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BOMBSHELL MH370 flight docs have revealed that extra fuel and oxygen were added to the doomed jet before it “headed to oblivion”.
Ten years ago today, the Malaysian Airlines flight with 239 passengers bound for Beijing disappeared from flight radar over the South China Sea and has never been found.
MH370’s flight plan shows that an extra 3,000kg was mysteriously added to the flight before it vanishedSUPPLIED 
The plane’s technical log shows that extra oxygen was also added at the last minute but only to the cockpitSUPPLIED 
National Geographic
60 MINUTESThe lost flight remains one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries – with the official narrative suggesting it was ditched somewhere over the Southern Indian Ocean with all on board presumed dead.
Many theories about where the plane may have ended its journey have emerged since but it was Brit Boeing 777 pilot Simon Hardy’s hypothesis that caught the attention of the official MH370 search team.
Simon’s mathematical equation for the plane’s doomed flight path earned him a visit to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) in 2015, where a team of experts where leading the hunt.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Simon explains what he describes as a “technique, not a theory” that led to his “eureka moment” – finding MH370’s final resting place.
He suggests that the plane’s pilot would have been in control for the whole flight – attempting to neatly plunge the plane into the ocean so it could never be found, in a spot known as the Geelvinck Fracture Zone.
The trench is hundreds of miles long meaning the pilot would have had manoeuvre room when deciding when to ditch to plane.
The area is also plagued by earthquakes meaning the vanished jet could be buried beneath rocks under the waves of the Southern Indian Ocean in an area that’s never been searched.
It’s a strange coincidence that the last engineering task that was done before it headed off to oblivion was topping up crew oxygen which is only for the cockpit
Simon HardyBoeing pilot Simon also spoke in depth about bizarre additions to the flight before it “headed to oblivion”.
The plane’s technical log shows that the cockpit’s oxygen levels were topped up – despite them not being low.
Simon explains that oxygen levels would have been sufficient enough for a short flight to Beijing and didn’t meet the official requirements to be topped up.
But a bizarre scribble is added to the log, showing that the oxygen solely for the cockpit was topped up as a last-minute request but not for the cabin crew or the passengers.
Simon said: “It’s an incredible coincidence that just before this aircraft disappears forever, one of the last things that was done as the engineer says nil noted[no oxygen added], then someone else gets on onboard and says it’s a bit low.
“Well it’s not really low at all… it’s a strange coincidence that the last engineering task that was done before it headed off to oblivion was topping up crew oxygen which is only for the cockpit, not for the cabin crew.”
Simon suggests that the cabin crew and passengers in the rear of the plane would have fallen unconscious and eventually died when the cabin was depressurised.
This would have left the pilot to carry out his “suicidal” plan without interruptions and ditch – and with no one making it out alive.
Another document of note is MH370’s operational flight plan.
It which shows that an extra 3,000kg of fuel was added to the plane – the maximum amount of extra fuel that can be added to a Boeing 777 flight.
The fuel would have given the pilot 30 minutes more flying time or more importantly, Simon explains, more time to ditch the plane in the ocean in daylight.
He told The Sun: “If you want to do a good ditching you do it in daylight or at least half daylight.
“In the case of MH370, if the pilot has another half an hour of fuel it will be daylight.
“Another half an hour of flying would be another 244 nautical miles and the most important thing is that it will be dawn.”
Final journey
The official narrative suggests the plane made a bizarre U-turn, flying across Malaysia, turning northwest at Penang Island, and across the Andaman Sea after being tracked by military radar.
Before data from the Inmarsat satellite communications network revealed that the plane flew until at least 8.19am flying south into the Southern Indian Ocean.
On March 24, the Malaysian Government concluded that “Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean” – but several searches have been unsuccessful in recovering the wreckage.
Only a few pieces of debris were ever found one being the plane’s flaperon after it washed up on Reunion Island.
After it was studied by experts in France, it was determined that the flaperon was in a downward position.
This means the plane’s flaps would have been down when it plunged into the ocean, Simon explains.
He said: “If you want the flaps down, there has to be someone there putting the flaps down.
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AFP“If you want to put flaps down you also have to have liquid fuel on the aircraft.
“So if the flaps were down, there is a liquid fuel, then someone is moving a lever and it’s someone who knows what they are doing. It all points to the same scenario.”
Needing a small amount of fuel for the engines to be running and a perfect wave, the whole ditching would need exact precision, Simon explains.
Too much leftover fuel would leave an oil slick on the surface and reveal the plane’s final resting place, he said.
And if there was not enough fuel, the pilot would not be able to carry out a perfect ditching with no debris – burying the plane under the waves forever.
Simon added: “You don’t want to bring a lot of fuel and then not use it, because it’s gonna be creating an oil slick even many years later.
If you’re of a motive to make it disappear then only one solution is to ditch it as neatly as possible
Simon Hardy“Even if you have tones and tones of fuel and it’s at the bottom of the Geelvinck Fracture Zone it still will be leaving a plume of oily rainbow residue on the surface for years.
“He wants to preserve the aircraft but he doesn’t want to save the passengers.
