MH370: Experts claim it was crashed deliberately
One mystery is solved, but a bigger mystery follows as the search for Malaysia Airlines’ MH370 focuses on the spot in the southern Indian Ocean where the Boeing 777 is believed to have come down.
The question now being asked is: How can one of the world’s safest aircraft flown by an experienced and highly-rated airline end up in the ocean after abandoning its regular flight route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing?
Sources close to investigation have told The Daily Telegraph that a team working on the MH370 mystery believe it was crashed deliberately
The team investigating the plane’s disappearance believes no malfunction or fire was capable of causing the aircraft’s unusual flight or the disabling of its communications system before it veered wildly off course on a seven-hour silent flight into the sea.
An analysis of the flight’s routing, signalling and communications shows that it was flown "in a rational way".
An official source told The Telegraph that investigators believe "this has been a deliberate act by someone on board who had to have had the detailed knowledge to do what was done … Nothing is emerging that points to motive."
Unidentified objects have been seen in separate parts of the search area, although bad weather in the Indian Ocean has disrupted the search for the plane.
The plane vanished from radar screens more than two weeks after leaving Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers on board.
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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