Missing Plane: Was Vladimir Putin Involved in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disappearance?

Russian President Vladimir Putin wears special glasses as he visits a research facility of the St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. In televised comments after a meeting with students in St. Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine’s army was at fault for the increase in violence and accused it of using civilians as “cannon fodder” in the conflict. “(Ukraine’s army) is not even an army, it’s a foreign legion, in this case a foreign NATO legion,” Putin said. “They have totally different goals, connected to the geopolitical containment of Russia, which absolutely do not coincide with the national interests of the Ukrainian people.” AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service

A science journalist who has spoken frequently on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has theorized that one of the most powerful people in the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin, was involved.

It’s been nearly a year since the plane disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board, and there has been no sign of the missing Boeing 777--not even a piece of debris. The Australian government has spent tens of millions of dollars in searching for the plane hundreds of miles off the coast of Western Australia but to no avail.

Wise, who is one of CNN’s top commentators on missing Flight 370, made a shocking claim that Putin ordered the hijacking of the plane. He said Putin may have wanted to steal the plane to go after the West--possibly because the U.S. placed sanctions on Russia one day before the plane went missing.

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