Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said the plane\u2019s disappearance on March 8 was \u201cmost likely not an ordinary crash after fuel was exhausted\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe plane is somewhere, maybe without MAS [Malaysia Airlines] markings,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a waste of time and money to look for debris or oil slick or to listen for pings from the black box.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nDr Mahathir, 88, who was prime minister for 22 years from 1981, wrote in his personal blog he could not imagine that \u201cthe pilots made a soft landing in rough seas and then quietly went down with the aircraft\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cSomeone is hiding something. It is not fair that MAS and Malaysia should take the blame,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Dr Mahathir suggested the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency had knowledge of the disappearance of the plane with 239 people on board but was not sharing it with Malaysia.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>He also claimed that Boeing, the plane\u2019s maker, and \u201ccertain\u201d government agencies, have the ability to remotely take over control of commercial airliners such as the missing Boeing 777.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\u201cFor some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>In another blog last month, Dr Mahathir, who remains a power broker in the ruling United Malays National Organisation, questioned whether the plane crashed into the southern Indian Ocean and blamed Boeing for its disappearance.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>During his time in power, Dr Mahathir was often critical of Western countries such as the US, even once suggesting the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York were staged as an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>His comments on MH370 reflect deep suspicion in Malaysia of foreign involvement in the plane\u2019s disappearance despite Prime Minister Najib Razak saying last week that nobody knew what happened on board, or precisely where the plane was, more than two months after it disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Mr Najib said experts had identified that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean, where the search was focused, discounting dozens of other theories and reported sightings.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>But Dr Mahathir wrote in his latest blog that planes \u201cdon\u2019t just disappear \u2026 certainly not these days, with all the powerful communications systems, radio and satellite tracking and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely, and possess huge storage capacities\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\u201cCan it not be that the pilots of MH370 lost control of their aircraft after someone directly or remotely activated the equipment for seizure of control of the aircraft?\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Meanwhile, relatives of the 12 crew members on the plane claim Malaysia Airlines abandoned them after discovering they had engaged US law firm Ribbeck Law Chartered for legal assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Jacquita Gonzales, the wife of Patrick Gomez who was the in-flight supervisor on MH370, said the airline sent relatives an email last Friday advising that caregivers who had been assigned to help families had been terminated.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>The airline earlier this month closed family assistance and accommodation centres in Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\u201cFrom day one they [Malaysia Airlines] said that we are all family. \u2018Anything you want, just come to us, we will help you.\u2019 That\u2019s why caregivers were assigned to us,\u201d Ms Gonzales, 51, said. \u201cBut to take away our caregivers, our lifeline to MAS, just like that \u2026 it\u2019s actually not right because our caregivers are not there to advise on legal matters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Ms Gonzales said the airline had told relatives to now engage with the airline through lawyers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\u201cAs far as I am concerned, my husband is still an employee of MAS \u2026 as far as I am concerned, my husband is still on MH370, a flight to Beijing and he has not come back from Beijing yet,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Malaysia Airlines has not responded to the relatives\u2019 comments.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Meanwhile, two films inspired by MH370 are being touted to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival. A 90-minute teaser for Vanishing Act<\/em>, showing terrified passengers and a gun being brandished, was shot over six days in India.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Two books have also been written on the mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nSource <\/a><\/div>\nCourtesy Peter Myers<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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