Editing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance theories (section)

==MH17 and QZ8501 connections==
On 17 July 2014, [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17]] was shot down over Ukraine. Because it, like Flight 370, was also a Boeing 777, some conspiracy theorists have suggested that the plane that crashed in Ukraine was actually Flight 370. This is based in part on photographs of the crash scene, which conspiracy theorists claim show that the plane that crashed in Ukraine had structural similarities to MH370. Experts have dismissed this theory and argued that it is merely coincidental that both planes involved belonged to the same airline.<ref name="BBC persistence of conspiracy theories">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29083905 | title=Malaysia Airlines MH370: The persistence of conspiracy theories | work=BBC News | date=8 September 2014 | access-date=8 September 2014 | author=De Castella, Tom}}</ref>

When [[Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501]] crashed on 28 December 2014, various similarities with MH370 were noted, including that both airlines were Malaysian-owned,<ref name=HP-8501-01a>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/30/mh370-mh17-conspiracy-theory_n_6394792.html|title=AirAsia QZ8501 Conspiracy Theories Are Already Starting To Appear|date=30 December 2014|author=Barrell, Ryan|work=[[The Huffington Post UK]]|access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref> and that both planes lost contact with [[air traffic control]].<ref name=AU-8501-01a>{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/missing-airasia-flight-qz8501-and-mh370-share-similarities-according-to-aviation-experts/story-fnizu68q-1227168725873|title=Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 and MH370 share similarities according to aviation experts|date=29 December 2014|work=[[News.com.au]]|access-date=2 January 2015|archive-date=1 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101164840/http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/missing-airasia-flight-qz8501-and-mh370-share-similarities-according-to-aviation-experts/story-fnizu68q-1227168725873|url-status=dead}}</ref> There was also a reported conspiracy theory involving an alleged prediction on 15 December 2014 on Chinese news sites<ref name=wenxuecity>{{cite web|title=大陆论坛惊现预言帖 两周前警告远离亚航(图) (''Astonishing prediction revealed on Mainland Chinese forum that warned people to avoid AirAsia two weeks prior'')|url=http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2014/12/28/3904836.html|website=文学城新闻频道 ([[Wenxuecity]] News Channel)|access-date=30 January 2015|date=28 December 2014|quote=根据微博爆料，网名〝老百姓有自己的乐〞的网友于本月15日晚上8点15分在天涯社会发帖，帖子题目为《马航被搞垮后，黑手又伸向了亚航》 ... (''According to news from [[Sina Weibo|Weibo]], a netizen named 'the common people have their own pleasures' published a post on [[Tianya Club]] at 8.15pm on the 15th of that month [December], entitled 'After Malaysia Airlines has been ruined, the black hand reaches for AirAsia'...'')}}</ref><ref name=xinhuanet>{{cite web|title="神帖"言中亚航失联 专家表示纯属偶然 (''"Legendary" post correctly predicted AirAsia loss of contact: purely coincidental, say experts'')|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-01/01/c_127351593.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131171451/http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-01/01/c_127351593.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 January 2015|website=[[Xinhuanet]]|access-date=30 January 2015|date=1 January 2015|quote=发帖者"老百姓有自己的乐"劝所有乘客"远离亚航"。 (''The poster 'the common people have their own pleasures' advised all passengers to 'avoid AirAsia'.'')}}</ref><ref name=nanyang>{{cite web|title=是预言还是窜改日期"马后炮"？ 中国网民曾告诫：远离亚航 (''A prophecy or a post after the fact with an altered date? Chinese netizen once warned: Avoid AirAsia'')|url=http://www.nanyang.com/node/671820?tid=1039|website=南洋网 (Nanyang Web)|publisher=南洋商报 (Nanyang Financial Times)|access-date=30 January 2015|date=30 December 2014|quote=中国媒体报道，网名"老百姓有自己的乐"的天涯社区网友，在留言中说："国际大黑手把马航MH370和马航MH17劫持和击落后，作为世界第六航空公司的马航基本垮了，处于要死不活的状态。(''The Chinese media reported that a member of [[Tianya Club]] named 'the common people have their own pleasures' left a message reading 'After the international black hand hijacked MH370 and shot down MH17, Malaysia Airlines, formerly the sixth-largest airline, has basically collapsed and is barely alive.'')|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131172017/http://www.nanyang.com/node/671820?tid=1039|archive-date=31 January 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=sina>{{cite web|title=亚航客机出事 网曝网友早有神级预测 (''AirAsia crash: online revelations that netizen made legendary prediction long before'')|url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2014-12-30/141531344770.shtml|website=[[Sina Corp|Sina.com]]|publisher=新浪新闻 (Sina News)|access-date=30 January 2015|date=30 December 2014|quote=一位网名为"老百姓有自己的乐"的网友在国内某著名论坛上发帖《马航被搞垮后，黑手又伸向了亚航》。(''A netizen named 'the common people have their own pleasures' made a post on a certain well-known domestic forum entitled 'After Malaysia Airlines has been ruined, the black hand reaches for AirAsia''.)}}</ref>. A post warned Chinese people to stay away from AirAsia as it would be attacked, as MH370 and MH17 allegedly had been (according to the user), as part of a conspiracy by a "black hand" or "despicable international bully" to harm Malaysian-owned airlines.<ref name=HP-8501-01a/> Other online posters suggested that the user was either a Chinese intelligence official or a hacker who had come across secret information.<ref name=HP-8501-01a/>