It’s been over 5 years since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace, but there’s enough evidence to draw firm conclusions about what happened, how, and why.
According to a new article in The Atlantic, MH-370’s pilot turned off the transponder, killed the passengers and cabin crew by depressurizing the plane at high altitude, then flew toward Antarctica until it ran out of fuel. Then he put it in a steep dive toward the water.
The plane hasn’t been found, and won’t be, because it disintegrated into confetti on impact.
Dozens of pieces later washed up on eastern Indian Ocean beaches, many of them found or collected from locals by a Seattle-based lawyer-turned-adventurer named Blaine Gibson. These bits of wreckage definitively establish that MH-370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean and was pulverized when it hit the water.
Almost certainly, the pilot did it, intentionally. Despite the corrupt Malaysian government’s efforts to cover up his culpability, we know he was a troubled man whose family life was coming apart. He probably was depressed. We also know he mapped MH-370’s death flight on his home flight simulator, because the FBI found that telltale data.
He isn’t the only suicidal airline pilot to depart this mortal coil by taking his passengers and flight crew with him. Others have done it, too, before and since. Which, of course, is mass murder. The big question, is why? If they’re tired of living, why not just jump off a cliff into the sea? Why take innocents with you? Well, it’s a stressful job, and perhaps it gets to some people. Maybe, if they fly planes long enough, a toxic personality combined with psychosis turns into a hatred of every planeload passengers. Who really knows for sure?
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