It’s one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history: MH370 disappeared — and 239 people were on board. An Australian researcher now wants to determine the likely location of the wreck – and is looking forward to a new search.
Ten years ago, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 people on board disappeared from radar screens without a trace. The aircraft was en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014 when it lost contact. One of the greatest mysteries in aviation history had begun. Researchers and aviation experts have tried repeatedly to put the pieces of the puzzle together — without success.
An Australian researcher now wants to clarify the location of the machine. In his study, Vincent Line, from the University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Research, says he found the exact location of the wreckage – a hole 6,000 meters deep in the ocean. “A perfect hiding place,” Lyne wrote in one a few days ago Post on LinkedIn.
The hole is located at the end of Broken Ridge, an oceanic plateau in the southeastern Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometers off the west coast of Australia. Laine wrote that the marine environment there was “very rough and dangerous”. This explains why the decay has not yet been discovered. The Review from 2021 Now accepted and published by the prestigious journal “Journal of Navigation” after peer review process.
No traces – except for debris
A look back: On the night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport without incident. At 1:19 am, experienced captain Zahari Shah was last heard from the cockpit. Moments later, the transponder — the device that transmits tracking data to air traffic control on the ground — went off.
About two hours after takeoff, the plane disappeared from radar screens. A satellite continuously received so-called ping signals from MH370 for seven hours. This is how long it takes for the tank to be empty. Debris later washed up on shores along the Indian Ocean. However, no trace of the plane’s main fuselage, its occupants and the flight recorder has yet been found. For years underwater searches have been aborted without results.
To date, only individual parts of the wreck have been found – like the one on a beach near Saint-Andre de la Reunion in France in 2015.
Line suspects the landing was intentional
But why did the machine fail? Speculations have so far ranged from hijacking to the pilot’s suicide to the deliberate or accidental shooting of military personnel. There was no evidence. Vincent Line is convinced that it was not a lack of fuel – as is often assumed – that was the cause, but rather a deliberate landing maneuver by the captain in the water.
As evidence, he cites damage to the wings and valve system, as well as wing folds found on the island of La Réunion off the east coast of Africa. The scientist wrote that these were similar to the damage caused after Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s controlled emergency landing in New York’s Hudson River in 2009. All 155 people on board survived the emergency landing.
Intersection of runway and simulator track
His results supported the theory of Canadian aviation expert and former plane crash investigator Larry Vance, who also spoke of significant damage in the wreckage found. He assumed a controlled landing in the water and no impact at full speed. However, recent research results do not clarify whether the pilot decided to take this action due to an emergency or whether there was a deliberate plan to plunge the plane into the sea and disappear.
According to Lain, the pilot almost managed to make the plane disappear incredibly precisely. “Actually, MH370 would have worked if it hadn’t plowed into the wave with its right wing.” For his study, Lain linked the longitude of the runway at Malaysia’s Penang airport with the flight path traced on the pilot’s home simulator — a finding that FBI investigators had previously dismissed as “irrelevant.” According to Line, the 6,000 meter deep hole is at the junction of the two lines. MH370 disappeared from radar near Penang at that time.
The researcher believes in new search
In this way, after so many “confused theories” and “wild speculations,” Lain invited the authorities that the disbelieving relatives might finally be reconciled.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim warned against overconfidence in March. “I don’t want to give them false hope that we will get an answer,” he told the dpa news agency at the time, referring to the victims’ families. “But I want to reassure them that we are doing everything we can.” Even if it costs “significant resources”.
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