MH370 was flown [water landing] into water, says Canadian air crash expert

bbc ^ | 08/01/2016

[BenLurkin]

Mr Vance was formerly investigator-in-charge for the Canadian Aviation Safety Board and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, and has led more than 200 air crash investigations.

He was the chief author of a report into the 1998 SwissAir Flight 111 crash off Nova Scotia, Canada which killed 229 people. The force of that crash broke the plane into more than two million pieces.

He told 60 Minutes that an absence of such wreckage was one factor suggesting MH370 landed in controlled circumstances.

"Somebody was flying the airplane at the end of its flight," he said.

"Somebody was flying the airplane into the water. There is no other alternate theory that you can follow."

Despite the extensive search of the southern Indian Ocean, no trace of the aircraft was found until the discovery of a wing section called a flaperon on Reunion Island off Madagascar one year ago.

According to Mr Vance, photographs of the recovered flaperon show a jagged edge, suggesting high-pressure water erosion that could only be caused if someone had been guiding the plane into the ocean.

"The force of the water is really the only thing that could make that jagged edge that we see. It wasn't broken off. If it was broken off, it would be a clean break. You couldn't even break that thing."

He said the fact the flaperon had apparently been deployed for landing also indicated that someone was piloting the plane when it hit the ocean.

"You cannot get the flaperon to extend any other way than if somebody extended it," he said.

"Somebody would have to select it."

[chaosagent]

Not “water landing,” but crash into the ocean. There is no use of the word “landing” in the article.

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Well, maybe not ‘landing’, but ‘landed’.

He told 60 Minutes that an absence of such wreckage was one factor suggesting MH370 ‘landed’ in controlled circumstances.

[Vince Ferrer]

That was a conclusion of Walid Shoebat.