Answer to Flight MH370 Mystery to be Found in the Maldives? (SP).
A little over one year since the disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370, some residents of one of the Maldivian islands insist they might have seen the Boeing 777 aircraft, which went missing with 239 people on March 8, 2014.
The residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll reiterate that the jumbo jet they saw on March 8, 2014 might have been Malaysian Flight MH370, which disappeared from radar screens on the same day, according to Australian media reports.
The villagers are still wondering why the investigators are not questioning them.
"I watched this very large plane bank slightly and I saw its colors — the red and blue lines — below the windows, then I heard the loud noise," the media quotes Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim, a 47-year-old court official as saying. "It was unusual, very unusual. It was big and it was flying low.
It was a holiday and most people had gone to bed after praying." "First, I saw the plane flying towards me over water. When it was over my head I saw it starting to turn away. At first glance, I did not know it was a missing plane. I didn’t know that a plane was missing. I went straight home and told my wife about it. I told my family, ‘I saw this strange plane’. This is the biggest plane I have ever seen from this island. My family says, ‘It might be the Malaysian plane’. I have seen pictures of the missing plane — I believe that I saw that plane. At the time it was lost, I strongly felt those people who were searching should come here,” he added.
Flashback March 19 2014 -
According to online portal Haveeru Online on Tuesday the police have yet to reveal any information on the matter.
Witnesses told Haveeru online that they saw a white aircraft with red stripes – the colours of a Malaysia Airlines aircraft – flying towards the Southern top of the Maldives at around 6.15am on March 8, 2014.
Residents of Kuda Huvadhoo Island also claimed to hear an incredibly loud noise at the time the plane crossed their island.
“I’ve never seen a plane flying that low over this island before. We’ve seen seaplanes airplanes but I’m sure that this was not one of those,” the witness said adding that several other residents have reported to seeing the same thing. Small planes are among the main forms of transportation in the Maldives.
Haveeru reporter, Ahmad Naif who wrote the article also revealed the portal had received information on the incident since March 9 but were sceptical over the validity of the claims.
"Later we were getting so many comments that we contacted the island and they said it was true,” Naif explained in an interview on web portal Minivan news.
A local aviation expert told Haveeru Online there is a possibility that the low-flying plane was flight MH370 because at that time there were no planes scheduled to fly over the island.
Minivan News meanwhile said the earliest flight schedule at the nearest airport to the area was at 7.20am on Saturday with all flights headed to the capital Male to the north-east.
The news portal however said there were problems with the witnesses’ claims. According to the country’s military spokesman, it was not possible for an aircraft as big as the Being 777-200 to land on an isolated airstrip in the atolls. “If you are asking are there any landing strips outside the main commercial airports, the answer is no,” said Major Hussain Ali.(Genius?)
Spokesman for the Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) Hassan Areef has also urged caution regarding the reported sightings in Kudahuvadhoo.
“We have no credible information about the plane in terms of radar or sightings. “There are so many conspiracy theories. We have no credible information that the plane has come to us,” he said to Minivan News.
The news portal also said that several witnesses could not conclude with certainty that the plane they reportedly saw on March 8 was indeed a Boeing 777-200 aircraft.
However a Berita Harian report on Tuesday had put Maldives in the radar. Quoting a police source, the report said investigations into the flight simulator taken from MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home found five airports in the Indian Ocean recorded on the device.
Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in Male was one them apart from three in India and Sri Lanka and an airport owned by the United States, Diego Garvia. Hmmmm......Worthwhile to investigate i would say. Read the full story here. more here.
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