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Evening Standard

MH370: Landing gear lowered before doomed flight crashed ‘suggesting criminal intent’

A pilot on board the ill-fated MH370 flight lowered the plane’s landing gear in the final seconds before it crashed, a new report suggests, supporting the possibility of criminal intent.

A damaged landing gear door has been discovered in Madagascar, making it among the first physical evidence suggesting one of the pilots deliberately acted to sink the jet in the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board, The Times reports.

The landing gear is the main support of the airplane when it is parked, taking off or landing.

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