A compelling new theory about the last moments of the 239 souls on board doomed flight MH370 has been revealed in a ground-breaking book.
About 40 minutes into the flight, having settled onto cruise altitude, MH370 first officer Fariq Abdul Hamid was regaling Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah of his marriage plans.
In the process, though they were not to know it, the pilots turned off the satellite data unit that makes the electronic handshakes with Inmarsat. The decompression of the aircraft, still at high altitude, would cause the oxygen masks to drop, providing about 12 minutes of breathing for the passengers — not quite enough time for the aircraft to get over Kota Bharu and enable them to make a mobile phone call.
On a dark night, with a smoky windscreen and some non-functioning instruments, taking over manual control would be problematic and risky. Zaharie turned the autopilot to a southerly heading, pointing the aircraft to nowhere in the southern Indian Ocean and soon MH370 became a ghost flight, exactly as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said.DOES THIS THEORY STACK UP?
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