Australian scientists claim to have discovered the “perfect hiding place” for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
The Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared from radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur in 2014, and March this year marks the 10th anniversary of its disappearance.
There were 239 passengers on board, including six Australians.
Now Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne believes he’s found out where the plane is, reporting his 2021 research paper published in the Journal of Navigation.
Lyne shared the news on LinkedIn, claiming that the plane had been deliberately crashed.
“It transforms the story of the disappearance of MH370 from an blameless, high-speed dive due to running out of fuel on arc seven to one in which a genius pilot nearly executed an incredibly perfect disappearance over the southern Indian Ocean,” he writes.
“In fact, it would have worked out if MH370 had not plunged its right wing into the waves and if it had not been for the discovery of routine interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat. This incredible discovery was also published in the Navigation Journal.”
Mr Lyne, from the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, said damage to the plane’s wings, flaps and flaperons suggested a “planned emergency water landing” had been carried out, similar to Captain Sully’s accident on the Hudson River in 2009.
“This undoubtedly vindicates the original assertion by decorated former Canadian chief aviation accident investigator Larry Vance, based on an excellent, skilled and extremely careful wreckage damage analysis, that MH370 had fuel and the engines were running when it made an elegant ‘controlled landing,'” he wrote.
He added that MH370 is “at the point where the longitude of Penang airport (and runway) intersects with the trajectory of the captain’s home simulator, which was found and destroyed by the FBI and authorities as ‘irrelevant’.”
“This iconic, planned site contains an extremely deep hole – 6,000 metres deep – on the eastern end of Broken Ridge, in an extremely rugged and dangerous marine environment renowned for its wild fisheries and novel deep-sea species. With narrow, steep slopes, surrounded by huge ridges and other deep holes, and filled with fine sediments, it is the perfect ‘hiding spot’,” he continued, arguing the area needed to be explored as a “high priority”.
“Whether a search takes place is up to the authorities and search companies but as far as science is concerned we know why previous searches failed and similarly science points undoubtedly to the location of MH370. So the mystery of MH370 has been completely solved by science!” he added.
The researchers’ claims come months after a US-based deep-sea exploration company said it had the capacity to carry out the most thorough search to date for a missing aircraft.
