"Call sign: Twin Towers." The mystery of the pilot of the missing Malaysian Boeing. Why Boeing MH370, which disappeared over the Indian Ocean, will never be found (6 photos) Where did the Malaysian Boeing 777 disappear, latest versions

British virtual tracker Ian Wilson is a video engineer by profession. He discovered an object similar to an airplane using the Google Maps resource. I saw him lying in the inaccessible jungles of Cambodia.

Yang has no doubt: this object is the plane - most likely the same one - the Malaysian Boeing 777-200, which on March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared in the most mysterious way along with 239 passengers.

Based on the outline of the discovered airliner, it is the right one. Only almost 6 meters longer - not 63.7 meters, but 70.

The tail fell off, the tracker explains, and lies a little further from the fuselage. Hence the "extension".

The main objection of skeptics: the photo from space used by Google Maps could have been accidentally captured by a plane flying over the jungle. In addition, four years have passed since the loss, quite enough for lush tropical vegetation to completely hide the liner. And it’s strange that the car in the photo is almost intact. Even if the plane had not crashed from a great height, but had tried to land in the jungle, it most likely would have broken into several large fragments.

No,” Wilson dismisses doubts. Like, I checked it using one of the resource options - “escape ground view”. The plane is down.

Could the virtual tracker have “stumbled upon” not MH370, but some other Boeing 777-200? Excluded - no other similar ones fell in this area of ​​Cambodia. At least, aviation experts know nothing about such disasters.

Wilson said he would like to get to the crash site he discovered himself. After all, Malaysian and Australian specialists, who, albeit to no avail, are officially busy searching for the remains of the liner, as a rule, do not respond to the “signals” of virtual trackers. Or they brush them off.

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And here's another Boeing

Competing with Wilson is Australian Peter McMahon, who has long been passionate about investigating aircraft accidents. Using Google Maps, he also saw the silhouette of a crashed Malaysian Boeing. But in another place - under water. If he gets to it, he will have to dive.

In March 2018, McMahon: The Boeing lies in shallow water about 16 kilometers south of Round Island, one of the Seychelles. The satellite photo shows both the wings and the fuselage.

The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau told McMahon that the plane he discovered could well be the one he was looking for. But no action was taken. The Malaysian authorities also responded. But more harshly: they asked not to mislead people.

McMahon somehow saw that the fuselage of the airliner was full of holes. It’s as if it’s been pierced by machine-gun fire.

And one more

In 2016, the Malaysian Boeing was found by Scott Waring, a famous ufologist and virtual archaeologist among those who look for anomalies in images transmitted from other planets, for example, from Mars.

Scott assures that he did not specifically search for the missing airliner. I was looking for traces of UFOs that were seen in the Cape area Good Hope(Cape of Good Hope) in 2013. And for this purpose, I looked at photographs of the area posted on Google Earth. I saw the outline of the plane. He lies under water. Almost whole.

Two years ago, on March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 passenger airliner belonging to Malaysia Airlines, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, mysteriously disappeared. 239 people (12 crew members and 227 passengers) disappeared along with the plane. From time to time, rescuers claim that they find the wreckage of the missing plane. But is it them? And what is known about the Malaysian ship today?

Were you looking in the wrong place?

The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft stopped communicating in the skies over the South China Sea 40 minutes after takeoff. Moreover, the liner underwent a full check just ten days before this flight. Initially, the operation to search for the crash site took place over this sea, but later moved to the Strait of Malacca, and then to the Indian Ocean, closer to the western coast of Australia. Rescuers explained such an extensive search line by the fact that, apparently, the Boeing 777, after disappearing from radar, remained in the sky for more than 7 hours, having greatly changed its route.

The first search operation took place in March - April 2014. Then 26 countries took part in it (Malaysia, USA, Singapore, Vietnam, China, etc.). And the search for the plane was carried out over an area of ​​7.7 million km², which is comparable to the size of Australia. 15 days after the search began, Malaysian authorities announced that the missing plane had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. They came to this conclusion based on calculating the trajectory based on signals transmitted via Inmarsat satellites once an hour about the operation of Rolls-Royce engines. No other facts were found to support this statement.

