Top 5 most shocking hypotheses about the disappearance of flight MH370 - the most mysterious aviation disaster of all time

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, carrying 239 people on board, disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. At the time, no one could have imagined that, nine years later, the disappearance of the plane would remain a mystery.

The incident occurred on March 8, 2014, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur airport at 00:41, MH370 still carried out its flight normally. However, this Boeing 777 is said to have last contacted the air traffic control station at 1:19 in the airspace of the East Sea, then disappeared from civilian radar screens.

9 years on, what really happened to flight MH370?

After the incident was discovered, many countries participated in the investigation and search for the plane as well as the 239 passengers and crew members on board MH370.

However, after years of searching and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, apart from some debris believed to belong to MH370 found along with passengers believed to have died, there has still been no official explanation for the cause of the incident.

In addition, bizarre theories about the fate of the plane and its passengers were also spread everywhere. Among them, many crazy theories are still being discussed up to the present time.

1. Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean has long been a place of interest due to the frequent occurrence of aviation and maritime accidents, most notably the mysterious disappearance of five bombers in 1945.

The "Bermuda Triangle" hypothesis is causing a stir on the internet.

And of course, as soon as the MH370 incident happened, there were some people who believed that the missing Malaysian plane had wandered into a second Bermuda Triangle located in the Asian region.

Although this hypothesis sounds somewhat fanciful and unbelievable, it has become one of the hypotheses that attracted great attention from social network users at the time of the accident.

2. Cockpit problem

One of the more plausible theories about the incident was put forward by pilot Chris Goodfellow, who suggested that a fire in the cockpit caused the captain to turn west towards Pulau Langkawi, a nearby airstrip.

Goodfellow said the loss of communication with the cockpit was related to an electrical short and that the crew should have focused on flying the plane rather than sending out a distress signal. He also said that the pilots may have been unconscious or inhaled smoke, causing the plane to fly on autopilot for hours until it ran out of fuel and crashed. This is considered a plausible theory, except that they have not found any solid evidence to support it.

Some debris is believed to belong to MH370.

3. Aliens

In addition to the theory of the second Bermuda Triangle, rumors that the Malaysian plane was abducted by aliens have also spread widely on social networking sites. A survey by an American television station in 2014 even said that up to 1/10 of Americans believe that aliens are behind the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370.

Accordingly, Alexandra Bruce of Forbidden Knowledge TV, used the flight mapping website Flightradar as an example of alien involvement in the disappearance of MH370.

The "alien" hypothesis posted on Reddit received a lot of attention.

Pointing to a video made by YouTube user DAHBOO7, Bruce claimed the radar readings in the clip "picked up a signal from what can only be described as a UFO at this point."

The video also recreates the plane's final moments and shows a "mysterious object" flying at high speed. However, the object in question is actually recorded as Korean Air Flight 672.

4. The plane was hidden on a secret island.

At the time the Boeing 777 crashed and no wreckage was found, some people thought it might not have crashed at all and theorized that the plane might have been diverted to a small, remote runway for other uses. Accordingly, many speculated that the plane landed on Diego Garcia, a military base located on an island in the Indian Ocean.

Chinese bloggers believe this is the most plausible hypothesis about the plane's disappearance.

Despite the denial, some Chinese netizens still believe in the above hypothesis. Among them, a blogger named He Xin claimed that the disappearance of MH370 was part of a CIA plan to control some special characters or items carried on the flight. He believed that the plane was forced to land at Diego Garcia. This also explains why passengers' families still heard their phones ringing hours after the plane disappeared.

5. The accident was intentional

Up to now, this is the most convincing hypothesis for many experts. It is known that many people have agreed that the main scenario is that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was the one behind this accident.

Although there is no concrete evidence, French investigators said in 2019 that Mr Shah appeared to be in control of the plane "until the last minute".

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah is suspected of being behind the incident.

Larry Vance, an aviation expert and former pilot who supports the theory, also presented some evidence that he believes adds to the validity of the theory. Mr. Vance said that the crash of the plane into the Indian Ocean and the failure to find the plane was extremely carefully planned.

One of the pieces of evidence Mr. Vance laid out in his 2018 book was the captain's request for fuel for an additional two hours of flight time.

"MH370's estimated flight time was only 5 hours and 34 minutes. However, the captain requested enough fuel for 7 hours and 31 minutes, which would give the plane another 2 hours of flight time and allow Captain Shah to fly to the most remote areas in the Indian Ocean," said Mr. Vance.