Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished in March 2014 with several potential theories put forward since, with search teams believing they may finally have the key to finding it
An expert on the mysterious disappearance of Flight MH370 has revealed a key to finally solving the plane which suddenly vanished 11 years ago.
The Malaysian Airlines plane was carrying 239 people when it disappeared from radar shortly after departing Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed after running out of fuel. Experts have not given up on finding the plane and finally giving solace to the devastated family and friends who have waited to hear what happened.
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Richard Godfrey, from www.mh370search.com , revealed the key to finding the remains of the plane. He told news.com.au: “ We [also] know from the Inmarsat satellite data that the aircraft continued to fly for seven hours 37 minutes into the Southern Indian Ocean until fuel exhaustion. We know from the drift analysis, where the floating debris most probably originated and the general crash area [ …] When all these facts align, then you have a good case.”
He added there have been a number of theories as to what happened to the plane, from the sinister to hardly believable. Mr Godfrey continued: “There are the sinister, like MH370 was taken by the Chinese, the Russians or the Americans. The protective, that it could not possibly have been the Captain as he was such a nice person, and the clairvoyant who had a vision and saw MH370.
“The various theories range from the bizarre, like MH370 was taken by aliens, to the conspiratorial, like there was a plot involving several governments and secret service agents.”
Earlier this week Malaysia’s government agreed to terms and conditions for a “no-find, no-fee” contract with Texas-based Ocean Infinity to resume the seabed search operation. The search will resume at a new 5,800-square-mile site in the ocean, transport minister Anthony Loke said in a statement on Wednesday.
He said: “The government is committed to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of the passengers of flight MH370.” Ocean Infinity will be paid $70million (£53.8 million) only if the wreckage is discovered.
Ocean Infinity chief executive Oliver Punkett earlier this year reportedly said the company had improved its technology since 2018. He has said the firm is working with many experts to analyse data and had narrowed the search area to the most likely site.
Debris presumed to be from the aircraft has washed up in the years since its disappearance, with some confirmed pieces of MH370 appearing along the coast of Africa, and on some Indian Ocean islands. Relatives of passengers and others who were on the flight have not given up, with many demanding action from the organisations involved in constructing and flying the plane.
