Taking into account the height of the satellites during ping reception and the signal delay, the experts managed to draw two possible arcs on the world map, from where the last signal of the liner could come.

The signals of this SATCOM system are not transmitted constantly, but once an hour. This system, using the Inmarsat network of geostationary communication satellites, provides coverage of the entire globe, with the exception of polar regions with latitudes greater than 70 °.

Only a few days after the disappearance of the liner, valuable information will be announced. All modern airliners, in addition to the aforementioned VHF transmitters, communicate with satellites regardless of the pilots' will and transmit technical information about the flight to them.

Flight 370 is scheduled to arrive in Beijing, but there is no one to meet at the airport. The relatives of the passengers begin to worry and try to find out something about the fate of the plane.

However, there is still some connection (if you can call it a connection) with the aircraft. In general, the loss of the liner fueled interest in the construction of modern civilian liners among the inhabitants, who, thanks to the incident, learned a lot about the planes they fly, often without thinking about how they function.

It is not known what happens to the plane for all subsequent hours, whether its crew, conductors, passengers are alive, in the minds of.

All subsequent hours the plane will fly without contact with the ground in complete obscurity for ground services.

Realizing that the plane was indeed missing, and this was not an error of the trackers, airline announces red alarm.

"In this period of uncertainty, Malaysia Airlines needs to establish the facts by contacting other dispatchers and aircraft on that route," the airline later explained.

At this time, the airline is trying to contact the missing aircraft by all means and determine its location.

Malaysia Airlines said their plane, en route to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens.

By this time, the plane had deviated from its route for hundreds of kilometers, finding itself on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. It was around this time that civilian and military radars last recorded the location of the aircraft. The Malaysian authorities will later pass on their radar data to US and British officials. From them, the first conclusion will be drawn that the plane did not go north, but in a completely different direction.

Despite the fact that the aircraft's transmitters are turned off, the airliner is recorded by military radars, which see it, irradiating it with radio waves themselves. Later, the Malaysian Air Force will report that the plane was seen flying over the island of Pulau Perak in the Strait of Malacca.

The co-pilot is Farik Abdul Hamid, 27, who worked for the airline for seven years. Flight hours over 2800 hours.

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The aircraft commander is 53-year-old Zahari Ahzmad Shah, an experienced pilot who has worked for the airline for 33 years. As a Boeing 777-200 commander since 1998. Flew 18,423 hours, 8,659 of them on Boeing 777-200. Married, father of three children.

The expected next ACARS signal, transmitted once every half hour, is not sent from the aircraft... It means. That the system stopped working between 21.07 and 21.37 Moscow time. This is an important circumstance, since only knowledgeable people can turn off the system. If the plane were hijacked by terrorists or hijacked, the system would continue to transmit to the ground about all evolutions of the plane.

Malaysian trackers lost the aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand at coordinates 06 55 15 N and 103 34 43 E.

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The plane disappears from the screens and the Malaysian military radar.

After turning off the transponders, the plane disappears from the screens of ground radars. “From this moment, from the point of view of the dispatcher, the plane flies blindly,” explains Quest. The Vietnamese dispatchers at Ho Chi Minh airport also cease to see the mark. Turning off the transponder is not that difficult - just flip a switch in the cockpit.

Transponder devices that transmit information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data are suddenly turned off. These transmitters automatically send signals from the aircraft, transmitting aircraft number, flight altitude, speed and heading. The range of their action is not high, but it is thanks to them that the dispatchers on the ground see the plane's mark and know which side is in front of them and the parameters of its flight.

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 tracker, - lies a little further from the fuselage. Hence the "lengthening".

The main objection of skeptics is that a plane flying over the jungle could accidentally fall into a photo from space used by Google maps. In addition, four years have passed since the moment of loss, it 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, - Wilson brushes aside doubts. Like, I checked it using one of the resource options - "escape ground view". The plane is lying.

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

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 in another place - under water. If he gets to him, he will 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 harshly: 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.

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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 area 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.

“The Asian passenger of the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village 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 turned out, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian airliner Boeing-777-200-ER was the suppression by the American side of an attempt by a group of special specialists to get from Malaysia to China. " An anonymous source in the special services told about this with special confidence to the correspondent of "MK". This information is published in the world media for the first time.

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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.

In the first ten days of April, MK, citing intelligence officials, reported that the name of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane with a total of 239 people on board 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.

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

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The lost Boeing-777 flew for several hours after the "loss" of communication between the crew and the dispatchers.

Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under 5 years of age and 12 crew members (including two pilots). Most of the passengers - 153 - were Chinese citizens (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 the flight using their passports - Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyed-Mohammadreza ...

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 crew of the airliner. 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, the 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. Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, emphasized that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next several 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 initiate 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.

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 studying the seabed (the April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring any results).

At the end of April, tired of the uncertainty and unconvincing methods of searching for the missing airliner with a letter to verify the version of the disappeared aircraft's location, first put forward (March 31) by the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets (website) citing anonymous sources in the special services. Extra-exclusive information "MK" was urgently made public in languages ​​and was instantly replicated by the world media (example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages ​​of the world).

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 Yevgeny 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.

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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 .

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