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MH370 expert says co-pilot was last person alive and 'flew ghost plane for hours'

MH370 vanished en route from Malaysia to China in 2014 with 239 passengers and crew aboard. Aviation expert Christine Negroni has proposed a theory that cabin depressurisation may have killed everyone except the co-pilot

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The co-pilot of MH370 may have flown solo for hours after everyone else aboard had died, according to an aviation expert. The ultimate destiny of the doomed flight, which disappeared while travelling from Malaysia to China in 2014 carrying 239 passengers and crew, continues to be wrapped in mystery.

Writer Christine Negroni suggested that the catastrophic aircraft's demise could have been sparked by an unexpected loss of cabin pressure, causing the deaths of all those on board. She theorises that the Boeing 777's captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah might have been resting at that moment, leaving co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid at the controls.

The sudden lack of oxygen would have killed all passengers and crew within 15 minutes, yet Hamid was protected from its most severe impact whilst in the cockpit, reports the Express.

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Nevertheless, Negroni believes that whilst not dead, the co-pilot's oxygen-starved mind caused him to make a string of bizarre choices whilst trying to execute a rescue operation.

Ultimately, he would have been powerless to stop the final descent into the ocean, which investigators suspect lies somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

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The writer of 'The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters' stated: "The plane starts heading south. Whatever that time period is, that's the period of time I believe he went unconscious.

"The oxygen available for the passengers was about 15 minutes, so the passengers were all dead, there's no chance they were resuscitated, they were dead long before that plane hit the water."

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Negorni believes the cabin lost pressure 38 minutes into the flight when it lost contact due to an electrical malfunction.

She added: "Nothing that this pilot did, after the plane experienced its issues, made sense.

"To me when a pilot does something that doesn't make sense, it is a very strong clue that the pilot is not sensible.

"And what makes a pilot insensible is hypoxia, not just once but repeatedly."

Last week former air crash investigator Larry Vance suggested the crash was a 'murder-suicide'.

Vance said he was "certain" that either Captain Shah or Hamid stole the plane in what he termed a "criminal event".

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