“Captain Zaharie dipped his wing to see Penang, his home town,” Simon Hardy, a Boeing 777 senior pilot and instructor, said on “60 Minutes.”
“If you look very carefully, you can see it's actually a turn to the left, and then start a long turn to the right. And then [he does] another left turn. So I spent a long time thinking about what this could be, what technical reason is there for this, and, after two months, three months thinking about this, I finally got the answer: Someone was looking out the window.”
“It might be a long, emotional goodbye,” Hardy added. “Or a short, emotional goodbye to his home town.”
On two occasions, whoever was in control of the plane — and was probably the only one awake — tipped the craft to the left. The experts believe Zaharie, the plane's pilot, was taking a final look." This is sad if you believe it's true. Taking that final look before he took it on a suicidal joyride. Man just awful. |
The doc was way too surface level. So many details weren't explored. So the doofus American who kept finding debris...why not explain who is actually is and how he funds his "travel the world"'lifestyle! WHAT exactly was the business he started with two Russians? How was it he became fluent in Russian?
And the "mysterious" cargo. They couldn't get more details than what was on the manifest? The French journalist kept saying that cargo was escorted. By who exactly? No details about the company or entity that paid to place the cargo on that flight? And were the X-ray machines inoperable for all the big cargo or just that one? And another: the theory about the Russian going down into the electronics bay...the overly dramatic NY writer theorizes that the Russian dude took a laptop down there with him and hooked it up to the plane's system. So we should have video of the 3 Russians on the plane taking their laptops out at security for scanning, right? Where's that video? I thought it was hilarious when the writer exclaimed that one of the Russians was seated in like row 10 or whatever, somehow insinuating that his proximity to the door under the carpet was some sort of smoking gun. And all the cell phone claims. That was barely covered. There must have been tons of court orders pursued by family members to get info on any data related to their lives one's phones, right? Messages/voice note left in the cloud? Data on last location? I do think the fact that things from inside the cabin that would float (like seat cushions) haven't shown up as debris means the cabin is still intact and on the ocean floor. Very sad for all the families. The doc was vaguely entertaining but pretty much garbage. |