The Potential Motive Behind the MH370 Pilot's Murder-Suicide, with William Langewiesche

Megyn Kelly is joined by journalist and aviation expert William Langewiesche for the "Hot Crime Summer" episode about the missing plane MH370, to discuss the pilot's past, whether there were signs of depression or other mental issues, other cases of muder-suicide using commercial airliners, and more.
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[@jeffreylee6742]

Mr. Langewiesche, hit the nail on the head when he said the "deeply corrupted" police report. There is a problem with dealing with the truth at all levels. The Malaysian government, by declaring that it was an accident washed their hands of the affair.

[@robertwoods3750]

it's usually about the money {who's liable} .

[@leonleon2276]

Malaysia proper currupt 😂

[@awalk5177]

USA is no better than Malaysia when we talk about government or police corruption. At this moment USA is the laughing stock of the world for internal corruption, mis information, propaganda, illegal activities and state terrorism, and most western governments are following the same pattern. There is no moral high ground in the west right now.

[@mattcero1]

Saying it was an accident let the insurance cash flow as well. Suicides aren't covered by insurance. It's like when Bush '43 said Nine-Eleven was an act of war, he had to back-peddle it as insurance won't cover items damaged in wars.

[@johnmohanmusic]

I can relate to the tumultuousness of divorce, and also I can understand the acute anxiety of public shaming and "outing" of personal information that one would be mortified if the public found out about. It's one thing to want to leave this world for those types of reasons of panic and anxiety, but I cannot begin to fathom how one could want to take hundreds of non-involved, innocent lives with. If this guy did what the evidence suggests he did, there is no excuse for his evilness.

[@cjs2020th]

Exactly - there are multiple ways to commit suicide if the pilot was suicidal - disabling the passengers and crew of an airliner and flying it for 7 hours before ditching would seem one of the most unlikely options 🙄

[@notimetodienttd1115]

He wasnt suicidal. Suicide is very uncommon in his country and a big taboo and unforgiven sin in his religion.

[@notimetodienttd1115]

@@jennypipi8803 I have to disagree as its not a fact & not the same with other countries especially countries plagued by alcohol and OD issues and drug epidemic. Its quite common for your race to commit it but rarely in some other race/culture.

[@27sadhu]

this old frustrated attention speaker is talking out of his as$.what the hell is this old man talking about...spewing anything as if its facts...where is the proof that his wife had left him...absolutely zero, nobody and nothing has confirmed that...these are hearsay she said he said spread by the media... and sending sexual messages to instagram/facebok models?? bruh, i hate to be the one to say the truth but that is wayyy too commonplace in married older men

[@zazugee]

Maybe there is a suicide culture that depends on every country, for example in USA it's common to someone to do mass shooting by taking their anger towards society on random civilians. in other places it's drugs overdose, in other places it's jumping from a bridge...etc you see, some people will fantasies about the best way to end their life. it's kind of life writing the last chapter of your life,a way to have the last word or gain control.

[@claykemper7193]

Megyn, since you decided to bring this story back into our consciousness, kindly continue to do so. I believe this mystery (the missing plane) will eventually be solved.

[@MakerInMotion]

I'm doubtful because the Malaysian government has to give any further searches their approval. Many think they don't want the wreck found because it could prove their pilot was a mass murderer. A flood of wrongful death lawsuits and bad publicity would follow.

[@tusharray1494]

I agree with you..compensations and several lawsuit will shame the government and M.A might shut down operations

[@melmack2003]

Megyn, please wait until the guest has finished his/her train of thought in responding to your original question.

[@user-bb7tf2jx4j]

"Why would he use a simulator?" "I don't know." Seriously, you have no clue? This from a supposed "journalist" and "aviation expert." The only flight on the sim that he manually controlled. The only one not on a typical flight path an airliner would take. The only one with no destination landing site. The only one where he was calculating the fuel consumption. Let's not forget the fact that this simulated route was exactly the route he flew with MH370. Have you never heard of the term, "dress rehearsal?"

[@kenangerstein3561]

You are correct. This guy is a joke.

[@pollutedyouth]

I really admire you, Megyn. I’ve been watching you for years, and you just keep getting better and better.

[@bridgetward5896]

You are wonderful lady You always tell it like it is You have a lovely Irish name God-bless you and all your family From Ireland we love you

[@annmcdonald6180]

I share your sentiments.

[@dianevitale1214]

Perhaps, the pilot did that simulated route envisioning how he would be feeling in real time to end it all. Madness.

[@garyyoung3179]

I suspect it was him rehearsing to find the best route to avoid radar detection as he deviated off course to enact his plan.

[@derekdempsey8506]

So the pilot is guilty until proven innocent dianevitale

[@John-we7jx]

Clearest and most rational discussion I've heard yet of this macabre event - I like how MK gives him time to answer, superb interviewer. I guess if he'd just killed several hundred people and his copilot he would have a lot to contemplate, physical, psychological and spiritual - credible reason to ponder for several hours the consequences of what he'd done 😳

[@margaretstutts4362]

The young German pilot was the one who broke my heart.

