The mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH 370 in 2014 made news all over the world, as no signs of the aircraft with 239 people on board could be found. While a combined effort from a multi-nation rescue team wasn't successful in locating the debris of the aircraft, the motive behind the disappearance remained unknown, until now.

A panel of experts assembled by Australia's '60 minutes' came up with one of the most credible theories around what could have happened in the final hours of the flight. For the first time, a team of analysts have concluded that the apparent crash was nothing but suicide orchestrated by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

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The modus operandi of the suicide was also explained by the analysts in detail. It is now believed that the aircraft, a Boeing 777, was depressurised which would have made the 239 people on board unconscious. This would have made the path easier for suicide as the captain took a brief detour near Penang, Malaysia, his hometown. The experts believe that this final manoeuvre was a massive movement that guided their decision making.

"The thing that gets discussed the most is that at the point where the pilot turned the transponder off, that he depressurized the airplane, which would disable the passengers," said Larry Vance, a veteran aircraft investigator from Canada. "He was killing himself. Unfortunately, he was killing everyone else onboard. And he did it deliberately."

"Captain Zaharie dipped his wing to see Penang, his home town," Simon Hardy, a Boeing 777 senior pilot and instructor, said on "60 Minutes."

"If you look very carefully, you can see it's actually a turn to the left, and then start a long turn to the right. And then [he does] another left turn. So I spent a long time thinking about what this could be, what technical reason is there for this and, after two months, three months thinking about this, I finally got the answer: Someone was looking out the window. It might be a long emotional goodbye. Or a short emotional goodbye to his home town," he added.

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These shocking theories finally put to rest the long standing debate on what actually happened to the MH 370 aircraft, however, it does raise some serious questions on how pilots can go around without being traced by carefully charting their course and that is a big cause of concern for the aviation industry in general.