The mystery of what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may have been finally been solved – with an expert claiming to have pinpointed the ‘perfect hiding spot.’
University of Tasmania researcher Vincent Lynne has claimed signals received from the missing Boeing 777 helps establish its flight pattern in the moments before it vanished.
He argues in a paper recently published in the Journal of Navigation that the signals, paired with a review of the debris damage by air-crash investigator Larry Vance ‘support the hypothesis of a controlled eastward descent’ – suggesting the pilot made a premeditated decision to make the plane vanish with 239 people on board.
The theory has previously been floated by British pilot Simon Hardy.
But it challenges the long-held theory that the aircraft dropped into ‘an uncontrolled high speed gravitationally-accelerated dive following fuel starvation’ after it deviated from its course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing for unknown reasons, according to Express.
University of Tasmania researcher Vincent Lynne is challenging the theory that Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370 dropped into ‘an uncontrolled high speed gravitationally-accelerated dive following fuel starvation’ (pictured is a simulation of the crash)
‘This work changes the narrative of MH-370’s disappearance from one of no-blame fuel starvation at the 7th arc, high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot executing an incredible perfect-disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean,’ Lynne explained in a LinkedIn article touting his latest publication.
‘In fact, it would have worked were it not for MH-370 ploughing its right wing through a wave and the discovery of the regular interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat—a brilliant discovery also announced in the Journal of Navigation.’
He went on to argue that the damage to the plane’s wings, flap and flaperon were similar to those US Airways Flight 1549 experienced when Captain Chesley Sullenberger engaged in ‘controlled ditching’ in January 2009.
Lynne instead argues that newly-discovered signals received from the missing Boeing 777 and debris analysis suggests the pilot made a premeditated decision to make the plane vanish with 239 people on board
The flight lost contact after it deviated from its course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing for unknown reasons in March 2014
Others have previously also suggested that pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, was responsible for deliberately crashing MH370 in a murder-suicide of a shocking scale, which he committed because of problems in his personal life.
Shah had allegedly split with his wife Fizah Khan, and was said to be furious that a relative, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, had been given a five-year jail sentence for sodomy shortly before he boarded the plane for the flight to Beijing.
The pilot’s wife, however, has angrily denied any personal problems, while other family members and friends said he was a devoted family man and loved his job.
Yet, Lynne says the evidence points to the fact that the pilot did intentionally crash the plane saying it ‘justifies beyond doubt the original claim, based on brilliant, skilled and very careful debris-damage analyses by decorated ex-Chief Canadian Air-crash investigator Larry Vance that MH-370 had fuel and running engines when it underwent a masterful “controlled ditching,” and not a high-speed fuel-starved crash.’
The most persistent theory has centered on the pilot – Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) – and suggestions that it was a deliberate act because he was facing personal problems
He also argued that his research provided a clear location for where the plane may have crashed – urging future searches for the wreck site to focus on a specific section of the Southern Indian Ocean.
‘Encouragingly, we now know very precisely that MH-370 is where the longitude of Penang airport (the runway no less) intersects the Pilot-in-command home simulator track discovered and discarded by the FBI and officials as “irrelevant,”‘ Lynne wrote.
‘That premeditated iconic location harbors a very deep, 6,000 meter [6561.68 yard] hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a rugged and dangerous ocean environment renowned for its wild fisheries and new deep-water species.
‘With narrow steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediments – a perfect “hiding” place.’
A few fragments of the aircraft have since been discovered over the years
The plane has now been missing over a decade, despite authorities from all over the world conducting extensive searches covering an area of 46,332 square miles.
A few fragments of the aircraft have since been discovered and a number of theories have emerged around what – and who – caused the flight to change course in March 2014.
More than a year later, Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak says that a wing part which washed up on Réunion – a French island east of Madagascar – came from MH370.
In the two following years, another 17 pieces of debris were found and ‘identified as being very likely or almost certain to originate from MH370’ while another two were ‘assessed as probably from the accident aircraft.’
But Lynne is now urging officials to search the area he pointed to as a ‘high priority.’
‘Whether it will be searched or not is up to officials and search companies, but as far as science is concerned, we know why the previous searches failed and, likewise, science unmistakably points to where MH-370 lies,’ he concluded.
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