“It’s all part of it being planned meticulously for, ‘how can I make it disappear, I don’t want tonnes of fuel but I do wanna go as far as possible.
“If you’re of a motive to make it disappear then only one solution is to ditch it as neatly as possible, so it sinks to the bottom with all the people inside, with all the flotation devices indie, with no baggage.
“That’s what you want, if you want to make it disappear, you don’t crash it you ditch it.”
Simon even suggests the pilot may have taken some sick pleasure in carrying out his plan – and for him, it may have even been enjoyable attempting to make a passenger plane disappear forever.
When asked if he thought the plane could be entombed at the bottom of the ocean if it was successfully ditched, he said: “Yes, I think that’s exactly how it is.
“Imagine Miracle on the Hudson but everyone is already dead.
“Nobody gets out and it sinks to the bottom of the Southern Indian Ocean. Nobody opens a door.
“Where does all the wreckage go? Well, there isn’t any, that’s why we’ve been deprived of wreckage.”
Satellite clues
For the first hour of the flight, the plane’s satellite system is successfully turned off but still traceable.
However, at a point over the Southern Indian Ocean – which was later labelled by British satellite comms company Immasat as the first arc – the Boeing 777 satellite system comes back on.
The system is then on for around five hours sending a series of “handshakes” or signs to the Immasat satellite to give away its location.
The final time MH370’s satellite system comes to life is in a spot later dubbed the 7th Arc, the very last arc and last trace of the doomed flight.
The bizarre signals picked up by Immasat are key clues for what happened in the plane’s last moments.
Boeing pilot Simon has been able to unravel the meaning behind the handshakes and why at the 7th arc the plane’s satellite system is turned off, back on, and finally off again.
He explains that to turn off the satellite unit completely the pilot would have to disable the jet’s electrical systems that power it.
In doing so this would have sparked an error message that the plane’s equipment would overheat in just 30 minutes.
Why MH370 is still missing a decade on?
By Rebecca Husselbee, Assistant Foreign Editor at The Sun
When an entire plane with 239 passengers mysteriously disappeared from the sky it left the world in utter disbelief – myself included.
How could an entire jet vanish into oblivion in a modern world when every move on land, sea and air is tracked? and how it could remain lost for a decade.
Having spent the last few years exploring the many theories on what MH370’s final moments might look like, from the bizarre to the complex, there is one hypothesis that answers every question for me.
Pilot Simon Hardy has left no stone unturned in his search for answers and having been at the helm of passenger flights for over 20 years he knows every inch of a Boeing 777 cockpit.
What makes his “technique, not a theory” even more compelling is his ability to access the world’s best flight simulators and sit in Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s seat as he commandeered the Malaysia Airlines plane and flew into the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean.
While others believe WSPR technology holds the key to finally discovering the wreckage, it’s never been proven and many in the MH370 community have questioned its reliability.
Many experts agree that the “suicidal” MH370 pilot was behind the plane’s demise – what we’ll never know is what his mindset was on that night and what motive he had to carry out such a chilling plan.
Passenger safety in the aviation industry is rigorous and the likelihood of travellers being involved in a plane crash is 1 in 11 million.
But are airlines considering a pilot’s mental state when they sit at the controls of a jet that could be turned into a 300-ton death machine?
Therefore the pilot would have been forced to turn everything back on rather than risk ditching too early – creating the first arc message.
It also explains why the satellite system remained on for the next five hours, but the jet sent another five “handshakes” each later labelled as arcs two to six.
When the pilot finally makes his descent, he knows that the plane will be in the water before it overheats so he decides to turn the electrical systems off, claims Simon.
He then starts up the plane’s auxiliary power unit(AUP) to drop the plane’s landing gear.
The landing gear is designed to take impact, so as the plane rapidly descends for around 45 minutes to the sea floor it helps cushion the final blow meaning less debris.
Having unintentionally turned the satellite system back on with the AUP, the pilot turns it off for the final time as the plane plummets to its final resting place – with all the passengers dead and entombed inside.
Simon said: “It goes down in a massive spiral for half an hour or 45 minutes, it doesn’t get to the bottom very quickly.
“When it eventually gets there, the landing gear protects it [MH370] from rupturing and the stuff we don’t have which is bodies and baggage all stays inside.”
Simon also works as a flying instructor and has access to the best Boeing 777 flight simulators in the world.
He tested his theory in the cockpit and said he was met with the same overheating error message when he reancted the plane’s doomed flight path.
Several searches and a series of blunders for the missing jet have found nothing but loved ones and experts pushing for a new investigation have been given a glimmer of hope.
Nearly a decade on, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has now said his country would be willing to reopen the investigation into the disappearance of the flight if there was compelling new evidence.
However, it remains unclear where a new search could be focused.
The Sun previously spoke with former Naval Officer Peter Waring who was part of the search team that scanned 57 miles-wide by 400 miles long area of the sea floor.
He exclusively told The Sun: “It was blatantly clear to me and others that we were looking in the wrong place.
“We had a lot of confidence in the technology. I just don’t believe that we missed it.”
Read The Missing Plane: A Chilling Novel Based on the Real-Life Loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 written by Captain Verne Pugiev in conjunction with pilot Simon Hardy.
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