Who called from the missing Malaysian Boeing. Boeing with a secret in the ocean: the almost three-year search for the missing flight MH370 has been stopped The truth about the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777

Summer 2014 chapter International Association air transport(IATA) Tony Tyler They asked which case from his practice was the most difficult. Mr Tyler, who had now worked for IATA for more than 35 years, said: "This is MH370."

Disappeared

In the 21st century, humanity has become accustomed to living in a situation of total surveillance, when the level of technology seemed to forever exclude the very possibility of a modern passenger airliner disappearing without a trace.

But the history of flight MH370 has proven that even the latest electronic systems they find themselves powerless against the conscious interference in their work of a person pursuing his own goals.

On the night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 passenger airliner belonging to Malaysia Airlines, operating flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared while entering the airport. air space Vietnam.

“MH370, operate Ho Chi Minh City, 120.9, good night,” the controller said.

« Good night, MH370,” these words from the crew were the last news from 239 people - 12 crew members and 227 passengers.

Among those who disappeared along with the plane was a Russian, 43-year-old entrepreneur Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk, returning home from vacation.

Last trip with disabled transponders

In the first hours after the disappearance, they worked out a tragic but ordinary version: the plane crashed due to a crew error or a technical malfunction.

But no traces of the crash could be found, but it became known that shortly after the crew’s last contact, someone on board turned off the transponder devices transmitting information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data.

Data analysis radar stations allowed us to establish that after the transponders were turned off, the airliner changed course. Having deviated hundreds of kilometers from the route, it was last recorded when passing the MEKAR waypoint on air route No. 571 northwest of the island of Pulau Perak at an altitude of 10,900 meters.

The aircraft's further route was calculated based on data on the operation of Rolls-Royce engines, which the airliner's terminals transmitted via Inmarsat satellites to ground services.

Based on these reports, as well as using calculations of the possible flight path, the investigative team concluded that the Boeing 777 had been in the air for another 7 hours since its disappearance. The plane ended its last journey in the southern part Indian Ocean, falling after using up all the fuel reserves.

Mr. Ferrier's discovery

In January 2015, everyone on board flight MH370 was declared dead in an "accident".

Two large-scale search operations involving representatives of several countries led, essentially, to nothing.

July 29, 2015 Nicolas Ferrier, an employee of a beach cleaning team on the French island of Reunion discovered a two-meter long piece of debris that looked like part of an airplane wing. The fragment was found near the city of Saint-André.

This fragment turned out to be the aileron flap of the missing Boeing - experts confirmed that it belonged to the plane.

Nicolas Ferrier admitted that he had previously found suitcases full of things and a seat similar to an airplane or bus. He burned all this, considering it ordinary garbage. Ferrier admitted that he does not watch TV or listen to the radio, so he knew nothing about the search for MH370.

Reunion Island is located 4,000 kilometers from where the plane crashed, but experts from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed that the debris could have drifted to Reunion as a result of a long drift.

Other debris was later found. Thus, in December 2015 and February 2016, a fragment of a flap guide fairing flap and a panel of the right horizontal tail stabilizer were found on the coast of Mozambique.

In the spring of 2016, segments of an engine fairing and a fragment of the R1 interior door trim were discovered on the Mossel Bay beach (South Africa) and the coast of Rodrigues Island (Republic of Mauritius). A fragment of the trailing edge of the wing was also found on the island of Mauritius.

The findings somewhat cooled the ardor of lovers of mysticism and conspiracy theories - the Boeing was not kidnapped by intelligence agents, it did not fly away with aliens and did not fall into a parallel world.

"Unlawful interference"

The plane crashed, but its causes are still unclear.

Who turned off the transponders and why? Why did the plane change course? What was he looking for away from the main air routes?

The final report of the International Investigation Team, published in the summer of 2018, covers 1,500 pages. The investigation has not established what exactly happened to the plane, but the available evidence “irrefutably points to unlawful interference, as a result of which the communication systems stopped working and the plane was manually deployed.”

