MH370 Passengers Were Disappeared By High-Tech Hackers: Expert, Pilots Concur

The suspect who disappeared Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew is a technical genius with highly sophisticated hacking skills, according to an analysis by an expert and pilots on Tuesday, exonerating the Boeing 777′s captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, just as Australia announced its commitment to continue its search mission.

Passengers, Boeing disappeared by sophisticated hacker

Satellite expert Michale Exner has stated today that the entity who disappeared the passengers aboard MH370 on March 8 has “profound knowledge of how the Boeing 777 works” and how to hack the system.

“Profiling the suspect this way, MH370′s captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah is therefore innocent, Exner who is independently investigating MH370 concludes,” reports International Business Times on Tuesday.

The mere fact that all communication systems were turned off implied that the suspect deliberately avoided any form of detection, according to Exner.

“Furthermore, the suspect displayed a deep knowledge of how international air traffic control protocol goes,” the International Business Times reports.

IBT continues that Exner highlighted that the suspect has a working knowledge on how to access the section where all the communication systems were and was able to manage all systems displayed sophisticated technical capability. Exner emphasized that shutting the ACARS reporting system down – only possible through the plane’s cockpit – also displayed the suspect’s “highly advanced technological ability.”

Through his simulation of a Boeing 777, Exner confirmed ‘there is no way to turn off the primary power to the satcom from the cockpit.’ This scheme is not even described in flight manuals, he said.

‘The only way to do is to find an obscure circuit breaker in the equipment bay [i.e. the Electronic and Equipment bay, or E/E bay, is the airplane’s main electronic nerve centre,’ Exner wrote.

Pilots working with Exner one the simulation said that “pilots are not trained to know that detail.”

Meanwhile, Australian officials said Tuesday said the nation’s commitment to searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains, after comments by one of the airline’s directors suggesting the plane would be declared officially “lost” by the end of 2014, angering passengers’ families.

Malaysia Airlines commercial director Hugh Dunleavy escalated heated relations between the airline and the families of those aboard the Boeing 777 by telling a newspaper on Nov. 4 that next of kin would be compensated “once we’ve had an official loss recorded”.

The newspaper reported that Australia and Malaysia were likely to declare the plane lost by the end of 2014, effectively ending the search and rescue mission that began soon after the flight disappeared on March 8.

Monday, next-of-kin activist group Voice 370 said in a written statement that Dunleavy’s “unilateral declaration brings intense agony and confusion to family members and makes us lose faith in the search effort.”

Malaysia Airlines responded in a statement that the comments were an “expression of a personal opinion only.”