Doomed MH370 plane may have ‘crashed in the OPPOSITE direction after satellite data was FAKED to hide its flight path’, expert claims
DOOMED passenger jet MH370 may actually have travelled NORTH after its satellite data was tampered with to hide its flight path, an expert has claimed.
The airliner, which mysteriously disappeared mid-flight in 2014 after vanishing from radar screens, is thought to have travelled towards the southern Indian Ocean.
This assessment was based heavily on data from Inmarsat, the British operator of a satellite network which tracked the jet's "pings" to the ocean off the Western Australian coast.
But Jeff Wise says that these may have been interpreted incorrectly, or tampered with by a hijacker, which if true would mean the four-year, £250million hunt for the jet has been in the wrong location.
The aviation expert and former CNN pundit has also doubled down on the theory since Malaysia released its official findings into the plane's disappearance in late July.
On his , Mr Wise writes there is a single known way the Inmarsat data could have been falsified on board the plane.
He writes: "This falsification would make the plane look like it was heading south when it was really heading north and would explain why an exhaustive quarter-billion-dollar search of the southern seabed found no trace of the plane."
This required altering the burst timing offset (BFO) data - a measurement of how far the plane was from the Insarmat satellite during the "pings".
He argues this could have been done by a person accessing the plane's Electronics and Equipment Bay from the first class cabin.
Although this would require highly technical knowledge, from there they could change the BFO values and even take over the flight controls, he says.
Mr Wise also addresses claims that the person flying the jet initially turned north then turned south before disappearing from radar in a bid to avoid other air traffic.
Wise writes: "That is absurd - there was no conflicting traffic, and anyway it would be very simple to avoid any such hypothetical traffic by flying at a nonstandard altitude.
"A simpler explanation is that they turned to the north because they were heading north."
Referring to illustrations outlining why the searches took place off the coast of Australia, he adds: "The absence of the plane in this area could have told the authorities two years ago that something was up – and that would have been the right time to start being suspicious about the Inmarsat data."
His claims about the plane turning north - which he outlined as early as 2015 - come despite the Malaysian Government releasing its "final"; MH370 report in July.
The document showed the doomed aircraft was deliberately turned off course and plunged into the Indian Ocean.
Investigators have concluded that the autopilot on the plane had “to be disengaged", and it was turned off course deliberately.
Although it noted this may have been done by a "third party", it did not assign blame and noted there wasn't evidence to suggest Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately downed it.
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Mr Wise writes: "It’s easy to see that the Malaysian Government, which happens to own Malaysian Airlines, would have a vested interest in drawing blame away from the pilots.
"But it’s nonetheless significant that the official final report in this case undermines what has become the consensus view, namely that Zaharie took the plane.
"I hardly need point out that the only technically informed theory about MH370 than (sic) posits a third-party hijacking is my own."
MH370 - WHAT HAPPENED?
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading to Beijing with 239 people on board.
Passengers included Chinese calligraphers, a couple on their way home to their young sons after a long-delayed honeymoon and a construction worker who hadn't been home in a year.
But at 12.14am on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines lost contact with MH370 close to Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca.
Before that, Malaysian authorities believe the last words heard from the plane, from either the pilot or co-pilot, was "Good night Malaysian three seven zero".
Satellite "pings" from the aircraft suggest it continued flying for around seven hours when the fuel would have run out.
Experts have calculated the most likely crash site around 1,000 miles west of Perth, Australia.
But a huge search of the seabed failed to find any wreckage - and there are a number of alternative theories as to its fate.
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