An aviation journalist has shared his most "compelling theory" behind the disappearance of the MH370 aircraft that took place ten years ago. The aircraft was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014.
It has never been found despite a 10-year search for the plane and the passengers.
A decade on, the disappearance of MH370 has fueled outlandish conspiracy theories, including Internet speculation that the flight might have been consumed by a black hole.
The theories have ranged from a pilot “gone rogue” to sabotage. There are also conspiracies that the flight was shot down or “disappeared” by a nefarious government agency and landed at a dark site, either because of sensitive cargo or a politically significant passenger.
Jeff Wise spoke to Patrick Christys about his theory on the aircraft
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Speaking to GB News, the journalist and co-host of the Deep Dive MH370 podcast, Jeff Wise shared his own theory on the mysterious disappearance.
He said: "Looking at the data that was sent by an automatic satellite communication system on board the planets, it tells us that the plan either went north or went South.
"What has become more and more apparent is that this plane had a cyber security vulnerability.
"This is something that at the time, nobody was thinking about. Aviation has been historically very concerned with safety. That means making sure that things don't break, making sure that planes don't collide.
MH370 disappeared in March 2014WIKICOMMONS"There's been very little attention paid to security, meaning how do you make sure that malevolent attackers don't get into your system?
"So, when it was built in the 90s, there were no passwords, no security, there's an unlocked hatch into the electronics bay. So, someone could have hacked this plane.”
When asked what the motivation for this he added: "Well, it's a complicated and rather technical story.
"What we have to look at before we can deal with motives is what actually happened.
"I like to say that if you find a bunch of bodies underneath my house and I've buried them in shallow graves in my basement, you don't start by saying why did he do it?
A decade on, the disappearance of MH370 has fueled outlandish conspiracy theories,
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"You just arrest me and throw me in jail. We need to solve the case first and look at the possibilities.
"The important thing to know about this case is that the authorities looked in the sea bed. It wasn't there.
"They can't explain why, we have to expand our possible range of explanations and look at things.
"Because some of the assumptions the authorities made when they started to look, when they defined the search area they must have been wrong."