As we approach the tenth anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of flight 370, Malaysian Airlines, we are getting the usual barrage of media speculation about the alleged mystery and its possible causes.

Yet for me at the time, as a contributor to an Asian news service, there was no mystery. Two UK dailies had run a report from Malaysia saying that the pilot was a devout admirer of the much-victimised Malaysian politician, Ibrahim Anwar, and may have deliberately crashed the plane and its passengers in protest over government use of another rigged court judgement against him.

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