Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Boeing 777-200 airliner with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, making a joint flight with China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing, China, (March 7, 10:40 pm Moscow time), without giving any signals of abnormalities on board, other problems or a change in course. The last message from the board was: "Everything is in order, good night."
At the moment of the last contact - literally a minute before entering the air control zone of Vietnam - an airliner 220 kilometers from east coast Malaysia. The weather in the area of extinction was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, a 53-year-old citizen of Malaysia, Zahari Ahmad Shah, worked at MAS since 1981, his flight time reached almost 18.5 thousand hours; the 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid flew 2,763 hours). The airliner went through a full inspection just ten days before this flight.
On board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four Frenchmen, three US citizens, two New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one from Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, then the real nationality of at least two of those on board was questioned in connection with the information that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians flew with the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to the international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were sent to Europe as illegal migrants.
Among the 227 passengers on the liner, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorolla, headquartered in Texas (USA), which manufactures semiconductor equipment, including components for defense technology and airborne navigation systems.
The missing Boeing carried not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named in shipping documents... The plane carried 4,566 tons of mangosteen (fruits tropical tree), as well as a batch of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo, which weighed 2.4 tons. The shipment consisted of "radio accessories and chargers," a Malaysian Airlines spokesman said.
The transportation of the unknown cargo was carried out by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, however, another company, JHJ International Transportation Co. Ltd., was supposed to pick up the delivered cargo on its behalf.
In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China, involved in the search operation, doubled the search, with the result that it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom was surveyed Indian Ocean(more than 50 thousand square kilometers). However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from the governments of a number of countries, by then there were no signs of the aircraft.
The first in 16 months to investigate the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 was a wing fragment (a flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean - thousands of kilometers from the main search area. works carried out in Australia. The wreck of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.
After the fragment of the plane was found, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak, as well as the French prosecutor's office, that it belongs to the missing liner.
By the end of 2015, there were search zones. Other debris has been found in the Indian Ocean.
Summer 2016. In July, the media, citing documents from the Malaysian police, reported that the pilot of the Malaysian MH370 liner Zahari Ahmad Shah flew on a simulator in southern part Indian Ocean less than a month before the disappearance of the plane, presumably in the same area. According to the documents, the Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives, on which the pilot recorded the routes worked out on a homemade flight simulator. Investigators believe that the path followed by the MH370 commander is largely the same as that which the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liou Tiong Lai later said that there is no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner deliberately sent it into the ocean.
In August, the Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrollable crash. According to the automatic signals given by the liner in the last minutes of the flight, the plane was falling "very quickly - at a speed of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts came to the conclusion that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - "first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one."
January 17, 2017 representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China of the disappeared Malaysian Boeing MH370, which lasted over two years. According to a joint statement by the three states, despite all efforts made, the use of the latest technologies, modeling methods and consultations of highly qualified and best-of-breed specialists, during the search the plane could not be found.
Searching for the missing MH370 Malaysia for individuals and organizations.
As of the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 wreckage have been confirmed. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with African states, whose shores are washed by the waters of the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side pledged to help in the recovery of any possible debris that might be dumped on its shores.
A team to investigate the disappearance of the plane, which will be published within a year.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti
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.
Jan has no doubts: the object is the plane - most likely the same - 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 had not crashed with great height, but tried to sit 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.
BY THE WAY
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.
And one more
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 area Good Hope(Cape of Good Hope) 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.
Mysterious disappearance Boeing-777-200 aircraft in the Indian Ocean is still haunted by experts and conspiracy theorists. The case of the missing Malaysian liner is overgrown with more and more incredible versions.
Experts scrupulously study everything that can somehow push you towards a solution. Whole files have been collected on crew members and passengers. Despite this, more and more inconsistencies appear in the case. Some experts are of the opinion that they are trying to put the investigation on the wrong track. Someone by all means is preventing the Boeing from being found.
