Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have crashed into the Indian Ocean in a suicide mission, media reports suggest today.
The Telegraph quoted “well-placed sources” as revealing that investigators believe “this has been a deliberate act by someone on board who had to have had the detailed knowledge to do what was done … Nothing is emerging that points to motive.”
Those investigating the Boeing 777’s disappearance on March 8 believe no malfunction or fire was capable of causing the aircraft’s unusual flight or the disabling of its communications system before it veered off course on a seven-hour silent flight into the sea.
An analysis of the flight’s routing, signalling and communications shows that it was flown “in a rational way”.
Asked about the possibility of a malfunction or an onboard fire, the source said: “It just does not hinge together … [The investigators] have gone through processes you do to get the plane where it flew to for eight hours. They point to it being flown in a rational way.”
The worst fears of the families of the 239 people on board were realised when Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak confirmed that no one could have survived.
Satellite data showed the plane ended its journey in remote seas west of Australia, he said.
Relatives of passengers clashed with police outside Malaysia’s embassy in Beijing, as China asked to see data on which Malaysia’s conclusion was based, the BBC reported.