On Monday night, when he announced that Flight MH370 had practically crashed into the sea, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak put paid to any glimmer of hope that the plane might somehow return and help us unravel the mystery of its disappearance.
Najib said satellite data released by Inmarsat indicated that the plane had “ended its flight” in the southern part of the vast Indian Ocean.
We can therefore conclude that it flew for a good eight hours till it ran out of fuel and plunged into the sea.
And that conclusion supports the following assumptions made earlier by aviation experts and other commentators:
We can rule out a fire as well as a mechanical or electrical fault.
There was an aviation expert manoeuvring the plane for the entire period.
The air turn back was deliberate since the plane maintained a cruising altitude to reach the southern Indian Ocean.
All communication tools were disabled on purpose.
The turn back was executed during the grey period that the flight passed from Malaysian to Vietnamese air traffic control.
From official statements, we also know the following:
The Royal Malaysia Air Force detected the plane on radar but let it fly its course since it was found to be “non-hostile”. The military authorities of other countries, except Thailand, claimed they never detected the plane in their air space.
It took five days for the Malaysian government to confirm early data from Inmarsat suggesting that MH370 was nowhere near the South China Sea.
In the past week, the Royal Australian Air Force was given full charge of the entire search operation with rather full confidence it had the right leads based on unconfirmed satellite images of two floating objects.
The flight captain had a passion for aviation and had assembled his own flight simulator.
From this point onwards, we can expect more assumptions and theories to emerge that would be based on the parameters listed above.
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