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Ian Wilson, a British technology expert, told the newspaper The Mirror in a report published on Sunday (03) that managed to find the wreckage of the flight Malaysia MH370. The missing plane is, until today, considered one of the greatest mysteries of aviation and several conspiracy theories about it have been emerging since the disappearance of the aircraft on March 8, 2014. Check out what has been speculated in the last nine years:
How did Ian Wilson find the wreckage of MH370?
The method used by Wilson to find the plane on the flight that disappeared went to consult the Google Maps. When exploring the Asian region, more specifically in Cambodia, the technology professional claims that he saw the wreckage of the aircraft in a forest in the country. It is worth remembering that, in 2014, the Malaysia MH370 left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Beijing, China, carrying a total of 239 people, 12 of them from the company responsible for the trip (check the image):
When measuring the observation on Google Maps, you can see [something] about 69 meters, but there seems to be a part missing, between the tail and the back of the plane. It's subtly larger, but there's a space that probably matches that.
Ian Wilson, in a report to The Mirror
Nine years ago, the aircraft signaled that it was having serious problems during the journey between Malaysia and Vietnam. At the moment, the transponder (equipment that emits a satellite signal, useful for locating planes) stopped communicating with devices that monitor flights between countries. This helps lend some level of confidence to what Wilson found in Maps. “You can see where the plane is: it's literally in the greenest and darkest part where you can see“, says the specialist, as can be seen in the image:
As a way of contesting what Wilson observed on Google Maps, the Bureau of Aircraft Investigations Archives (Office of Aviation Research Archives, in free translation) denied that the image shown by the virtual mapping service is, in fact, part of MH370.
Why did Malaysia MH370 disappear?
The lack of information about how the MH370 disappeared during the flight leave this question still unanswered. Not even information about what happened to the passengers is enough to indicate the whereabouts of the people who were on the aircraft. However, the Malaysia Airlines published in an official document, of 1500 pages, that the plane's route had a manual change when passing through Burma, towards the Andaman Sea.
A military radar also came to give evidence of how the plane disappeared: it may have flown to the Indian Ocean and, soon after, to Antarctica, within a six-hour interval. After this journey, fuel was insufficient and Flight 370 became unfeasible. Still, specialists from Florida (USA) say that the temperature of the wreckage found in the sea, close to organisms from the environment, can help in the discovery of the trajectory.
"I know that the geochemistry of the shells [of marine animals] can provide clues about the location of the accident", it states Gregory Herbert, professor of evolutionary biology at University of South Florida, who helped with the investigation into the flight, with photos of the plane obtained from the remains found on the island of Réunion, which is close to Madagascar. Even after this information was released, several people still create conspiracy theories about the fact. See below a little about each one:
flight cancellation
Some people speculate that a charge could have led to the disappearance. The flight manifest, according to experts, contained an indication of an unknown object, weighing 90 kilos. Its destination would be China: this way, the cargo would be used in the Asian country and, hypothetically, the United States would have stopped the flight to Beijing. Those who believe in this theory say that fighter jets from the North American country shot down the plane. Malaysia Airlines.
alien abduction
Where did the theory involving extraterrestrials come from? If you thought of Twitter, got it right. In 2018, morse code text and voice messages shared across the network, now called X by Elon Musk, showed a possible location in Indonesia. From that, a US vehicle ended up associating this information with an alien abduction. Later, the messages published five years ago were investigated and it was proved that it was just a hoax, created with voice transmission over IP (known as VOIP).
Explosion during flight
During the flight, the plane Boeing 777-200 it was carrying lithium batteries, which weighed 200 kilos in all. Some investigators attest, however, that the weight was 2 tons. The excessive weight may have somehow led to a sequence of explosions, causing depressurization inside — all planes need to maintain oxygen conditions similar to those on the ground, applying a process called pressurization: without this, it is not possible to breathe in the air. plane.
Premeditated crash of MH370
Zaharie Ahmad Shah, in addition to piloting the MH370, is also the target of conspiracy theory involving a planned accident. It is speculated that he would commit suicide and at the same time kill everyone on board. In addition, later investigations pointed out that the changes in the plane's route and deactivation of the controls happened manually. The Malaysian government, however, does not see that this is possible, since according to state information, both the pilot and the co-pilot had no suspicion of inappropriate behavior.
Russian involvement
Still, the war in Ukraine inspires another possible connection with the accident of Flight 370. Russia's participation in this crash is based on the premise that the Russian military diverted the route of the plane that left Malaysia, as a way of trying to divert attention from the occupation in Crimea .
Four months after the disappearance of Malaysia MH370, another Malaysian aircraft, the MH17, ended up shot down by Russia, when passing over Ukraine: at the time, 298 people died, 196 of them Dutch. To seek justice over the people's deaths, the Dutch government formally accused Russia last year through the European Convention on Human Rights.
Netflix documentary tries to explain aviation's biggest mystery
"They are lying to everyone.“, says one of the people outraged by the investigation into the Malaysia MH370, which appears in the Netflix documentary. The feature, which premiered on the streaming in March of this year, it focuses on the various theories created about Flight 370, including statements from family members, investigations and press conferences about the plane's disappearance.
Available in Brazil under the name Flight 370: The plane that disappeared (in English, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared), the documentary shows how the investigation observed the possible trajectory of the plane. After losing contact with the radars already close to the Vietnam region, the plane headed southwest. The scenes focus on the wreckage found on the island of Penang and in the Andaman Sea.
Then, the theories of the Russian attack, the US interference and the pilot's attack are confronted with the various clues that have emerged about the plane. “It's the greatest aviation mystery of all time.“, according to the director of the documentary, Louise Malkinson.
We're in a world where we have cell phones and satellites and tracking, and to keep investigating for these nine years… and to have next to nothing is extraordinary.
Louise Malkinson
Flight 370: The Plane That Disappeared – check out the trailer
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Source: The Guardian | The Mirror | I didn't fly | Express
Text proofread by: Pedro Bomfim (05 / 09 / 23)
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