Was MH370 Deliberately Crashed? Boeing Expert Raises Questions

A decade following the vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a fresh theory has surfaced. Simon Hardy, a British pilot for Boeing 777, proposes that clues within the flight's pre-departure paperwork imply an intentional action. As per the Independent, he posits that eleventh-hour modifications to the cargo manifest, such as extra fuel and oxygen, might suggest that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had intentions to deliberately crash the aircraft.

Mr Hardy, who collaborated with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau during the 2015 search effort, conveyed to The Sun, "It's a peculiar coincidence that the final engineering task completed before the flight vanished was refilling crew oxygen, designated solely for the cockpit and not for the cabin crew."

The aviation expert expressed concerns about the "unusual" inclusions in the flight plan, questioning whether they complied with proper protocol.

Mr Hardy pointed out that the discovery of the flaperon on Reunion Island suggests there was an active pilot until the very end of the flight.

According to Mr. Hardy, this indicates careful planning by the pilot. He theorizes that the pilot intended to prevent leaving a fuel slick on the ocean's surface, thus making the final resting place difficult to locate.

In line with other theories, Mr Hardy suggests that the pilot deliberately depressurized the cabin to incapacitate the passengers before executing a U-turn and crashing the plane. Utilizing "satellite clues," Hardy claims to have identified the missing aircraft's location—outside the official search area—within the Geelvinck Fracture Zone, an expansive underwater trench in the Southern Indian Ocean.

In response to a revived interest in the MH370 mystery, the Malaysian government announced on March 3rd that they are contemplating resuming the search. A Texas-based company, Ocean Infinity, has put forward a "no find, no fee" deal to locate the aircraft that disappeared in 2014.