Crash expert claims flight MH370 was "deliberately" flown into water
A world-renowned air crash expert has claimed that doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been "deliberately" crashed into the ocean by a pilot in a suspected murder-suicide plot.
In a televised interview with Australian investigative journalism show, 60 Minutes, air crash investigator Larry Vance claimed: "Somebody was flying the airplane at the end of its flight."
Vance was referring to photographs taken of the plane's
flaperon (located on an aircraft's wing) which were found on a Mauritius beach –
some 4000 kilometres from the search area. The expert suggested this was "definite
evidence" that the flaperon was extended at the time of the crash, meaning
the pilot brought the plane down. "The flaperon can only be extended by a pilot in full control of his plane," he explained.
According to Vance: "Somebody was flying the airplane into the water. There is no other alternate theory that you can follow. "He added that the failure to find floating debris could be explained by a slow, controlled landing in the ocean.
The Boeing 777 disappeared shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur in March 2014, en route to Beijing, China. The 239 passengers and crew on-board have not been found. Search efforts continue.