Debris believed to be from MH370 has been found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
News.com.au reported on December 25th, citing aviation experts, that the mysteriously missing flight MH370 could be found within days if the search is conducted in a new, previously unexplored area.
The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people, en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, disappeared on March 8, 2014, 38 minutes after takeoff. To date, dozens of pieces of debris have been found in various locations around the world , but only three pieces found on the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to belong to the missing aircraft.
New method provides clues to finding the wreckage of the missing MH370 aircraft.
In September, aviation expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly, two French experts who created the MH370-CAPTION page to search for the plane, called for a new search to be launched.
Presenting at the Royal Aeronautical Society recently, these two experts suggested that the new search area could be surveyed in just 10 days, and appealed for assistance.
"This will be done in the short term. Until the wreckage of MH370 is found, nobody knows what happened. But this is a logical trajectory," according to Marchand.
Aviation expert Jean-Luc Marchand (right) and pilot Patrick Blelly
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The new hypothesis focuses on both human factors and technical data to suggest a new search area in western Australia. The research team believes the plane was deliberately landed several hundred kilometers south of the previously searched area.
Two experts are urging the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the Malaysian government , and the US-based Ocean Infinity exploration company to begin a new search. Last year, Ocean Infinity expressed interest in restarting the search, after having previously conducted searches in the Indian Ocean on a pay-per-discovery basis.
Mr. Marchand said the "rapid" search could be a good test for the company's new unmanned underwater search technology.
This expert believes that the plane's disappearance was deliberately caused by an experienced pilot: "The cabin was depressurized, and that's the way to create the least amount of debris. It was done so the plane wouldn't get stuck or be found."
The two experts presented further evidence showing that the aircraft's transponder had been switched off and that its U-turn could not have been an autopilot maneuver. Importantly, they stated that the abrupt change of direction occurred while the aircraft was in the area between the airspace of Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Malaysia.
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