Disappearance of Flight MH 370 events
Disappearance of Flight MH 370 theories
Disappearance of Flight MH 370
Media theories
Since the beginning the media were very active around the MH370. The information about two passengers using fake passports was first of many theories that rose since there were no new evidence about the fate of the aircraft. Few days after the information was made public, the passengers were identified and the theory of their involvement with terrorism was abandoned. The passports belonged to Austrian and Italian citizens, they were stolen then their rightful owners were taking part in the manifests in Malaysia in 2012 and 2013. The passport holders were identified as 19 and 29 year old Iranians, who entered Malaysia on their valid Iranian passports. They were most probably asylum seekers.
Another rumour was surrounding media that there was a large amount of gold was transported aboard the plane and that the crew simply tried to steal the load. This theory was soon proved to be wrong since the plane was actually carrying 3 to 4 tons of mangosteens and smaller packages of electronic accessories (described as lithium-ion batteries, radio accessories and chargers).
When the information suggested that crew switched off their transponder the background of one of the passengers, former flight engineer for a Swiss jet charter company, was used to conceive another theory - that it was a planned in advance escape of the crew and the the engineer was part of the conspiracy.
Next theory, also involving the crew was conceived when it turns out that the captain of Flight 370, 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had a flight simulator at home. That was hardly surprising, many pilots are using flight simulators, but the police had to analyse his computer to find if Shah used that flight simulator to practice the manoeuvres that he did on the 8 March 2014. The search of his and his co-pilot computers brought no valuable data.
A French journalist came up with different theory, assuming that there were large scale exercises of US Navy in the area and they used their AWACS planes (long-distance radar early warning planes) to jam the electronic communication of the plane with outside world to take over the secret package Chinese were smuggling in the cargo bay.
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