In mid-April 2014, the search moved underwater, using the Bluefin-21 unmanned autonomous submarine. 340 square miles of seabed were explored, but no traces of the missing airliner were found there either.

Only almost a year after the plane disappeared, in January 2015, did the Malaysian authorities officially declare everyone on board the aircraft dead. The cause of death for each was listed as “accidental.”

Report without answer

A year after the incident, on March 8, 2015, the international investigative team gave a preliminary report on the results of the technical investigation. But the report did not contain any information about what happened to the liner. The only thing they were able to analyze then was the work of control managers air traffic. As it turned out, the senior air traffic controller in Kuala Lumpur slept for 4 hours after the Boeing disappeared from radar. Controllers in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) began to find out the reason why the plane did not enter their airspace after 2 minutes, as expected, but only after 20.

And Malaysia Airlines itself was not distinguished by its speed, which should be in such cases. Emergency was announced only 5 hours and 13 minutes after the last news about the liner. And the search operation began with a significant delay, although in such situations every minute is important. After all, the rescuers themselves and the Malaysian authorities have repeatedly said that in a matter of seconds, the current can pick up debris and carry it away in an unknown direction.

Fake wreckage

A few days after the plane disappeared, rumors appeared that its wreckage was allegedly found in the South China Sea. However, management civil aviation Malaysia immediately denied them. What was mistaken for part of an airliner turned out to be just an algae-covered shell of a cable reel.

A little later, information appeared that the Australian Maritime Safety Authority had discovered two objects that may belong to Boeing. Immediately, China stated that it noticed large debris - approximately 22 by 30 meters. Following them, the crew of a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane allegedly discovered debris in the southern Indian Ocean that may be related to the missing Boeing 777. But none of this was confirmed.

The first real wreckage of the Boeing 777 was discovered after a year and a half of searching, in July 2015. Moreover, this was done not by rescuers, but by cleaners on Reunion Island, located in the Indian Ocean. And this is more than 4,000 kilometers west of the deep-sea search, on which, by the way, more than $50 million was spent. The fragment turned out to be part of an airplane wing, about 2.5 meters long and covered with shells on the surface.

Later, after the exploration of the island by Malaysians, in August 2015, a number of other aircraft items were discovered. Then the assumptions were confirmed: the found fragment definitely belonged to the Boeing.

The next news about the plane was from local residents Philippines in October 2015. Allegedly, teenagers while hunting for birds came across the wreckage of a plane with the flags of Malaysia and human bodies near. The Philippine authorities took over the inspection of the territory and immediately denied this information.

Another six months later, the world was again talking about the Malaysian airliner. In January of this year, debris was discovered in southern Thailand that could belong to the missing Boeing. Residents of Nakhon Si Thammarat province discovered a large curved metal object on the ocean shore. But neither the authorities nor experts have confirmed that this fragment is actually related to the airliner. It turned out that the serial number of the part, the numbers of the bundle of wires and bolts do not match the numbers of the Boeing 777 aircraft.

End of the search

A week ago, on March 2, 2016, new information appeared about the missing Boeing 777. A metal fragment about a meter long was found off the coast of Mozambique. Presumably this is a horizontal stabilizer - a wing-shaped part attached to the tail of the aircraft. So far, only the territory indicates that this fragment belongs to Boeing: in the same part of the Indian Ocean, a fragment of a wing was found in July last year. The find will be studied by representatives of Australia and Malaysia, as well as “international specialists.”

It turns out that, in fact, only three relatively small fragments of all the finds could actually belong to the missing plane. Moreover, neither the bodies of the victims, nor the suitcases with things, nor the black box were found during two years of searching. And this despite the fact that more than 80 thousand square kilometers were combed with a total search area of ​​120 thousand kilometers.