The identity of the captain, 53-year-old Zahari Ahmad Shah, remains mysterious. The version of his suicide is unofficially almost the main one. However, does a person who wants to die needs to drag more than two hundred passengers with him?
“... suicide is still either an impulsive or a well-thought-out but quick act. I conclude that suicide is not in his type of character, especially suicide with so many innocent victims - ordinary passengers, "says Pavel Tyapkin, a former physicist, specialist in radar installations and air defense systems. Together with Sergei Melnichenko, General Director of the International Consultative and Analytical Agency "Flight Safety", he wrote a book Flight MH370: flight to nowhere. What the investigation is silent about. "In the process, both had to study a lot of data.
Pavel spoke about a strange detail that surfaced during the investigation.
"When the liner flew back through Malaysia with the communication systems turned off, for some reason he made a semicircle around the city of Penang. And this is the hometown of Zahari Ahmad Shah. It seems that he was saying goodbye to his home," he said.
And this is where the fun begins. According to unofficial data, at the same time someone tried to call from the plane. As it turned out, one of the mobile phones contacted a cellular station in Penang. It would seem impossible. However, experts note that if the liner flies slowly and low, there are chances to get through. In the course of experiments, which were carried out by the Malaysian police, using a small plane, it turned out that the cell could catch the network at an altitude of three to five kilometers. The call from the Boeing was lost, but there was a connection. This made it possible to determine the number. It belonged to the co-pilot, Pavel Tyapkin said on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.
What Zahari's partner Ahmad Shah wanted to say will always remain a mystery. Nevertheless, experts hope, sooner or later, to find out the truth about the missing Malaysian Boeing... The wreckage will probably help with this: there is a chance to find them on deserted islands and shoals in the center of the Indian Ocean.
Flying on the night of March 8, 2014 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 suddenly disappeared from the radar without giving any signals of a malfunction. The forces of more than 25 countries were thrown into the search for the board and the 239 people on it. The work was carried out for almost three years, stopped and resumed again, but did not lead to anything. On the contrary, over time, the number of questions increases, and the number of answers decreases.
Hijack a plane and fly to the Maldives
During the entire search, the rescuers managed to find only a few insignificant wreckage, the belonging of which to flight MH-370 the experts were able to establish officially. In July 2015, 700 kilometers from Madagascar, on the coast of Reunion Island, a part marked "657ВВ" was discovered. Later, in August, investigators found out that the wreck they found was part of the wing of a Malaysian Boeing. Almost a year later, not far from the Mozambican coast, a horizontal flight stabilizer was found, the belonging of which to the 777 was also established by specialists.
But neither bodies, let alone black boxes, could be found - all this, probably, sank into the depths of the sea. The lack of remains that could shed light on the tragedy led to the fact that the most fantastic versions of what happened began to be put forward. So, the Malaysian authorities seriously considered the version that the plane could be hijacked - at first glance, a very logical explanation for the missing wreckage. Possible "destinations" were even named: Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Maldives. But the authorities of these countries promptly denied such assumptions, noting that the traces of the liner were not detected by their radars. Although this rather confirmed the assumptions: experts assure that the kidnappers could intentionally fly at low altitude so that they would not be spotted.
Of course, a terrorist attack was not ruled out either. According to some experts, only when destroyed in the air, the debris could disappear without a trace. The news added fuel to the fire that two of the passengers who were supposed to be on board reported the theft of their passports. With the help of their documents, the terrorists could just get on the plane. However, there is another explanation for this: Kuala Lumpur is a large center for the transfer of migrants to Europe who travel with stolen passports. So, perhaps, the loss of passports has nothing to do with the loss of the plane.
Say goodbye to home and crash
Be that as it may, after some time - once off the coast of South Africa, then in Tanzania, then in Thailand, they began to find debris - versions of theft and terrorist attack faded into the background. Gradually, more and more questions began to appear about the role of the Boeing pilot - Zachariah Ahmad Shah in the tragedy.
