planeandpilotmag.com 13After all, the jet began diverting
from its light path without any com-
munications with ATC, and it didn’t
fly randomly away from the filed
light plan—it overlew a number of
other waypoints, something it’s hard
to explain if mechanical failure were
the culprit.
Investigators have also pointed out
that the plane avoided the airspace
of neighboring countries, indicating,
again, that it was being deliberately
lown to avoid radar detection.
Also, by using a complex analysis of
the plane’s response to an automated
attempt by a satellite communications
service to establish a connection with
the 777, investigators were able to piece
together a probable track for the plane.
hat track would have almost certainly
taken it out over the Indian Ocean far
from any possible landing spot.
But perhaps the most compelling
piece of evidence was a part of a wing
section that would have been crushed
in a nose-down impact but was instead
in nearly pristine condition, which sug-
gests that when the plane did crash into
the ocean, it was under human control.
REMOTE CONTROL AND
OTHER REMOTE THEORIES
here are other theories about why and
how Flight 370 disappeared. he lat-
est one is the unsubstantiated notion
that the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing
Company, has the secret ability to
wrest control of a plane from hijackers
by using remote operating software.
Some of the people who subscribe to
this theory believe that this hack was
done by bad actors, and others think
it was a governmental power that took
over and crashed the plane. It’s theoreti-
cally possible for this to happen, but it’s
highly unlikely that such capabilities
exist on commercially ielded aircraft.
Furthermore, if plane makers did have
this power, wouldn’t they want potential
hijackers to know it in order to prevent
the hijacking before it got started and
not when it was already in progress?
Another even farther-fetched theory is
that the plane was lown in secret to a
remote base, landed there, and all the
occupants were taken hostage. Why
anyone would have undertaken this
elaborate scheme is unknown.
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It is most likely that Malaysia Flight 370 was commandeered by the captain
and lown far to the southwest of its original course, into a remote part of
the Indian Ocean, where it crash landed after running out of fuel. he parts
recovered on remote islands east of the calculated crash site support this
conclusion, as do the probable actions and inactions of the crew, as well as
the change to and nature of the plane’s ultimate route into the most remote
ocean setting on the face of the earth. Will the airplane ever be found? It’s
unlikely, but people are still looking, even today, four years after the disap-
pearance of the light, testimony to the enduring attraction of this most
mysterious of the many mysteries of light.