Terrorism

Sources

• Forevi-stolen-passports
  Two stolen European passports

  Yes — two Iranian men were on board. They travelled on stolen European passports (Italian and Austrian), not Iranian documents. The official investigation treated them as likely asylum seekers and did not adopt a terrorism finding.

• Forthy-third-party
  Third-party intervention

  The Annex 13 team wrote that intervention by a third party cannot be excluded. Remote hijack as implemented technology on commercial 777s was ruled out.

• Forx-kl-aq-summit-2000
  Al-Qaeda meeting, Kuala Lumpur, January 2000

  Hijackers later on the 9/11 flights attended an al-Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000. CIA tracked the meeting. Fourteen years later MH370 left the same city’s airport.

• Againstclaim-no-responsibility
  No group claimed MH370

  Twelve years on, no organisation has issued a credible claim of responsibility. Absence of a claim is not proof of innocence; it is a fact that sits next to the stolen passports.

• Againstclaim-manual-inputs
  The diversion likely resulted from manual inputs

  Official 2018 consensus. Who made the inputs is not identified. Mechanical-only stories are a poor fit for a coherent reverse course plus comms dropout.

• Againstclaim-comms-manual
  Communications were more likely switched off or unpowered than randomly failed

  ACARS, transponder and VHF drop together near IGARI. The report favours manual off / power interrupt, without proving intent.

• Againstclaim-last-voice-captain
  The last radio call is attributed to the captain

  Official voice identification. Calm, protocol-correct handover two minutes before transponder loss.

• Againstthy-pilot
  Flight-crew diversion

  The 2018 report says the turn-back likely resulted from manual inputs. It does not identify a crew member as perpetrator and did not treat the home simulator as a plan.

• Againstthy-mechanical
  Mechanical / cargo-fire failure

  A running systems failure that also produces a coherent reverse course and six more hours of SATCOM is a poor fit. Lithium-battery cargo was reviewed and not adopted as cause.

• Relatedevt-depart
  MH370 departs Kuala Lumpur

  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777-2H6ER registered 9M-MRO, takes off from KLIA runway 32R bound for Beijing Capital International Airport with 227 passengers and 12 crew.

• Relatedq-who-flew
  Who was flying after IGARI?

  Official report: cannot establish if anyone other than the two pilots was at the controls. Manual inputs likely; actor unknown.

• Relatedevi-cargo
  Cargo, including lithium-ion batteries

  The aircraft carried cargo including lithium-ion batteries. The investigation found they were packed to regulation and did not support a cargo-fire cause.

• Relatedx-cia-malaysia-911
  CIA / Malaysia 9/11 files — KLIA facilitator, Iraqi embassy, twin-tower skyline

  Nic Moneypenny’s reading of declassified intelligence: a facilitator of 9/11 pilots worked at Kuala Lumpur airport; reporting on the Iraqi embassy in Malaysia and passports; al-Qaeda’s 2000 meeting beside Petronas Towers.

• Relatedclaim-third-party
  Third-party intervention cannot be excluded

  Quoted residual from the 2018 report. Not a finding that it happened.

• Relatedthy-terrorism
  Terrorism

  Stolen passports and a residual third-party clause keep the hypothesis in the file. No claim of responsibility, no identified bomb, no identified hijack crew.

• Relatedfilm-netflix-disappeared
  MH370: The Plane That Disappeared

  Louise Malkinson’s three-part series gives one episode to each of three tellings: the pilot, a Russian hijack (Jeff Wise), and a US intercept (Florence de Changy). Families and Malaysia Airlines crisis staff are interviewed. It is a survey of hypotheses, not a finding.