I read this earlier in the week. Great article.
Great article!
The author's tendentious attempted correlation of finding scraps of aircraft that can be claimed to have settled the MH370 mystery is untrustworthy. There is so much of great value involved with this incident that it would be a completely trivial disinformation venture for an interested party to see such airplane parts at shorelines around the Indian Ocean. To suggest these findings tell us dispositively what happened to MH370 doesn't pass the giggle test. Shame on the Atlantic for such an article of thin gruel!
I'm the former CEO of the company that wrote the flight simulation software the MH370 pilot had elaborately set up in his home. We've had many professional pilots who used the software because they believed it was not merely a game, but a realistic tool for real-world navigation and aircraft flight characteristics.
"[D]espite theories to the contrary, control of the plane was not seized remotely from within the electrical-equipment bay, a space under the forward galley. Pages could be spent explaining why. Control was seized from within the cockpit."
It seems almost certain to me that Fully-Automated Digital Electronic Control (FADEC) was taken over via the Boeing-Honeywell Uninterruptible Autopilot (BHUAP). There needn't have been consideration of any space inside the plane. "Pages could be spent explaining..." Total nonsense! BHUAP control could have been effected from almost anywhere on earth.
The undislcosed addition of hardware and software onto Boeing aircraft without properly associated paperwork ("STCs"; read "safety issue", and pilot deception) was the subject of a $615M Boeing settlement to the DOJ. Which is in part to say, Boeing has been down a 737 MAX-type path before. A suit is pending against Boeing and the airline Pilots Association, International related to these matters.
"Attack on Diego Garcia"? Nonsense! But the plane could easily have been landed and hidden there using BHUAP.
Why take the plane? Four of the five owners of an extremely valuable patent property were aboard MH370. The fifth bears the name Rothschild and he would stand to gain mightily with the demise of the other four. SERCO, which manages the USPTO, is a British company.
Lt. Col. Field McConnell, USMC ret., brother of Kristine Marcy, the four decades-long head of the Senior Executive Service, and lesbian lover of Hillary Clinton, was called in about April of 2014 by the Malaysian Government authorities to aid in the investigation of MH370. McConnell advised them of the concerns mentioned here-above, including the concern that if they didn't resolve the on-going threat to their aircraft, they could expect to have another incident involving Malaysian Airlines "no later than July 17 [2014]."
On that very day (7/17/2014), MH17 (airframe 9M-MRO) was shot down over eastern Ukraine while enroute Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam. Within 24 hours, RT Television showed wreckage from MH17, including bodies that exhibited very advanced lividity, well beyond possible within a week, let alone 24 hours. Also seen among the same crash victims on that RT video were very pale Caucasian bodies that had likely died within 48-hours.
McConnell continues to advise PDJT unofficially on several aviation issues, including BHUAP, 9/11, the Fuddy Hoax, the Malaysian Airlines incidents, etc.