Missing Malaysian Boeing 777 last. Boeing with a mystery in the ocean: the almost three-year search for missing flight MH370 has been stopped

British virtual tracker Ian Wilson is a video engineer by profession. He discovered an object similar to an airplane using the Google Maps resource. I saw him lying in the inaccessible jungles of Cambodia.

A photo in which the virtual tracker spotted the plane.

Yang has no doubt: this object is the plane - most likely the same one - the Malaysian Boeing 777-200, which on March 8, 2014, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared in the most mysterious way along with 239 passengers.

Based on the contours of the discovered airliner, it was the right one. Only almost 6 meters longer - not 63.7 meters, but 70.

The tail fell off, the tracker explains, and lies a little further from the fuselage. Hence the "extension".

The main objection of skeptics: the photo from space used by Google Maps could have been accidentally captured by a plane flying over the jungle. In addition, four years have passed since the loss, quite enough for lush tropical vegetation to completely hide the liner. And it’s strange that the car in the photo is almost intact. Even if the plane had not crashed from a great height, but had tried to land in the jungle, it would most likely have broken into several large fragments.

No,” Wilson dismisses doubts. Like, I checked it using one of the resource options - “escape ground view”. The plane is down.

Could the virtual tracker have “stumbled upon” not MH370, but some other Boeing 777-200? Excluded - no other similar ones fell in this area of ​​Cambodia. At least aviation experts know nothing about such disasters.

Wilson said he would like to get to the crash site he discovered himself. After all, Malaysian and Australian specialists, who, albeit to no avail, are officially busy searching for the remains of the liner, as a rule, do not respond to the “signals” of virtual trackers. Or they brush them off.

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And here's another Boeing

Competing with Wilson is Australian Peter McMahon, who has long been passionate about investigating aircraft accidents. Using Google Maps, he also saw the silhouette of a crashed Malaysian Boeing. But in another place - under water. If he gets to it, he will have to dive.

In March 2018, McMahon pointed out: The Boeing lies in shallow water about 16 kilometers south of Round Island, one of the Seychelles. The satellite photo shows both the wings and the fuselage.

The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau told McMahon that the plane he discovered could well be the one he was looking for. But no action was taken. The Malaysian authorities also responded. But more harshly: they asked not to mislead people.

McMahon somehow saw that the fuselage of the airliner was full of holes. It’s as if it’s been pierced by machine-gun fire.

And one more

In 2016, the Malaysian Boeing was found by Scott Waring, a famous ufologist and virtual archaeologist among those who look for anomalies in images transmitted from other planets, for example, from Mars.

Scott assures that he did not specifically search for the missing airliner. I was looking for traces UFO, which were spotted in the Cape area Good Hope(Cape of Good Hope) in 2013. And for this purpose, I looked at photographs of the area posted on Google Earth. I saw the outline of the plane. He lies under water. Almost whole.

TALLINN, March 7 – Sputnik. A Boeing 777-200 airliner of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, flying jointly with the Chinese China Southern Airlines flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (China), disappeared from radar screens at 02:40 Malaysian time on March 8, 2014 (March 7, 22:40 Moscow time), without giving any signals about problems on board, other problems or a change course. The last message from the plane was: “Everything is fine, good night.”

At the time of last contact - literally a minute before entering Vietnam's air control zone - the airliner was over the South China Sea 220 kilometers from east coast Malaysia. The weather in the area of ​​the disappearance was good. The plane was flown by experienced pilots (the captain, 53-year-old Malaysian Zachary Ahmad Shah, had worked at MAS since 1981, with almost 18,500 hours of flight time; 27-year-old co-pilot Farik Ab Namid had 2,763 hours of flight time). The airliner underwent a full inspection just ten days before this flight.

