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Mystery of missing MH370 plane may be solved as expert shares the 'perfect hiding place'

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Published 09:16 26 Aug 2024 GMT+1

Mystery of missing MH370 plane may be solved as expert shares the 'perfect hiding place'

A man claims he might have 'solved' the mystery, though he admits 'the proof awaits'

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

A man has said he might have 'solved' the decade-long mystery of the missing MH370 plane.

The Malaysia Airlines plane went missing on 8 March, 2014, with 239 people on board all presumed dead.

It ended up prompting the most expensive search in the history of aviation, as so many attempts have been made to find where the plane went down.

Much work has been done to try and narrow down where the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing ended up, and though debris from the plane has been found, it's possible that the main wreckage will never be recovered.

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Now a scientist claims to have 'solved' the mystery of MH370 in a study where he argues that analysis of the debris indicates signs of a 'controlled ditching'.

The MH370 plane has been missing for over a decade. (Supian Ahmad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The MH370 plane has been missing for over a decade. (Supian Ahmad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Vincent Lyne of the University of Tasmania wrote that the damage to the plane's wings shows similarities to those of a plane that Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed in the Hudson River in 2009.

While there is a theory that MH370 went into an uncontrolled dive after 'fuel exhaustion', Lyne's study argues that instead the aircraft's descent into the water was more controlled with the pilots deploying gear to help the plane down.

Writing on a LinkedIn post to accompany his study, Lyne said: "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.

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"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."

A new study argues that damage to MH370's wings, flap and flaperon point towards a 'controlled ditching'. (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)
A new study argues that damage to MH370's wings, flap and flaperon point towards a 'controlled ditching'. (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)

Lyne is by no means the first person who claims they've 'solved' the mystery of what happened to the plane.

There are a number of theories around what happened to the plane, with many of the search efforts focusing on the sea and trying to trace where the aircraft might have gone down based on debris that has washed up.

One tech expert claims the plane crashed in the Cambodian jungle, with other theories claim MH370 was hijacked or shot down.

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Someone else tried to claim that the passenger plane was flown into a black hole (a radar blindspot, not the space thing) with a 'carefully planned' move to take it off the grid.

There's debris, flight logs and clues to comb through as people try to figure out what happened to MH370 but unless or until we find the plane itself it's going to be hard to prove any one theory.

Featured Image Credit: Netflix

Topics: World News, MH370

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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