Over 10 years ago, a Malaysian plane, MH370, disappeared into thin air; to this day it is still a mystery what happened, but there are a few plausible conspiracy theories.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines. It disappeared from radar on March 8th, 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China. 

MH370 was a Boeing 777 200 ER aircraft. They have one of the most powerful engines in the world and can hold many people.

Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane. He was 27 years old. This was a training flight for him, the last one; he would soon be fully certified. His trainer was the pilot in command, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who at 53 was one of the most senior captains at Malaysia Airlines. In Malaysian style, he was known by his first name, Zaharie. He was married and had three children. He lived in a gated development and owned two houses.

Ten flight attendants, all Malaysian, were in the cabin. They had 227 passengers to care for, including five children. Most of the passengers were Chinese; of the rest, 38 were Malaysian, and in descending order, the others came from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan. In the cockpit that night, while First Officer Fariq flew the airplane, Captain Zaharie handled the radios. 

The plane left the airport on March 8th, 2014, at 12:41 a.m. Forty minutes into the flight, air control had to switch from Malaysia to Vietnam. The captain, Zahari gave a message to the other flight operators over the radio. 90 seconds after Zahari said goodnight, the plane vanished off the radar. They lost contact with every form of communication, and those were the last words they ever heard from this plane.

The following information is from the Netflix documentary, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared. A popular conspiracy theory of what happened to this plane is that Captain Zharie committed a mass murder-suicide.

A few days after the plane disappeared, an Air Force radar showed that as soon as the aircraft vanished, it took a sharp turn southwest and flew towards the Indian Ocean.

Malaysia was checking airports all over the world to see if MH370 landed somewhere else than where it was supposed to. They started searching for plane debris and came up with nothing.

This was when they began looking into Zharie. At Zharie’s house, he had an airplane simulator that showed the route that the plane took when it took a turn into the Indian Ocean.

Captain Zharie was also a passionate supporter of Malaysian opposition politician, Anwar Ibrahim, who was sentenced to jail on March 7th, a day before flight MH370 disappeared. This could be seen as another reason why Captain Zharie would want to take his life and others on flight MH370.

Zharie was a very skilled pilot. He had more than 30 years of experience. He would have been able to plan this mass murder-suicide down to a T because of all the knowledge he had.