Pilot's baffling 22 minute manoeuvre which could hold the key
to proving MH370 mystery WAS a murder-suicide
On March 8 in 2014, the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from view
By ANDREW PRENTICE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 09:16 EST, 23 February 2022
A bizarre 22-minute manoeuvre could prove the doomed MH370 flight was actually a murder-suicide plot by one of the pilots, a top Australian pilot has claimed.
On March 8 in 2014, the Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared from the skies along with 239 people on board - including six Australians.
They included Queensland couples Catherine and Robert Lawton as well as Mary and Rodney Burrows.
Many wild theories have since followed, but now a flight holding pattern - detected through an invisible trail - may finally provide closure for those who lost loved ones.
In Wednesday night's Sky News documentary MH370: The Final Search, a number of aviation leaders stated it was deliberate sabotage from senior flight Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah - and said a 22-minute-long holding pattern proved it.
'My theory has always been that it was the captain who is responsible …probably as a political protest,' aviation writer and former Qantas Captain Mike Glynn said.
In Wednesday night's Sky News documentary MH370: The Final Search, a number of aviation experts
stated their belief it was deliberate sabotage from senior flight Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah
This graphic shows the predicted location for MH370's wreckage at the bottom of the Indian Ocean
On March 8 in 2014, the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from the skies with 239 people on board
To support his claim, Mr Glynn pointed to the 'holding pattern' on MH370 from 3.12am onwards.
A holding pattern is where a plane holds a particular flight path while awaiting approval to land, but in this case it was done mid-flight.
He said there was 'no reason' for the aircraft to engage in the pattern mid-flight, before adding there is a 'possibility' it was the timeframe Mr Shah used as a 'form of negotiation.'
Australian Danica Weeks, whose husband Paul was on board the flight, said the 22-minute holding pattern revelation was 'overwhelming' and that Captain Shah 'must've been talking to someone… it's just a complete cover up.'
Mr Glynn went on to claim Captain Shah, a married father of three, was enraged after Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s Opposition Leader at the time of the crash in 2014, was convicted of sodomy the day before MH370 disappeared.
Shah was said to be an avid supporter of Ibrahim, and the pilot's Facebook account was also labelled a 'treasure trove' of political activity and anti-government sentiment.
Leading aviation safety investigator and retired pilot, John Cox, also said the demise of MH370 was no accident.
Author and journalist Ean Higgins agreed, stating Mr Shah had enough motivation if he wanted to take the 'drastic action.'
The pilot did have a supporter in Malaysia Airlines Crisis Director Fuad Sharuji, who expressed his doubt over a possible plane hijack.
The final point of control tower contact with flight MH370 almost eight years ago was over the South China Sea, the location where the search first launched following the disappearance, which generated international headlines.
However, it soon became apparent the plane had made its way back in the direction of Malaysia.
The aircraft then flew over the Malay peninsula, went around the island of Penang and up the Malacca Strait and eventually over the southern Indian Ocean.
Mr Glynn went on to state the use of Weak Signal Propagation Report (WSPR), could help locate the final remains of the plane.
The modern technology is a network of signals that use amateur or hand radios, and has been in use since 2009.
The pilot believes MH370 may have been tracked by WSPR - and that could pinpoint where the remains are.
'It is a game changer,' he said.
