More than 10 years have passed since Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China) with 239 passengers and crew members.
It is still unclear what happened to MH370. Many people have been speculating widely about the unfortunate flight, some saying that the plane was shot down or accidentally landed on an island.
There are also suspicions that MH370 captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 52, may have deliberately crashed the plane into the sea. Express reported that Ms. Beverley Boden, an expert at the Teesside International Business University in the UK, believes that this scary assumption is reasonable, because the new regulations on the plane were issued after the historic terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 in the US.
These new regulations mean that if pilots want to crash their plane, no one else can get into the cockpit to stop them.
After the September 11 terrorist attack, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) required aircraft to be equipped with a lock system to prevent illegal entry into the cockpit while flying. The cockpit door also had to be reinforced very firmly to prevent it from being broken from the outside.
During normal flights, the door is placed in closed and locked mode, but the crew can still open the door using a code.
This system is programmed for all possible cases. However, the captain in the cockpit can limit access to the unlocking code system if there is a threat outside the cockpit.
The fighter jets must also be bulletproof and many aircraft must have surveillance cameras so that crew in the cockpit can monitor what is happening in the main cabin.
Ms. Beverley Boden said that this locking system accidentally caused catastrophic consequences for MH370, preventing the crew from returning to the cockpit.
"Is it terrorism, is it an act of war, is it an act of intentional act, is it a robbery? Some relatives of MH370 passengers believe that aviation authorities deliberately removed debris drifting from the Boeing 777 to distract attention from the captain's motives," said Beverley Boden.
However, the families of the MH370 victims continue to hope for the answer and patiently wait for any new developments or breakthroughs in the investigation and search for MH370.
This is still one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history as lessons continue to be drawn on how airlines respond to crisis management and crew management, added Beverley Boden.