[@BonnieHaynes-gg4nk]

Great reporting on a mystery that has haunted me

[@mjames4709]

Huh

[@lovieperkins]

My thoughts , the simulator was to practice low flying to evade radar detection, the plane was diverted to the American secret military island of ……. …../ I can’t remember the name, on board we’re scientists with top secret stuff that must not end up in china, please check this out …. Identity and name changes promised ? Can anyone check where , the cabin crews & their families are now ? Sudden altitude rise could instantly kill passengers…. and bodies disposed of easily on a secret base.

[@Bellasie1]

His passengers and crew broke my heart, not him.

[@margaretstutts4362]

@@Bellasie1 true. But to be that selfish to kill everybody as well as yourself is what I meant.

[@h02ctn]

The question is who were THE important passenger some mighty nation wanted to get rid of.

[@Fly_Butterfly...]

​@@alleyk9508 Can you pls. post it again? I could not find it... But this was my first question too...

[@taniafabregas9551]

I believe it was murder suicide by the captain. Just terrible 😢

[@MsElke11]

The scary thing is, how can we prevent this?? I'm sure even psychotherapists can be fooled.

[@tomsmith6513]

it's just like the Germanwings pilot.

[@Solitude47152]

Hi probability the Captain 👨‍✈️ took action and steered the plane ✈️ off course. We will never know why.

[@GalaxyGal-]

@@MsElke11After the Germanwings crash most aviation oversight administrations (such as the FAA) now require there to be at least two crew in the cockpit at ALL times, so when one pilot has to poo, a flight attendant will enter the cockpit to monitor the other pilot

[@MsElke11]

@@GalaxyGal- but can you imagine a mentally ill pilot punching the frail stewardess and then doing his kamikaze? I'm glad it rarely happens, but still....

[@linmonash1244]

Saving 'Face' and shame issues are such huge things in Asian culture. Having been a Host Parent for students from a number of Asian countries, over a several years, I have first hand experience of this. From the moment we heard what happened, and which Airline; we can assume there will be as much of a cover up as possible. Not only for 'Face', but also for protection from Litigation. ( There were 14 different Nationalities amongst the victims ). William is being diplomatic and careful to emphasise this is all speculation, but certainly this is the most 'informed' speculation I've seen thus far. As a Mental Health Clinician, I too must preface this comment by stating that my own thoughts are also completely speculative. It's clear however, from William's research, that all of the elements for concern were present in this scenario. Sadly, it's also very common that someone who is highly intelligent, and disciplined, is often quite capable of covering their mental state deterioration from all, even their nearest and dearest, who often genuinely have no idea that a suicide was planned. Particularly if there is a long 'planning track'. In most clinical depressions, the individuals 'lens' narrows enormously to the 'self', to the extent it is hard for them to consider others thoughts and feelings. It is a negative lens where pathways up and out of their situation are just not in frame, or regarded as impossible. If we are to add in a potential psychotic depression, (which can develop in certain individuals with a propensity to thought disorders, or where substance use may be involved, and/ or where a depressed episode is protracted and untreated ) you can see how easily this may head into the danger zone. Various explanations for how someone intent on suicide could take a planeload of innocent passengers with them exist. Some 'sit' in either the psychosis 'frame', perhaps exacerbated by a background resentment of passengers in general? [ I have interviewed Pilots who complained that it's much harder work these days, than ever before, to 'manage demanding passenger issues' - than to manage the aircraft, and have joked they'd rather haul (inanimate) cargo. Most Commercial Pilot's have felt this way from time to time when faced with drunken or aggressive incidents on board, and the additional pressures surrounding attention to safety management ( 'watching your back' - literally ) has of course sharpened considerably since 9/11. ] Anyone with a background personality trait tending towards suspiciousness could find this escalating to paranoia, under such challenging and persistent pressures. There is also the possibility of additional pre-existing psychopathology of personality, where the person has always lacked empathy for others - and hence could potentially view the passengers as 'expendable cargo' or 'collateral damage'. The pilot's marriage breakdown begs several question also. Who's decision was the separation and why? Was abuse involved? William's indication that some form of sexual misconduct on the part of the pilot was present is important. Was this the cause of the marital breakdown , or developed thereafter? Was this conduct about to be exposed personally or professionally? At the end of the day, and 9 years after the event, what does all this speculation achieve? It doesn't bring the passengers back, nor provide relief for the families and friends left behind. The only rationale is, as Megan states; the search for prevention. This is where I both agree and differ from Williams view. Yes, there is the hard to accept reality that will always be the occasional individual that will slip under the radar, regardless of safety nets, but that doesn't mean the relevant authorities relax their vigil. Rather it should be prioritised for funding and training and continuously improved. Pilot training schools and professional associations selection, monitoring and accreditation criteria should be continuously enhanced. Airlines have a Duty Of Care not relax their vigilance in screening, monitoring and ongoing regular assessments of the mental health of pilots. Particularly where ' Key Alert Indicators', such as relationship breakdowns, or changes in patterns of behaviour are present.

