The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed into the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014 was piloted until the end, which would support the suicide hypothesis. This is what the French investigators investigating the case have found out, as revealed by the newspaper ‘Le Parisien’.
The disappearance of flight MH 370, on which 239 people of 14 nationalities were traveling, is still one of the great mysteries in the history of aviation. Various hypotheses have been considered – terrorist attack due to sabotage, accidental shootdown by a missile, suicide of the pilot for political reasons, poisoning on board -, but none has been successful. In July 2018, the international investigation team formed by the Malaysian authorities ended. their work without being able to establish the causes of the incident. France is the only country that is officially still investigating, since four French citizens were traveling on board the device.
The two Parisian investigating judges handling the matter managed, after much resistance, to travel to the United States, to the Boeing headquarters near Seattle, along with air transport experts from the Gendarmerie, to gather more information. There they had to sign a confidentiality document. Not everything can be revealed. However, it has emerged that, according to data in Boeing’s possession, someone was at the controls of the plane until it fell into the ocean. Apparently, the device made some abnormal turns, which leads to the assumption that it was not flying out of control. However, investigators are cautious and are not yet in a position to know what happened or to assert that the pilot was the voluntary cause of the catastrophe.
Flight MH 370 was supposed to cover the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route, but instead of heading north, it turned south, for unknown reasons. The ‘transponder’ that transmitted its position in real time was disconnected, so its subsequent trajectory can only be estimated. For many months no trace of the plane was found, which fueled all kinds of speculation. In July 2015, a wing fragment was recovered on the French island of Réunion. Later, other parts of the plane, a jet, a cockpit panel and other components, appeared on beaches in South Africa, Mauritius, Mozambique and Tanzania. This confirmed that the Boeing had fallen in the southern Indian Ocean, although with the big question of why it altered its route in such an incomprehensible way and for so many hours.