The 53-year-old captain of the aircraft has worked for Malaysian Airlines since 1981 and during this time has flown almost 18.5 thousand hours. The weather in the Lost Zone was good, so the version of a pilot error was discarded almost immediately.
After a detailed analysis of the negotiations, the suggestion that Ahmad Shah was "out of his mind" was also rejected. The last contact of the pilot with ground services did not raise questions: to the dispatcher's message that he was transferring control to his Vietnamese colleagues, the pilot replied in a calm voice: “Okay, good night.”
True, 12 minutes before this, the Boeing changed course, and all communication and detection systems on the plane were turned off. Apparently, at the same time, the side dropped to an extremely low height in order to become "invisible" to radars. Further, presumably, he followed south, skillfully maneuvering between airspaces different countries, and flew to the center of the Indian Ocean west of the Australian city of Perth - the most distant area from possible landing sites.
The fact that all this is the work of Ahmad Shah is indirectly indicated by several facts. First, during a search of his apartment, the FBI found a flight simulator loaded with information on five runways in the Indian Ocean. Second, the Boeing made an unnecessary detour near the Malaysian state of Penang, where the pilot was from.
Based on these facts, aircraft designer Simon Hardy later suggested that the loss of the plane was nothing more than the suicide of Ahmad Shah. How he managed to "neutralize" the other crew members and passengers, apparently, will remain a mystery. Former head of the Transport Security Bureau of Canada, Larry Vance, suggested that the pilot, having previously put on an oxygen mask, could depressurize the cabin so that people on the plane would lose consciousness.
70 Million Puzzle
It will probably not be possible to find out whether the plane was directed straight into the water or continued flying until it ran out of fuel. At the same time, the researchers found that the Boeing was not preparing to land on the water - its flaps were simply not released. For certain, no one can even say exactly where the plane fell. Only the "priority zone" of the fall stretches 93 kilometers in length, and its area exceeds 60 thousand square kilometers.
It turns out that “the Malaysian Boeing case consists almost entirely of dark spots. What really happened and what should be considered the priority version of the loss of the aircraft? Could the ship's commander be so disappointed in life that he decided to commit suicide in such a sophisticated way, at the same time interrupting the fate of 238 more people? Did they understand what was happening to them? Did the liner crash, and if so, where? And if not, is there anyone left alive? Finally, are there Boeing's black boxes?
Until there is an answer to at least one of these questions, it is unlikely that the mystery of this story will be solved. However, hopes remain: only one is currently engaged in prospecting. private company... The Malaysian government promised her $ 70 million if the ship or its black boxes were found. So here's another question - is this a sufficient incentive to see it through to the end?
Two years ago, on March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 passenger airliner belonging to Malaysia Airlines, traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, strangely disappeared. Along with the plane, 239 people (12 crew members and 227 passengers) disappeared. Periodically, rescuers say that they find the wreckage of the missing plane. But are they? And what is known about the Malaysian vessel today?
Not looking there?
The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft stopped communicating in the sky above South China Sea 40 minutes after departure. Moreover, the liner passed a full check just ten days before this flight. Initially, the operation to find the crash site took place over this sea, but later moved to the Strait of Malacca, and then to the Indian Ocean, closer to west bank Australia. The rescuers explained such an extensive search line by the fact that, apparently, the Boeing 777, after disappearing from the radars, was in the sky for more than 7 hours, having greatly changed the route.
The first search operation took place in March - April 2014. Then 26 countries took part in it (Malaysia, USA, Singapore, Vietnam, China, etc.). And the search for the plane was carried out on an area of 7.7 million km², which is comparable to the size of Australia. 15 days after the start of the search, the Malaysian authorities said that the missing plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. They came to this conclusion, based on the calculation of the trajectory following the signals transmitted through the Inmarsat satellites once an hour about the operation of Rolls-Royce engines. There were no other facts to support this statement.
