March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departs from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board a Boeing 777 headed to Beijing. The people on board would never land at their destination.
After a four year investigation and a 495 page report, The Safety Investigation Team can conclude that someone did in-fact manipulate the controls to veer off coarse but did not determine who is responsible.
A full investigation report is being provided to the victim’s next of kin.
Investigators were trying to understand why the plane veered so off course before making it’s decent into the ocean.
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Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had flown a “similar route” to the one that night from a flight simulator at his house.
Police concluded that there was no suspicious activity on the simulator.
Investigators were satisfies with the background, training, and mental health of the pilots.
Investigators are not of the opinion that the crime involved the two pilots, although you cannot discount it.
All passengers passed inspection and background checks.
It is evident that inside the plane, someone was in control.
Pilots, crew and passengers were all unconscious at the point of impact.
“We cannot exclude that there was an unlawful interference by a third party,” Kok Soo Chon, head of the MH370 safety investigation team
“The answer can only be conclusive if the wreckage is found,” said Kok
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Firefighters are struggling to contain fires that are pushing south toward rural communities.
Low humidity, high temps and light winds have led to 12,525 acres being burned south of Highway 140 west of the park.
Yosemite National Park evacuated as wildfire worsens. The Ferguson Fire seen on July 24, 2018.
An inmate firefighter clears brush to create a fire break while battling the Ferguson fire in Mariposa County on Monday, July 16, 2018. (Noah Berger / AP)
Marriott has signed a deal with luxury hospitality firm Flag Luxury Group to bring the Ritz-Carlton brand to New York City’s NoMad neighborhood.
The deal, which is said to be worth in excess of $500 million big ones, is expected to develop the property at Broadway and 28th street and be designed by award-winning architect Rafael Vinoly.
The ABBA-inspired sequel to Mamma Mia! is filling cinemas around the world. But the film’s location—the small Croatian island of Vis—should now also expect to attract high numbers of visitors. The inevitable increase in inbound tourists visiting the film’s coastal backdrop will become the latest example of film-induced tourism—a phenomenon which describes the way people flock to visit film and television locations…..Continue Reading On QUARTZY
A Texas man fishing in the Gulf of Mexico has died after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria commonly found in coastal waters where oysters live, health officials said.
The Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District said Tuesday that the elderly patient was “wade fishing” with open wounds before begin transported to an area hospital with “severe leg pain and classic signs” of a Vibrio bacterial infection…..
