M.Krishnamoorthy
A media coach, adjunct professor and author
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH 370 remains a mystery as five Malaysian Prime Ministers have not disclosed any hint about its whereabouts.
Malaysian Government is in a Catch-22 situation, not knowing what to say because the black box has still not been discovered.
Ten years have passed, with PMs Najib Razak, Mahathir Mohamad, Muhyiddin Yassin, Ismail Sabri, and Anwar Ibrahim, and none have unveiled the MH 370 mystery flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014.
Every other news or documentary in Australia points the finger at suicide, and both Malaysian and Australian PMs have commented on whether it was a suicide.
Families of the 239 passengers are upset that there is no closure. Many of them are wondering if the Government is not revealing because of heavy compensation payments due to them.
My book Flying Through Crisis: MH370 Lessons in Crisis Communications has several episodes of passengers’ families revealing some inside stories on the challenges they encountered in the crisis. “We didn’t get everything right. We were so focused on finding the plane that we did not prioritise our communications,” Najib is quoted in the book. Over 100 case studies in the book reveal mistakes made by the Malaysian Government, Malaysia Airlines, and other top Government officials.
However, many conspiracy theories have been speculated, and no one knows where the flight ended.
On 19th February 2020, Najib told FMT that the MH370 probe never ruled out a criminal plot or the pilot’s political loyalty.
Najib added that it would be “unfair and legally irresponsible” to blame Captain Zaharie as the black boxes had not been found.
This came after former Australian premier Tony Abbott said that top Malaysian officials told him of a criminal plot to bring down the plane.
Speaking in a Sky News documentary, Abbott said high-ranking Malaysian officials believed veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately downed the jet.
Watch Abbot saying that it was “mass murder-suicide” in the video.
From Perth, the Associated Press reported Abbot commenting that “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected that the disappearance of MH 370 was almost a mass murder-suicide by the pilot.
Abbott was prime minister when the plane carrying 239 people vanished on March 8, 2014.
Australia, working in Malaysia, coordinated the most extensive search in aviation history but failed to find the plane before it ended in 2017.
Ashton Forbes, a citizen journalist investigating MH 370, has unveiled several scenarios and conspiracies on why it went missing. Some probing questions Forbes and others have raised about the missing flight are:
- State-sponsored espionage - Who?
- Hijack or suicide
- Did the US take MH 370 to Diego Garcia?
- Explosion of Lithium-ion batteries?
- Exploded in the Nicobar Islands or South China Sea?
- The US had two AWACS (spy radar planes) in the area
- What about 20 Freescale Semiconductor engineers on the flight?
- President Barrack Obama’s two visits to Malaysia
Freelance Writer M. Krishnamoorthy (www.imkrishna.net) is a media coach, adjunct professor and undercover journalist. He has freelanced with Bernama, NST, The Star, and Malaysiakini. He also freelances as a fixer/coordinator for CNN, BBC, German and Australian Television networks and the New York Times. As an undercover journalist, he has highlighted society's concerns.
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