An Australian scientist has claimed to have identified the “perfect hiding place” for the missing plane MH370.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared from radar after departing from Kuala Lumpur in 2014, marking 10 years since the incident this March.
The flight had 239 people on board, including six Australians.
Now, Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne believes he has located the plane, with a 2021 research paper of his accepted into the Journal of Navigation.
Announcing the news on LinkedIn, Mr. Lyne suggested that the plane was deliberately crashed. “This work shifts 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 wrote.
“In fact, it would have succeeded were it not for MH370 striking a wave with its right wing, and the discovery of the regular interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat — a brilliant discovery also published in the Journal of Navigation.”
Mr. Lyne, who is affiliated with the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, indicated that damage to the plane’s wings, flaps, and flaperon suggests it was involved in a “controlled ditching,” similar to Captain Sully’s landing on the Hudson River in 2009. “This further supports the original claim, based on meticulous debris-damage analyses by decorated ex-Chief Canadian Air-crash Investigator Larry Vance, that MH370 had fuel and functioning engines during a masterful ‘controlled ditching’ rather than a high-speed, fuel-starved crash,” he wrote.
