MH370 news: Pilot claims Australian government would be complicit in 'mass murder' if evidence contradicting 'ghost flight' theory ignored

A former chief pilot for Easyjet has claimed the Australian Transport Safety Bureau would be “complicit in mass murder” if it does not publicly retract its MH370 “ghost flight” theory.

Former pilot for the UK airline Captain Mike Keane claims the Bureau should admit pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah hijacked his own aircraft to kill himself and everyone else onboard.

Captain Keane, who worked as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force, told The Australian that the ATSB should “stop clinging” to a theory that the plane was on autopilot before it disappeared.

He claimed the authority would be "complicit to a crime" if it had deliberately ignored evidence disproving the "ghost flight" theory.

The ATSB said it would not comment on his claims and referred the Evening Standard to the Australian Government’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre.

Captain Keane also published a forensic reconstruction of the flight appearing to show that Captain Shah depressurised the cabin to kill passengers and crew while using the pilot’s long oxygen supply.

He told The Australian: “Put bluntly, the MH370 ‘crash’ is undoubtedly a crime of the unlawful killing of 238 innocent people.

"The Australian government has also been remiss, they should have put pressure on the ATSB to listen, and act, on professional advice from the aviation community.”

His comments come after experts said the flight was crashed by the pilot in a meticulous mission over the Indian Ocean with 239 people onboard in 2014.

The wreckage of the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight has never been found.

Research has suggested the plane’s fate was the result of a deliberate plot by its 53-year-old captain to kill himself and everyone on board.

Simon Hardy, an experienced Boeing 777 captain, said the plane was flown along the border of Thai and Malaysian waters to avoid being picked up by air traffic controllers.

“As the aircraft went across Thailand and Malaysia, it runs down the border, which is wiggling underneath, meaning it's going in and out of those two countries, which is where their jurisdictions are,” he said.

Senior Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy told 60 Minutes on Sunday that he believed the pilot deliberately flew the aircraft over his hometown of Penang for an “emotional goodbye”, according to news.com.au

Mr Zaharie was accompanied by an inexperienced first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, who was on his first Boeing 777 mission without being accompanied by a training captain.

Some fragments of MH370 have been discovered since the crash, but the full wreckage has never been found.

Responding to the Evening Standard's request for comment ATSB said all matters relating to the search for MH370 should be referred to the Australian Government’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre.

The Evening Standard has contacted JACC for comment.