Experts Consider Flight 370 Scenarios at RAeS Conference
Experts appear unable to find a single plausible scenario under which Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared.
Within hours of the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 over eastern Ukraine, the country's aviation authorities completed closed the airspace in the Dnipropetrovsk flight information region. [Photo: Aero Icarus]
Within hours of the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 over eastern Ukraine, the country's aviation authorities completed closed the airspace in the Dnipropetrovsk flight information region. [Photo: Aero Icarus]

During a recent conference in London the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Operations Group (FOG) solicited the views of a select group of speakers representing pilots, airlines, manufacturers and regulators about the various scenarios that might have led to the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. At least one contradictory statement accompanied each of the plausible explanations, however, suggesting more than one causal event occurred simultaneously, according to one expert. “If it was hypoxia, then who turned the aircraft?” he asked. “If it was a fire, then how did it continue flying? If it was the flight crew, then why did the cabin crew not intervene?”