The lives of the pilots, flight attendants and passengers on MH370 have been examined under a microscope. It was established that the 53-year-old Zachary Ahmad Shah, commander of the ship, one of the most experienced airline pilots, had a homemade flight simulator at home. There was a suspicion that he was using it to practice the skills necessary to hijack an airplane and direct the Boeing along an unplanned route.

However, investigators came to the conclusion that there was nothing criminal in the actions of Zachary Ahmad Shah, and his passion for flight simulators does not mean that he was harboring some sinister plans.

Co-pilot Farik Abdul Hamid, as it turned out, he violated job descriptions. A photograph was found in which the brave pilot invites pretty passengers into the cockpit. But these pranks could not in any way affect the tragic outcome of the flight on the night of March 8, 2014.

The investigation was initially very attentive to the identities of the two Iranians who found themselves on board using fictitious documents. But then it was established that 18-year-old Iranian Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and 29-year-old Iranian Seyed Mohammed Reza Delavar, having left their homeland, sought to get to one of the developed countries where they wanted to settle. No connections with terrorist groups were found among passengers with foreign passports.

Actually, the absence of any statements or demands from the terrorists after the disappearance of the Boeing 777 suggests that they also had nothing to do with the disappearance of MH370.

Crazy pilot or depressurization?

In March 2015, the 27-year-old second pilot Airbus airliner A320-211 Germanwings airlines Andreas Lubitz deliberately caused the crash of the plane, which led to the death of all 150 people on board.

Such cases, albeit infrequently, have occurred in the history of world aviation before.

Could one of the pilots of flight MH370, or anyone else on board, have done something similar?

Theoretically, this can be imagined. But why did the attacker need this strange 7-hour flight to nowhere? Why did none of the passengers or crew members try to raise the alarm? What actually happened on board the plane in its last hours?

In August 2005, a HeliosAirways Boeing 737-31S, operating flight HCY522 on the Larnaca-Athens-Prague route, stopped communicating 17 minutes after takeoff. The plane continued to fly until it ran out of fuel, after which it crashed into a mountain 40 kilometers north of Athens. The crash killed 115 passengers and 6 crew members. As it turned out later, the cause of the tragedy was depressurization.

It is possible that flight MH370 was flying depressurized for the last few hours, when no one on board could intervene in its fate. But this version doesn’t fit well with Boeing’s deliberate turn around and turning off its transponders.

Five years after the incident, the final mystery of flight MH370 remains unsolved.

The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in March 2014 shocked the whole world. The most varied versions of what happened were put forward. But until now nothing really is known about the fate of the plane.

Was the flight “normal”?

On March 8, 2014, Boeing operated joint flight MH370 with China Southern Airlines, flying from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China). On board there were 227 passengers from different countries and 12 crew members. The crew commander was experienced 53-year-old pilot Zachary Ahmad Shah, and the co-pilot was 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid. The airliner took off from Kuala Lumpur at 0.41 local time and was scheduled to land at Beijing airport at 6.30. [C-BLOCK]

At 02.40 Malaysia time, the plane disappeared from 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: "Everything is fine, good night." At this moment the liner was over South China Sea 220 kilometers from east coast Malaysia. [C-BLOCK]

In search and rescue

This operation was attended by 26 countries, including Russia. But no traces of the missing airliner were found. At the end of January 2015, the department civil aviation Malaysia officially declared everyone on board the plane dead. [C-BLOCK]

On July 29, 2015, on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, near the city of San Andre, beach cleaners found a fragment of the wing of an unidentified aircraft covered with shells. Experts have confirmed that this fragment most likely belongs to the missing airliner. Later, other fragments were discovered, but it was never possible to prove their indisputable belonging to the disappeared Boeing.