On board the missing plane were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three US citizens, two each New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one resident each from Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, the real nationality of at least two of those on board was then called into question due to evidence that they used stolen passports. According to Interpol, the two Iranians were traveling on the passports of an Austrian and an Italian. According to the international law enforcement organization, they were not related to terrorists, but were heading to Europe as illegal migrants.

Among the 227 passengers on the plane, 20 were employees of one company - Freescale Semiconductor, a former subsidiary of Motorola, headquartered in Texas (USA), which produces semiconductor equipment, including components for defense equipment and on-board navigation systems.

The missing Boeing was carrying not only passengers, but also more than seven tons of cargo, some of which was not named. transportation documents. The plane was carrying 4,566 tons of mangosteens (the fruit of a tropical tree), as well as a shipment of lithium batteries (200 kilograms), which was part of a separate cargo that weighed 2.4 tons. A Malaysian Airlines spokesman said the cargo consisted of "radio accessories and chargers."

The transportation of the unknown cargo was ordered by the Beijing branch of the logistics company HHR Global Logistics, but another company, JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd, had to pick up the delivered goods on its behalf.

The investigation into the fate of MH370 is being carried out by an independent body led by Malaysia, the state of registry and operator of the aircraft, with assistance from seven countries: the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.

According to the investigation, the airliner remained in flight for several hours after air traffic controllers lost contact with it, and made three turns, one of them to the left. As a result, the plane headed west, and then south, towards Antarctica.

Experts reconstructed the plane's route using military radar records. Means of objective control (radar of the Royal Air Force base at west coast Malacca Peninsula) recorded that flight MH370 did not fly for long in the direction of Beijing. Above the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, located near the coast South China Sea, the liner changed course and crossed Malaysia for the second time in the opposite, southwestern direction. Radars lost it over the Gulf of Malacca, south of the city Kuala Lumpur.

About 40 minutes into the flight, someone turned off the plane's navigation instruments, communications with ground services, even the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) system, which is accessible only from the cockpit.

Almost at the same time, the airliner strayed from its intended course, remaining unnoticed in air traffic control zones.

The board indicated its existence in space only by electronic messages to Inmarsat satellites. According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, after the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200, Inmarsat telecommunications satellites received electronic pulses from the on-board terminal for another seven hours, informing about the status of the aircraft's systems. Later, based on analysis of satellite information, Inmarsat concluded that the flight could have ended in the southern part of Indian Ocean.

Signals from the missing plane's black boxes were not recorded. Meanwhile, under favorable circumstances, they should have been heard several hundred miles away.

A full-scale search and rescue operation was organized to search for the missing airliner. 26 countries took part in it, including Russia.

A massive multinational search and rescue operation was carried out sequentially, first in the South China Sea, then in the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea, and when results could not be achieved there, searchers focused on a wide area in the southern Indian Ocean. The joint actions of almost 80 ships and aircraft from 15 countries of the world, dozens of satellites, hundreds of fishing vessels, ground monitoring stations, hundreds of thousands of “cyber volunteers” and even sorcerers on the anniversary of the tragedy did not produce the slightest result: not even the tiniest fragment of the missing airliner was found and drops of fuel from its tanks.

At the end of January 2015, the department civil aviation Malaysia officially declared everyone on board the airliner dead and what happened to the plane as an accident.

On March 8, 2015, on the anniversary of the tragedy, an expert report was published on the results of a year-long investigation into the disappearance of the airliner, conducted by order of the Malaysian Ministry of Transport. It contained many technical details, such as the fact that the power source for the underwater acoustic beacon had expired a year before the plane disappeared, but it is not clear whether this fact had any impact on the investigation. In addition, in the published report, experts came to the conclusion that there were no technical anomalies on board and that the aircraft crew had nothing to blame. Experts noted that the 580-page report is interim and technical, since the most massive and expensive search operation in world history has not yet led to success.

By that time, the Malaysian authorities alone had spent about 20 million euros searching for the missing airliner.

