A pilot who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the passenger jet has claimed he made contact with the jet via the plane’s emergency frequency
DOOMED Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 made contact with another jet just before it mysteriously disappeared, a new documentary claims.
A pilot who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the passenger jet claims he made contact with the jet via the plane’s emergency frequency.
The shocking new claims were made on the first episode of the investigative YouTube series ‘Lost flight MH370’.
It tells how air traffic controllers in Vietnam asked pilots of commercial flights in close proximity to MH370 to try to make contact with the plane.
According one Boeing 777 pilot – who has asked not to be named – claims he was successful as he headed to Narita, Japan, reports the Express.
He told New Straits Times in 2014: “We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they had transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
“The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie Shah or Fariq Abdul Hamid, but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
“There was a lot of interference – static – but I heard mumbling from the other end. That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection.”
“If the plane was in trouble, we would have heard the pilot making the Mayday distress call. But I am sure that, like me, no one else up there heard it.”
The claims come days after an expert said the satellite communications systems on the doomed flight was switched back on 40 minutes after it “went dark”.
There was a lot of interference – static – but I heard mumbling from the other end. That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection
Boeing Pilot
The missing Malaysian Airlines flight vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014.
Despite some debris washing up in Madagascar, the greatest aviation mystery in history has yet to be solved.
However author Jeff Wise believes he may have found a missing piece to the puzzle after spending years investigating the tragedy.
He claims the plane’s communications systems was manually switched back proving the aircraft did not suffer an electrical fault.
Jeff told the Express: “Looking at the fine print of the Inmarsat data log, we saw that in fact the system had been turned off and then back on again.
“At 18:03, 42 minutes after the plane disappeared from air traffic control, radar the satellite tried to put through a text message. MH370’s satcom hadn’t responded.
“Then 22 minutes later at 18:25 MH370 initiated a log-on with Inmarsat. It was coming back online.”
The New Yorker, who penned the book The Plane That Wasn’t There, added: “Another detail of the Inmarsat data seemed a curiosity at first but in time would be recognised as having great significance.
“We had always assumed that while the transponder and radios had gone dark shortly after ‘Goodnight Malaysia Airlines 370’ the satcom system had remained active.
“After all, whoever took the plane never used the satcom.
“They probably had no idea that its intermittent handshake exchanges could be used to track the plane, since the technique hadn’t been invented yet.”
The satellite communications system was switched back on over the Malacca Strait – north west of Kuala Lumpur.
Jeff believes the plane probably flew on for another 15 minutes before making a final turn south towards the Indian Ocean.
However, it remains unclear why the pilot would turn off the stacom and then turn it back on considering it was never actually used.
What are some of the theories about the Malaysia Airlines flight?
Suicide
Malaysia police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar suggested the disappearance could have been the result of a suicide.
He claimed someone on board could have taken out a large life insurance package before getting on the plane, so they could treat their family or pay back the money they owed.
Cracks in the plane
Malaysia Airlines found a 15-inch crack in the fuselage of one of its planes, days before MH370 disappeared.
The Federal Aviation Administration insists it issued a final warning two days before the disappearance.
But the Daily Mirror claimed the missing jet “did not have the same antenna as the rest of the Boeing 777s” so it did not receive the warning.
Pilot planned the incident
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unexpectedly said it was “very likely that the captain planned this shocking event”.
He claimed the pilot wanted to “create the world’s greatest mystery”.
Another theory claimed that he hijacked his own plane in protest of the jailing of then-Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, and as a way to destabilise the corrupt government of Najib Razak.
Another seemingly far-fetched idea said the pilot had deliberately crashed the plane to cover his track as he had parachuted out of the plane so he could spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend who was waiting in a boat in the sea.
Victims mobile phones ringing
One theory claims that because many relatives were able to hear a ringing tone for up to four days after the crash so the doomed jet could not have smashed into the Indian Ocean.
Nineteen families have all claimed the devices of their loved ones rang for up to four days after the jet went missing.
However, wireless analysts claim that phone firms sometimes use a phantom ringing sound when the device is not active, the Daily Star reports.
Crashed in the Cambodian jungle
In September 2018, British video producer Ian Wilson claimed to have found the missing aircraft using Google Maps.
Despite millions being spent on the search to located the wreckage, the Brit sleuth believes he has found the jet in a mountainous area of the Cambodian jungle.
