What happened to the Malaysian Boeing. What happened to the Malaysian Boeing that went missing in March?

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

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The day before, a source from the intelligence 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 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, on board which carried a total of 239 people, was Hich. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 were not guilty of the hijacking, a fairly authoritative source from the intelligence services assured the MK correspondent on condition of anonymity.

The Boeing 777-200ER, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines flew jointly with

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The missing Boeing 777 flew for several more hours after the crew “lost” communication with dispatchers.

Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under 5 years of age and 12 crew members (including two pilots). The majority of passengers - 153 - were Chinese citizens (one was 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 had been 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 Seyed-Mohammadreza, purchased tickets using their passports and boarded the flight .

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, Kuala Lumpur Control handed over flight MH370 to controllers in Ho Chi Minh City, which was confirmed by the airliner's crew. Flight MH370 was last recorded on radar at 01:21:13, but the pilots did not contact air traffic controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. After this, contact with the plane was completely lost. At 01:38, 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 Malaysia Airlines flight control at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, controllers at the Cambodian ATM center noted that the crew did not contact them. Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, emphasized that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 airliner was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, dispatchers and airline representatives tried in vain to establish any communication with the plane and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to begin an official search and rescue operation.

There are seven known messages received from flight MH370 via the Aeronautical Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) following the loss of contact with the airliner, 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 search for the missing plane, 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, 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 plane, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” (website) with reference to anonymous sources in the special services. Extra-exclusive information from "MK" was urgently made public in various languages ​​and was instantly disseminated by the world's media (an example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages ​​of the world).

An expert in the field of investigation of aviation accidents from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), the most experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov explained to the MK correspondent that “such an aircraft could easily land on an ordinary dirt road of a less dense surface about 2000 meters long . Although, of course, for this there should be free approaches to the landing strip - that is, there should be no trees or 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 hijacked Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar airliner landing 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 an 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 .

The Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, making a joint flight MH370 with the Chinese China Southern Airlines from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), (March 7, 22.40 Moscow time), did not giving no signals of problems on board, other problems or changes in course. The last message from the plane was: “Everything is fine, good night.”

At the moment of last contact - literally a minute before entering Vietnam's air control zone - the airliner was 220 kilometers from the east coast of Malaysia. The weather in the area of ​​the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent 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 French, three US citizens, two each New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one resident each from Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, the real nationality of at least two of those on board was then called into question due to evidence that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians were traveling on the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to the international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were heading to Europe as illegal migrants.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorolla, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces 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 transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit 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. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

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

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China participating in the search operation doubled the search, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand 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 a number of governments, by that time there was no sign of the aircraft.

The first in 16 months as part of the investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines 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 main search area. work underway in Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

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

By the end of 2015 there were search areas. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

Summer 2016. In July, media reported, citing Malaysian police documents, that the pilot of Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, had taken a simulator flight into the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane allegedly disappeared in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

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

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

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

At the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 debris had been confirmed. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with African countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side pledged to help recover any likely debris that might wash up on its shores.

Team investigating the disappearance of the aircraft, which will be published within a year.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti

The other day Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reiterated in an interview his support for his version regarding Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: as is well known, the airliner “evaporated” from radar shortly after takeoff on March 8, 2014. The 92-year-old politician believes that the CIA was involved in the incident. “Someone is hiding something,” Mohamad said. “Most likely, there was an electronic hacking of the Boeing’s control systems, after which the airliner and its passengers were moved to the desired location. An international investigation into the incident is necessary!” This is far from the limit: during the day in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, I heard 20 versions of the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370. The taxi driver at the airport, having barely loaded my suitcase into the trunk, argues: the crew was bribed, this is a scam in order to obtain insurance for missing passengers - after all, payments from insurance companies in general have already amounted to 600 (!) million dollars. A souvenir seller on Petaling Street assures that the Boeing was transporting materials to create a nuclear missile ordered by North Korea, which is why it was shot down by the Americans. In general, we can state: 3.5 years after the plane went missing, Malaysia has not calmed down.

