8 years have passed since the Malaysian plane crashed in the waters of the Indian Ocean, and what happened on that day remains a mystery. But the findings of a years-long investigation revealed this week reveal a particularly interesting detail that sheds new light on the case
Richard Godfrey investigated the crash of the Malaysian plane for eight years. Although he claims that “the mystery remains a mystery”, his painstaking research managed to come up with a significant piece of information that sheds light on what happened inside flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sometime in March 2014.
Just over two weeks after the incident, the Malaysian government announced that the plane had crashed without survivors in the Indian Ocean, far from the planned flight path. The great mystery that surrounded the fate of the flight gave rise to a host of speculations regarding the reason for the disappearance of the plane and the 239 passengers and crew members on board – ranging from a technical malfunction and an act of terrorism, to a host of conspiracy theories according to which it was hijacked to remote locations.
Now Godfrey, who has functioned over the past few years as the head of the investigation team of the crash, reveals an interesting detail about the affair and says in an interview to Amichai Stein in ‘Khan Haudas’ – the pilot who was in the cockpit is the one who crashed the plane.
“This must be a deliberate action”: 8 years after the crash of the Malaysian plane, reveals the head of the investigation team in a conversation with @AmichaiStein1 An interesting detail that sheds light on what happened on flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing#the_world_today pic.twitter.com/quEnx6LGn0
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What do we know about the cause of the crash?: “It is clear that this is an active pilot – we know this from the evidence that the plane changed its flight path at the beginning of its flight,” said Richard Godfrey. “Each time it was little – but it happened many times. He changed the altitude during the flight – and we know from the parts found that the damage caused to the plane was from a high-speed crash into the sea, and this must have been a deliberate crash.”
According to the researchers, the plane was flown to a very deep area of the Indian Ocean, which makes it difficult to find it. “If the plane has a technical malfunction, they usually try to land it at the nearest airport,” he explains, “and another proof that it is not a malfunction is the fact that a technical failure would not have allowed it to continue flying for so many hours.”
“We don’t know who the pilot was,” Godfrey claimed, saying, “It could have been the pilot, it could have been a hijacker who hijacked the plane, so it’s clear to us that we need to gather more information to find out everything – the mystery is still a mystery.” However, according to him, one thing is certain – “someone in the cockpit took the plane to its end”.
The authorities of Malaysia, Australia and China announced in 2017 that they had completed the investigation. Since then, 37 different parts of the plane have been found, from which we can learn quite a bit about the reason for its disappearance. There are international companies that are considering sending search expeditions to the area where the crash apparently happened, hoping to find the Boeing 777, which disappeared 8 years ago.
To the question of whether he believes we will eventually know what happened?: “There are many answers to the questions ‘what happened’ and ‘where’ – but we don’t know why,” according to him, “there was an active pilot until the last moment of the flight who deliberately diverted the plane and navigated him to the waters of the Indian Ocean, until the fuel runs out, to a place that is far from any inhabited area.”