[@nazreenali375]

Interesting stuff you wrote here...and with my limited knowledge on what's really the truth, your analysis made me understand so much more. Thanks for the enlightenment, much appreciated. I believe that this was a deliberate act of the commander of this aircraft. He proved to be a coward and his wife's and daughter's alleged cover-up, leaves them with blood on their hands too. I hope they can acknowledge to themselves, the guilt of hiding the shame.

[@Mambojambo157]

So what do they do? Ground pilots who get divorced?

[@linmonash1244]

No, but If they're not coping with it they should get help and their employers should be monitoring their mental health continuously. Especially around critical life stressor events. If they don't; some have the potential to not only kill themselves - but a whole lot of others - as we see here.

[@allytrudie864]

@@linmonash1244for a workplace to even have the gall to inquire about ones mental health is insane. This will happen again- this is life and you can’t stop it. It is family and friends responsibility to keep an eye on these things and absolutely NOT an employer. Im a Canadian and used to this big brother mind frame so I’m assuming you mustn’t be American because this would never be said by an American and their obsession with being free.

[@7xr1e20ln8]

Can't blame everything on the Airline. When people want to only fly the cheapest ticket they could find.

[@bobbyheenan4061]

If he did a kamikaze dive, bits and pieces of the plane woulda washed up on shore. A 777 is a GIANT aircraft.

[@johannadavis7594]

He ditched out in the middle of nowhere.

[@tomsmith6513]

@@johannadavis7594 it was somewhere

[@eisbeinGermany]

parts have been found,go look on google

[@fredk9999]

Yes, I thought that, too. May have been a smooth landing.

[@ToLateToSave]

Who believes MH370 will eventually be found?

[@bobbyheenan4061]

Doubt it, it took em like 75 years to find the Titanic and that's only because somebody paid for the search voyage. Nobody's gonna finance a search for an airplane that's probably in thousands of pieces.

[@tomsmith6513]

@@bobbyheenan4061 So basically this is a modern-day Titanic

[@Solitude47152]

Doubtful they will find the plane. So many yrs have past.

[@bobbyheenan4061]

What's weird is how few pieces of the aircraft were recovered. I think just a section of a wing or flap or something.

[@tomsmith6513]

Maybe he just wanted to disappear. He succeeded. Maybe there's another Bermuda Triangle out there and he flew into it.

[@JackHaveman52]

Considering that the plane went done somewhere in the south Indian Ocean, I'm not surprised that very little debris was found. It's one of the most remote locations on earth, some 1800 km south west of Perth Australia and in an area of about 120,000 square kilometers. Most of the plane and the passengers are sitting at the bottom of the ocean, at who knows what depth. There is also a huge ridge that runs through the Indian Ocean, in that area, which means underground terrain that is difficult for searching. This pilot would have known about this ridge and how it would be a good place to hide the downed plane. Also, the less damage to the plane, from the crash, the greater the likelihood that the plane went down in big pieces, keeping the debris spread to a minimum. The pilot may have soft landed intentionally so prevent too much debris because he didn't want the plane to be found, to prevent shaming his family. I don't think that it's as big a mystery as it might appear to be. The indian Ocean is huge and it's isolated. Very little traffic in that area both in the air and on the water.

[@pennylando3145]

I've heard an argument - from some of the experts involved - that the plane may not have run out of fuel and nosedived out of the sky, in which case it would shatter into mostly tiny pieces. Instead, when the fuel was all but out, the pilot made a sea landing. It would probably have broken the plane into pieces but not shattered it in the same way that a nosedive would have done. Those pieces, being heavier than fragments, would have sunk rather than bobbed about on the surface of the water, giving some indication of the crash site. If this was pilot suicide then it makes sense that he would want the location of the wreckage to be difficult to find, because then it might be possible to retrieve the black box and other evidence of what had happened.

[@stevefowler3398]

​@@JackHaveman52nobody knows where it went down!

[@27sadhu]

exactly, imagine having the balls to stare death in the face for hours and then die by drowning one of the most painful deaths...no way that happened. it was an accident, and everyone had already succumbed to hypoxia including the pilot

[@Mari-tr2yr]

this gentleman is speculating...tragic what ocurred but no one really knows much

[@GalaxyGal-]

That's all that can be done. Suffice to say the wreckage may never be found. It's in the middle of the Indian Ocean miles down. It would require extremely expensive submersible ROVs and weeks at sea just to get there.

[@LionheartedDan]

I really appreciate that interview. After many years following this enigmatic tragedy I finally have a degree of closure.

[@hbryant1971]

I still wonder why many passengers cell phones were active 4 days after the disappearance....

[@fredk9999]

Yes, I thought that too. If at the bottom of the ocean, probably no signal.

[@jackielaurin8692]

Unbelievably sad everyone loses their life in flash for ? One person not getting help to deal with his issues

[@alivewithpassion]

Supposedly, if the captain did this, he would have landed the aircraft on the water like the Miracle on the Hudson and allowed the 777 to sink intact, making it impossible to locate any of wreckage besides a few smaller pieces like the flaperon and a few smaller pieces that washed up. Just a thought.

