Missing Malaysian jet's passengers wouldn't have passed out with erratic flying, says expert

Passengers of the ill-fated Malaysian Airline MH370 wouldn't have passed out when the plane was flying at 45,000 feet, above its maximum flying altitude, an expert has said.

Former Qantas head of safety Ron Bartsch dismissed the speculation that the plane's change in altitude soon after it went off radar was done deliberately to make passengers unconscious.

Bartsch said that there are easier ways of doing so like depressurizing the plane gradually so that the passengers don't notice and then putting on own oxygen mask, news.com.au reports.

He pointed that it was more likely that the person in the cockpit was making a deliberate attempt to disappear from radar.

According to the report, the Flight MH370 dived to 23,000 feet shortly after its last reported contact with air traffic control, which would have allowed the aircraft to pop up at another location unnoticed.

Bartsch further pointed that if it was just a matter of pilot suicide, there were a lot easier ways to kill themselves and the passengers.

The ill-fated plane went missing soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8th and since then multiple theories have emerged including sea crash, terrorism, pilot suicide and Bermuda Triangle theory.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that it was most likely the result of a hijacking or piracy as investigators increasingly focused their search on air corridors heading north to Central Asia and south to the remote Indian Ocean, the report added.