A renowned aviation analyst believes that the 10-year mystery behind the flight MH370 will be solved soon.
The Malaysian government has agreed to resume the search for missing flight MH370 — if given credible new evidence.
Geoffrey Thomas — a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Aeronautical Society in London and also a Decade of Excellence Award for his coverage of the MH370 disaster — says the likeliest opportunity is imminent with new technology providing the crucial new evidence.
The Boeing 777 plane disappeared off the radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, The flight was carrying 239 people from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane deviated from its flight path to head over the southern Indian Ocean, where it was believed to have plunged into the water.
Multinational search efforts failed to find the craft but debris washed ashore on the East African coast and Indian Ocean islands.
A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also drew a blank.
However, Thomas told 1News: "We've got credible new evidence in the form of a technology which has been evolved by Richard Godfrey — a UK aerospace engineer — called Weak Signal Propagation Reporter."
Thomas has worked with Godfrey over the last four and half years on the technology.
“Put simply, amateur radio operators send signals around the world every day, there's millions of them. When an airplane flies through those signals, it disturbs the signal. Since 2009, all these radio wave signals have been stored in international database that anybody can access.”
With this technology, Godfrey has been able to retrace the MH370 flight from its last precise known location and to create a new flight path.
"Now that flight path has an end point — 1560km west of Perth in Western Australia.”
With the specific search area discovered, other research companies such as Ocean Infinity, could use vessels to sweep the area with new scanning technology.
Godfrey’s work has been peer reviewed by a number of organisations. He had also carried out work designing part of the International Space Station.
Thomas said the chances of a mistake in his work were “almost zero” as there was almost no other air traffic in the area at the time of the disappearance of MH370.
“I think it's an absolute certainty that we're going to find it.”
The next question for Thomas was what will happen when they do. “Malaysia has an obligation as a sovereign state to find out the cause of this crash," he said.
“We need to go down and find the black boxes, look at the wreckage, look at the cockpit and find out exactly what happened.”
Thomas said with many air crashes countries and airlines didn't want to prove responsibility for their crashes and often their investigations were flawed.
But for the loved ones left behind, he hoped finally finding the answers would put the "ghastly rollercoaster ride" of conspiracy theories to an end.
"There's been over 120 books written about the disappearance of MH370 and most of them are just rubbish. It's been very traumatic for them."
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