by An Australian scientist has claimed to have discovered the “perfect hiding place” for passenger plane MH370 that disappeared without a trace ten years ago.
Vincent Lyne, an assistant researcher at the University of Tasmania, believed that the Malaysia Airlines plane was deliberately driven into a 20,000-foot-deep “hole” in the Broken Ridge – an oceanic plateau in the southeastern Indian Ocean.
The Malaysian Airlines plane carrying 239 people on board disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying over Vietnamese airspace during its flight to Beijing. Since his disappearance, it has been the biggest mystery in aviation history and theories of what happened to the passengers and crew have been widely evaluated.
Analysis of satellite data indicated that the plane likely crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, off the west coast of Australia. However, two major searches yielded no significant results.
Mr Lyne said the deep hole in the Indian Ocean with underwater plateaus, volcanoes and deep ponds could be the perfect hiding place for the missing flight, according to his LinkedIn post.
He said that the pilot of the doomed flight, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, shot the plane into that place on purpose, knowing the area.
“This work changes the story of the disappearance of MH370 from a blameless, fuel-starved at the 7th arc, a high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot’s near perfect disappearance in the South Indian Ocean.”
“With steep narrow sides, surrounded by huge ridges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediment – a perfect hiding place.”
He said the damage to the plane suggested it was a “controlled derailment” incident.
“This undoubtedly vindicates the original claim, based on an excellent, skilled, and very careful analysis of debris damage, by former Canadian Chief Air Crash Investigator, Larry Vance, that MH370 had fuel and engines running when it crashed he went under the control of a master. ditching’ and not a fuel-starved high-speed crash.”
He said the exact location of the missing MH-370 was known at the point where the longitude of Penang airport in Malaysia intersects with a flight path from the plane’s pilot-in-command home simulator.
This flight path had been discovered before but was dismissed as irrelevant by the FBI and other officials investigating the investigation, he said.
“There is a very deep, 6,000m hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a dangerous ocean environment known for its wild fish and new deep-water species.”
“It will be up to the officers and search companies to search for it, but as far as the science is concerned, we know why the previous searches have failed and likewise the science points to the location of MH370. In short, the mystery of MH370 has been comprehensively solved in science!” he said.
Researchers from Cardiff University also revealed that the aircraft was in the southern Indian Ocean during the final leg of its journey and believe they detected a signal from a hydrophone (underwater microphone).
Dr Usama Kadri, reader at Cardiff University’s School of Mathematics, said: “Our analysis shows clear pressure signals from previous aircraft crashes on hydrophones, even at distances of more than 3,000km.
“In the case of MH370, official investigations concluded that the crashed aircraft must have been close to the 7th arc – the point at which the plane last communicated with INMARSAT. [the satellite telecommunications company] happened.”
More than 30 pieces of suspected aircraft debris have been collected along the African coast and on islands in the Indian Ocean, but only three pieces of wings from MH370 have been confirmed.
Most of the debris was used in a flow pattern analysis in hopes of narrowing down the potential location of the aircraft. A 495-page report on the disappearance of MH370, published in July 2018, said it was likely that the Boeing 777’s controls were deliberately manipulated to take it off course, but investigators could not determine who was responsible.
The report also highlighted mistakes made by Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control centers and issued recommendations to avoid a repeat incident.
Shah is said to have used a home-made flight simulator to test run paths out to the remote southern Indian Ocean before his plane disappeared under very similar circumstances.
The secret document was found at New York magazine, and is part of a Malaysian police investigation into the pilot’s final days.
It provides strong evidence suggesting that the disappearance of MH370 was not an accident, but a premeditated mass murder, the publication reported.
Additional reporting from agencies