[@John-we7jx]

That makes perfect sense, a high impact crash would have lead to a lot of floating debris

[@LaRepubliqueEnMasque]

@@John-we7jx wreckage from the MH370 has been recovered, in Madagascar and Reunion island. It was analysed by the French BEA and it was determined after analysis that the plane had definitely crashed.

[@Mambojambo157]

Quite possible. He probably announced to passengers they were having trouble and needed to do a crash landing just to terrorise them.

[@daCubanaqt]

Wouldn’t the passengers have had time to get out? They must’ve had life boats on the plane. Some people would’ve survived.

[@Mambojambo157]

@@daCubanaqt yes I agree.

[@CapriciousBlackBox]

Why use a simulator? Because he had one.

[@ewooll]

Nice to see someone not beating around the bush and saying what most of us are thinking too.

[@deeqoz1915]

"dishonesty corruption nation" "very dishonest place" 😶 i am Malaysian, this is what we really good at.....

[@Will_CH1]

His connection to Ibrihim (former vice president) needs to be considered. The motive was dismantling the political corruption in Malaysia. Corruption is a billion dollar industry in malaysia and the politicians are the main beneficiaries. When Shah circled over Penang, he almost certainly called government or airline officials to make his demands. They likely misdirected the search into the south china sea for 4 days because they did not want the airliner or survivors found in case they told a story of why they were kidnapped. This is about corruption

[@tomsmith6513]

were certain politicians on board?

[@rhondasisco-cleveland2665]

@@tomsmith6513I just asked that same question.

[@Will_CH1]

@@tomsmith6513 Malaysia runs on corruption. Anyone doing business in that country knows this. President Mahatbir was known as "Mr Ten Percent". Vice President Ibrahim was jailed on trumped up homosexuality charges because he tried to put a stop to corruption. Captain Shah was a close friend of Ibrahim. In all likelihood, he took MH370 and demanded government reforms.

[@svarna9000]

I absolutely agree with this comment. i think the negotiations we considered, (he was circling around the airspace nearby for a while), negotiations failed, and the pilot had no other choice left to him, but to carry out his threat. It would have been about the jailed Anwar Ibrahim, and i suspect the pilot may have expected that he will get his way, but he did not. Those who jailed Anwar will not want to admit that this disaster was about injustice to Anwar, and will not reveal their hidden role in the tragedy. Guilty as guilty they can be.

[@JenniferAshley-Age25-Wat-yh8cc]

OMG I just finished your Jared from Subway podcast...I can't believe that that creep is getting out in 6 years😥😥😥

[@bobbyheenan4061]

I wonder if he's fat again

[@sylviathompson1381]

Maybe someone in prison will end his sentence.

[@Solitude47152]

We must rehabilitate individuals. It’s punishment plus rehabilitation. What are your concerns ??

[@MrJoshuasam23]

This is not true . Investigate on what was in cargo which had classified labels and pass through the security system without scanning them ? Why Obama has to visit Malaysia for the first time in history after this incident? Insurance were already paid to the victims. Usually you can’t pay the insurance without the evidence

[@hinong218]

Sensible topic, delivery and response.

[@8877robert]

Great topic fascinating event

[@jorger2020]

The most disturbing thing about this type of event is the low chance of preventing this type of suicidal behavior. The world of airplane pilots is like any other world, it is made up of people and in that universe there are unbalanced people who can do the same thing again at any time. It's like a giant lottery ball full of balls with numbers, and some of them correspond to a psycho pilot; that ball fell to the passengers of Egypt Air 990, Germanwings 9525 and Malaysia 370. God save us that one day another of those balls fall to one of us

[@moonglow630]

Megyn, I remember watching the breaking news of the plane crash on your show on Fox when it happened.

[@kiwirooster6209]

You asked why would he use a simulator, when he could have done it on Google Earth? He had an actual simulator in his home and could actually simulate the entire flight from start to finish. The question should be, why wouldn't he use a simulator?!? That's a no brainer.

[@Livstarling]

Your show, your on air personality, your topics all are great, and I really enjoy your show, but your intro music is very much pulled out of the 1990’s CD / Casette library… I’m always so grateful it’s short! 🙈

[@SoulmateParis]

I appreciate that the interviewer didn’t interrupt like so many journalists do nowadays. Thank you for this content. The guilt of the pilot is not discussed so much.

[@peacefulheart9228]

the simulator was broken according to his family and had been for quite sometime.

[@drmichaelshea]

Nobody used Microsoft flight simulator just to “bore [virtual] holes in the sky.” Without the kinesthetic sensations of flight or the need to practice instrument flight, where’s the fun? I thought MH370 was a suicide the minute I first heard that this bizarre flight path had already been rehearsed, and that’s exactly what the pilot was doing. He was imagining what it would be like to destroy himself, the airplane, and all of the people whose safety was responsible for while figuring out how to maintain crowd control in the airplane while staying out of reach for air traffic surveillance and avoiding possible airspace violations and interception. This crash was planned carefully and far in advance. I suspect he locked his copilot out of the cockpit and depressurized the cabin. All the passengers were probably dead before the aircraft ever hit the water. At least their deaths would have been painless and unexpected. Maybe the uncertainty regarding all these events would even allow the pilot to avoid destroying his reputation. Who knows? Who will ever know?

