From somewhere in the depths of the Indian Ocean two pieces of debris have found their way to the shores of Reunion Island and Mozambique. It is thought highly likely that they are from MH370.
The Guardian: Debris found in Mozambique is “almost certainly” from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Australian government has confirmed, fuelling belief that the remains of the plane will be found in the coming months.
Blaine Alan Gibson, an American lawyer who has given over much of the past year to his independent search for the plane, found a metre-long piece of metal washed up on a sand bank in Mozambique on 27 February.
Coverage of his find led South African teenager Liam Lotter to come forward with the similar item he found on a beach while on vacation in southern Mozambique in late December.

MH370 debris image AFP
We are maybe one millimetre closer to finding MH370 but we are still not much closer to finding out what happened to MH370. At least all theories which had the aircraft ending up on land (on Diego Garcia or in Uzbekistan) can be discarded. But all the many theories about how it ended up at the bottom of the sea in a deep and inaccessible part of the Indian Ocean are still alive.
My favourite theory that this was the most successful, state-sponsored, hijacking ever remains my favourite theory:
There were 20 Chinese software experts on board. They had been working for Freescale Technology in Texas on technology which could convert ordinary aircraft into “stealth” aircraft. Patents had been applied for but have not yet been granted. MH 370 was carrying a “large” package as a Chinese diplomatic package and was therefore not subject to any search or security procedures. The speculative, uncorroborated but plausible and most parsimonious explanation becomes:
- The Chinese software engineers “stole” technology on behalf of the Chinese government from Freescale.
- Freescale was slow in picking up the theft and alerting the authorities.
- US intelligence and security agencies were unable to prevent the engineers and their package from reaching Malaysia.
- They were also unable to prevent the engineers boarding MH370 bound for Beijing or the precious cargo from being loaded as diplomatic cargo.
- The operational arm of a US Security Agency took the decision – without recourse to their political masters – to prevent the engineers and their cargo from reaching Beijing, at any cost.
- Since collateral damage would be high it was imperative that all evidence be obliterated.
- With the probable assistance of Boeing, and soon after take-off, the in-flight computer was remotely re-programmed.
- The auto-pilot was remotely put into uninterruptible mode.
- The Malaysian military was “persuaded” – without the knowledge of their political masters – to ignore the plane’s turn-back and flight westwards over Malaysia for a few critical hours.
- The passengers and crew were all “executed” by the excursion up to 45,000 feet implemented by the autopilot.
- The remainder of the flight path was to get the plane and it’s cargo into an as inaccessible a location as possible.
- The aircraft was allowed to run out of fuel such that the auto-pilot made as soft a ditching as possible in as remote a place as possible. This increased the probability of the plane sinking intact with little or no debris.
- The location was deliberately chosen to be over deep ocean so that any black-box evidence would be almost impossible to come by.
I am becoming convinced that this was all deliberate and a highly successful operation with a very high level of collateral damage – 239 dead.
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