On March 8, 2014, the passenger aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing in China. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board the Boeing 777 aircraft.
One hour after departure, the air traffic control in Malaysia had contact with the aircraft. Then the plane disappeared from the radar.
Revolutionary technology
What happened to the plane and where it ended up has remained a big mystery since then.
Now, however, the British aviation engineer Richard Godfrey claims that he has found out where the wreckage is using new methods.
Godfrey has been working for a long time trying to solve the flight mystery. Now he has used what he describes as a “revolutionary” and new tracking technology – and made discoveries, according to himself.
To BBC Godfrey explains how he has combined different data to calculate the exact position of the Boeing aircraft.
It is said to be at a depth of 4,000 meters in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometers west of the city of Perth on Australia’s west coast.
Specifically, 33 degrees south and 95 degrees east of the Indian Ocean, according to the BBC.
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– Very confident
The area the engineer has determined that the wreck is located is an area characterized by cliffs and underwater volcanoes, and can thus be difficult to investigate.
His report concludes that it should be sought 75 kilometers in radius from the coordinates Godfrey has pointed out.
In 2018, a search has been made for the aircraft only 28 kilometers away from the area Godfrey has now designated.
To Australian Sunrise Godfrey says that he is “very confident” that he has found the right location for the plane.
“We have quite a lot of data from satellites, we have oceanography, operations analysis, performance data from Boeing and now this new technology,” the engineer told Sunrise.
Claiming the plane was hijacked
Since the plane disappeared in 2014, dozens of wreckage parts from the plane have been found on islands in the Indian Ocean and along the coast in southern Africa.
The British engineer also has a theory about what was the reason for the plane crash.
He is determined that the plane was hijacked as an act of terrorism by the pilot.
Godfrey believes the pilot redirected the plane to make it disappear in one of the “farthest places in the world”.
There has been a lot of speculation, theories and conspiracy theories about what happened to the plane. Everything from the engine failing and the plane plunging into the sea, to the aliens shooting down or hijacking the plane.
In the run-up to the disappearance, the pilot had criticized the Malaysian authorities and called the prime minister an idiot, according to NRK. Therefore, he quickly ended up in the investigators’ spotlight with a theory that he crashed the plane on purpose.
Investigators, however, found no evidence to suggest that he wanted to steer the plane.
Godfrey, on the other hand, is determined that the pilot hijacked the plane as an act of terrorism, and crashed it into the sea. Australian experts, however, have rejected this theory, according to BT.
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