'U.S. military shot down MH370 because they thought it had been hacked and was about to be used in terror attack', claims former airline boss 

• Marc Dugain says U.S. Navy in Indian Ocean attacked the plane 
• He claims that islanders saw the plane fly close to a U.S. base
• Also alleges that a spy told him to back away from his probe into MH370

By SAM WEBB FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 13:53 GMT, 22 December 2014 | UPDATED: 15:10 GMT, 22 December 2014

A former airline boss and writer claims the U.S. downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 because the military feared it had been taken over by hackers and was about to be used in a 9/11-style attack.

Marc Dugain, the former chief executive of now-defunct Proteus Airlines, said the jumbo jet was shot down near a U.S. military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean after it was hacked.

He told Paris Match that islanders in the Maldives near Diego Garcia told him they saw the missing aircraft flying low.

Dugain spoke of a fisherman on a small island who spoke of a 'huge plane' in Malaysie Airline's colours on March 8.

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