MH370: Plane 'deliberately' flown into the water

An air-crash investigator has revealed he believes flight MH370 was deliberately flown into the water.

According to the BBC Larry Vance told '60 Minutes' in Australia that erosion on the wings suggests a controlled landing.

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The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March 2014 while flying between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.

Vance used to work with the Canadian Air Safety Board and has been in charge of more than 200 crash investigations.

Speaking on the Australian TV programme, he said: "Somebody was flying the airplane into the water. There is no other alternative theory that you can follow."

Vance is basing his theory on a piece of the wing which was discovered on Reunion Island last year.

The part of the wing that was discovered is known as the 'flaperon' and according to Vance the appearance of the recovered wing suggests it had been deployed for landing.

He explained that there is no other way to get the flaperon into this position apart from in preparation for landing.

He said: "The force of the water is really the only thing that could make that jagged edge that we see. It wasn't broken off. If it was broken off, it would be a clean break. You couldn't even break that thing."

Peter Foley, an Australian Safety Bureau crash investigator, agrees that it is possible plane could have been flown into the water intentionally, the Guardian reports.

He said: "There is a possibility there was someone in control at the end and we're actively looking for evidence to support that."

There have been plenty of theories surrounding what happened to the fated MH370 flight.

Just last week it was revealed that a home flight simulator owned by the plane's pilot was used to plan a course heading to the south Indian Ocean which is where it's thought the plane disappeared.

However the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said that the existence of this data does not prove the pilot intentionally crashed the plane.

A statement from the JACC read: "The simulator information shows only the possibility of planning. It does not reveal what happened on the night of the aircraft's disappearance, nor where the aircraft is located."