[@andrearoyd2942]

It was an amazing mystery at the time, as it remains today. Interesting review of the case.

[@chhansen9813]

Fauci was suppose to be on that flight!

[@vields2352]

Google Tony Abbott MH370. I’m Australian and he was our Prime Minister at the time of the crash. He did an interview after he was out of office a few years ago and said that he was pretty much told by very high ranking officials in the Malaysian Government that it was murder suicide. It’s really not the mystery people think it is.

[@MezzaLoey]

Thank you. Aussie here. Just googled and shocked that revelation was made so early in the piece yet not made public.

[@Stella.Star777]

I have always wondered why there are no cameras on planes recording and sending live footage of the cabin crew and passengers? If there are no incidents the recordings can be wiped clean. But if there were, as in this case at least they would have more to go on.

[@allytrudie864]

How would you feel if your employer put you on camera watch for your shift? Use some logic.

[@paulm749]

@@allytrudie864 It's pretty much standard operating procedure in fleet trucking now. I was driving an oilfield tanker when the company I worked for installed in-cab cameras to monitor driver activity and that was over 10 years ago. I didn't like it much, but it didn't interfere with the performance of my job either. The stakes are far, far higher in commercial aviation, both in the number of lives involved and dollar costs of the fleet aircraft, so it's an idea that deserves some serious consideration.

[@stevefowler3398]

And where exactly would the recording be now?

[@Stella.Star777]

@@stevefowler3398 obviously it will be among the wreckage, but didn't you read? I said sending a live feed recording. So no matter what happens to the object they are traveling in, Control can still review the footage of the most likely scenario before disaster struck! Like on On NASA missions they record the Astros in flight. Get it, got it? Good

[@Bambisgf77]

@@allytrudie864truckers have a live feed monitoring their every activity when in motion. If they have a sudden brake, unexpected stop, go over the speed limit anything and the monitor comes on and asks why. The suggestion is a good one.

[@roby14]

Not enough there for me to think he flew it into the ocean. What was the copilot doing while he was trying to crash the plane?

[@southbug27]

He likely sent him to get him a cup of coffee or something else & licked him out of the cockpit.

[@roby14]

@@southbug27 possible... but there's no evidence of it. We need to find the wreck.

[@southbug27]

@@roby14 True. When I first heard about the flight going missing, it never occurred to me that they wouldn’t find the plane in a few days or a week or two at most.

[@dianneredd3031]

Probably killed him first

[@roby14]

@@dianneredd3031 or... they had a rapid decompression and everyone was unconscious or dead before they got to a safe altitude.

[@rhondasisco-cleveland2665]

Were there any especially important people on the plane? A political figure he might have wanted to target?

[@kathysilver8558]

Is there no more current news? She was one of my go- to’s since leaving cable news…but she seems to have veered away. I like the new stories, it not all the time.

[@winkieblink7625]

Simulators….Practice the deed. Practicing makes it REAL. Over & Over. When time came, actualizing it over and over…it made it easier to TRANSITION over to REAL.

[@Nicosshalagalanis]

Thanks for the 100 % honest interview Ive heard in all my 29 years old life ❤ William! I was exactly 20 years old when this incident happened and I always do a research weekly to see if they have found the rest place of MH370.

[@gen.barnakey__]

This guy is a tough listen.

[@fredk9999]

Agree

[@kadalora]

Interesting points, however why leave out what was probably the biggest deciding factor contributing to this disaster? 'MH370's Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah is believed to have crashed in the plane in a “politically motivated” stunt, aviation experts have suggested. The Malaysia Airlines 370 pilot mysteriously disappeared just hours after his political hero and distant relative was jailed.' This, I believe, was the straw that sent an emotionally unstable man into a rage. We also now know the plane went into a holding pattern near land - he was likely negotiating at this time with authorities and threatening them with exactly what he was going to do if they did not release his political hero. I bet the Malaysian authorities know A LOT more than they are letting on, they have been cagey all the way with this investigation as you will have noted

[@kellyinfanger9192]

Where's Megyn this week? Anyone know?

[@doktabob328]

Freescale. (Later NXP. ) Twelve employee shareholders on the plane.All gone. One Chinese and one American got to own the empire. Chip design and manufacture. Check the flight manifest. Correlate with Freescale employees. Why has no one done this ?

[@monicatry1583]

Good for your guest for not revealing everything. He took the plane down. Angry and cruel to damage the national airline and government, while murdering his crew and passengers.

[@garymunro7561]

When everyone first started getting used to smartphones. We were shown why flight mode was so important. Like flicking the flight mode off a missile left the target and blew up a different entity and then flicking the flight mode back on. That was over Ukraine and the passenger jet full of tourists was blown out of the sky. Inside the target aeroplane was Vladimir Putin. I know it's not the same, but that's just an example of things that the public generally aren't aware of.

