Expert claims to have found the 'perfect hiding place' of the missing MH370 plane

It has been more than 10 years since the Malaysian Airlines flight, MH370, carrying 239 people disappeared from radars as it was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Vincent Lyne, a researcher at the University of Tasmania has claimed that he has found the "perfect hiding place" of the missing flight, per Independent.

Lyne stated that the Malaysian airline was deliberately plunged into a 20,000ft-deep "hole" in the Broken Ridge. He said that the deep hole in the Indian Ocean with underwater plateaus, volcanoes, and deep ravines was a "perfect hiding place" for the MH370 flight. "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 wrote on LinkedIn. His research paper is set to be published in the Journal of Navigation. 

Lyne shared that the damage to the flight's wings, flap, and flaperon was similar to "controlled ditching" done by Captain Sully on the Hudson River for a bird-struck US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009. "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 'control ditching' and not a high-speed fuel starved crash," he stated.

The scientist claimed that the MH370's precise location was where the longitude of Penang airport intersected with a flight path from the home simulator of the plane's pilot in command. "That pre-meditated iconic location harbors a very deep 6000 m hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a very rugged and dangerous ocean environment renowned for its wild fisheries and new deep-water species. With narrow steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediments - a perfect hiding place," he said.

Richard Godfrey, a retired British aerospace engineer who also investigated the missing flight had similar things to say. He said that the MH370 lies 13,000 feet below the surface of the ocean near Broken Ridge, reports The Sun. He used a new technology with satellite communications system data from the plane. "Together the two systems can be used to detect, identify, and localize MH370 during its flight path into the Southern Indian Ocean," he said. Godfrey was quite sure that he found the exact location. "We have quite a lot of data from the satellite, we have oceanography, drift analysis, we have the performance data from Boeing, and now this new technology," he said.

“All four align with one particular point in the Indian Ocean,” he added. Lyne wants this location to be verified as a "high priority." "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," Lyne said. Since 2014, about 30 suspected debris have been found along the coast of Africa and on the islands in the Indian Ocean in which, three wing fragments were said to be from the MH370 flight, according to the Independent. The last search for the missing flight was conducted by the US robotics company, Ocean Infinity, using unmanned underwater vehicles. They covered about 50,000 square miles but couldn't find anything.