A former French airline CEO Marc Dugain claims that the US might have shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 after which lined it up, including to a rash of conflicting theories concerning the lacking airplane.
In a six-page article printed by French weekly Paris Match, Dugain claims that the Boeing 777 might have gotten into hassle and because it was approaching the US navy base on the British territory of Diego Garcia within the Indian Ocean, it was shot down. US forces might have feared the airplane was trying a 9/11 fashion assault on the bottom, Dugain stated.
“It’s an extremely powerful military base. It’s surprising that the Americans have lost all trace of this aircraft. Without getting into conspiracy theories, it is a possibility that the Americans stopped this plane,” Dugain stated, English-language web site The Local reported Friday.
Dugain stated there have been witness within the Maldives, the closest islands to Diego Garcia about 500 kilometers to the north, who declare to have seen a “huge plane flying at a really low altitude” with Malaysian Airlines colours flying towards Diego Garcia.
In August, the UK Daily Mirror reported that the MH370 was heading for the tiny Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia, however the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur denied this. A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Malaysia advised the native Star newspaper at the moment that there was “no indication that MH370 flew anywhere near the Maldives or Diego Garcia.”
He added: “MH370 did not land in Diego Garcia.”
Dugain writes that the plane, which disappeared on March eight with 239 individuals on board, whereas on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, might have been hijacked remotely after which steered towards Diego Garcia.
Another rationalization, he says, is that an onboard hearth pressured the crew to show off all digital devises with out damaging the airplane’s exterior, permitting it to proceed on autopilot with all people on board asphyxiated.
The testimonies of witnesses within the Maldives have been suppressed, Dugain claims, including he was approached by a British intelligence officer, who warned him he can be taking “risks” by looking for out what actually occurred to the MH370. As the British personal the island, it might determine they’d cowl up any incident, Dugain stated.
The US has constantly denied it has had any data of the destiny of the airliner, however Dugain doubts the US, which is “equipped with the best technology in the world” might have fully misplaced observe of “a 63-meter-long object.”
Sir Tim Clark, CEO of Emirates Airlines, the world’s largest, stated in October that he thought info on what occurred to the doomed airliner was being withheld by some individuals and that even with all its digital communications techniques turned off the airplane would nonetheless be traceable by highly effective navy radar.
There have been a number of theories about what might have occurred to the lacking airliner, some them seemingly extra the stuff of thrillers than air crash investigators.
British journalist and creator Nigel Cawthorne stated that it might have been shot down by navy exercisesbeing carried out by Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, the US and personnel from China within the South China Sea.
Even extra far-fetched is that MH370 might have been flown north within the shadow of one other airplane and would have prevented detection on radar earlier than branching off and touchdown at an airfield in north east China, Kyrgyzstan or Turkmenistan.
A 3rd claims there might have been a botched hijack try. Analysis of radar knowledge reveals the airplane started to fly erratically and climbed to 45,000 ft earlier than dropping to a really low altitude.
The pilots might have flown like this to disorientate the hijackers or the hijackers themselves might have flown the airplane as much as this altitude to kill the passengers by ravenous them of oxygen by depressurizing the cabin, whereas they’d entry to a different oxygen provide. Under this principle the makes an attempt fails and the hijackers by accident kill themselves.
In October, the investigation was centered solely round an underwater search. As of December 17, 11,000 sq. km of the seafloor had been searched. The search of the southwest Indian Ocean is being carried out by three vessels and is anticipated to be accomplished by May 2015.