Expert shared 'perfect hiding place' for missing flight MH370 as new search launched

An expert once shared what the ideal 'hiding place' for the long lost MH370 would be, which could prove helpful to the Malaysian government as they are set to resume the search for the missing plane.

It's been 11 years since the elusive Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished, with the wreckage of the plane and remains of those onboard yet to be found.

Rewinding the clock back to 8 March 2014, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft was making its way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, but lost contact with air traffic control at 1:19am over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff.

Experts believe that the aircraft deviated from its planned route, flying west for several hours before disappearing, never to be found.

It was announced that 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board the flight were presumed dead, with families of the victims continuing to demand answers from authorities.

A debris wing flap from MH370 was found early on in searches, but investigators still don't know where the plane wreckage is located (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)

Malaysian transport minister Anthony Loke announced last year that Southampton-based marine robotics firm, Ocean Infinity, would be given $70 million (£56 million) to resume its search mission in a new area in the southern Indian Ocean, after their previous search back in 2018.

While they led a search attempt this year, which initially began in March, it was called off due to poor weather conditions.

The company still holds its 'no find, no fee' arrangement with the government, and they announced that the search for the plane will resume on 30 December this year.

This fresh search is set to span across 55 days, as an official statement from the Ministry of Transport Malaysia read: "Ocean Infinity has confirmed with the Government of Malaysia that it will recommence seabed search operations for a total of 55 days, to be conducted intermittently.

"The search will be carried out in targeted area assessed to have the highest probability of locating the aircraft, in accordance with the service agreement entered between the Government of Malaysia and Ocean Infinity on 25 March 2025."

It's believed that the aircraft made a huge U-turn less than an hour into the flight, with Vincent Lyne of the University of Tasmania claiming that he knows the location of the plane's wreckage.

He claimed that the damage done to the plane's discovered wings indicated that the pilots deployed the landing gear to help it down, writing: "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."

A new search is set to commence on 30 December (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)

The expert added: "In fact, it would have worked were it not for MH370 ploughing its right wing through a wave, and the discovery of the regular interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat."

He wrote that the damage was similar to the plane which Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger successfully landed in the Hudson River in 2009.

Tech expert Ian Wilson has his own theory though, claiming that the remains are instead in a jungle in Cambodia, explaining: "Measuring the Google sighting, you're looking at around 69 metres, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane. It's just slightly bigger, but there's a gap that would probably account for that.

"I was on there [Google Earth], a few hours here, a few hours there. If you added it up I spent hours searching for places a plane could have gone down. And in the end, as you can see the place where the plane is. It is literally the greenest, darkest part you can see."

Hopefully the upcoming investigation can finally give us some much needed answers on the biggest aviation mystery of all time.