The captain of the Malaysia Airlines jet which disappeared five years ago was reportedly clinically depressed. Fresh details about Zaharie Ahmad Shah suggest he killed the 238 passengers by starving them of oxygen. The report by US aviation writer William Langewiesche said Mr Zaharie went on to fly alone for hours with the bodies in the plane.
Mr Zaharie was often lonely and sad during the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, according to the report in The Atlantic magazine.
Mr Langewiesche wrote: “There is a strong suspicion among investigators in the aviation and intelligence communities that he was clinically depressed.”
The report suggests Mr Zaharie sent his young co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid out of the cockpit before depressurising the aircraft.
He would have then ensured passengers’ deaths by climbing above cruising altitude to starve them of oxygen.
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