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The Pilot Who May Have Murdered 238 People - YouTube

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MH370 forces us to confront how a single trusted authority figure can exploit institutional blind spots to commit an act no system was designed to prevent.

Principal-Agent ProblemAuthority BiasInformation AsymmetryDeliberate Diversion Theory

Theory Briefing

  • MH370 vanished in 2014 with 238 people aboard, and the ocean has never fully surrendered its secrets.
  • The deliberate-diversion theory centers on the captain — a trusted insider whose authority made the act nearly undetectable.
  • Principal-agent theory explains how the cockpit's unchecked power let one individual override every safeguard designed to protect passengers.