[@southbug27]

What exactly are you saying that the commercial flight got shot down because of people did or didn’t turn flight mode on or off on their cell phones?

[@mfgt4595]

Are you on Shrooms? PMSL. Typical brain washed ignoramus.

[@awalk5177]

The simulator was where the guy played and contemplated what he would do at each stage of a flight. You don't get that experience from Goggle earth, you cant look through the cockpit window on Google earth. Maybe he was rehearsing how it would feel and if he could accept that. I don't think he was wanting to send any messages. This is being over complicated by speculation. Try to think like the guy and what ever was his motivation to test himself for his plan. The guy had worked all his life, been reasonable successful, kids were grown up . Then his wife leaves and he is 53 years old. Now, his life from then onwards has no meaning or significance. People who commit suicide plan how to do it and consider what the impact of that suicide would be. At some point they are not considering the effects on people outside their family. That is all that matters to him, and he has lost it all. Maybe 30 miserable years left of life , for what ? You see how they think? He took a way out.

[@marty1499]

I love, love, love your show. However this "shorty" has no information.. Quite disappointing.

[@chillbilly2517]

I'm a conspiracy theorist. Freescale semiconductor Inc.. 20 Freescale employees, among 239 people on flight MH370, were mostly engineers and other experts working to make the company’s chip facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur more efficient. Ask yourself why this story is becoming relevant again now.

[@mjames4709]

Why?

[@sylviathompson1381]

Are you suggesting the plane landed somewhere intact to make use the chip employees ? We have a chip shortage…. Where are you going with that?

[@scaramanga7696]

Why?

[@kelvingowrie9486]

I did not know this. It is an interesting motive. Hope we find out about this accident in my lifetime

[@chillbilly2517]

@@kelvingowrie9486 My motto is...What if everything you thought you knew was a lie so I question everything until it feels logical to me.

[@AaronBrodie-gg2ek]

Amazing how anything that could be true has a context pop up, Orwell anyone??

[@dougaldouglas8842]

The so called investigators only concentrated on one area, as though they knew something, that to veer off from the area would discover something. It is a sad day when people feel they must use the tragic death of others to prune their feathers. Has no one any respect?

[@Scott-ly2nk]

I wish i was inportant i would let meg interview as long as she wanted

[@jennyvinyl85]

Fascinatingly, Captain Zaharie has been depicted as an exceptionally composed individual, exhibiting no discernible indications of psychological disturbances. However, according to Mr. Langewiesche's compelling argument, this seemingly stable facade might be a part of an extensive cover-up orchestrated by both his family and the Malaysian government. Their objective is to safeguard Zaharie's reputation while simultaneously obstructing any additional inquiries into his actions. This intriguing lead holds significant potential and warrants further exploration.

[@beornthebear.8220]

Until they find the wreckage, no one really knows what happened. I have my theories, but I'm not the NTSB, I'm just a curious person who has seen the causes of many planes go down. There will be no proof until it is found, which under thousands of feet of water, in a pitch black underwater mountain range, so no one knows. I'm throwing my theory into the mix. I suspect decompression or an internal fire, knocked out or killed everyone on board, and it ran on autopilot until it ran out of fuel. For reference, , in May 11, 1996, Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592, had oxygen generators for the emergency use in planes caught fire in the cargo hold. It normally would not have spread, but some of these devices still had oxygen in them, and the fire killed everyone on board. It went down in the Everglades. The oxygen generator were too old to use, but some still were able to generate enough oxygen to burn out the plane and suffocate those inside.

[@shadowwreckardz]

After watching the Netflix documentary, it seems less mysterious. Most likely shot down pretty close to where it went missing. Why the cover up? Who knows???

[@GalaxyGal-]

Who the hell would shoot down a plane in the middle of the Indian Ocean? I'd doubt even the Australian Navy has ships capable of or wanting to do such a thing.

[@shadowwreckardz]

@@GalaxyGal- Are you serious about the capability? Every major military has that capability. It's a commercial jet for goodness sake. Easy to pick up on radar...it's a sitting duck. As for motive, who knows? Accident? Or check out the passenger list, that might give a clue. Makes a heck of a lot more sense than a lone pilot, with no criminal history, committing suicide and mass murder with no note, aired grievance or manifesto? I don't think so.

[@angeodeleo]

Handshake contacts after the turnaround point, are not typically the responses the captain would react with. For that reason he was not in the cockpit?

[@btv914]

I will never ever fly, not sure we should be up there.

[@hermitthefrog8951]

This sounds fishy. I think the Freescale patent angle is elemental.

[@wilsonle61]

I wish he just would have stolen the plane and left the innocent bystanders out of it.

[@fredk9999]

Yes, who would do this to innocents?

