What about insurance fraud? I wonder if the pilot or copilot had a large life insurance policy. I mean, it seems it was a deliberate attempt to evade radar, and the plane is ditched in a very remote part of the ocean. If not for the engine pings (which almost nobody including the pilot knew about), it seems that the chances of finding the wreckage, or any information would be impossible other than small parts.
I don’t know if it would be possible to jump out of a 777 plane at low level/speed with a parachute. Could he arranged to have a boat pick him up out there?
Do life insurance policies payoff for suicide? How do you prove suicide at depths of 20,000 feet? The Captain’s estranged wife still hasn’t been questioned because of “Malaysian” custom. Were there money problems? Did something in his life become so unbearable or shameful that he was forced to take his own life? Would he take a plane full of passengers with him? Unfortunately, because of the inept Malay investigation none of these questions have been asked, which a rookie cop would know is the first thing you do.