PETALING JAYA: In their new book released this month,
“Someone is hiding something”, Richard Beler, George Noory, and David Wayne sought answers to a question which has baffled even the most experienced flight experts: What happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370?
On March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared from the radar, along with 239 passengers and crew, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Almost a year later, the plane has yet to be found – no debris, no bodies, and no sign of the much-talked-about black box.
The title of the trio’s new book was based on a line from the May 2014 blog posting of former Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who suggested that the missing plane had a feature allowing the plane’s controls to be taken over remotely.
He wrote: “Someone is hiding something. It is not fair that MAS and Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA.”
In the book, the authors lamented the lack of transparency and accused the authorities of hiding the full story from the public, and more importantly, the families of the victims.
They revealed that the families of those on board the doomed flight had asked questions that were more intelligent and relevant than the “ridiculous things” asked by mainstream media.
The book flatly denounced the media’s notion that a plane could “disappear” from tracking when the transponder was turned off.
It quoted a former FAA safety inspector, David Soucie, as saying: “Everything on that airplane is triple redundant. The chance that all the electrical system was out of that aircraft would have indicated a much more massive failure of some kind.”
According to news.com.au, after providing a detailed examination of the main features of the Boeing 777-200ER and the extent of international radar and satellite systems, the authors concluded that the most likely explanation for the plane’s disappearance was cyber jacking using advanced technologies.
The book’s authors also pointed out the “tremendous coincidence” that another Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down, was also a Boeing 777.
What was disturbing to them was how mainstream media “knew everything” in the case of the second plane, but feigned ignorance in the first.
The book reasoned that if a jetliner could simply ‘disappear’, what was there to stop it from happening again.
Soucie, now a CNN safety analyst, and co-author of “Why Planes Crash” also delved into the mysterious disappearance of MH370 in his new book released this month.
In the book titled ,
“Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why It Disappeared – and Why It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before This Happens again”, Soucie exposed the flaws in the aviation industry, shared what needed to be done to avoid a repeat performance, and used a Bayesian analysis model to reveal what most likely happened on board the plane that led to its downfall.