In April 2015, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China participating in search operation, announced the decision to double the search area, as a result of which it was expanded to 120 thousand square kilometers. At that time, more than half of the priority zone at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (more than 50 thousand square kilometers) had been surveyed. However, despite the use of sophisticated sonar equipment and assistance from the governments of a number of countries, by that time no traces of the aircraft could be found. The first discovery in 16 months as part of the investigation into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 was a fragment of a wing (flaperon designed to control the roll angle), found on July 29, 2015 at French island Reunion in the Indian Ocean is thousands of kilometers from the area of ​​the main exploration work being carried out near Australia. The wreckage of an unidentified plane was found by beach cleaners near the city of San Andre. It was filled with shells, indicating a long stay in the water.

After studying the found fragment of the plane, specialists from the Australian-led Search Coordination Center (JACC), Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and the French prosecutor's office confirmed that it belongs to the missing airliner.

By the end of 2015, 80 thousand square kilometers of the search area were surveyed. Other debris was also found in the Indian Ocean.

In the summer of 2016, new versions of the plane crash appeared. In July, the media, citing Malaysian police documents, reported that the pilot of the Malaysian airliner MH370, Zachary Ahmad Shah, flew on a simulator in southern part Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane disappeared, presumably in the same area. According to the documents, Malaysian police provided the FBI with hard drives on which the pilot recorded routes practiced in a homemade home flight simulator. Investigators believe the path taken by MH370's commander is largely consistent with the one the plane may have followed before it disappeared. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai later said there was no evidence that the pilot of the missing airliner intentionally sent it into the ocean.

In August, Australian media, citing an analysis by the Australian Department of Defense, reported that a Boeing 777-200 fell into the Indian Ocean at high speed, which may indicate an uncontrolled crash. According to the automatic signals that the airliner gave in the last minutes of the flight, the plane fell "very quickly - at speeds of up to 20 thousand feet per minute (6096 meters per minute)." Experts concluded that the crash occurred after the plane ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire - "first the left one, and 15 minutes later the right one."

On January 17, 2017, representatives of Australia, Malaysia and China agreed to suspend the search for the missing Malaysian Boeing MH370, which had been going on for more than two years. According to the joint statement of the three states, despite all efforts made, the use of the latest technologies, modeling techniques and consultations of highly qualified and best-in-class specialists, the aircraft could not be found during the search.

Malaysia has allowed individuals and organizations to conduct the search for the missing MH370.

At the end of February 2017, 25 pieces of MH370 debris had been confirmed. Malaysia has reached a memorandum of understanding with African countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. According to the agreement, the African side pledged to help recover any likely debris that might wash up on its shores.

The team investigating the disappearance of the plane is preparing a final report, which will be published within a year.

“An Asian passenger of the dramatic flight MH370, who escaped from captivity near Kandahar, reached a village called Shahraz (to be specified). In about a week, data about this will be transferred to China (it is not known whether this will become public knowledge worldwide). As it turned out, the purpose of the sudden hijacking of the Malaysian Boeing 777-200-ER airliner was to suppress the American side’s attempt by a group of special specialists to get from Malaysia to China.” An anonymous source in the special services told an MK correspondent about this in a confidential manner. This information is published in the world media for the first time.

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The day before, a source from the intelligence services told MK on condition of anonymity that, according to available data, the hijacked passengers of the airliner that suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014, flying flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing began to die due to unbearable conditions of detention.

In the first ten days of April, MK, citing special services, reported that the nickname of the attacker who forced the Boeing pilots to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane, on board which carried a total of 239 people, was Hich. Nothing was known about his accomplices. The pilots of flight MH370 were not guilty of the hijacking, a fairly authoritative source from the intelligence services assured the MK correspondent on condition of anonymity.

The Boeing 777-200ER, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing (route length - 4417 km), suddenly disappeared on March 8, 2014. Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines flew jointly with

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The missing Boeing 777 flew for several more hours after the crew “lost” communication with dispatchers.

