A pilot with more than 50 years' experience in the aviation industry insists he knows the location of MH370 after it disappeared 10 years ago.
Australian Captain Byron Bailey suggests the tragedy, which saw 227 passengers and 12 crew members vanish in 2014, was not a tragic accident, but rather a deliberate mass murder-suicide led by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
The veteran pilot said after years of extensive research, he believes the site of the wreckage is near where authorities searched for the missing plane.
Speaking during a documentary ahead of the 10-year anniversary, Bailey says he is certain the aircraft is in the Indian Ocean.
A pilot with more than 50 years' experience in the aviation industry insists he knows the location of MH370 after it disappeared 10 years ago
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"I put it at 39 degrees, eight minutes south, and it's only about 30 or 40km further south from where they (searched), and they wouldn't go that far," Bailey told Sky News.
"That's where the Australian government was planning to search, and instead, when the search actually started, they went the other way."
Initial searches were carried out in the South China Sea but later turned to the southern Indian Ocean after Australian authorities took over the investigation.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) hosted an underwater search in the southern Indian Ocean from May 2014 until the operation was suspended in January 2017.
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The firm's conclusion alleged that there was a catastrophic emergency with hypoxia which disabled passengers on board and the pilot, which led to the aircraft flying for hours before it crashed.
Hypoxia occurs when the body cannot get enough oxygen which can cause a rapid heart rate before the patient loses consciousness.
Bailey added: "Every pilot I know shakes their head at this invented theory of a hypoxic event over the South China Sea, and the plane meandered by itself for seven hours.
"Rubbish. You have to reprogram the computer."
Speaking during a documentary ahead of the 10 year anniversary, Captain Bailey says he it certain the aircraft is in the Indian Ocean
GettyFormer Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott who led the country at the time of the incident, said it was clear to him that "someone had been in charge of that aircraft" and the disappearance of the plane was no accident.
"Aircraft do not do that kind of thing that that aircraft did, unless someone is at the controls," he said.
He added: "My very clear understanding from the very top level of the Malaysian government is that from very early on, they thought it was murder-suicide by the pilot."
During the programme, an ex-Australian naval officer also suggested authorities were searching the wrong area.
Peter Waring, a deputy operations manager in the search in September 2014 said: "At various points we made it seem as though we have a very good sense of where it was, but that just wasn't the case.
"In some ways, we had shackled ourselves to this one particular area and weren't flexible to look elsewhere when there was evidence to suggest perhaps it was elsewhere."