[@zoomby4380]

MH370 Caused heart aches for many Australian Families. Then the time and money Australia spent to locate this Aircraft. I am not sure if insurance payments to their families have occurred or not. Money will never compensate for lost loved ones......sad...sad 😢😢😢

[@joannelee4221]

What was the date of the simulation? Was it days or weeks b4 the actual last flight?

[@deniselopez708]

Feb 20 th the crash was in March.

[@marilyndee969]

I had a similar experience with the Malaysian police. I was living in KL. I was walking my dog. A guy rode up to me on a bicycle. He said "I would like to kiss you, ma'am." Then he took it out and started using it. I picked up my dog and ran home. We reported it to the police. They "dropped by" the next morning at about 6:00 A.M. I wasn't up. I saw them anyway. They said it had to have been an Indonesian guy because no Malaysian guy would ever do that. They said they wanted to catch the guy. I never saw the police again. The incident also never happened again. So based on this single experience, I can't say I thought very highly of the Malyasian police. They only knew the guy couldn't have been a Malaysian because a Malaysian guy would never do that. I found that thinking very odd. I will leave it at that.

[@cottiechauncey]

Similar experience here, I was groped by a Malay guy AND his friend in FRONT of police while in a crowded street in KL during the Millenial New Year celebrations. As I'm Caucasian, they felt they could do that to me, and not one of their own (my take on it). They laughed at my outrage because they knew there was nothing I could do about it. The police just stood by and watched.

[@marilyndee969]

@@cottiechauncey - Same here. We stand out like sore thumbs, don't we? Blue eyed blonde here. They feel they can do what they like and nothing will happen to them. And probably nothing will. Your story frustrates the heck out of me. So sorry this happened to you. My guy didn't touch me, but I also didn't stick around. Real great police. NOT.

[@Stryker20008]

3:39. Exactly. Again, the sim route is a MESSAGE.

[@Scott-ly2nk]

Meg i like how you say supcribe button

[@tajabdullah.malaysia]

🎉❤ it's speculative and unfair assessment 🎉❤ by desktop person.

[@jmest3571]

Whether it was the pilot or not....Where is the debris?

[@TheTeaParty320]

He wanted to visit the Titanic, but went to the wrong ocean.

[@Scott-ly2nk]

And all of the lights that got knocked down on the highway they had. Taxi driver whosaid. Just what they wanted

[@juantirado9502]

I am okay with all the experts as Xavier Tytelman, Gilles Diharce, jean luc Marchand, Patrick Blelly, Mickey Smith, and Kit Olver, fisherman who caught a wing of the plane into his nets close to the Australian coast. But I disagree with the theory of suicide: why he had to kill 239 souls and why to fly 7 hours instead of crashing the plane in the Chinese sea after leaving Malaysia. What's about the phone call of a woman (with a sim card bought in a shop) few minutes before the flight. Zahary had a strange behavior few weeks before the flight. Can we imagine it was not a suicide but a plan built by some group who used a blackmail against Zahary to oblige him to program this crime... what's motive? An attack? It's true that nobody claimed... but nobody would be very proud of a failed attack which was the case. Why Zahary communicated twice the altitude which was not necessary? Many shadows in this sad affair. Just wanted to bring some reflection on. Jean.

[@TheEmpressMouse]

So sad.

[@truthof7382]

In the end, we and all the victims family and friends will all have to decide we all think happened. There will be no definitive answer.

[@monicatry1583]

It is solved but silence reigns. Good.

[@asbisi]

A thought to all the victims of this, including the family of the captain.

[@Master-di4di]

Most of the passengers and co pilot were quickly disposed of. Lack of oxygen when Shah did the u turn back over his island. Goodbye to home. He did communicate to the government. He deliberately glided the plane into deep ocean to hide the plane. Corruption in Malassian government.

[@Master-di4di]

RIP.

[@fredk9999]

Still the question: why no debris field?

[@adamsmith275]

...and here is another excellent video by Green Dot Aviation about MALAYSIA AIRLINES 134... The same airline behind MH370...

[@jimmyboudreau4207]

They will never find. Anyway I think it's stuck in a tear.?

[@mk-ny6bi]

The motive was reported then redacted from the internet at the time that the plane was first reported missing by the Malay ground staff,-The pilot was trying to negotiate a swap of the plane for his uncle imprisoned on what he considered to be -trumped -up charges ,This was whilst the plane still had “5 hrs fuel left “ .

[@lynghee159]

The facade😢

[@jenniferbuchanan6562]

What about the theory that some group just wanted a large commercial jet to load it with some form of catastrophic weapon and then use it at some point in the future.

[@kairel136]

How can people be so sure that he deliberately crashed the plane?! It is sad and unfair that he couldn't defend himself 😒 He was passionate on aviation so is it wrong to own a simulator? It is so easy to assume he had issue on his mental state.😔 Only God knows....

