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Graeme Murray

MH370 expert says plane crashed in an unexplored spot - and it 'wasn't an accident'

A flight expert has claimed the missing MH370 plane was deliberately downed by the pilot.

The aircraft vanished with 239 onboard was brought down intentionally in the South Indian Ocean in an unsearched area.

Gilles Diharce, a former French Air Force air traffic controller told of evidence which proves the Malaysian Airlines Flight's disappearance was no accident.

Flying between Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, it vanished from the radar on March 8, 2014, prompting several theories about its final resting place.

Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was flying the plane which suddenly vanished in an unsolved mystery.

The Boeing-777's disappearance officials say resulted in U-turn fewer than 60 minutes into its planned route before it plummeted into the Indian Ocean.

Pilot of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 Missing AircraftxMH 370 pilot Zaharie Shah with his home aircraft simulator (YOUTUBE)

Some theories suggest the plane was hijacked, while others have claimed it was in "cruising mode" when it fell from the sky.

But Gilles reckons the pilot was trying a controlled emergency landing called "soft ditching".

It goes against official reports about a high-speed "death spiral" crash in a location known as the Seventh Arc.

Metallic debris found on a beach in Saint-Denis on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean (AFP/Getty Images)

Gilles' theory says the pilot could have landed the plane using a controlled glide method.

However, this did not go according to plan and stormy waters broke the aircraft into two or three parts.

The glide, Gilles reckons, was a deliberate attempt to sink the wreckage with minimum debris.

He told The Sun : “Why would a person want to fly the aircraft into the middle of the Indian Ocean?

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was steering the plane which suddenly vanished (BBC)

“It’s possible the person who controlled the aircraft didn’t want anyone to find the plane in the future. To disappear without a trace."

He also believes that this gliding theory means the plane could have crashed in an unsearched area of the South Indian Ocean.

After the MH370 went missing, the pilot carried out the deliberate act of downing the plane with everyone onboard, Gilles claims.

During its sudden dive, MH370’s SATCOM communications system is restarted and requests to join the Inmarsat network - suggesting someone was still in control during the jet's final moments.

Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion (AFP/Getty Images)

Gilles claimed it sent a message to the satellite to reconnect to the network, so the power was then interrupted over those eight minutes.

He added: “In order to ditch the plane, you have to have better control of the aircraft. If you don't have an engine, it's very difficult to fly the aircraft and it is very heavy to fly."

He reckons the plane glided into the ocean instead of official reports of a "death spiral".

The lack of debris from the crash, Gillies says, point to an attempt to ditch the plane which could have split it into two or three parts.

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