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Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: Theories behind missing jet REVEALED as search ends | Daily Star

Families of the 239 victims of the Malaysia Airlines jet crash may never know the truth after investigations were officially brought to an end today.

Search efforts began in March 2014 when the Boeing 777 crashed somewhere on its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Here are some of the wacky theories about what really happened to cause the mystery crash. CONSPIRACIES: Could Vladimir Putin or an alien abduction have been the MH370 crash? MYSTERY: An unnamed terror group may have been behind the mystery crash of flight MH370

“"space aliens, time travellers or beings from another dimension" pulled the plane out of the sky”

One in ten Americans, according to CNN

Putin hijack

Theorists believe Vladimir Putin may have ordered the passenger jet to be hijacked in order to show China the full extent of his power.

Unusual "pings" given off by the plane seven hours after it disappeared led author Jeff Wise to conclude it was hijacked and grounded in Kazakhstan on the orders of the Russian leader.

Others believe that flight MH370 was actually the same flight as MH17, meaning Putin was the mastermind behind the crash. 

Alien attack

Other claims are that aliens or beings from another dimension caused the jet to be destroyed.

A spate of UFO sightings in Malaysia at the time have been linked with "proof" of extra-terrestrial involvement seen on radar.

Ten per cent of Americans agree with the theory that "space aliens, time travellers or beings from another dimension" pulled the plane out of the sky, according to CNN research. 

Pilot suicide

Top pilot Byron Bailey put forward the shock claim that the only possible answer was that pilot Zaharie Shah deliberately downed the jet to commit suicide.

Bailey reasoned that only an experienced pilot such as Shah could have overridden the Flight Management System which made the plane veer fatally off course.

Worries intensified over the mindset of pilot Shah when his daughter claimed he had been acting "disturbed and distant" in the months leading up to the awful incident.

Aishah Shah said she barely recognised her "disturbed and lost" father who was "in a world of his own".

No evidence has ever been found to support this theory. MISTAKE: One theory is that the Malaysian jet was gunned down in a US training drill gone wrong

Pilot locked in toilet

One of the most bizarre answers to the MH370 mystery emerged in October, when a trip to the little boys room was said to be the real cause of the crash.

It is claimed First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid was suddenly left in charge when Shah could no longer hold his water.

But he did not have enough experience to keep the jet on course, and the trip ended in tragedy.

Blowtorch-style fire

A team of lawyers suggested that the South-Asian jet fell foul of an electrical "blowtorch-type fire" similar to one which downed an EgyptAir flight in 2011. 

US military training drill gone wrong

Shock claims that the jet was accidentally gunned down in a practice strike fighter mission were revealed in a book called ‘Flight MH370: The Mystery’.

Life insurance cash scam

A Malaysian police chief left heads scratching when he refused to rule out chances that the mystery disappearance was down to a carefully-planned scam to rake in cash from life insurance companies.

This theory has never been disproved. HAYWIRE FIRE: A blowtorch-style blaze may have broken out in the cockpit of the Boeing 777

North Korea secret tests

Wild theories suggested the secretive state had redirected the plane.

A conspiracy theory from a Reddit user claimed that "there's no telling what crazy logic [North Korea] might have for taking a plane", and therefore it could not be ruled out that the Asian nation redirected the jet for unknown nefarious purposes.

Terror attack

Fears an unnamed terror group was responsible had swept the search investigations, after it emerged that two passengers had boarded the flight with stolen passports.

No terror group has yet come forward to claim it was a deliberate attack.

However, threatening emails sent to journalists from an unknown Chinese group read: "You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as payback", and has been linked to the Malaysian mystery. 

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