Chinese China Southern Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board from 14 countries, including 5 children under 5 years of age and 12 crew members (including two pilots). The majority of passengers - 153 - were Chinese citizens (one was a permanent resident of Hong Kong). Among the passengers was the only Russian - 43-year-old businessman Nikolai Brodsky from Irkutsk. He was returning from a vacation in Bali, where he had been diving. Four people who had tickets for this flight were late for check-in and did not get on the plane. At least two passengers (Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel), who were on the lists, were not on board: the Iranians, Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyed-Mohammadreza, purchased tickets using their passports and boarded the flight .

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 at 00:41:13 local time. At 01:19:24, Kuala Lumpur Control handed over flight MH370 to controllers in Ho Chi Minh City, which was confirmed by the airliner's crew. IN last time flight MH370 was detected on radar at 01:21:13, but the pilots did not contact air traffic controllers in Ho Chi Minh City. After this, contact with the plane was completely lost. At 01:38, Vietnamese air traffic controllers asked their colleagues in Kuala Lumpur where flight MH370 had gone?

After unsuccessful attempts to locate the missing plane, Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers contacted Malaysia Airlines flight control at 02:15, where they assumed that the plane was in Cambodian airspace. However, controllers at the Cambodian ATM center noted that the crew did not contact them. Vietnamese dispatchers, in turn, emphasized that according to the flight plan, the Boeing 777 airliner was not supposed to fly through Cambodian airspace. Over the next few hours, dispatchers and airline representatives tried in vain to establish any communication with the plane and determine its location. As a result, after four hours of unsuccessful attempts, a request was sent at 05:30 to begin an official search and rescue operation.

There are seven known messages received from flight MH370 via the Aeronautical Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) following the loss of contact with the airliner, including the last one at 08:19.

So, to this day, no one knows anything about flight MH-370. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed to continue the search for the missing plane, which will now be more focused on studying the seabed (April searches in the Indian Ocean did not bring results).

At the end of April, tired of the uncertainty and unconvincing methods of searching for the missing airliner with a letter about checking the version of the location of the missing plane, put forward for the first time (March 31) by the Russian newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” (website) with reference to anonymous sources in the special services. Extra-exclusive information from "MK" was urgently made public in various languages ​​and was instantly disseminated by the world's media (an example and another example), blogs and social networks (in various languages ​​of the world).

An expert in the field of investigation of aviation accidents from the Center for Scientific and Technical Research and Expertise (Moscow), the most experienced Soviet-Russian aviator Evgeny Kuzminov explained to the MK correspondent that “such an aircraft could easily land on an ordinary dirt road of a less dense surface about 2000 meters long . Although, of course, for this there must be free approaches to runway- that is, there should be no trees and mountains. With a hard landing on a “bad” surface, of course, the landing gear could break or even the wing could break” (the estimated weight of the hijacked Boeing 777-200ER with passengers, crew and cargo is about 200 tons). Evgeny Kuzminov recalled a similar airliner landing that took place in the USSR in 1968, as a result of which.

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This information was not published in the world media : " A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by "unknown terrorists" and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed to an Intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The source told the paper: "Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch "The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan." Moskovsky Komsomolets also claims the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food. Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan .

Meanwhile, the investigation, which was carried out by Malaysia along with seven other countries - the US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia, showed that after the plane became inaccessible to radar, it spent another 7 hours in flight. The last contact took place over the Gulf of Malacca, south of Kuala Lumpur. After approximately 40 minutes, communications with ground services were lost, including the ACARS system, accessible only from the cockpit. Only electronic messages continued to arrive from the on-board terminal to the Inmarsat satellites. It was thanks to them that it became known that over the Malaysian city of Kota Bharu, the Boeing changed course, crossed Malaysia for the second time in a southwestern direction and headed south. The flight is believed to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean. The last signal from the board was received by satellites at 8:15 local time. The black box signals were never recorded.