Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was 'hijacked by Russians', claims aviation expert
MALAYSIA Airlines flight MH370 which was been missing for more than a year may have been hijacked by Russians, an aviation expert has claimed today.
Jeff Wise said re-interpretation of existing data leads him to believe someone with "sophisticated" knowledge may have tampered with flight data.
He said his suspicions fell on Russia because its advanced knowledge in the aviation industry would have give them the know-how to alter the data.
Mr Wise added that three Russians were onboard MH370 - with one just a few feet away from the area they needed to access to tamper with flight data.
Speaking to the South China Morning Post, he said: "That would require an almost inconceivably sophisticated hijack operation, one so complicated and technically demanding that it would almost certainly need state-level backing.
"This was true conspiracy-theory material."
There were three ethnically Russian men aboard MH370. They definitely struck me as the sort who might battle Liam Neeson in mid-air.
Mr Wise said the only reason for tampering with the flight data would be to confuse authorities.
He said one of the Russians onboard MH370 was sitting in first class around 15ft away from the aircraft’s electronics-and-equipment bay.
Using this they could have changed the plane's flight data, had access to its satellite transmissions and could even take over flight controls.
Mr Wise said: "There were three ethnically Russian men aboard MH370.
"They definitely struck me as the sort who might battle Liam Neeson in mid-air."
Mr Wise claims after Russian hijackers took over MH370 the plane would have ended up in Kazakhstan "just as search officials recognised early on."
He said there is one runaway known as Yubileyniy which the aircraft could have landed on.
Mr Wise said he first started suspecting MH370's flight data was altered after he looked at the plane's BTO and BFO information.
This suggested the passenger plane was being flown "slowly, likely in a curving path."
He said: "But the more plausible autopilot settings and known performance constraints would have kept the plane flying faster and more nearly straight south."
Mr Wise added while his conspiracy theory pinpoints Russians as being behind MH370's disappearance he cannot think of what motive they would have had.
The Boeing 777 vanished without a trace while 239 people were onboard during a flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on March 8 2014.
Despite an extensive search operation not a single trace of the missing passenger plane has been found.
