Calls for an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 are growing after a fisherman made shocking claims last month that one of the crashed plane's wings had resurfaced.
Peter Waring, an expert in underwater surveying and seafloor mapping, was intrigued by Kit Olver's claim that he had fished out a broken plane wing and decided to re-examine the mysterious missing plane. I revisited my own desire to do so.
Mr Waring, a former Australian naval officer, was the Australian Transport Safety Board's deputy operations manager during the initial search in 2014.
He was also part of the team in 2015 when the first piece of debris, the wing flaperon, was discovered on France's Réunion Island.
On March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared while flying over the Indian Ocean after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
“Even at the time of the search, we talked about it, and we never closed the door on the possibility of things washing up in Australia,” Waring says. He told the Sydney Morning Herald. “If it washed ashore somewhere in Australia, it would most likely be in Tasmania, and if it circled back, it would most likely be somewhere off the coast of South Australia.”
Mr Waring told the newspaper that if fishermen could pinpoint the spot, the search could begin and be completed within days.
Fortunately for Waring, Olver knows where he hoisted his wings, about 54 miles west of the South Australian coastal town of Robe and about 5,000 miles east of Réunion.
When his deep-sea trawler pulled up parts of a white plane in what he called a secret fishing spot in September and October 2014, Olver described his discovery as “a great bloody wing of a large jetliner.” expressed.
The initial search covered an area of 1.7 million square miles in the South Indian Sea, according to . Joint Institutional Coordination Center; Australian government agencies organized in conjunction with Malaysian and Chinese authorities following the plane's disappearance.
Unfortunately for Olver and his crew, the wings were too large for the ship and they were forced to cut down their prey before seeing the ship disappear into the water.
The now-retired fisherman said he reported the discovery to authorities after the ship returned to port, but was largely ignored.
He reported this again three years later, but the result was the same: nothing.
Waring blamed authorities for not finding the plane because they relied too much on drift modeling theory, which is an “inexact science.”
“Something as large as the wing would have had a distinctly different drift pattern than smaller debris,” Waring said, adding that some of the debris may have drifted eastward as a result of strong storms that have since passed through the area. He added that it is not unreasonable to think that there is a gender. crash.
Aviation experts agreed with Waring's assessment that new technology would allow the restarted investigation to be completed quickly.
Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and former pilot Patrick Breley believe the crashed plane was hijacked by an experienced pilot and called for the search operation to be resumed. Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society In London.
“We have done our homework. We have a proposal…because the area is small, it will take 10 days considering the new features,” Marchand said.
“It may be a rush. Until the remains of MH370 are discovered, no one will know (what happened). But this is a plausible trajectory.”
Mr Marchand and Mr Breley also called on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the Malaysian government to join the search using new undersea search technology from US-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity.
with post wire
