I'm Doctor Alan Deal. I was a research psychologist
for the US government. I'm a whistleblower.
I work for the NTSB,
the FAA, and later for the Pentagon.
Well, basically I think that
the captain did commandeer the airplane with the intent of
broadcasting a manifesto,
landing safely in an American base in the
Indian Ocean called Diego Garcia.
I don't think he ever intended
to crash the airplane or harm the passengers.
I think he was going to request political asylum when
he landed on the island,
but something went very wrong and we know he was
in the cockpit at 1:19 local time because he said
good night,
Malaysia 370. The plane then did a
vigorous couple of turns back to the West,
overflew the Malay Peninsula, disappeared into another sea called the
Atom and Sea,
and eventually ended up in the Indian Ocean.
There are three theories that are out there right now.
Theory one is that he was crazy.
The captain was crazy. He took the jet intending to
disappear.
I don't think that's the case.
Had he wanted to do that,
he wouldn't have flown into a radar intense environment in
Malaysia and Thailand.
By going to the West,
he'd have gone to the east,
out into the Pacific, crashed into the Marianas Trench which
is
35,000 feet deep. The plane
would almost certainly never have been found and the wreckage
never would have been recovered from that deep water.
OK, so I don't think he wanted to disappear.
Second theory is he wanted to invest into,
he wanted to embarrass. The current
regime was headed by Prime Minister
Razak's government. They had just arrested his relative,
who incidentally now is the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
But if he'd wanted to embarrass the former regime,
he was on his way to Beijing.
All he would have had to do is crash into
the Great Hall of the People
at Tiananmen Square, killing everybody aboard and hundreds of Chinese
citizens.
I think that would have been a lot more embarrassing
for
Rasik's regime than just disappearing and killing the people aboard
the aircraft.
The third theory is the one that I mentioned.
I believe he wanted to make a political statement,
nothing more. And something happened to the aircraft.
My book, it's called Best Laid Plans.
You know the Robert Burns quote about the best laid
plans of mice and men often go awry.
I think that happened here.
This aircraft is a very safe aircraft,
the 777. But there have been,
there has been a couple of fires aboard the aircraft
in the electronics Bay
and I believe that might have happened.
I believe that the copilot was probably locked out of
the cockpit.
He was not involved with the scheme to commandeer the
aircraft,
but he knew how to get back into the cockpit
by releasing
the armored cockpit door. But perhaps while he was down
in that crowded electronic spay with all the high voltage,
he bumped something, started a fire accidentally,
probably killing himself and causing a major confrontation.
The plane filled with smoke
and they probably burned a hole through the fuselage.
That happened with one of the other
777 fires, and at 35,000 feet that would have caused
an explosive decompression.
And the rest, as they say,
is history. What I think should happen now
is that the Malaysian government should pay
Ocean Infiniti or some other contractor to find the wreckage
that this is the key to solving this mystery.
And I don't think it's in the southern Indian Ocean.
I think it's in the eastern Indian Ocean for reasons
that I explained in the book
and but in any case they should search both places
expeditiously. I also think the Malaysian government should ask for
the US National Transportation Safety Board
to head the inquiry. So there's no question about the
integrity and perhaps ask the FBI to look at the
confidential files that have never been released.
So there's total transparency. I think that would be do
a great deal to instill confidence in his airline and
his country
and frankly, it'll answer. It'll either exonerate or
convict the Boeing 777. We don't know if it has
an Achilles heel right now.
We need to find the wreckage for that.
Well, I've I've looked at all the public domain information
about the pilot.
I was what's called a human performance investigator for the
NTSB.
And when an accident occurs,
we always do what's called sometimes the psychological autopsy.
We look to see if this pilot had an alcohol
or drug abuse.
Did he have financial problems?
Did he had family problems?
Did he have job problems?
We look at the ergonomics of the cockpit.
We look at his health,
his his nutrition and everything I can see
about him, and it's all public domain.
I have not seen these confidential records that the Malaysian
government is holding,
but it appears to me this
individual was very unlikely to be a candidate for suicide.
We know there's no history of suicidal ideation and there
was no suicide note,
which almost always occurs in these kind of accidents.
And they're very rare, of course.