The missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was hijacked on the orders of Vladimir Putin and secretly landed in Kazakhstan, an expert has claimed in a wild new theory. Jeff Wise, a U.S. science writer who spearheaded CNN's coverage of the Boeing 777-200E, has based his outlandish theory on pings that the plane gave off for seven hours after it went missing, that were recorded by British telecommunications company Inmarsat. Wise believes that hijackers 'spoofed' the plane's navigation data to make it seem like it went in another direction, but flew it to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased from Kazakhstan by Russia.
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Jeff Wise is a science author and member of the Independent Group
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Believes MH370 was part of a secret Russian hijack mission
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Putin 'spoofed' the flight data and landed the plane in Kazakhstan
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Satellite data suggests plane flew for hours after losing contact
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Experts say it 'strongly suggests' it was deliberately flown off course
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Flight  vanished on March 8, 2014, travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
Satellite: Images taken from the sky show the disused airport, which is part of the Baikonur complex, where Jeff Wise believes @placeholder landed