Mystery of MH370: New evidence suggests plane's landing gear was down, making it sink faster
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: Experts assert that because the landing gear on the missing airplane MH370 was down, the pilot may have intentionally crashed into the water to fast sink the aircraft. Since the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane crashed in March 2014 while carrying 239 people somewhere over the Indian Ocean, numerous theories have been making rounds.
The theory that circulated frequently has focused on the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, suggesting that it was a premeditated act. A landing gear door was discovered in a Madagascan fisherman's hands last month. Experts claim it is the first piece of evidence discovered that suggests one of the Malaysian Airlines pilots behaved purposefully. The door has been recognized as a trunnion door, a part of a Boeing 777. It most likely entered the malfunctioning engines of the aircraft. According to experts, this increases the likelihood that the landing gear was lowered at the time of the aircraft's collision with the water, as reported by The Times. Despite the fact that the important piece of evidence was not discovered until December 12, calls for a thorough inquiry into the disappearance of the plane, its 12 Malaysian crew members, and its 227 passengers from 14 different nations on March 8, 2014, have already been made. All are believed to be dead.
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When it was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the Boeing 777 vanished from radar sensors. Military radar monitored the plane when it unexpectedly deviated from its intended flight path and flew across the Strait of Malacca before losing contact. After years of speculation on the cause, research by American wreckage hunter Blaine Gibson and British engineer Richard Godfrey suggests that MH370 likely crashed fast and on purpose. Pilots are instructed to maintain the landing gear retracted for a controlled, low-speed impact should an airliner be required to perform an emergency water landing. The flaps of MH370 are not thought to have been retracted when it landed in the southern Indian Ocean, experts stated based on the new data. One of the pilots most certainly triggered the immediate break-up of the aircraft's fuselage by purposefully extending the landing gear.
According to The Times, this would have increased the likelihood that the airline would collapse swiftly. Survivors, if any, would have had a short window of opportunity to leave. Godfrey previously stated that pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah changed his course and speed on purpose in order to avoid "giving a clear idea where he was heading." His most recent discoveries only strengthen the hypothesis that one of the pilots was responsible for the airliner's disappearance. According to Shah's friends, the pilot was "lonely and sad" and thought to be "clinically depressed." There have been 36 fragments of the MH370 debris found in total. Nineteen of those 36 were discovered in Madagascar after washing ashore. According to The Times, the most recently discovered component, a 32 by 28-inch landing gear door, looks to be compatible with those seen on Boeing 777 aircraft.