According to the International Search Coordination Center, underwater search operations will be phased out in June 2016. But if in two years there is no clarity about what happened to the unfortunate Boeing 777-200, then it is unlikely that it will appear in another four months of the time allotted for the search.

Following the route Kuala Lumpur - Beijing, there were 239 people on board. To find the plane, the most expensive search and rescue operation in history was organized, costing more than $200 million. However, the crash site was never found. The official investigation has reached a dead end. But all this time, in parallel, relatives and groups of enthusiasts from all over the world were trying to get to the bottom of the truth. The book “Flight MH370: Flight to Nowhere” was recently published in limited edition. What the investigation is silent about.” Its authors are Sergei Melnichenko, General Director of the International Consulting and Analytical Agency "Flight Safety", a person with extensive flight and expert experience, and Pavel Tyapkin, a former physicist, specialist in radar installations and air defense systems. They conducted their investigation and tried to solve the greatest mystery in the history of civil aviation. How successful were they? We talked about this with Pavel on Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Flight MH370 “Flight to nowhere: what the investigation is silent about.” New details of the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing

The captain transferred a large sum to his daughter...

Pavel, I can’t get my head around this story: a plane stuffed with electronics disappears without a trace in a world stuffed with electronics and radars. What was it? Terrorist attack? Suicide attempt? Accident?

The version with the pilot’s suicide became, as my co-author and I call it, “unofficially official version" It is being pushed hard by both the Malaysian and English-language press, but in our opinion it is lame on both legs. Well, first of all, why kill yourself in such a strange and time-consuming way? After all, the plane flew for many hours after it deviated from its course. But 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 they came to the conclusion that suicide was not in his character type, especially suicide with so many innocent victims - ordinary passengers.

However, they compiled a whole dossier on him! And it's full of suspicious details. For example, on a home flight simulator he practiced the same route with a flight to a completely deserted point in the Indian Ocean. Shortly before the last flight, he transferred a large sum of money to his daughter, supposedly to buy a house. Finally, a few minutes before his flight, he received a strange call from a SIM card purchased using fake documents.

But this call just refutes the version of suicide! Rather, it indirectly pushes us towards the version of a terrorist attack.

- If it was a terrorist attack, then why did no one take responsibility?

We have two arguments here. What if the terrorist attack failed? What if something more grandiose was planned, like an attack on the Twin Towers in New York, and the plane simply did not reach the target, crashed for some reason? And second. The terrorist attack could have been conceived and carried out entirely by a single individual. In this case, the captain of the liner. We see that in Europe there are many such terrorist attacks where a person is not part of any cell at all and does not have any leaders over him. He just planned a terrorist attack himself, seized a truck and crashed into the crowd, suppressing people. But there is one more circumstance that confuses the situation even more. It seems that someone is doing everything to ensure that the Boeing is never found.

- Why?

For example, in the middle of an investigation, a paper document is quietly discovered that reveals that the Boeing was filled with more fuel than was indicated in official electronic records. Based on this, the crash location is calculated to be much further than the original official flight range. Then there is the strange position of the Malaysian military, which in its own way airspace control 100 percent, but for some reason they watch indifferently as in the first days after the disappearance of the Boeing they are looking for it off the coast of Vietnam, where it is definitely not there. Then four days later, on March 12, they came to their senses and said: you know, the plane turned around and flew back across Malaysia towards the Andaman Islands. And then, on March 13, the Americans appear and say: according to satellite data, based on eight telemetry signals from the Boeing 777 engines, the plane flew for another seven hours and seemed to crash far to the south, in the Indian Ocean. Okay, no question! But Australia has installed a powerful over-the-horizon radar worth $1.5 billion; it penetrates 3,000 kilometers. If the Boeing fell at that calculated point in the Indian Ocean, then the Australians should have seen it. But they remain silent on all requests, citing military secrets. Finally, the wreckage of the Boeing, which was washed up by the ocean on the shore of Reunion Island (this is in the Indian Ocean, 700 east of Madagascar - Ed.), judging by the map sea ​​currents, could not sail from where the search operation was going on. There are a lot of such inconsistencies. There is a distortion of the data: they are looking for the airliner where it could not have fallen.

Stealed remotely?

Such fraud gives rise to various conspiracy theories. The version was circulated that the target of the attackers was a group of developers of a secret microchip from the American company Freescale Semiconductor, which was on board. Others drew attention to the large number of namesakes checking in for the flight. But most of all they talk about the “American trace”. The essence of this conspiracy theory is that after the explosion of the Twin Towers in New York, American intelligence agencies ordered Boeing to develop a remote control system for aircraft. If the airliner is captured by terrorists, it will make it possible to intercept control and remotely land it in a safe place. Allegedly, such a system was installed on the missing Boeing, but it was not the intelligence services that used it...

I don't believe in these conspiracy theories. Technically, it is quite possible to integrate such a system into an aircraft and control it from the ground via satellite. But not a single intelligence service in the world will take this step, because it poses a terrible danger to themselves. After all, in this case they open a window of opportunity for terrorists. If there is a remote control system, then sooner or later hackers will hack it and vice versa - they will fly the plane into a skyscraper. Moreover, they will kill two birds with one stone: they will commit a terrorist attack, and they themselves will survive. Most conspiracy theories are born due to a lack of information. A striking example is the story of namesakes. They immediately began to fan the story: the group was preparing to hijack the plane. Then it turned out that the namesakes were Chinese artists from several generations of the same family, who were flying home after the exhibition.

If the plane could not be hijacked remotely, then someone on board did it. Were there people among the passengers who had flying skills?

There was a version that among the passengers there was a Malaysian specialist in aviation electronics, who was sitting in business class directly under the satellite antenna and theoretically could “hack” the airliner. But to be honest, the evidentiary part of this version is completely incomplete. We checked all the passengers by name, but did not find any potential hijackers. We were more interested in the captain of the aircraft.

- What exactly?

We have dug up several absolutely strange facts. I would even say multidirectional. On the one hand, he is a distant relative and a terrible fan of one Malaysian opposition politician, Anwar Ibrahim, who, apparently, is closely associated with Saudi Arabia and Wahhabis.

Are the passengers victims of political squabbles?

- Was Zachary Ahmad Shah a religious man?

That's the thing, no. We analyzed his activity on the Internet and discovered that in the last six months he had liked several lectures on YouTube by the famous English biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. That is, the captain became interested in atheism, which is very unusual for a Muslim. And it completely kills the version about terrorism with an Islamic slant. The captain turned out to be a contradictory person. He was not an Islamist, but rather a human rights activist who advocates freedom, equality and brotherhood. It is known that he posted a photo of himself on social networks wearing a black T-shirt with the inscription “Democracy is Dead.” Because, from his point of view, democracy is truly dead, since his idol Anwar Ibrahim was not allowed to win the elections in Malaysia. Charges were again brought against Anwar, and on March 7, 2014, the politician was sentenced to 5 years in prison...

And on March 8, 2014, the Boeing, driven by Zachary Ahmad Shah, disappeared in an unknown direction! That is, purely theoretically, in the event of a hijacking, passengers could be used as hostages if a bargaining arose: passengers in exchange for the freedom of Anwar Ibrahim? And then something went wrong?

I have also heard such versions, but we have too little information to say anything definite.

- There was also a co-pilot on board. What can you say about him?

Farik Abdul Hamid is much younger, he was 27 years old, and I do not believe that he could have hijacked the plane due to his position on board. This flight was his last test before receiving a certificate for this type of aircraft. If Zachary had signed his flight certificate, Farik would have become the co-pilot of the Boeing 777. That is, there was a career leap ahead, a different salary... Therefore, he could not do anything suspicious on this flight. And this once again points to the captain - it was the commander who hijacked the plane. At this moment, Farik Abdul Hamid was most dependent on the captain. And one more circumstance. The co-pilot proposed to his girlfriend a few days before the flight.

