Years after its disappearance, an Australian scientist has announced that he may have located the "perfect hiding place" for the missing MH370 plane. The Malaysian Airlines flight, carrying 239 people, vanished from radar after departing Kuala Lumpur in 2014. Its disappearance led to the largest search effort in aviation history, yet the plane's location remains unknown. Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne now believes he has pinpointed the aircraft's final resting place. In a LinkedIn post, Lyne suggested that the plane was deliberately crashed into the Broken Ridge, a 20,000-foot-deep trench in the Indian Ocean.
"This discovery shifts the narrative of MH370's disappearance from a story of fuel exhaustion and high-speed dive to one of a pilot executing a near-perfect disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean," Lyne stated. "The plan might have succeeded if not for MH370's right wing encountering a wave and the critical discovery of regular satellite communications by Inmarsat, as also detailed in the Journal of Navigation.".
Mr. Lyne, a researcher at the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, further noted that damage to the plane's wings, flaps, and flaperon indicates it may have been involved in a "controlled ditching," similar to the emergency landing by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger on the Hudson River in 2009.
"This supports the original assertion by renowned ex-Chief Canadian Air-crash Investigator Larry Vance, who, through meticulous debris-damage analysis, concluded that MH370 was still fueled and had running engines during a masterful 'controlled ditching,' rather than a high-speed, fuel-starved crash," Mr. Lyne wrote.
He also mentioned that MH370 is located "where the longitude of Penang airport intersects with the Pilot-in-Command home simulator track, which was previously dismissed as 'irrelevant' by the FBI and other officials.",
"That meticulously chosen location features a deep 6,000-meter hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge, situated in a treacherous and rugged ocean environment known for its wild fisheries and newly discovered deep-water species. With its steep, narrow sides surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes, this area is filled with fine sediments, making it an ideal 'hiding place,'” Mr. Lyne added, emphasizing the need for the area to be prioritized for verification.
"Whether it will be searched is up to the officials and search companies, but from a scientific perspective, we understand why previous searches failed, and the evidence clearly indicates where MH370 lies. In essence, science has comprehensively resolved the MH370 mystery!" he concluded.
Notably, Flight MH370, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared on March 8, 2014, after departing Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia en route to Beijing, China. A nearly three-year search spanning 120,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean yielded only a few pieces of debris. Despite being the largest search effort in aviation history, the plane has never been found, and the search was officially suspended in January 2017.
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