Silent Cockpit
(The Greatest Aviation Mystery)
Tarak Ghosh
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Sonnenstraße 23
80331 Munich
Germany
Silent Cockpit, non-fiction by Tarak Ghosh)
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Lucy (Collection of short stories, E-book)
Hell Flower (Sci-Fi, Paperback & E-book)
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I Am Suzan (Romance, Paperback & E-book)
This is a work of Non-fiction.
ISBN :
Published in November,2019
Publisher
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Sonnenstraße 23
80331 Munich
Germany
Cover Image Courtesy: Image by Pixabay https://www. Pixabay.com
Aircraft Graphix Courtsey : Pixabay
Other Graphix : Tarak Ghosh
Cover Design: Sayani Ghosh
This book is dedicated to the relatives of the passengers of Flight MH 370.
A 23 months’ old baby drank milk and stared at his parents for the last time.
Tarak Ghosh
Author of ‘Flight 73- the real story behind the hijack of Pan Am Flight 73’,Tarak Ghosh is a senior crime journalist, film maker and author, best known for his heavily researched novels in English. He has been writing for over eight years. His 26 years’ experience in journalism has given him a broad base from which to approach many fictions. He graduated in English literature in 1986 and started his career as a journalist in 1987. In 2012, he resigned from the job and switched to literature. Since that time he has gone on to write within the genres of science fiction, fantasy, romance, supernatural and Non-Fiction. He has 9 paperbacks in English. He loves making films and already made 10 short films on the rights of women.
Author’s Note
I extend my heartfelt sympathies to the families, friends, and colleagues of those on board.
The missing of Flight MH 370 is not a history, but a mystery that had left behind a series of unanswered question. It is very hard to believe that a Boeing 777 like aircraft vanished from the sky without any trace. How do you explain the tragic missing of the Flight MH 390 ? Air crash? Suicidal Dive? Terrorism? Mass murder? You must be confused. The investigators have been searching for the fact for last five years. Still they are wandering in the dark. The friends and families of the passengers are angry, confused. Even after five years of the tragic disappearance of MH 370, we all have been searching for the answers of the three interrogative pronouns – ‘Who’, ‘Why’ and ‘Where’. But the most important is how long the families of the passengers will wait to know the fact. A few investigators believe that the important answers probably don’t lie in the ocean but on land. That is the frustration here. The answers may lie close at hand, but they are more difficult to retrieve than any black box.
It is 2019. Five years ago, on March 8, 2014, the Malaysian Airlines MH370 had been missed from the sky and still it remains a great mystery of the world. No one can say properly what happened to the ill fated airplane. The children and relatives of the lost passengers are still in doubt whether they will back or not. They are confused reading the news and updates of the YouTube videos. When they recall the deadly memory, their hearts start racing and their spines become chilled. What happened to flight MH370 has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The important answers probably don’t lie in the ocean but on land, in Malaysia. That should be the focus moving forward. Unless they are as incompetent as the air force and air traffic control, the Malaysian police know more than they have dared to say. The riddle may not be deep.
Flight MH 370 disappeared in March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people on board. Among them, 227 were passengers and 12 crews. Captain Zaharie Shah was in control of the plane when it last communicated with air traffic control at 1:19am over the South China Sea. However, moments later, the plane vanished from civilian radar screens following a routine handover from Malaysian to Vietnamese channels.
The aviation world is still in the dark. But, a large section of the aviation world believes that something had been happened in the sky or it was fixed before time. But, it can be said, a conspiracy pushed the flight into a deadly future. Who made that conspiracy and why? Who are involved with this conspiracy? Was it digitally hijacked in the mid sky?
In 2014, a University of Chicago study estimated that at least 50 per cent of Americans believed at least one conspiracy theory. When the study was repeated in November last year, this number had jumped to 61 per cent. Meanwhile, a similar study by the University of Cambridge published the same month found at least 60 per cent of people in the UK believed at least one conspiracy theory about the government.
Conspiracy-focused internet sites claim that the official statement that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean makes no sense. If Flight 370 hit the ocean, they say, it would have been broken into tens of thousands of pieces, many of which float on water (such as the seat cushions) and would be seen washing up on regional shores or easily spotted by search teams.
Official announcements by the Malaysian Government were questioned by many critics, and several theories about the disappearance were proposed. Some of these theories were described as Conspiracy theories. The incident remains under investigation. Rob Brotherton, a lecturer in psychology at wrote that conspiracy theories emerge immediately after any catastrophe occurs and conclusive information about why they do so remains unavailable. Andrew Leonard wrote that conspiracy theorists were bolstered by the revelation of new satellite data two weeks after the flight disappeared that had been hidden from the public
But, still we don’t know a lot of points that should be investigated. What caused the plane to divert since neither the cockpit crew nor the plane's monitoring systems gave any sign of trouble prior to that, and the weather was clear that night.
Zaharie was a known supporter of Malaysia's opposition, and it was later found that Fariq had let passengers into the cockpit on an earlier flight, breaching safety rules. But investigators say nothing in either man's background suggests a desire to commit mass murder.
We don't know whether a hijack or terror attack was responsible, since there has never been a claim of responsibility by any group or individual. We don't know why the plane's tracking systems were switched off and by whom, an act that Malaysia has said appeared to be ‘deliberate’
An editorial in the Chicago Sun Times stated that ‘conspiracy theories fill a vacuum when facts are scarce,’ but also urged governments to search for the plane to debunk these theories and give victims' family members peace of mind.
In early 2017, Malaysia, China and Australia called off a two-year, $144 million search in the southern Indian Ocean after finding no trace of the plane. A second three-month search (north of the original target area) led by U.S. exploration firm Ocean Infinity, ended similarly in May 2018. A 495-page report published in July said the Boeing 777 was likely deliberately taken off course but investigators were unable to determine who was responsible. The Malaysian government has said it would consider resuming a search if new evidence came to light.
“They’ve said goodbye. But for us, we’ve not said goodbye at all.”
Thank you for reading, but I have a request – please feel the mental and financial condition of those relatives who are still waiting for their loving ones.
I am grateful to the authorities of ‘Face Book’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Wikipedia’ and all the media (Print, Electronic and Web) all over the world. I thank those reporters and authors who had tried to solve the mystery with their hard labor. Thank you all.
Tarak Ghosh
November, 2019