[@27sadhu]

exactly,what the hell is this old man talking about...spewing anything as if its facts...where is the proof that his wife had left him...absolutely zero, nobody and nothing has confirmed that...these are hearsay she said he said spread by the media... and sending sexual messages to instagram/facebok models?? bruh, i hate to be the one to say the truth but that is wayyy too commonplace in married older men A man with all the money, hobbies, retirement coming up and so much life on his hands..countless people have been riping his life apart for any clues, yet found nothing to indicate any problems in his life...even if that hoe was leaving him, he has kids, extended family, could find a good domestic help easily so as to not be lonely,, eventualy women do come back, specially at that age when they are no longer physicaly attractive to other males

[@christopher9196]

Seems likely based on these facts

[@casapinka9715]

Exactly. I do appreciate hearing all sides but the one thing we all know is that we simple do not know. It's a nice, tight bow if he did do it but it's all speculation, no matter how strongly people opine about it being murder suicide.

[@Mambojambo157]

When you put your life into the hands of one person, occasionally a one person is going to snap. It would occur to most pilots that they have the lives of a lot of people in their hands.

[@joesands8860]

But this situation it wasn't just "one person", there was a co-pilot and possibly a navigator in the cockpit also.

[@Mambojambo157]

@@joesands8860 he locked the co pilot out. A theory I heard. And I don’t think there is a flight engineer anymore.

[@perhentzepetersen9310]

I always thought that it was the pilot! But I am baffled that he went to so much trouble, ditching it in the Indian Ocean after many hours of flying .... It makes no sense.

[@funkiwikid6106]

Follow the route from the simulator and see if there's some wreckage ?

[@anthonysmith3851]

I have viewed most, if not all the posts about MH370. What is clear is that the Captin had marital issues.

[@bretthewitt3890]

I used to stick up for Zaharie...but the info this guy gave in this interview....not all of which is in this video...has convinced me Zaharie did it. It makes sense, especially after learning of the sounds of the assault being recorded on the cockpit transmission. If only we could get that CVR there would be more conclusive evidence

[@kurzackd]

Honestly, I can't take this guy seriously... He seems really prejudiced and biased *on at least 3 (THREE) levels* : *1) "Malaysian government is typical for coverups and deceit !!11'* -- well, yeah... like ANY OTHER government in the world... :P *2) "His online browsing habits and computer software content was questionable..." -- well, yeah... these days if you are on the Internet AT ALL, you're BOUND to have EVER done something that is *potentially* implicating; All the "investigators" need is a convenient context and enough reasons to just... NOT LIKE YOU, and they can cook up all sorts of accusations against you. :P *3) He actually COMPLETELY AVOIDED ANSWERING THE QUESTION ITSELF: -- just WHAT could the motive have been for the pilot to murder his colleague and perform the crash ??* Instead, he just focuses on looking for angles through which to expose the pilot as NOT having a "picture-frame-perfect happy-go-lucky TV-melodrama good family life"... Well... yeah... NO SHIT ??? *WHO DOES, even, these days ?? -_-* By the same logic, I theoretically have enough baggage that should be enable me to just go out and do a mass killing spree... *THEORETICALLY* . Yet I haven't. Duh. Bogus journalism and "investigation". xD .

[@mohis4299]

Does anybody aware that the MH370 is a boeing aircraft and can be remote controlled or the engine can be turned-off even during flight?

[@comfortablynumb4797]

My, my, this guy really has no idea what happened.

[@adamsmith275]

...after watching this video... (I will not judge...) by chance I watched this other video here on KZbin: What Really Happened Korea Flight 007?... There is a really big difference...

[@ponypower8]

"Taken down by a pilot"? So does that mean it was an act of terrorism? Taking away lives of a multitude of innocent civilians? And why would the pilot do that? What would be the motive?

[@MakerInMotion]

A suicidal pilot who wanted to take others with them. Like Germanwings flight 9525, Silk Air Flight 185, and EgyptAir flight 990. This just happens sometimes.

[@NitaCostello]

Motive/reason = insanity.

[@midnightchannel7759]

Why * wouldn't * you use the simulator? He already had it in his house, he enjoyed playing with it and had literally hundreds of flights logged, this was manual, yes, but also just another flight. I think it would have been weird if he had * not * used the simulator.

[@karenm8239]

It's more the fact this journey to death was practised. He programmed flights to literally nowhere - the same flight path as mh370 and a route that nobody would take because it isn't doable, at least not on that amount of fuel. I mean, he wasn't actually meant to be going to Perth in Australia, remember?!

[@bender7565]

Wasn't his big house and the ex's in Penang? When I learned about the little doink in his course to fly over his house it makes you think.

[@raynerstuelgalid]

You noticed how the sex bit was tantalizingly omitted out? Yep, sex sells.

[@cee2615]

Why were there no phone messages by passengers like there was with one of the planes in 9/11?

[@mariagrant2072]

Everything here is summation and personal opinion - no one can prove any of this this was the scenario- anyone on board could be responsible or maybe there was a major malfunction with the aircraft- no one really knows what happened- hopefully one day it can be found to give some accurate answers 👍🏻🇦🇺

[@christopher9196]

It seems likely based on the Facts

[@henrywilliam7008]

Obviously, he was a very depressed man and vented his total disappointments, all his suppressed anger, "playing" on the simulator off duty, creating a grotesque finale to his "game".