The fate of the missing Boeing in March. What happened to the Malaysian Boeing that went missing in March. Boeing search. The mysterious disappearance of a giant liner over the South China Sea

The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in March 2014 shook the world. Versions of what happened, put forward a variety of. But until now, nothing really is known about the fate of the aircraft.

Did the flight go “normally”?

On March 8, 2014, Boeing operated joint flight MH370 with China Southern Airlines from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. There were 227 passengers from different countries and 12 crew members on board. The crew commander was an experienced 53-year-old pilot Zahari Ahmad Shah, the co-pilot was 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid. The liner took off from Kuala Lumpur at 0.41 local time and, according to the schedule, was supposed to land at the Beijing airport at 6.30.

At 02.40 Malaysian time, the plane disappeared from the radar screens. At the same time, the dispatchers did not receive any information about technical problems, course changes or other problems. The last message received from the crew read: "All right, good night." At that moment, the liner was over the South China Sea, 220 kilometers from the east coast of Malaysia.

26 countries, including Russia, took part in the search and rescue operation. But no trace of the missing airliner was found. At the end of January 2015, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department officially declared everyone on board the plane dead.

On July 29, 2015, on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, near the city of San André, beach cleaners found a fragment of a wing of an unidentified aircraft covered with shells. Specialists confirmed that this fragment most likely belongs to the missing liner. Other fragments were later discovered, but it was not possible to prove their indisputable belonging to the disappeared Boeing.

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Meanwhile, an investigation carried out by Malaysia jointly with seven other states - the United States, Great Britain, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became unavailable for radar, it spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After about 40 minutes, communications with ground services were disabled, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to be received from the onboard terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, the Boeing reversed course, crossed Malaysia for the second time in a southwestern direction and headed south. Presumably the flight ended in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The "black box" signals were never registered.

The plane was hijacked by the Americans?

During a search of the home of Captain Ahmad Shah, a makeshift Boeing flight simulator was found. It turned out that for some reason Shah was training to land the liner at five airfields in the Indian Ocean. He also erased all entries from his electronic diary.

Therefore, the main version of the investigation was the hijacking of the liner by unknown persons who were allegedly in collusion with the pilots. Another argument in favor of the crew's involvement in the disappearance of the plane was the fact that a few minutes before departure, Ahmad Shah was talking on a mobile phone with a woman who purchased a SIM card using fake documents.

It was the hijackers who could turn off the appliances. But where did the plane go? One of the points where Ahmad Shah "planted" him with the help of a simulator is the US military base "Diego Garcia", located on an atoll island with an area of ​​\u200b\u200babout 27 square kilometers, which is part of the Chagos archipelago.

Why did the US military need to hijack the Boeing? Ilya Belous, president of the Institute for Scientific Research of the Third Millennium, points out that among the passengers were 20 employees of the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which manufactures chips, semiconductors and other electronic equipment, including military technology. Moreover, these employees were not Americans. 12 of them were Malaysians, 8 were Chinese. And they had a number of patents in the military field. Perhaps they wanted to force them to work for the American government under supervision. And the plane with the rest of the passengers was simply liquidated.

But if all this is true, then it is very unlikely that we will ever know about the true fate of the fatal Boeing. After all, the secret services know how to hide the ends in the water.

The Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, making a joint flight with Chinese China Southern Airlines MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), (March 7, 22.40 Moscow time), did not giving no indication of a malfunction on board, other problems, or a change of course. The last message from the board was: "All right, good night."

At the time of the last contact - literally a minute before entering the air control zone of Vietnam - the airliner was 220 kilometers from the east coast of Malaysia. The weather in the area of ​​the disappearance was good. The aircraft was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zahari Ahmad Shah, has worked at MAS since 1981, his flight time has reached almost 18.5 thousand hours; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid has flown 2,763 hours). The airliner passed a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

On board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four Frenchmen, three US citizens, two New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one resident of Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, then the real nationality of at least two of those on board was called into question in connection with the data that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians were flying on the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to an international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were sent to Europe as illegal migrants.

Among the 227 passengers on the liner, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, the former "daughter" of Motorolla, headquartered in Texas (USA), producing semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing carried not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named in the shipping documents. The plane carried 4,566 tons of mangosteens (fruits of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. The shipment consisted of "radio accessories and chargers," a Malaysian Airlines spokesman said.

The transportation of an unknown cargo was carried out by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, however, another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, was supposed to pick up the delivered cargo on its behalf.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China involved in the search operation, search twice, resulting in it was expanded to 120,000 square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (more than 50 thousand square kilometers) had been surveyed. However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from the governments of a number of countries, by that time no trace of the aircraft.

