Officials are still baffled over what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people aboard. The families of the missing passengers and crew are demanding answers to why the plane suddenly disappeared from the radar and why it the aircraft has not been discovered.
There has been theories that the plane was hijacked or the crew decided to change course, Yahoo News reports. There's also another, slightly disturbing theory that the pilot might have committed suicide.
According to Yahoo, the mystery surrounding the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is drawing similarities to a tragedy involving SilkAir Flight 185, which was ruled as a pilot suicide mission.
On Dec. 19, 1987, SilkAir Flight 185 left Indonesia for Singapore. There was seven crew and 97 passengers aboard the plane, Yahoo reports. Thirty-five minutes after the plane took off, It suddenly dove into the Musi River in Sumatra.
Everyone aboard the plane was killed. At first the Indonesian government ruled the cause of the crash as "inconclusive" but the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board determined that the pilot had committed suicide.
While the theory is definitely disturbing, John Brennan, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said "I think you cannot discount any theory," the Daily Mail reports. Malaysian police officials are currently doing psychology profiles on everyone aboard the airplane.
The theory could offer explanation as to why the plane simply "vanished" from radar tracking "as the pilot could have switched off the transponder shortly before it vanished," the site writes.
Brennan also said officials are not ruling out the possibility that it was a terrorist attack.
"Could it have been some kind of catastrophic event? I do not think people at this point should rule out any lines of inquiry," he said. "
