LONDON: The search for MH370 in the Indian Ocean may have been an excuse to hide the fact that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was mistakenly shot down during a military exercise.
The book Flight “MH370: The Mystery” goes on sale today with the explosive theory, the first of doubtless many books to explore the disappearance of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, which has confounded experts since March 8.
Written by Nigel Cawthorne, who states he may be Britain’s “most published living author” with 150 books to his name, the book canvasses the idea that the plane carrying 239 people was shot down by mistake during a US/Thai military exercise.
Cawthorne introduces his book by claiming that the families of MH370′s passengers will “almost certainly” never be sure what happened to their loved ones.
But he goes on to support one theory, based on the eye-witness testimony of New Zealand oil rig worker Mike McKay, that the plane was shot down shortly after it stopped communicating with air traffic controllers.
At the time there was a series of war games taking place in the South China Sea involving Thailand, the US and personnel from China, Japan, Indonesia and others, and Cawthorne has linked this to McKay’s claims to have seen a burning plane going down in the Gulf of Thailand.
“The drill was to involve mock warfare on land, in water and in the air, and would include live-fire exercises,” Cawthorne said.
Irene Burrows, whose son and daughter-in-law were passengers on board MH370 when it disappeared, told the Sun-Herald of her anger at the book’s release.
“Nobody knows what happened so why would anyone want to put out a book at this stage?” she said.
“There’s absolutely no answers. It’s devastating for the families. It’s 10 weeks tomorrow and there’s nothing.”
The release of Cawthorne’s book came as Rupesh Paul promoted a film to be made about the missing plane, entitled The Vanishing Act, at the Cannes Film Festival.
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