A new book has suggested that a stray bullet from a hijacker downed MH370 [GETTY]British author and pilot Sylvia Wrigley believes a bullet hole caused as the crew or a hero passenger struggled with hijackers would have had no immediate effect.
But the gradual decompression it caused in the jet’s cabin would have slowly rendered everyone on board unconscious, allowing the plane to carry on flying on autopilot for several hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
Wrigley, who has written several books on aviation, has spent many hours rigorously examining official reports posted online by the Malay, Chinese, Australian, US and British governments.
The sad fact is that we almost certainly have all the information that we are going to get until the aircraft wreckage and black box are located
In her new book The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, she argues that terrorists successfully took control shortly after take off from Kuala Lumpur but their plans went wrong when one of the crew or a brave passenger intervened.
She explains: “A gunshot could have caused a slow decompression undetected by the hijackers and led to them not putting oxygen masks on as the pressure reduced.
“The sad fact is that we almost certainly have all the information that we are going to get until the aircraft wreckage and black box are located.”
No trace of MH370 has been found since it veered off course on March 8 while bound for Beijing with 239 people aboard. Data shows it flew back over the Malay Peninsula and into the Indian Ocean.
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