Years after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a fresh theory has emerged that could potentially shed light on the aircraft's fate. An Australian scientist has claimed to have found the "perfect hiding place" for the missing aircraft.
The plane, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, has been the subject of the most extensive search in aviation history, yet its whereabouts remain shrouded in mystery. However, Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne now believes he has pinpointed the location of the missing jet.
In a detailed LinkedIn post, Mr Lyne, who is associated with the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, proposed that the aircraft was deliberately crashed into a deep trench known as the Broken Ridge, located in the Indian Ocean. This trench, he explained, is a 20,000-foot-deep chasm, which he argues served as the "perfect hiding place" for the plane.
"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," Mr Lyne wrote, challenging the widely held view of the plane's final moments.
He further elaborated that the damage observed on the plane's wings, flaps, and flaperon is consistent with a "controlled ditching," similar to the emergency landing executed by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger on the Hudson River in 2009. This controlled manoeuvre, he contended, refutes earlier theories that the plane crashed due to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent high-speed impact.
Mr. Lyne also referenced the work of Larry Vance, a decorated former Chief Canadian Air crash Investigator, who had previously asserted that flight MH370 had sufficient fuel and that its engines were still running when it underwent what Vance described as a "masterful 'controlled ditching'." Lyne supports this claim, stating it is "justified beyond doubt" by careful analysis of the debris damage.
Intriguingly, Lyne suggested that the plane's final resting place is at the intersection of the longitude of Penang Airport with a flight path from the Pilot-in-Command's home simulator, a detail that had been dismissed by the FBI as irrelevant. He described the area as a "very deep 6000m hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a very rugged and dangerous ocean environment," making it an ideal location for concealing the wreckage.
While Mr Lyne believes that this new location should be a "high priority" for search efforts, he acknowledged that the decision to resume the search lies with officials and search companies. Nevertheless, he concluded with confidence, "In short, the MH370 mystery has been comprehensively solved in science!"
Despite previous efforts, which included nearly three years of searching over 120,000 square kilometres in the Indian Ocean, only a few pieces of debris have been recovered, and the plane itself remains unfound. The search was officially suspended in January 2017.
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