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MH370: Bailey plea in the Oz??

Via Friday's the Oz:

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Fighting to restart the ocean search for MH370

BYRON BAILEY


Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, pictured in 2011.

• 12:00AM FEBRUARY 28, 2020
  
  
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Last week, Sky News aired a two part documentary, “MH370, The Untold Story”.

The most revealing aspect was the admission by former prime minister Tony Abbott that his understanding very, very early on, from the very top levels of Malaysian government, that MH370 almost certainly was mass murder/suicide by the pilot.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau planned the search on the basis of a ghost flight where the aircraft, passing the 7th arc at latitude 38S, ran out of fuel and commenced a death dive. In my opinion, this led to five years of wasted effort and over $200m plus down the drain.

In the documentary, I demonstrate, in a Boeing 777 simulator with investigative reporter Peter Stefanovic as my co-pilot, the “death dive” from 39,000 feet at 7th arc/38S which resulted in an 1100 kilometre an hour impact with the ocean two minutes later.

I also demonstrated the pilot-controlled glide, ending up with a ditching only about 30km further south, just past 39S in the southern Indian Ocean, from the edge of where the ATSB searched.

This ditching in the heavy seas would have busted up the B777 rather badly, breaking the fuselage open, similar to the Ethiopian B767 which ditched in calm seas north of the Comoros Islands years ago, but the wreckage should mostly be in a small area.

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Former prime minister Abbott also stated that we should still be looking and that we should not rest until we have found the aircraft.

The search must be restarted. To this end, I again this week wrote to the Queensland Attorney-General asking her to meet with myself and Captain Mike Keane, former chief pilot of Britain’s largest airline, to present evidence to her and request that she directs the state coroner to open an inquest into the deaths of the Australians on board MH370.

Four of the six Australians were from Queensland — Robert and Catherine Lawton and Rod and Mary Burrows.

The suggestion, by famed Australian aviation entrepreneur Dick Smith of a 10c levy on airline tickets to fund the search, is a very appealing idea.

Byron Bailey is a former RAAF fighter jet pilot and flew B777s as an airline captain.

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MTF...P2