The first in 16 months, as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, was a fragment of a wing (a flaperon designed to control the roll angle) found on July 29, 2015 on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean - thousands of kilometers from the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe main search work in progress in Australia. A fragment of an unidentified aircraft was found by beach cleaners near the city of San André. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After the fragment of the aircraft was found, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, as well as the French prosecutor's office, that it belongs to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015, there were search zones. Other debris has been found in the Indian Ocean.

Summer 2016. In July, the media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of the Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, flew in a simulator to the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane disappeared, allegedly in the same area. According to the documents, the Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded the routes worked out on a homemade home-made flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by the commander of MH370 is largely the same as that which the plane may have followed prior to its disappearance. Malaysian Transport Minister Liou Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner deliberately steered it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media cited an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense that a Boeing 777-200 crashed into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which could indicate an uncontrollable crash. According to the automatic signals that the liner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." The experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - "first the left, and after 15 minutes the right."

January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China missing the Malaysian Boeing MH370, which lasted more than two years. According to the joint statement of the three states, despite all the efforts made, the use of the latest technologies, modeling methods and consultations of highly qualified and best specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Conducting searches for the missing MH370 Malaysia to individuals and organizations.

At the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 were confirmed to have been found. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with the states of Africa, whose shores are washed by the waters of the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side undertook to help in the extraction of any likely debris that could be thrown onto its shores.

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The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti

“An Asian passenger on the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village called Shahraz (to be confirmed). In about a week, data on this will be transferred to China (it is not known whether this will become world publicity). As it turned out, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian airliner Boeing-777-200-ER was the suppression by the American side of an attempt by a group of special specialists to get from Malaysia to China. An anonymous source in the special services told the MK correspondent about this with special confidence. This information is published in the world media for the first time.

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The day before, a source from the special services told MK on condition of anonymity that, according to available data, the hijacked passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying on flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.

In the first ten days of April, MK, citing special services, reported that the nickname of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane with a total of 239 people on board was Hitch. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 were not guilty of the hijacking, a fairly authoritative source from the special services assured the MK correspondent on condition of anonymity.

The Boeing 777-200ER, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines made a joint

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The missing Boeing-777 flew for several more hours after the "loss" of communication between the crew and the controllers.

Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under the age of 5 and 12 crew members (including two pilots). Most of the passengers - 153 - had Chinese citizenship (one is a permanent resident of Hong Kong). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a vacation in Bali, where he went diving. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: the Iranians Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyyed-Mohammadreza bought tickets using their passports and got on the flight .

Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, the Kuala Lumpur Control controller handed over flight MH370 to controllers in Ho Chi Minh City, which was confirmed by the flight crew. Flight MH370 was last seen on radar at 01:21:13, but the pilots did not contact controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. After that, communication with the aircraft was completely lost. At 01:38 a.m., Vietnamese air traffic controllers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur where flight MH370 had gone?

After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers contacted the Malaysia Airlines flight control center at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, the controllers of the ATC center of Cambodia noted that the crew did not contact them. Vietnamese air traffic controllers, in turn, stressed that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, controllers and representatives of the airline tried in vain to establish at least some kind of contact with the aircraft and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to start an official search and rescue operation.

Seven messages are known to have been received from Flight MH370 via the Aviation Communications Address Reporting System (ACARS) after losing contact with the aircraft, including the last one at 08:19.

So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the intrigues of the missing aircraft, which will now be more focused on studying the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring results).

At the end of April, they were tired of the uncertainty and unconvincing methods of searching for the missing airliner with a letter about checking the version of the location of the missing aircraft, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets (site site) with reference to anonymous sources in the special services. The extra-exclusive information of "MK" was urgently made public in both languages ​​and instantly replicated by the world media (an example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages ​​of the world).

An expert in the field of accident investigation from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), an experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov, explained to the MK correspondent that “such an aircraft could well land on an ordinary dirt road on a more or less dense surface about 2000 meters long . Although, of course, for this there must be free approaches to the landing strip - that is, there should not be trees and mountains. With a hard landing on a “bad” surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even the wing could break ”(the estimated weight of the stolen Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar landing of an airliner that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which.

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This information was not published in the world media : " A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by "unknown terrorists" and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to a Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: "Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch ." The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan". Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan .

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The authorities of Australia, China and Malaysia announced the termination of the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200. The plane was flying MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and disappeared from radar screens on the night of March 8, 2014. On board were 227 passengers and 12 crew members. 26 states tried to unravel the mystery of the crash. The total cost of investigating the crash approached $200 million. Fragments found did not help shed light on the reasons for the disappearance of the aircraft. About the main versions of the tragedy, including mystical ones, and why none of them received confirmation, in the RT material.

