MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. There are many theories as to what happened to the plane but one particular mystery is why there was no radio call or distress signal sent out. Aviation journalist David Learmount proposed a theory that might explain this on the Channel 5 documentary ‘Flight MH370’.
He said: “One of the things that comes a bit closer to offering some kind of explanation would be a massive explosion of the oxygen cylinder on board that caused the aircraft to fall apart.
“There would have been no time for a radio call or anything like that.”
While this theory might explain one mystery however, it still does not quite add up.
For example, Thai and Malaysian military radar shows the plane turned 180 degrees and flew down the boundary between airspaces.
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The oxygen cylinder on board the plane may have exploded (Image: GETTY / CHANNEL 5)
Aviation journalist David Learmount on Channel 5's 'Flight MH370' (Image: CHANNEL 5)
This implies that whoever was flying the plane was deliberately
