The missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was not deliberately brought down by the pilot, Australian investigators said, reported the BBC.
Recent speculation that the jet was the subject of a “controlled ditching” into the sea was dismissed investigators. The bureau maintains that the pilot was unconscious during the final moments.
The passenger plane disappeared in 2014 while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. The official search for the wreckage of MH370, also involving Malaysia and China, was called off in January last year after 1,046 days.
Investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) have said that the plane was out of control when it plunged into the southern Indian Ocean.
However, the theory that the pilot was in full control of the plane at the time of the crash has recently been revived in a new book by former Canadian air crash investigator Larry Vance.
Vance, told Australia’s 60 Minutes programme, that the ATSB investigation was flawed and its conclusions of the aircraft’s final moments are wrong. “He [the pilot] was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately,” Vance told 60 Minutes.
