Skip to main content

Fact check

Is it true: MH370: Deliberate Pilot Action Hypothesis?

Unsubstantiated40% confidence

There's no solid evidence for it.

The deliberate pilot action hypothesis is consistent with some evidence — the flight simulator waypoints, the sequential disabling of communications, and the ghost-flight trajectory — but is not supported by conclusive proof. No motive has been established, no suicide note or farewell communications were found, the simulator route reconstruction is partial and characterised as inconclusive by Malaysian authorities, and neither black box has been recovered. The ATSB and Malaysian investigation both declined to assign cause.

The claim

One prominent hypothesis for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on 8 March 2014 is that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately depressurised the cabin, incapacitated or killed the pa

Key evidence

Sequential disabling of communication systems

No motive has been established for Captain Zaharie

Read the full evidence file

Conspirafy steelmans each claim, then follows the evidence. How we reach a verdict · Check another claim