MH370 'WAS plunged into ocean in terrifying death dive': New evidence from wreckage adds to fears that 'broken-hearted' pilot crashed plane into the Indian Ocean on purpose 

  • MH370 wing flap suggests plane plunged into the ocean in a 'death dive'
  • Analysis on the piece of debris shows the wing flap hadn't been extended  
  • A pilot would have extended the wing flaps to perform a controlled crash
  • Malaysia Airlines flight vanished in March 2014 with 239 people on board

By Sinead Maclaughlin For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 21:57 EST, 16 September 2016 | Updated: 02:20 EST, 17 September 2016

New wreckage from doomed flight MH370 has raised fears the pilot plunged the plane into the ocean on purpose.

Analysis of the jet's wing flap - discovered off Tanzanian coast - suggests it plunged into the Indian Ocean in a terrifying 'death dive' with 239 passengers on board.

Experts said the flap was not deployed which rules out the possibility of a controlled landing, 7 News reports. 

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The wing flap of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 suggests the plane plunged into the ocean at high speed in a 'death dive'

The wing flap of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 suggests the plane plunged into the ocean at high speed in a 'death dive'

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says they are still testing the flap from the Boeing aircraft

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says they are still testing the flap from the Boeing aircraft

It comes amid claims the pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was 'heart-broken' over an alleged breakdown in a relationship with a married woman. 

Shah was messaging Fatima Pardi about a 'personal matter' just two days before the plane vanished..

Ms Pardi, 35, a former kindergarten teacher, refused to tell The Australian what they talked about but said they were not having an affair. 

Captian Shah is also believed to have split from his wife Faizah Hanun, although they lived under the same roof in Kuala Lumpur. 

She has been questioned several times by Malaysian police and FBI investigators who have asked her about rumours she and pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had separated.

CaptainShah with his wife Faizah Khan and children. Faizah is in hiding having fled the family home in Kuala Lumpur

MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his wife Faizah Khan (both pictured with their children) are thought to have split before the crash

Missing: Captain Zaharie (left) was at the controls of MH370 with by co-pilot Fariq Hamid (right), when is lost contact and disappeared en-route to Beijing two years ago today

What she told investigators is said to have been an important factor in the interim conclusions to be released about the airline's fate.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says they are still testing the flap from the Boeing aircraft.

But Peter Foley, head of the organisation's search, confirms that the flap had not been in the right position for a controlled landing, rather it was pulled in inside the wing.

He added that satellite data showed the plane falling at an increasingly rapid rate.

'The rate of descent combined with the position of the flap — if it's found that it is not deployed [which since has] — will almost certainly rule out either a controlled ditch or glide,' he said.

Peter Foley says the flap had not been in the right position for a controlled landing, rather it was pulled in inside the wing

Peter Foley says the flap had not been in the right position for a controlled landing, rather it was pulled in inside the wing

Another pieces of debris from the p[lane have been founf along with the wing flap. Pictured is a piece of metal found on a beach in Mozambique

Another pieces of debris from the p[lane have been founf along with the wing flap. Pictured is a piece of metal found on a beach in Mozambique

'If it's not in a deployed state, it ­validates, if you like, where we've been looking.'

The flap is currently being analysed in Can­berra.

The Malaysia Airlines flight vanished in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

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