In mid-April 2014, the search was moved under water using the unmanned autonomous submarine Bluefin-21. 340 square miles of the seabed were surveyed, but no trace of the missing airliner was found there either.
Only almost a year after the disappearance of the plane, in January 2015, the Malaysian authorities officially recognized everyone on board as dead. The cause of death for each was listed as an "accident."
Report unanswered
Years after the incident, on March 8, 2015, the international investigation team gave a preliminary report on the results of the technical investigation. But the report did not contain a single information about what happened to the liner. The only thing that could then be analyzed was the work of control dispatchers air traffic... As it turned out, the senior dispatcher in Kuala Lumpur slept for 4 hours after the Boeing disappeared from radar. The dispatchers of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) began to find out the reason why the plane did not enter their airspace not after 2 minutes, as expected, but only after 20.
And Malaysia Airlines itself did not excel at the speed that should be in such cases. Emergency was announced only 5 hours and 13 minutes after the last news of the liner. And the search operation was started with a significant delay, although in such situations every minute is important. After all, the rescuers themselves and the Malaysian authorities have repeatedly said that in a matter of seconds the current can pick up the wreckage and carry it away in an unknown direction.
Fake wreckage
A few days after the disappearance of the plane, there were rumors that its fragments were allegedly found in the South China Sea. However, management civil aviation Malaysia immediately denied them. What was mistaken for part of the airliner was simply the algae-covered cable spool sheath.
A little later, information appeared that the Australian Maritime Safety Authority discovered two objects that may belong to Boeing. Immediately, China announced that it had noticed large debris - about 22 by 30 meters. Following them, the crew of the plane of the Royal New Zealand Air Force allegedly discovered wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the missing Boeing 777. But none of this was confirmed.
The first real wreckage of the Boeing 777 was discovered after a year and a half of searches, in July 2015. Moreover, this was done not by rescuers, but by cleaners on Reunion Island, located in the Indian Ocean. And this is more than 4,000 kilometers west of the deep-sea searches, on which, by the way, more than $ 50 million was spent. The fragment turned out to be a part of an aircraft wing, about 2.5 meters long and covered with shells on the surface.
Later, after the Malaysians explored the island, in August 2015, a number of aircraft items were discovered. At the same time, the assumptions were confirmed: the found fragment definitely belonged to Boeing.
The next news about the plane was from local residents Philippines in October 2015. Allegedly, while hunting for birds, teenagers stumbled upon the wreckage of an aircraft with Malaysian flags and human bodies nearby. The Philippine authorities took it upon themselves to inspect the territory and immediately denied this information.
Six months later, the world again started talking about the Malaysian airliner. In January this year, wreckage was found in southern Thailand that could have belonged to the missing Boeing. Residents of Nakhon Si Thammarat province have discovered a large curved metal object on the ocean. But neither the authorities nor experts have confirmed that this piece is really related to the liner. It turned out that the serial number of the part, the numbers of the bundle of wires and bolts do not match the numbers of the Boeing 777.
End of search
And a week ago, on March 2, 2016, new information appeared about the missing Boeing 777. A metal fragment about a meter long was found off the coast of Mozambique. Presumably this is a horizontal stabilizer - a wing-shaped part attached to the tail of an aircraft. So far, only the territory indicates that this wreck belongs to Boeing: in the same part of the Indian Ocean in July last year, a wedge wedge was found. The find will be studied by representatives of Australia and Malaysia, as well as "international experts".
It turns out that, in fact, only three relatively small fragments of all the finds could really belong to the disappeared plane. Moreover, no bodies of the victims, no suitcases with things, no black box were found for two years of searches. And this despite the fact that more than 80 thousand square kilometers have been combed with a total search area of 120 thousand kilometers.
According to the International Coordination Search Center, in June 2016, underwater search work will be collapsed. But if in two years there is no clarity about what happened to the unfortunate Boeing 777-200, then it is unlikely that it will appear in another four months of the time allotted for the search.
