A pilot reviews the last words from MH370 and comes to a terrible conclusion about the actions of the Captain

It’s only a matter of supposition and careful consideration, but do the recorded conversations between MH370 and Malaysia’s air traffic control system tell us something more about what happened when the flight vanished more than two years ago?

If a Boeing pilot, Edward Baker, is right, they tell us the captain of the flight took pity on the first officer that fateful night on March 8, 2014, and let him take more command than usual, on the basis that before dying, he should feel a sense of achievement.

His article is a very subtle review of the evidence, and very disturbing, and potentially grossly unfair to the captain of the flight.

Analysis of the official transcripts and claims made about the MH370 audio record prior to the jet’s disappearance are far from new.

But Baker’s thoughts deserve their own quiet consideration by MH370 followers, as do the disclaimers he makes. He doesn’t claim to be right, but he has noticed a few things that are ‘odd’ and offered a pilot’s perspective as to what they might mean.

At the very least, his analysis doesn’t shout at people, or sling around insults at those who won’t subscribe to the dozens of fanciful or unsupported scenarios that can be readily found on social media and hysterical web sites.

Keep in mind that the actions of the authorities in Malaysia that night and in the immediate aftermath were perplexing to say the least, and included deliberate lies by the government that abused the trust of search partners, including Australia, which now manages the sea floor search at the direction of Malaysia.

The diplomatic reality is that Canberra will suck up anything Kuala Lumpur says and fall into line at its direction until such time that this becomes patently intolerable or insupportable.

Another disappointing weekly MH370 update

Today also brings the latest weekly update on the southern Indian Ocean search for the sunk wreckage of the flight, which was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board when it abruptly vanished from ATC view as a transponder identified airliner.

As is already known, the winter sea conditions in the southern Indian Ocean have seriously affected sonar scanning of the last 15,000 square kilometres of the priority search zone.

But today we learn that it has officially stopped it for the last four weeks.

The completion of the search zone sonar scanning may take until sometime in August, unless, at last, an engine, an undercarriage, or other heavy pieces of debris are located.

Then the hard evidence as to what happened, more likely from the flight data recorder rather than the cockpit voice recorder (and perhaps also from personal phones or tablets) can be recovered and analysed.

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