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Chronicle of tragedy

On March 8, 2014 at 00:42 Malaysian time, the Boeing MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. The flight took place in the normal mode. The last time the crew got in touch was at 01:19, during the transition from the zone of responsibility of the Malaysian controllers to the Vietnamese ones. The pilots wished their Malaysian colleagues "Good night". At 01:21 there was a shutdown of transponders transmitting information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data. At 01:22 a.m., the Boeing disappeared from the radar screens of the air traffic control services. After that, he was in the air for about seven more hours, but drastically deviated from the planned route. At 08:11, the aircraft received the last signal to the Inmarsat satellite, through which the Boeing 777 transmitted technical information about the operation of its Rolls-Royce engines to ground services. At 09:15, the airliner no longer responded to a communication request from Inmarsat.

The liner was searched in the South China and Andaman Seas, in the Strait of Malacca and in the Indian Ocean. The area of ​​the studied territories is 7.7 million km². Deep-sea searches were also carried out over an area of ​​60,000 km².

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Restore by fragments

The first fragment of the airliner was discovered only a year after the disappearance of MH370 - in July 2015, a wing part and a door were found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The rest of the finds came in 2016: in March, the wreckage of the aircraft was found on the shore of the strait between Madagascar and Mozambique, in May, a fragment of the wing was found on the island of Mauritius, and in June, another part of the wing was found off the coast of Tanzania. However, all this did not help to narrow the search area for the airliner and determine its location.

uncontrolled fall

One of the versions put forward by experts is the fall of the plane. According to this hypothesis, the liner was not controlled by the pilot at the fatal moment. This, according to the representative of the Australian Transportation Safety Authority Greg Hood, is indicated by the analysis of Boeing signals. Presumably the liner crashed on March 9, 2014 at 08:19. At that point, it ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire. According to experts, the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean at a tremendous speed - up to 20 thousand feet (6096 m) per minute. The board, most likely, collided with the surface of the ocean almost at a right angle. This explains his disappearance without a trace.

Human factor

Many call the commander of the crew, Zachary Ahmad Shah, the culprit of the tragedy. The FBI searched his home and found a simulator simulating the cockpit of an airliner. Decryption of hard drives showed that about a month before the crash, the pilot worked out a route that would lead to the crash of the ship into the Indian Ocean. This is what investigators believe Ahmad Shah did in reality. The alleged reason for this act is depression due to the upcoming divorce from his wife.

• Boeing crew commander Zachary Ahmad Shah (right) with friend Peter Chong (left).
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Information or life

Among the scenarios for the disappearance of Boeing, there are truly detective ones - the plane was hijacked and landed at one of the military airfields. The purpose of the hijacking was on board 20 leading scientists (12 Chinese and 8 Malaysians) from Freescale Semiconductor, who were developing state-of-the-art technologies for aircraft that make them invisible to radars and camouflage devices.

This version is confirmed by the fact that Zachary Ahmad Shah also practiced landing at five airfields in the Indian Ocean region, including on the runway of the airfield of the US military base Diego Garcia, on a home flight simulator. Shortly before the fatal flight, for some reason he erased this data, as well as all his work and social plans in his diary.

An even more twisted version of the hijacking for the sake of obtaining invaluable information on stealth technology belongs to former Delta pilot Field McConnell. He claims that the crew of the aircraft was eliminated, after which MH370 was intercepted by the US military and landed remotely on the island of Diego Garcia at a secret US Air Force base. Then the liner was allegedly lifted into the air again by the same remote method and sunk in the Indian Ocean.

• The alleged fragment of the aircraft was found off the east coast of Africa.

mysterious cargo

The conspiracy theories don't end there. The reason for the disappearance of Boeing is also called a mysterious cargo that was on board. In addition to luggage, the plane allegedly carried about 4 tons of exotic mangosteen fruit, 220 kg of lithium batteries for phones and computers, as well as 2 tons of some kind of electronic equipment, the sender of which is "classified by agreement with the airline."

Operation antiterror

Another version says that Boeing was captured by terrorists and shot down. According to the former head of French airlines Proteus Airlines, Marc Dugen, the plane was destroyed by the US military, who suspected that the airliner had been hijacked by terrorists. So the Americans played it safe to prevent a repetition of the events of September 11, 2001. This option is supported by the fact that there were two passengers on board on false passports - the Iranians Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyyed-Mohammadreza.

Just fantastic

There are absolutely fantastic versions of the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing. In two years, a lot of them have accumulated: the plane became invisible, fell into a black hole or into the new Bermuda Triangle. However, no one has yet been able to test either these or more realistic hypotheses.