Six years after the disappearance, there are still numerous theories about what happened to the plane. Despite several multinational searches, only a few fragments of the aircraft were found - those that appeared on the beaches of East Africa thousands of kilometers west.
The Malaysian plane MH370 with 239 passengers and crew members disappeared on March 8, 2014, on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. An official investigation concluded that the plane most likely flew south and crashed into the Indian Ocean. However, during the intensive search of the area, no plane wrecks were found, which is why many concluded that something in the investigation was incorrect. The unknown fate of the Malaysian plane represents one of the darkest and deadliest tragedies of aviation.
Six years after the disappearance, there are still numerous theories about what happened to the plane. Despite several multinational searches, only a few fragments of the aircraft were found - those that appeared on the beaches of East Africa thousands of kilometers west.
Russia is behind the disappearance?
Science journalist Jeff Weiss claims that the culprit for the tragedy should be sought in the Russian intelligence service. He claims that the plane actually flew to the north, instead of to the south, and that it ended up in Kazakhstan, a close ally of Russia. Incredible coincidence is just one of the reasons why this theory could be true.
In the weeks before the Malaysian plane disappeared, Russia annexed Crimea, and because of that, it was under criticism from the entire international community. European and US officials have condemned military interference in Ukraine.
The journalist wrote that in his book "The Plane That Wasn't There".
- Indeed, in the weeks before the disappearance of MH370, we saw an incredible critical language from European and American officials in response to the Russian movement in Ukraine - Weiss wrote.
After that, on March 6, US President Barack Obama took punitive actions, signing an executive order imposing sanctions against "individuals and entities responsible for activities that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded, stating that Russia would respond in kind. He said that their actions "would inevitably hit the United States like a boomerang".
The next day, the Malaysian plane disappeared.
It is therefore possible that the MH370 was used to strike at Americans or to divert attention from the escalating crisis.
In this way, the timing itself is questionable - but it is not the only questionable factor that implies the Russians.
The fact that the plane could have interrupted the trip to Kazakhstan leads to the obvious question "why".
Another amazing coincidence is, based on satellite data, that the only country in which the plane could probably land, if not in international waters, is the country that is Russia's biggest ally in the world.
The President of Kazakhstan at that time, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was the only national leader who publicly gave his support to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the annexation of Crimea.
Moreover, satellite data indicate that the plane could have landed in the area of the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Baikonur is a space port in the south of Kazakhstan that was leased to Russia.
Nearby is the Jubilee Airport with a runway intended for the landing of drones.
All this information points to the fact that, if Russia managed to hijack the plane, Baikonur in Kazakhstan would be a very good place to land.
Immediately after the disappearance of the Boeing 777, the Malaysian authorities asked all countries that had citizens on the plane to conduct a background check of the same. Everyone did it, except Russia and Ukraine.
On May 1, 2014, the Malaysian government published a list of the names of all passengers, along with their citizenship and assigned seat. Russia had only one citizen on the plane - Nikolai Brodsky - who was sitting in the seat of business class 3K.
A mysterious traveler
His wife Elena gave several interviews to the local media after MH370 disappeared, in which she said that she was sure that her husband was still alive.
"He will come back one day and tell everything," Elena said.
He was investigated by journalist Weiss.
While he managed to discover little about the two Ukrainian citizens on the flight, he learned about the Russian that it was a 43-year-old businessman from Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia.
At the time of his disappearance, he was returning from an 11-day trip to Bali. However, this is unusual, because he preferred diving in cold water, and not a long trip abroad because of diving in warm water.
Although Weiss believes that the Russian military intelligence service is behind the disappearance of MH370, he did not imply that Brodsky was involved in that. Although he was the only Russian on the flight, there is no evidence of military ties and it is possible that he gave the GRU agent a fake passport who had another citizenship.
The captain ordered the passengers of the plane to be poisoned?
Among the latest theories, there is an assumption that the captain of the plane ordered that passengers be put something in tea, in order to be disabled, claims the Egyptian aviation expert Ismail Hamad for "Daily Sun".
- I think that what was common to all travelers is the love for tea, especially for that drink from Malaysia. Most likely, the hijacker of the plane disabled the people on the plane by pouring something into that drink - claims Hamad, talking about the alleged hijacking of the Malays Airlines plane.
Although parts of the plane were found near Madagascar and islands in the Indian Ocean, Hamad claims that the hijacker, ie the hijackers, sent the plane to the Philippines, since it is an archipelago with more than 7,600 islands. Most of these islands are uninhabited.
The pilot wanted to create the biggest mystery
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims that he believes that the pilot deliberately shot down the MH370, wanting to create the biggest mystery in the world.
- The most probable scenario is that the suicide pilot wanted to take the plane as far as possible to the opposite side, to the south, and shot down the plane so that no one could find it. Unfortunately, we have no evidence of that, he said at the time.
The small amount of evidence that exists mostly indicates this scenario and the pilot's intention to lose the plane. According to him, a piece of the wing found on Reunion Island, 3,000 miles from the area being searched, indicates an extraordinary position that only a pilot could choose for a plane crash at full speed.
The truth will be unknown until the wreck is found
"It is difficult to find out the truth of what happened to the missing flight MH370 until the plane or its wreck is found," said Inspector Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador.
The Inspector General of Police, who was part of the investigation team at the time, said that the police investigated the case from all angles, including theories of terrorism and kidnapping.
I think it was an accident.