The MH370 pilots could have had an accident or killed themselves (Image: GETTY)
MH370 vanished without a trace on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. In the aftermath of its disappearance, there was much speculation about what happened to it. Some questioned whether the plane was hijacked or whether the pilot or co-pilot absconded with it.
According to Jeff Wise, author of The Plane That Wasn’t There, the evidence suggests the plane was in autopilot for most of its journey.
The evidence comes in the form of Burst Timing Offset and Burst Frequency Offset data from Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company.
He premised that, as this journey necessarily meant the death of everyone on board it was “reasonable to assume that either those in control of the plane had fallen victim to an accident or killed themselves”.
Mr Wise said that the plane was most likely in autopilot because
