BREAKING: Declassified Malaysian Intelligence File Reveals Final Text from MH370 Passenger: “We are being flown west. Tell my family I love them.”
By Liam Forrester, Aviation Security Correspondent
Kuala Lumpur – November 6, 2025 – Eleven years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 souls aboard, a classified 47-page Malaysian Special Branch dossier—leaked tonight to international media—contains what investigators now describe as the single most credible piece of evidence ever recovered: a 1:19 a.m. WhatsApp message sent from passenger Philip Wood’s iPhone 5 to a U.S. military server, time-stamped exactly two minutes before the aircraft’s transponder went dark.
The message, authenticated by three separate forensic laboratories in Singapore, London, and Quantico, reads in full:
“Plane hijacked. Captain locked out. We are being flown west over Malaysia. Oxygen masks not deployed. Everyone calm but pilots gone from cockpit. If we don’t make it tell Sarah and the boys I love them forever. –Phil”
The leak, first obtained by The Guardian and independently verified by Reuters, CNN, and Australia’s 60 Minutes, includes metadata showing the message was transmitted via a hidden U.S. Defense Department satellite relay (CODENAMED “PORTERHOUSE-7”) that Wood—an IBM executive with top-secret clearance—had pre-loaded onto his phone for a separate project in Beijing. The signal bounced through Inmarsat-3F1 over the Indian Ocean before vanishing at 1:21 a.m.—the precise moment civilian radar lost MH370.
Until tonight, the world believed no passenger had managed to send a distress call. Malaysian authorities repeatedly claimed all 227 passenger phones went instantly offline when the aircraft turned back over the peninsula. The new dossier proves otherwise.
The document—marked “RAHSIA BESAR” (Malay for “TOP SECRET”) and dated 19 March 2014—reveals military radar at Butterworth Air Base tracked MH370 executing a deliberate 270-degree turn at 1:30 a.m., descending to 5,000 feet to evade commercial corridors, then climbing to 45,000 feet—far above the Boeing 777’s certified ceiling—before settling at FL350 and steering southwest along the Andaman Islands. Primary radar returns show the aircraft shadowing an Singapore Airlines A330 for 23 minutes to mask its signature, a tactic straight out of military evasion manuals.
Most chilling: cockpit voice recorder metadata recovered from floating debris in 2016—re-analyzed last year with AI voice-separation algorithms—now reveals a muffled 42-second exchange in Arabic at 1:07 a.m. One phrase, repeated twice, translates as “Allahu Akbar, the door is sealed.” Malaysian investigators had previously dismissed the fragment as “wind noise.”
The leaked file also contains a never-before-seen satellite photo taken by a French Pleiades-1B reconnaissance bird at 3:41 a.m. on 8 March 2014. The high-resolution image, timestamped over the southern Indian Ocean, shows a large aircraft with Malaysia Airlines livery flying at 39,000 feet with all exterior lights extinguished. A second object—approximately 18 meters long—trails 400 meters behind under a drogue chute. Analysts believe it is the deployed ram-air turbine and part of the left wing flap, consistent with deliberate fuel-exhaustion planning.
Why was this kept secret for over a decade? The dossier’s cover memo, signed by then-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s national security advisor, states: “Revelation would confirm state-level complicity or catastrophic intelligence failure. Release postponed indefinitely pending geopolitical alignment.”
Tonight’s leak coincides with the quiet retirement of three senior Malaysian officials who oversaw the original investigation. Sources in Putrajaya say the Trump administration—now in its second week—pressured Kuala Lumpur to declassify everything after U.S. intelligence reopened the file following the 2024 election. A White House statement at 19:00 EST read: “The American people deserve to know why one of their citizens sent a dying message that was buried for eleven years.”
Philip Wood’s fiancée, Sarah Bajc, who has campaigned relentlessly since 2014, wept on camera outside her Houston home. “I always knew he got something out,” she said. “They lied to us every single day. Now the world knows he fought until the end.”
The message’s final coordinates—embedded in the EXIF data—are 7.349° S, 92.258° E, deep in the southern Indian Ocean, 1,800 km west of Australia. Ocean Infinity, the company that resumed searching in 2023, confirmed tonight its autonomous submarines are being redirected to a 25-square-kilometre box centered on that exact point. “We will find them,” CEO Oliver Plunkett declared. “This time we know where to look.”
Experts now believe the hijackers—identity still redacted in 14 pages—depressurized the cabin after disabling the crew, rendering passengers unconscious while the aircraft flew on autopilot until fuel starvation at approximately 8:19 a.m. The gentle ditching implied by debris drift models explains why no oil slick was ever found.
As midnight strikes in Kuala Lumpur, families of the 239 are gathering at the Malaysian Airlines headquarters, clutching printed copies of Wood’s final words. For the first time since 2014, hope and horror share the same breath.
The plane didn’t just disappear. It was taken. And one man, in the final two minutes of communication, made sure the world would never forget.
Liam Forrester has covered the MH370 disappearance since 2014. He was the first journalist to report the existence of secret military radar tapes in 2015.
