A Chinese relative of a missing passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries at a protest outside the Malaysia Embassy on March 8, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo : Getty Images/Kevin Frayer)
There have been numerous efforts to analyze the final moments of ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and a latest report hinted that no one was controlling the aircraft when it plunged into the ocean. The new technical report was released on Nov. 2, Wednesday, by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which has been leading the search for the doomed aircraft.
Apparently, the new report from ATSB supports the theory that many investigators have been endorsing for long. It stated that no one was controlling the Boeing 777 when it exhausted fuel and quickly lunged with 239 people on board in some remote region of the Indian Ocean off the western shore of Australia on March 8, 2014.
A section of critics have been advocating an alternate theory that the aircraft was being controlled by someone till the end of its flight. If this theory was correct, it is likely that the plane may have sashayed further away. In turn, this would have increased the potential crash area three-fold resulting in more complications in efforts of the investigators to locate the damned MH 370, AP reported.
On the contrary, the latest technical report illustrates the most recent satellite data analysis is in line with the theory that the aircraft descended at a very high and increasing rate during its final moments. The report further stated that an examination of one of the plane's wing flap, which as washed to the Tanzanian shores, suggests that it was possibly not set up when it separated from the aircraft. Usually, a pilot deployed the flaps when there is a controlled ditching.
Earlier, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau director, who is in-charge of MH 370 search operations, Peter Foley had the pilots not deploy the flap; it would suggest that the plane did not plunge into the water in a controlled ditch. This, in turn, would corroborate that the investigators were undertaking searches in the appropriate place to locate the wreckage of the plane.
However, one can never be completely certain and they were very disinclined to state that they are absolutely convinced, the news agency quoted Foley as saying while addressing a news conference in Canberra on Wednesday. Darren Chester, Australian transport minister, told media persons on the occasion, "To have not found the aircraft at this stage is frustrating for everyone involved and particularly for the families of the passengers and crew."
Watch the report on MH 370 special investigation below:
