MH370 disappearance: US shot down aeroplane as they believed it was hijacked, claims former airlines executive

Marc Dugain, former chief executive of Proteus Airlines and writer has come up with a startling theory about the disappearance of the Malaysian airlines flight MH370.

According to the former airline boss, the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was shot down by the US military, because they feared that the flight was hijacked and was supposed to be used in a 9/11 style attack.

According to Dugain, the military had shot the plane down near a US military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

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Dugain also went on to add that the islanders in Maldives near Diego Garcia had seen the jumbo jet flying low.

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The former airline executive went on to add that fishermen near Diego Garcia had seen a huge aircraft that had the Malaysian Airlines colours flying very low.

A fire-extinguisher from the missing aircraft was also found shortly in the sea near Barrah island.

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Dugain, a successful novelist, has claimed that he was warned not to proceed with the investigation of the missing aeroplane as there were risks involved, and was asked to let the matter alone, and let ‘time do its work’.

239 people went missing when the Boeing 777 jet plane vanished on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

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No one has been able to come up with any suitable explanation regarding the plane’s sudden disappearance.

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Australia has been spearheading the hunt for the plane, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean off western Australia.