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I’m an MH370 expert – Doomed jet was shot down by US Air Force in bid to stop secret tech reaching China
AN MH370 expert has claimed the doomed jet was shot down by the US Air Force in a bid to stop secret tech reaching China.
Investigative journalist Florence de Changy said the Americans tried to intercept the plane by using signal jamming technology - which resulted in 239 passengers vanishing in 2014.
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In her book The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370, she details her theories from seven years of intense research into one of the greatest aviation mystery's in history.
De Changy said she believes the official version of events is shrouded in deceit.
It comes as a three-part documentary examining the theories behind the mysterious disappearance of the plane airs on Channel 5 this week over three consecutive nights.
Flight MH370: The Vanishing also hears tragic stories from the families of the crew and passengers.
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The official script for the Boeing-777's disappearance suggests the plane executed a dramatic U-turn less than an hour into its planned flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing - before plummeting into the Indian Ocean.
But de Changy has branded the finding a "diversion operation" which is "the biggest cover-up in recent times".
In the 400-page publication, the French reporter suggests the US Air Force attempted to ambush the plane by intercepting tracking technology to cause the aircraft to disappear from radar screens.
She believes the MH370 was carrying a shipment of "electronic equipment" over to China - which the US did not approve of.
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The book claims it was shot down after a failed attempt at re-routing its course, and the matter has been feverishly covered-up ever since.
She believes the shipment included 2.5 tonnes of "poorly documented Motorola electronics equipment" which belonged to the United States.
Beijing caught wind of the delivery and decided to make a bid for it by re-routing the aircraft through Kuala Lumpar before it headed to China's sprawling capital.
In a game of tit-for-tat, US authorities allegedly opted to intercept the cargo by forcing the MH7370 to land and swiping it - before sending it on its way.
Two US Airborne Early Warning planes could have crowded the Malaysian plane from above and below to block it's magnetic field and make it invisible, she said.
She said: "The shooting down could have been a blunder, but it could have also been a last resort to stop the plane and its special cargo from falling into Chinese hands."
The author credits her hypothesis to her thorough research into the investigation that she says was botched from the very beginning.
She began covering the enigma in March 2014, when a £110million search of 50,000 square miles of the depths of the Indian Ocean was led by Australia up until 2017.
"When it came to the art of bungling a search operation and providing deliberate or accidental misinformation, Australia ran Malaysia pretty close," the journalist said.
According to de Changy, the details of the missing jet were "assembled like a jigsaw puzzle over subsequent weeks, months and years, in the light of information that was released in dribs and drabs, for the most part diluted in an ocean of false or inaccurate data".
She boldly declared: "The advance of truth has been crippled from day one."
"'It was not possible for a Boeing 777 to have simply disappeared."
DOGGED BY DEATH THREATS
It comes as Blaine Gibson, who tracked down the first piece of debris from missing Malaysian airline MH370 in 2015, said he was dogged by death threats and followed by shadowy figures as he continued his search.
Speaking in MH370: The Vanishing, Blaine said he feared "someone who was trying to prevent Malaysia MH370 from being found might take violent action against me… but I didn’t know who".
He said: "I started to get death threats from anonymous people. Things like ‘No plane, no Blaine’ and telling me to give up my search.
“One made a call to a friend of mine saying I would not leave Madagascar alive.
“I was being followed and I was being photographed and, yes, it’s very disturbing. It’s intimidating.”
The documentary also hears the story of Ghyslain Wattrelos, who lost wife Laurence, 51, and two of their three children, Hadrien, 17, and Ambre, 13, in the disaster.
The French dad, who lived in Beijing at the time, revealed the final, heart-breaking text his daughter sent before boarding the doomed flight after a holiday in Malaysia with her mum and brother.
"A friend of my daughter’s called me and sent me the last SMS sent by Ambre,” he said.
"It said, ‘My vacation is over but I am very happy because tomorrow I will see my dad'."
Working with Blaine, the grieving dad began to believe the Malaysian authorities or the Chinese were covering up the true position of the likely crash, as they didn’t want the plane found.
“Somewhere in this world someone knows what happened and it’s not just one person, It’s a big story. It’s a dirty story and it involves many countries,” he said.
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"I strongly believe there was something or someone on the plane they did not want to arrive in Beijing so they shot down that plane."
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Despite the abundance of conspiracy theories, most experts in the programme conclude that deliberate action by Captain Zaharie is the most likely cause of the crash.
Flight MH370: The Vanishing airs over three nights on Channel 5
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