MH370: The Dark Truth About Captain Zaharie's Final Flight - YouTube
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The MH370 disappearance forces us to confront the darkest application of principal-agent theory: what happens when the person entrusted with 239 lives may have had a hidden agenda of his own?
Principal-Agent ProblemInformation AsymmetryTrust and Betrayal TheoryMoral Hazard
Theory Briefing
- Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had sole control of MH370, making deliberate diversion nearly impossible to detect or override from the outside.
- The theory hinges on the principal-agent problem — passengers and airlines trusted the cockpit completely, with no mechanism to verify the agent's true intent.
- If the deliberate-diversion theory holds, it represents a catastrophic information asymmetry: the crew knew the plan, the 239 aboard never could.