"Lies from the start"

“The most suspicious thing is that the country’s authorities without reasoning reject any assumptions about the involvement of third parties in the incident with the Boeing,” explains lawyer Abraham Chang(one of those who represents the interests of the families of passengers on flight MH370). — I understand if the “yellow press” publishes this. But when a former leader of a country talks about electronic theft, such versions should be checked more carefully. And this is not the only case. Boeing commander Zachary Ahmad Shah Before departure, I received a call from an unknown woman on my cell phone. However, the police did not establish her identity: the SIM card was purchased using forged documents. Should I find out further? No, no one cares. The former head of Proteus Airlines, Mark Dugen, said: the passenger plane was shot down by US air defense - the Americans believed that the airliner was hijacked by Islamists and was going to crash into the Diego Garcia military base. I repeat - all this is voiced not by madmen in a madhouse, but by serious people, businessmen and politicians. However, their opinions are brushed aside like flies, without even attempting to investigate. There is a feeling that the investigation was given a strict directive “from above” - the Boeing crashed into the sea, and that’s it, other versions are not accepted.

In 2015-2016 The wreckage of the Boeing was found on the coast of Africa, 4000 kilometers (!) from the place of its supposed fall. The main thing is that there is still no answer why the plane was in the sky for 7 hours (!), not responding to requests from air traffic controllers, including calls on a satellite phone. “The official investigation into the missing plane is like a circus,” says journalist Ahmed Sahimi. — For eight months, investigators studied a special cargo on board the Boeing: 4.5 tons of mangosteens - exotic fruits (by the way, very sweet). Why harmless fruits could lead to the disappearance of an airliner is completely unclear. Where would it be better to spend this time usefully: say, to track the behavior of each of the 227 passengers on board: the version about the insurance scam is not without logic. In the 20th century in the United States, various people periodically carried a bomb with them on a plane so that their family would receive compensation after a plane crash. Unfortunately, this idea is being ignored.” Security expert Yusuf Asaddin moves his hand over the map, showing the route: the Boeing took off at 00.42, and after 37 minutes it stopped answering questions, conveying an ominous message - “Good night, flight 370.” Asaddin wonders: how is a plane able to disappear from the radar, but still be in the air? According to the expert, “they lie to us from the very beginning, telling us only one percent of the information. The government itself seems to come up with the most exotic versions, just to avoid voicing the real truth.”

Bin Laden at the dacha

- This is already a good tradition - no matter what happens, blame the government for any mystical things,— grins a Malaysian Foreign Ministry official who asked not to be named. “Unfortunately, even almost four years later, we are not an inch closer to the solution. Ask any government employee, and everyone will have their own version. I can only say that the majority are confident that the US intelligence services were involved in the disappearance of the Boeing. I understand that this version always comes first. But remember the circumstances of deathOsama bin Laden . For a long time they laughed at experts who claimed: “terrorist No. 1” is not hiding in the caves of Afghanistan, he lives quietly in a luxurious villa with his entire family. How furiously they refuted this version, how pompously they organized search operations in the Afghan mountains! And what happened next? Osama was not actually hiding: he was in a dacha with a garden 60 kilometers from the capital of Pakistan, a state ally of the United States! After this, I would not be surprised if the wildest assumptions about what happened, such as the kidnapping or destruction of the Boeing by the air defense forces of a certain country, turn out to be true.

Madmen at the helm

Huge attention in the Malaysian media is paid to the personality of the ship's captain, Zachary Ahmad Shah. New details are published almost every month. The public is convinced: Ahmad Shah either carried out someone’s order to hijack a plane, or, obsessed with psychopathy, committed suicide by plunging the airliner into the ocean waters. Moreover, similar incidents have already taken place - the crash of a Silk Air flight in 1997 (104 dead), the death of an Egypt Air plane in 1999 (217 dead) - due to the suicide of crazy pilots who decided to take it with them to that light as many people as possible. A year later (March 24, 2015), a Germanwings pilot, flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, deliberately crashed into a mountain, killing 150 people on board. The possibility of insanity cannot be discounted, but even after a series of such horrendous incidents, airline owners do not spend money on research into the mental state of pilots. But, excuse me, they are not carrying firewood at all.

Another specialist in Kuala Lumpur (already the tenth in a row) proves to me at the table in the office, laying out documents: “There were 20 Americans flying in the Malaysian Boeing - employees of the Freescale Semiconductor company. It is she, according to the revelation of a former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden developed top-secret equipment for the National Security Agency to electronically spy on China. This is a specific kidnapping organized by the Chinese authorities. Plane wreckage discovered? They could have been dropped off later. They found pieces of wings, interior trim, part of a tail... but there were no human remains anywhere. How can this be?” To be honest, my head is spinning from the versions. Indeed, nothing can be discounted - the reality of the current world is such that the most terrible assumption may turn out to be true. Versions expressed by serious people should be carefully checked, and not brushed aside.

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