Oddities

Meanwhile, the investigation, which was carried out by Malaysia together with seven other countries - the United States, Great Britain, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became inaccessible to radar, it spent another 7 hours in flight. Last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After approximately 40 minutes, communications with ground services were lost, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to arrive from the on-board terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that the Boeing changed course over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu and crossed Malaysia for the second time in southwest direction and headed south. The flight is believed to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The black box signals were never recorded.

Was the plane hijacked by the Americans?

During a search of Captain Ahmad Shah's house, a homemade Boeing flight simulator was found. It turned out that for some reason the Shah was training to land the airliner at five airfields in the Indian Ocean region. He also erased all entries from his electronic diary. [C-BLOCK]

Therefore, the main version of the investigation was the hijacking of the airliner 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 his mobile phone with a woman who had purchased a SIM card via fake documents. [C-BLOCK]

It was the hijackers who could turn off the devices. But where was the plane hijacked? One of the points where Ahmad Shah “planted” him with the help of a simulator - military base USA "Diego Garcia", located on an island-atoll with an area of about 27 square kilometers, part of the Chagos archipelago. [C-BLOCK]

Why did the American military need to hijack the Boeing? President of the Institute for Scientific Research of the Third Millennium Ilya Belous points out that among the passengers were 20 employees of the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which produces chips, semiconductors and other electronic equipment, including military technologies. 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 remaining passengers was simply liquidated. [C-BLOCK]

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

Mysterious disappearance Boeing 777-200 aircraft in the Indian Ocean still haunts specialists and conspiracy theorists. The case of the missing Malaysian airliner is becoming more and more incredible.

Experts scrupulously study everything that can somehow lead to a solution. Entire dossiers have been collected on crew members and passengers. Despite this, more and more inconsistencies appear in the case. Some experts are of the opinion that they are trying to mislead the investigation. Someone is doing their best to prevent the Boeing from being found.

The identity of the captain, 53-year-old Zachary Ahmad Shah, remains mysterious. The version of his suicide is unofficially almost the main one. However, does a person who wants to die need to drag more than two hundred passengers with him?

"...suicide is still either an impulsive or a well-thought-out, but quick act. When we wrote the book, we very carefully studied everything that we could “dig up” about the captain - 53-year-old Zachary Ahmad Shah. And we came to conclusion that suicide is not in his character type, especially suicide with so many innocent victims - ordinary passengers,” says Pavel Tyapkin, a former physicist, specialist in radar installations and air defense systems. Together with Sergei Melnichenko, general director of the International Consulting and Analytical Agency "Flight Safety", he wrote a book "Flight MH370: flight to nowhere. What the investigation is silent about." In the process, both had to study a lot of data.

Pavel spoke about a strange detail that emerged during the investigation.

“When the airliner was flying back through Malaysia with the communication systems turned off, for some reason it made a semicircle around the city of Penang. And this hometown Zachary Ahmad Shah. It felt like he was saying goodbye to his home,” he said.

And this is where the fun begins. According to unofficial data, at the same time someone tried to call from the plane. As it turned out, one of the mobile phones contacted a cellular station in Penang. It would seem impossible. However, experts note that if the plane flies slowly and low, there is a chance of getting through. In experiments carried out by the Malaysian police using a small aircraft, it turned out that a cell phone could pick up a network at an altitude of three to five kilometers. The call from the Boeing failed, but there was a connection. This made it possible to determine the number. It belonged to the co-pilot, Pavel Tyapkin said on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.

What Zachary's partner Ahmad Shah wanted to say will forever remain a mystery. However, experts hope sooner or later to find out the truth about missing Malaysian Boeing. Debris will probably help with this: there is a chance of finding them on deserted islands and shallows in the center of the Indian Ocean.

Pilot and flight instructor Simon Hardy told Australia's 9 Now that the commander of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, Zachariah Ahmad Shah, was trying to confuse air traffic controllers. He turned off the detection systems and flew the plane on the border of the Malaysian and Thai areas of responsibility. This area is a blind spot.

Hardy is confident that the pilot's actions were deliberate, and points out that Ahmad Shah made an unnecessary detour near the Malaysian state of Penang, where he was born. According to Hardy, this is how the pilot said goodbye to his home.