- Logical. If you are planning to hijack a plane, you have no time for organizing your personal life.

By the way, a striking detail has emerged. When the airliner was flying back through Malaysia with its 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. And just imagine, there is unofficial information that at that moment one of the cell phones on board the Boeing contacted a base cellular station in one of the districts of the city of Penang.

The co-pilot tried to make a call from the plane

- Is that possible?

In principle, yes, especially if the plane is flying slower and lower than it was that night. Enthusiasts from the Malaysian police specially flew a small propeller-driven plane there for this purpose; it turned out that the phone “grabbed” the network at an altitude of 3-5 kilometers. But that time the call was unsuccessful, there was just a connection, but this was enough to determine the phone number of the caller. It was the number of the co-pilot.

- How long has it been since the theft?

More than an hour.

- That is, he could already understand that the liner was captured?

We can speculate that he was trying to communicate something to earth. But these are just guesses.

- How high are the chances that we will find out the truth about the missing Boeing?

I'm counting on the ocean to throw something at us. There are some hints that it makes sense to look on deserted islands and shallows closer to the center of the Indian Ocean. The wreckage can tell us something. And the second hope is that if conspiracy theorists are still right, and there was a conspiracy, then sooner or later someone will spill the beans.

Ilya Oganjanov

Authorities in Australia, China and Malaysia announced the end of the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200. The plane was flying flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and disappeared from radar screens on the night of March 8, 2014. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. 26 states tried to unravel the mystery of the crash. The total cost of the investigation into the crash was close to $200 million. The fragments found did not help shed light on the reasons for the disappearance of the aircraft. Read about the main versions of the tragedy, including mystical ones, and why none of them have received confirmation.

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Chronicle of the tragedy

On March 8, 2014 at 00:42 Malaysia time, Boeing MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The flight took place as usual. The last time the crew made contact was at 01:19 - when moving from the area of ​​​​responsibility of the Malaysian controllers to the Vietnamese ones. The pilots wished their Malaysian colleagues “Good night”. At 01:21, the transponders transmitting information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data were switched off. At 01:22, the Boeing disappeared from the radar screens of air traffic control services. After that, he was in the air for about seven more hours, but radically deviated from the planned route. At 08:11, the last signal was sent from the plane 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 study 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 occurred in 2016: in March, aircraft wreckage was discovered on the shore of the strait between Madagascar and Mozambique, in May a fragment of a 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 narrow the search area for the airliner and determine its location.

Uncontrolled fall

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

Human factor

Many people call the crew commander, Zachary Ahmad Shah, the culprit of the tragedy. The FBI searched his home and found a simulator simulating an airliner cockpit. Decryption of the hard drives showed that about a month before the crash, the pilot was practicing a route that would lead to the ship crashing into the Indian Ocean. This is exactly what investigators believe Ahmad Shah did in reality. The alleged reason for this action 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 also truly detective ones - the plane was hijacked and landed at one of the military airfields. The target of the hijacking was 20 leading scientists on board (12 Chinese and 8 Malaysians) of Freescale Semiconductor, who were developing state-of-the-art technologies for aircraft that make them invisible to radar, and camouflage devices.

This version is confirmed by the fact that Zachary Ahmad Shah also practiced landing on his home flight simulator at five airfields in the Indian Ocean region, including the runway at the US military base Diego Garcia. Shortly before the fateful 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 hijacking for the sake of obtaining invaluable information on stealth technology belongs to former pilot Delta airlines to Field McConnell. He claims that the plane's crew was eliminated, after which MH370 was intercepted by the US military and remotely landed on the island of Diego Garcia at a secret US Air Force base. The airliner was then allegedly lifted into the air again using the same remote control and sank in the Indian Ocean.

• A suspected plane wreck was found near east coast Africa.

Mysterious cargo

The conspiracy theories don't end there. The reason for the disappearance of Boeing is also called a certain 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 electronic equipment, the sender of which was “classified by agreement with the airline.”

Operation anti-terror

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

Simply fantastic

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