Latest ‘MH370’ debris suggests plane exploded over water
Canadian flight-crash investigator Larry Vance tells the Telegraph and Der Spiegel that a rogue pilot was responsible for the missing plane.
Viljoen, who has handed his find to the police, said that he wants to look for more debris which may be related to the missing plane, according to straight.com and the UK-based The Sun.
“It’s kind of almost like a triangular shape,” said the tour operator. “It probably stands about a metre wide and about, from point to point, maybe a metre long. So, it’s quite big.”
It’s just the one very big piece that I have found so far, he added. “I am going to be going up and down our coastline with my boat and trying to see if there’s more.”
It was not immediately known whether the find was related to MH370.
The Sun recalled that Canadian flight-crash investigator Larry Vance told the Telegraph and Der Spiegel earlier this month that a rogue pilot was behind the missing plane. He based his theory on damage suffered by one of the plane’s flaperons – high-lift devices – along the trailing edges but not the leading edges.
“The flaps were extended when the aircraft hit the water,” Vance told Der Spiegel. “The trailing edge was dragged over water for some time—some seconds—to erode the trailing edges of those pieces.”
“This evidence is easy to read.”
Vance explained that only an experienced Boeing 777 pilot could have landed the aircraft on water by directing the flaperon from the cockpit to be extended before it hit the surface of the ocean.
“Somebody wanted that airplane to land on the surface of the ocean in such a way that the fuselage stayed intact, so that everything would go to the bottom, never to be found or seen again,” Vance added.
He said all the talk of this being aviation’s biggest mystery made him angry. “There’s absolutely no mystery to what happened.”
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014 between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. There were 239 people on board the plane.
It’s known the plane stopped short of Vietnam before turning around, flew across the Malay peninsula and over Pulau Perak in the Straits of Malacca before making for the northern tip of Sumatra.
It’s anybody’s guess where the plane went after that.
Pings – electronic handshakes – between the plane and a satellite suggests that it made for the 7th Arc in the southern Indian Ocean, off southwestern Australia.
A three-nation hunt for the missing plane over 120,000 sq km found no sign of the plane in the 110,000 sq km covered so far. Australia, leading the search assisted by Malaysia and China, hope to scour the remaining 10,000 sq km by Christmas Day.
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Most of the passengers on board MH370 were from China. There were six Australian nationals and permanent residents on board the plane.