(Newswire.net — July 25, 2016) — The latest evidence on the disappearance of flight MH370 adds to the mystery as the FBI has discovered that the captain of the missing airplane practiced an off course route on his homebuilt simulator.
According to New York Magazine, the FBI explored the information on the homebuilt simulator at the home of the flight MH370 pilot, to find he practiced flying off route while he ran out of fuel.
Malaysia Airlines ‘s Boeing 777-200ER, disappeared on March 8th, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and triggered the biggest and most expensive rescue mission in aviation history. Beside two small pieces found in remote locations and confirmed to belong to the ill-fated Malaysian Boeing, nothing has been found, which is unprecedented in modern aviation history.
The world is puzzled by the fact there are no usual scattered plane pieces at the crash location, which could imply the airplane landed on the surface of the ocean, and then sank, mainly in one piece. However, a scan of the ocean’s seabed shows no results.
What is more puzzling is that the signals from the black box are made to send a crash signal with a location even at serious depths, but search teams could not find it.
This has all fueled conspiracy theories that flooded the internet. One claimed the military shot the airplane down and covered their tracks, others, inspired by TV series “Lost” say the airplane crashed on some far uninhabited island and thus there is no debris. It even launched a hoax claiming that the MH370 captain has been found alive but lost his memory.
The fact that flight MH370’s squawk code (transponder identification) vanished while the airplane was still high in the air, suggests that it exploded, or that someone deliberately turned it off, which gives likelihood to the theory which says the crew was involved.
The latest findings support this theory. Allegedly, MH-370’s highly respected pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, practiced the route on his homebuilt simulator. The path shows him flying the simulated airplane left of the course he was supposed to be on, until he lost fuel and glided as far as he could.
The simulator showed the airplane finally ending up deep in the Indian Ocean. The glide could indicate the airplane flew far beyond the search perimeter.
“If it was manned it could glide for a long way,” search project director, Paul Kennedy, said. “You could glide it for further than our search area is, so I believe the logical conclusion will be well maybe that is the other scenario.”
This theory, however, was disputed by the investigating agencies, which include Boeing Co, France’s Thales SA British satellite company – Inmarsat PLC, and officials from the US, Britain and Australia, who claim their radar systems would detect the aircraft which simply vanished of screen.
On the other hand, there is the remote possibility that the pilot disabled the transponders and the GPS tracking device, and flew at a low altitude, below radar detection.
While evidence on Captain Shah emerges, the pilot community argues that simulated courses prove nothing. Apparently, almost every pilot has a Microsoft Flight Simulator, or similar software at home, and not only enjoy virtual piloting, but exercise different emergency situations.
According to the pilots community, what the FBI have discovered could be the simulation of how far a Boeing 777 could reach if it glided over the ocean. The off course diversion could be explained by the assumption that the airplane could reach land if following IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) heading commanded by the ATC.
The disappearance of flight MH370 is still a mystery.