Missing Plane Update: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Likely in One Piece, Pilot Says

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely still in one piece and located approximately 4 miles beneath the surface ocean, claims a Boeing pilot in an editorial on Sunday.

Byron Bailey, who flew B777 planes--the same type as Flight 370--attempted to debunk theories about the passenger jet’s disappearance in March. He writes that the plane is “so automated that if something happened to the Flight Crew, or even if they left the cockpit shortly after takeoff,” the plane is able to hit its destination with a “preprogrammed computer Flight Profile.”

He notes that if the plane crashed, there would be debris floating around, which hasn’t been the case for Flight 370.

Writes Bailey for the Daily Telegraph, “I am bemused by the media coverage given to self proclaimed experts — people who have never flown a modern fly-by-wire computerised glass cockpit airliner and yet offer speculation as to what happened to MH370.”

Bailey also adds that the plane--which is said to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean--will be discovered eventually. 

“B777 is a very large aircraft and I personally believe that MH370 is intact and in 6000m (about 3.7 miles) of water. If we search long enough it will be found,” he writes.

“The ‘experts’ also stated that the aircraft might have flown slower and therefore flown further - hence more guessing as to the extent of the search area,” he adds, according to the Telegraph. He said those claims are “rubbish.”

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This map shows the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 search area. Over 6,900 square kilometres of the seafloor have been searched so far. (atsb.gov.au)
This map shows the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 search area. Over 6,900 square kilometres of the seafloor have been searched so far. atsb.gov.au
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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