'Depressed' MH370 pilot made ‘series of deliberate turns and speed changes’ to avoid radar detection New research suggests the plane took an unexplained U-turn and headed back across the Malay Peninsula before vanishing 6 May 2021 • 7:00am Flight officer Rayan Gharazeddine scans the water in the southern Indian Ocean for MH370 Credit: AP Photo/Rob Griffith The pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 made a series of deliberate turns and speed changes to avoid radar detection before plunging into the Indian Ocean, new research suggests. The Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, dropped off radar screens after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, bound for Beijing.