Mark Dugain believes the American military blasted the missing jetliner out of the sky amid fears it had been hijacked remotely and could be used in a 9/11-style terror attack
The Malaysia Airlines
plane was remotely hijacked by unknown persons before being blasted out of the
sky by the American military, fearing a terrorist attack similar to 9/11,
according to.
The Frenchman, an author and the ex-head of the now-defunct Proteus Airlines, believes the Boeing 777 was downed by US Air Force assets from the British-controlled Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
The Frenchman, an author and the ex-head of the now-defunct Proteus Airlines, believes the Boeing 777 was downed by US Air Force assets from the British-controlled Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
Mr Dugain said he had
travelled to the Maldives and spoken to locals who claimed to have seen a
"huge plane" flying overhead at low altitude in the direction of
Diego Garcia.
According to an article
penned by Dugan in French weekly magazine Paris Match, one fisherman told him:
“I saw a huge plane fly over us at low altitude.
“I saw red and blue
stripes (the livery of Malaysia Airlines) on a white background."
Dugain said the man's
account was supported by several other locals. He also wrote how he had
met the mayor of Baarah Island, who showed him photos of a device seized by the
Maldives military after it was found on a beach two weeks after the tragedy.
Dugain claimed the device
was a fire extinguisher, citing two aviation experts and a local military
officer, and pointed out that the extinguisher must have been empty to have
floated.
This, Dugain claimed,
was due to it being automatically triggered by a fire, even as all passengers
and crew might have died from asphyxiation.
In a separate radio
interview, Dugain claimed that a British intelligence officer had warned him of
the “risks” in investigating MH370’s disappearance, suggesting instead that he
“let time do its work”.
Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
with 239 passengers and crew on board.
The search for the
vanished jet is focused on the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia. Officials
had hoped to conclude the mission by May 2015, however a technical problem
affecting equipment on board one of the search ships may mean that is no longer
achievable.
Source: Mirror.co.ukU.S. military shot down MH370