Former head of Canada's Transportation Safety Bureau, Larry Vance, who was also present at the program, expressed the opinion that the pilot was planning suicide, and killed all the passengers along with him.

He believes that the captain of the ship could have depressurized the cabin so that passengers and crew members would lose consciousness, while he himself had first put on an oxygen mask.

“He was going to kill himself. Unfortunately, he killed all the passengers along with himself. This was intentional,” Vance said.

Experts disagreed on whether the plane was directed into the sea by the pilot, or whether Shah piloted it until it ran out of fuel, at which point it crashed. According to research, the Boeing did not prepare for landing and landing on water because its flaps were not extended. Thus, this confirms the hypothesis that the plane was not controlled by the pilots before the actual crash.

A Malaysian National Airlines airliner with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, making a joint flight with China Southern Airlines from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from radar screens without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change in course .

According to established data, the weather in the area of the disappearance was good, the plane was controlled by experienced pilots. The captain, 53-year-old Malaysian citizen Zachary Ahmad Shah, has worked at MAS since 1981, his flight time reached almost 18.5 thousand hours, 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid has flown almost three thousand hours. The aircraft had undergone a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

It was initially reported that on board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 citizens of Malaysia, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three US citizens, two New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians each, one resident of Russia and Italy , the Netherlands and Austria. However, it quickly became known that two who were originally on the list of passengers on the flight - Austrian Christian Kozil and Italian Luigi Maraldi - reported the theft of their passports while in Thailand and did not fly anywhere.

Malaysian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the terrorist attack, which was allegedly carried out by terrorists who boarded the plane using someone else's passports.

However, Kuala Lumpur is major center transportation of illegal migrants using stolen passports to Europe, and therefore it is possible that the presence of two people on board with fake passports is not directly related to the disappearance of the plane.

An explosion on board has long remained one of the most common versions, since it is difficult to imagine anything else capable of destroying a modern airliner at once. According to experts, it was either an explosion, a lightning strike, or rapid decompression. However, the Boeing 777 is capable of continuing to fly even after a lightning strike, and even after a sharp decompression, but after an explosion there is no longer a chance, experts say.

Over the course of three years, the wreckage of the plane was found in South Africa, Tanzania, and Thailand, but the exact location of the crash could not be determined. The last officially confirmed remains of a Boeing 777 were found on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. According to a study conducted by the Office transport security Australia, the debris found is part of the trailing edge of the plane's wing.

In 2017, Australia officially stopped any efforts to find the plane or investigate the incident.

However, the Search Agency Coordination Center (JACC) continues to work closely with the Malaysian government to share information on the case and support the families dead passengers and crew members.

Currently, the wreckage of the missing liner is being recovered by a private American company, Ocean Infinity. In January of this year, the Malaysian government promised search engines to pay $70 million if the plane or its black boxes were discovered.

Was the flight “normal”?

At 02.40 Malaysia time, the plane disappeared from 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: "Everything is fine, 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 traces of the missing airliner were found. At the end of January 2015, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department officially declared everyone on board the plane dead.

Oddities

Meanwhile, the investigation, which was carried out by Malaysia along with seven other countries - the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became inaccessible to radar, it spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After approximately 40 minutes, communications with ground services were lost, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to arrive from the on-board terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, the Boeing changed course, crossed Malaysia for the second time in a southwestern direction and headed south. The flight is believed to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The black box signals were never recorded.

Was the plane hijacked by the Americans?

Therefore, the main version of the investigation was the hijacking of the airliner 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 spoke on his mobile phone with a woman who had purchased a SIM card using forged documents.

It was the hijackers who could turn off the devices. But where was the plane hijacked? One of the points where Ahmad Shah “planted” him with the help of a simulator was the US military base “Diego Garcia”, located on an atoll island with an area of about 27 square kilometers, part of the Chagos archipelago.

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

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