Missing plane MH370 dived from the air, new analysis shows
Staff writers, News Corp Australia Network
20 minutes ago
NEW analysis of automated signals from MH370 has revealed the missing plane took a massive dive at up to 20,000 feet a minute, as it plunged into the sea.
The Australian reports that Defence scientists found the crash occurred at 8.19am (WA local time) on March 9, 2014 in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia, after the plane ran out of fuel.
The plane’s left engine flamed out first and then the right went about 15 minutes later.
.....simulation tests by Boeing showed that after the plane’s engines lost power, MH370 would have slowed and lost lift.
The plane’s nose would have dropped and it would have plunged into downward swoops where it would have gathered speed and lifted, then fell down repeatedly before hitting the ocean.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Greg Hood told The Australian that
the pilot would not have been in control of the plane when it crashed.
The new data comes as Malaysian officials said that one of MH370’s pilots plotted a path over the Indian Ocean on a home flight simulator, but warned this did not prove he deliberately crashed the plane.
Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had used a homemade flight simulator to plot a very similar course to MH370’s presumed final route, said Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.
But he emphasised this was
just one of thousands of practice routes discovered on Zaharie’s hard drive.
“There is no evidence to confirm that (the pilot) flew the plane into the southern Indian Ocean,” he said.
“We have also seen some analysis from the French that suggests that it’s a possibility that
(the flaperon) was in a deployed state,” Peter Foley, the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB)’s head of MH370 search operations, told Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes."