Since the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014, many theories have emerged about what may have happened to the plane. The Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people – most of them Chinese – while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No trace of the plane was found in a 120,000 square kilometer (46,000 square mile) search area of ​​the Indian Ocean, leading to the suspension of an Australian-led search – the largest in aviation history – in January 2017.
Now, a scientist from Tasmania, Australia, has said he is confident he has located where the plane is. In a post titled “Mystery of MH370 solved by science”, the scientist from the University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies said that MH370 is located where the longitude of Penang Airport intersects the flight path from the pilot-in-command’s home simulator. He claimed that this track was previously dismissed as “irrelevant” by the FBI and other authorities.
“The site is located in a 6,000-metre-deep trench at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge in the Southern Indian Ocean, an area known for its rugged and difficult underwater landscape,” he said.
In his post, he said, “That location must be verified as a high priority. Whether it will be searched or not depends on the authorities and search companies, but as far as science is concerned, we know why previous searches failed and science also clearly states where MH370 is. In short, the MH370 mystery has been comprehensively solved in science!”
In his research, he compared the damage to the wings, flaps and flaperons of MH370, which he said was “similar to the “controlled ditching” performed by Captain Sully on the bird-strike US Airways Flight 1549 over the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.”
