Flight MH370 went missing in 2014. (Image: GETTY)
A researcher claims he solved the mystery of what happened to flight , which vanished on March 8, 2014, months before the launch of a new, British-led search. Vincent Lyne from the University of Tasmania in Australia suggested last year that the aircraft may have plunged into a 6,000-metre-deep pit in the Indian Ocean.
He describes this as the “perfect hiding place” that would make the plane and its 239 passengers hard to find. According to Mr Lyne, the aircraft is situated at the edge of Broken Ridge, an oceanic plateau in the southeastern Indian Ocean, known for its treacherous marine environment.
He further claimed that Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s pilot intentionally steered the plane to this location. Mr Lyne stated: “This work changes the narrative of MH370’s disappearance from one of no-blame, fuel-starvation at the 7th arc, high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot almost executing an incredible perfect disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean.”
He added: “With narrow steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediments a perfect hiding place.
“This 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 MH370 had fuel and running engines when it underwent a masterful ‘controlled ditching’ and not a high-speed fuel-starved crash.”
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Three wing fragments from MH370 were retrieved. (Image: GETTY)
Mr Lyne also claimed that the location of the vanished aircraft had been pinpointed where the longitude of Penang Airport in Malaysia intersected with a flight path the pilot had previously navigated on his home simulator before the plane’s disappearance.
The FBI, however, has previously brushed off the flight path theory as irrelevant during their probe into the aircraft’s disappearance.
Mr Lyne continued: “That premeditated iconic location harbours a very deep, 6,000m 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.
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Mr Lyne believes the plane is in the Indian Ocean. (Image: GETTY)
“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 MH370 lies. In short, the MH370 mystery has been comprehensively solved in science!”
More than 30 pieces of suspected debris from MH370 have been collected, but only three wing pieces were confirmed to be from the aircraft.
Mr Lyne’s claims emerged last year, months before a British marine robotics firm, Ocean Infinity, launched this weekend deep-water support vessel Armada 7806 to the search zone in the Indian Ocean, 1,200 miles off Perth in Australia.