Are Batteries to Blame for MAS MH370 Crash?

29th Jun 2015

According to an aviation engineer and U.S. pilot Bruce Robertson, a cargo consisting of 221 kilograms of lithium-ion batteries is to be blamed for the Malaysia Airlines MH370 mysterious crash and disappearance above the Indian Ocean in March last year.

Carbon Monoxide Fumes Entered the Cabin

The batteries, Robertson guessed on his website caught fire during the flight and sent a lethal carbon monoxide vapor into the crew cabin.

Robertson further speculated on the course of action that followed:      

Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah falls victim to the fumes, but copilot Fariq Abdul Hamid turns the plane back the west and begins a descent with the intent of landing. Fariq succumbs to the carbon monoxide and the plane’s automation takes over for the next several hours.

Robertson continues:

As the plane is blind to the world (and the world is blind to the plane), the plane flies in a very large radius left turn, the exponential spiral path first proposed in March 2014. The plane crashes into the Southern Indian Ocean west of Zenith Plateau, west of Exmouth Australia. This is at roughly 21 degrees south, 103 degrees east.

So, according to Robertson, the Malaysia Airlines MH370 Boeing 777 dropped some way north of the location where the team is currently looking for it.

Too much time and money has been wasted on a fruitless search in an area much further southwest, due west of Perth.

Roberts’ is another in a long line of string theories about the disappearance of MH370. The last one, from June, said that the aircraft nose-dived into the Indian Ocean and that it can’t be found because of this.

48,000 Square Km Covered So Far

So far, the search for the missing plane has covered about 48,000 square kilometers. The search includes ships dragging submerged sonar buoys along narrow paths within a 60,000 square kilometers area. The area has recently been doubled to 120,000 square kilometers.

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