MH370 co-pilot 'only person left alive and flew ghost plane on own for hours'

16 September 2023 , 10:37

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Fariq Abdul Hamid (Image: ENTERPRISE NEWS AND PICTURES)

The co-pilot of MH370 may have flown on his own for hours after everybody else on board died, an aviation expert has claimed.

Mystery still surrounds the final fate of the deadly flight which disappeared on route from Malaysia to China in 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board. Now writer Christine Negroni has suggested that the tragic jet's demise may have been caused by a sudden depressurising of the cabin killing everybody on board.

She believes the Boeing 777's captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah may have been on a break at the time with co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid at the controls. The sudden lack of oxygen would have killed all passengers and crew within 15 minutes, however, Hamid was insulated from its worst effects in the cockpit.

But Negroni theorises, while not dead, the co-pilot's oxygen starved brain led him to make a series of bizarre choices while attempting a rescue mission. Eventually, he would have been unable to stop the final descent into the sea, which investigators believe is somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah (Daily Mirror)

The author of The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters', told the Daily Star : "The plane starts heading south. Whatever that time period is, that's the period of time I believe he went unconscious. The oxygen available for the passengers was about 15 minutes, so the passengers were all dead, there's no chance they were resuscitated, they were dead long before that plane hit the water."

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Negorni believes the cabin depressurised 38 minutes into the flight when it lost contact due to an electrical failure. She added: "Nothing that this pilot did, after the plane experienced its issues, made sense. To me when a pilot does something that doesn't make sense, it is a very strong clue that the pilot is not sensible. And what makes a pilot insensible is hypoxia, not just once but repeatedly.

Toby Meyjes