A British aviation specialist involved in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Simon Hardy, has proposed a chilling theory regarding the plane’s mysterious disappearance on March 8, 2014. Just 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur, the aircraft, carrying 239 people, vanished without a trace over the South China Sea.
Hardy, utilizing advanced flight simulators, suggested in a statement to The Sun that the plane’s disappearance could be the result of a deliberate act by the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, intending to crash the plane into the sea in a murder-suicide mission.
This theory posits that Captain Shah planned to hide the aircraft in the depths of the Geelvinck Fracture Zone, a deep ocean trench in the southern Indian Ocean, possibly leaving it buried under the seabed over time due to seismic activity.
The FBI’s investigation has reportedly led to conclusions that align with Hardy’s hypothesis, though it remains officially unconfirmed. Despite the official search ending in 2017 without conclusive findings, Hardy is convinced of his theory’s accuracy, suggesting that additional fuel and oxygen might have been requested solely for the cockpit, enabling Shah to evade detection and fly undetected for several more hours. This scenario implies that the passengers and crew would have lost consciousness, leaving Shah to execute his final, tragic act.
Hardy likened the potential outcome to the “Miracle on the Hudson” incident, except with a far more somber reality where no one survives, and the aircraft sinks into the ocean’s abyss, leaving little to no wreckage to be found. Despite these assertions, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has remarked that such simulator data only indicates potential planning and does not conclusively determine the events of that fateful night or the aircraft’s final resting place.