It’s been almost a year since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared seemingly off the face of the Earth, and the theories about its disappearance keep pouring in.
The claims come as science author Jeff Wise, who has written frequently on MH370 in the past year for publications like Slate and appeared on CNN dozens of times, published a new piece for New York Magazine: “How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?”
At the same time, he posted a new blog update about his theory that MH370, which went missing March 8 with 239 people on board, was hijacked to Kazakhstan. He has posited the popular theory of MH370 turning south before flying to the southern Indian Ocean could merely be a false flag as a way to fake an investigation.
“I’m intrigued by the possibility that MH370 might have been hijacked and flown north to the Yubileyniy Aerodrome within the Baikonur Cosmodrome,” he writes. “If so, it would have come to rest on the specially-milled concrete at approximately an hour and a half before sunrise on Sunday, March 8. And then what? If it stayed where it was, it would have been easy to spot by land-imaging satellites overhead. To avoid detection, it would have to have either refueled and taken off again, or found some kind of shelter.”
He published satellite images of the desert landscape of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. “As you can see, the area is desert, where vehicle tracks persist for many years,” he says in the blog.
However, he added, “Suddenly, things are happening. A number of trucks are lined up in the parking lot in the upper-right part of the image. The six-story building is being disassembled. And what looks like a large rectangle of dirt has been bulldozed to the left of the building. The image resolution is so good that you can make out what I take to be the stripes left by the bulldozer blade as it worked back and forth horizontally.
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