A company says we are closer to finding MH370’s location than ever before as they submit new plans to continue the search for the missing plane to the Malaysian government
The mystery of flight MH370’s disappearance is on the brink of being solved according to a robotics team.
The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared from flight radars on March 8, 2014, and recovery operations have been underway ever since. Small traces of the plane and its parts have been found over the last decade but few clues to its resting spot have been found. Experts are still working on finding the plane, which was carrying 239 people between Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at the time of its crash.
Only a few pieces of washed-up debris have been found since its disappearance though a robotics team now believe they are closer than ever to pinpointing the location of the missing plane. Theories on what happened onboard the plane and where it currently is have dominated parts of the search over the last decade, and now new data has been presented to the Malaysian government.
An appeal from robotics company Ocean Infinity to the Malaysian Government has seen experts propose a new search for the jet. If signed off, it could begin as early as November and see teams re-enter the waters where the plane is believed to be. A search would take around three months, according to proposal documents.
Dr Usama Kadri, a professor of maths and engineering at Cardiff University, says underwater microphones could be crucial to finding where the plane currently rests. Hundreds of hours of hydrophone data has already been analysed as part of a study, and a split-second noise is believed to be the last ever trace of MH370.
Speaking to The Sun, Dr Kadri said: “If you want to listen to it[MH370 sound] it has to be in the audible range. These signals normally are somewhere between 2 hertz and 40 hertz, but if it’s below 20 hertz you can’t hear anything.” He added the soundbites already heard from the impact are crucial to getting “one step closer to the truth.”
But it is not as simple as it seems, as Dr Kadri revealed: “The problem with these signals [MH370sound] is that they are already short.” Ocean Infinity is not the only company believing they can find the missing plane’s location. Earlier this year Tony Romeo claimed his company, Deep Sea Vision, had found the remains of Amelia Earhart’s plane. They now believe the same tech used to scan the ocean floor can be used in the search for MH370.
Ambitious CEO Romeo said: “I think we can. I feel like we’ve proved our credibility, we’ve proved our competence. We’ve proved our ability to take equipment and use novel techniques.”
