I was an expert in MH370 search – I know how ‘suicidal’ pilot perfectly entombed plane & passengers beneath ocean

MISSING MH370 and all its passengers are entombed on the seafloor after its “suicidal” pilot executed a perfect ditching into the ocean, a Brit pilot has claimed.

Simon Hardy spoke exclusively to The Sun on the tenth anniversary of the jet’s disappearance and believes the plane was downed in a never-before-searched spot where it would be lost forever.

A computer reenactment shows what MH370’s final moments could have looked like as it plunged into the Southern Indian Ocean

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Since 2014 only a few pieces of confirmed debris from the jet have ever been found[/caption]

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah the pilot of Malaysia Airlines MH370 is thought to have carried out a suicide mission to ditch the plane

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It’s been ten years since the plane vanished with 239 passengers onboard[/caption]

On March 8, 2014, the Malaysian Airlines flight with 239 passengers bound for Beijing disappeared from flight radar over the South China Sea – and has never been found.

The 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 onboard presumed dead.

It is feared the aircraft’s pilot – Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah – may have deliberately crashed the plane in a chilling mass murder-suicide.

Many theories about where the plane may have ended its journey have emerged since.

But it was Boeing 777 pilot Simon Hardy’s hypothesis that caught the attention of the official MH370 search team.

He calculated the most likely position of the remains of the doomed flight.

The pilot was invited to join the search with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in 2015, where a team of experts were leading the hunt.

He was able to give his expert opinion and test out theories using the world’s best flight simulators until the search was wrapped up in 2017.

His calculations put the resting place for the plane just outside the official search area – and despite consulting on the operation, he never had the chance to prove his theory.

Simon believes that the “suicidal” pilot carried out his meticulous plan to kill everyone onboard, entombing them inside the jet before neatly ditching the aircraft in a deep trench on the seafloor.

He said key clues such as extra fuel and oxygen added to the flight, bizarre satellite handshakes that tracked the doomed flight’s course, and the lack of debris all point to the same conclusion.

Speaking to The Sun, Simon explained how a “technique, not a theory” that led to his “eureka moment” – finding what he believes to be MH370’s final resting place.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, was heading for the Geelvinck Fracture Zone, Simon claimed.

The trench is hundreds of miles long meaning the pilot would have had some manoeuvre room when deciding where to ditch the plane.

The area is also plagued by earthquakes meaning the vanished jet could be buried beneath rocks under the Southern Indian Ocean.

Simon told The Sun: “If you did manage to get it[MH370] in there you might find you get it buried after a few years by rocks, so it might even be at the bottom of the sea covered.

Talking about the pilot, he said: “As a meticulous planner, would that add another level of satisfaction? It makes a nice destination rather than randomly ditching it in the sea miles from anywhere.”

Brit Simon suggests the pilot may have taken some sick pleasure in carrying out his plan – and it may have been enjoyable attempting to make a passenger plane disappear forever.

He also explained that Captain Shah’s homemade flight simulator showed the pilot recreating flights that ended in the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean with the aircraft running out of fuel.

The expert pilot has been flying Boeing 777 passenger flights around the world for more than 20 years and a flight instructor, training in the world’s best simulators.

Simon said he first became interested in the missing plane six months after it vanished when the first ATSB report on MH370 was published.

His “mathematical mind” took over when he noticed some intriguing details about the plane’s potential flight paths.

He told The Sun: “One particular graph showed 100 of a possible 5,000 routes and said no route is any more likely than any other.

“Well I knew that wasn’t right, and I knew I could use my mathematical-type mind to try and work out where it went.

“I spent a few months drawing lines until I found a unique line.”

Simon said he measured a constant speed line – and this gave him his “eureka moment”.

It showed that if the plane had taken this exact route, it would have been flying at 488 knots – the exact cruising speed of a Boeing 777 used by pilots every day to fly commercial planes.

Working backwards, his suggested flight path meets within half a degree of where the plane makes its final turn towards the Southern Indian Ocean.

He said: “That’s when I started thinking, ‘oh god I’ve got something’. They were two monumental things.”

Simon’s groundbreaking technique was published online by aviation journalists and a call from the Canberra ATSB HQ followed.

The pilot believes extra fuel and oxygen added to flight allowed the “suicidal” captain to fly nearly completely under the radar for another seven hours into the middle of nowhere.

It would have left the passengers and crew to fall unconscious and die in the cabin as he neatly ditched the jet so it could never be found.

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 till at least 8.19 am 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 when it plunged into the ocean, Simon explains.

Simon said: “If you want the flaps down, there has to be someone there putting the flaps down.

“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.”

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The plane’s technical log shows that extra oxygen was also added at the last minute but only to the cockpit[/caption]

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MH370’s flight plan shows that an extra 3,000kg was mysteriously added to the flight before it vanished[/caption]

Needing a small amount of fuel for the engines to be running, and a perfect wave, the ditching would need exact precision, Simon said.

Too much leftover fuel would leave an oil slick on the surface and reveal the plane’s final resting place.

And with not enough fuel, the pilot would not be able to carry out a perfect ditching, causing the jet to smash to pieces and leave debris to be discovered.

Simon said: “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.

“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.”

When asked if he thought the plane could be entombed at the bottom of the ocean if it was successfully ditched he added: “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.”

Boeing pilot Simon, who has flown the same journey MH370 should have taken that night, also spoke in depth about bizarre additions to the flight before it “headed to oblivion”.

The MH370’s operational flight plan shows that an extra 3,000kg of fuel was added to the plan, the maximum amount of extra fuel that can be added to a Boeing 777 passenger flight.

The added fuel would have given the pilot an additional 30 minutes of flying time or as Simon explains more time to ditch the plane in the ocean in daylight.

The passenger pilot 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 daylight.”

The plane’s technical log also shows how the crew’s oxygen levels were topped up – despite them not being low.

Simon explained that oxygen levels would have been enough for a short flight to Beijing and didn’t meet the official requirements for a top-up.

But a bizarre scribble is added to the log – showing that the oxygen solely for the cockpit was topped last minute, 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.”

Satellite clues

For the first hour of MH370’s flight, the plane’s satellite system is successfully turned off but still traceable.

However, over the Southern Indian Ocean at a point 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 caused an error message warning that the plane’s equipment would overheat in just 30 minutes.

Therefore the pilot would have been forced to turn everything back on rather than rick ditching too early – creating the First Arc.

It also explains why the satellite system remained on for the next five hours, but the jet sends five off “handshakes” each later labelled as Arc 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 turns the electrical systems off.

He then starts up the plane’s auxiliary power unit(AUP) to drop the plane’s landing gear, Simon explains.

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.

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 says: “It goes down in a massive spiral for half an hour or 45 minutes, it doesn’t get to the bottom[sea floor] 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 meant with the same 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.

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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Brit Boeing pilot Simon Hardy spoke exclusively to The Sun about the MH370’s final resting place[/caption]

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Several searches for the wreckage have been carried out – all being unsuccessful[/caption]

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The loved ones of MH370 victims have been left without answers for a decade[/caption]