Hijacked first by the pilot himself. Then by someone with obvious ties to the Australian government.
How obvious? Look at it this way. In the United States, and perhaps even moreso in other parts of the world where math skills are still strongly encouraged, most 14-year-old math students would have known: 1) if the Kuala Lumpur airport where the plane departed was 1) 4,152 kilometers east of the tracking satellite; and 2) if the radius of the final ping from the same satellite was 4,817 kilometers [a difference of a mere 665 kilometers], then 3) there is no way in heaven or on earth MH370 could have ended up 4,800 kilometers southwest of the airport.
Yet 4,800 kilometers southwest of Kuala Lumpur Airport is precisely where Australia spent THREE YEARS looking for who knows what? This is so simple and fundamental it is frightening to think the International Maritime Organization (IMO) trusts Australia to properly manage the world’s largest Search and Rescue Region (SRR). Someone dubbed that painfully ridiculous search area “Penguinville”. It fits.
But I refuse to believe that Australians as a whole are not capable of doing high school math, thinking outside of a box, or whatever you wish to call it. Failing to find MH370 had to have been intentional. There had to have been a deliberate effort to AVOID finding that plane. It is criminal, in my personal view. Think about it: ATSB not only searched far far from where the laws of physics put the plane, it appears to have searched so far from the crash site to preclude incidental plane debris from drifting into the search area. Someone wanted to be certain there was no chance some of the debris might somehow settle where Fugro had been instructed to search.
The following illustrations show how a fourteen year old student might approach this problem. S/he probably wouldn’t need the illustrations, but I include them.



