Suspected debris from MH370 plane found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean
News.com.au on December 25 quoted aviation experts as saying that the mysteriously missing flight MH370 could be found within a few days if the search was conducted in a new and previously unsearched area.
The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China) went missing on March 8, 2014, 38 minutes after takeoff. To date, dozens of pieces of debris have been found from many places around the world , but only 3 pieces of debris on the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to belong to the missing plane.
Clues to find missing MH370 plane wreckage thanks to new method
In September, aviation expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly, two French experts who created the MH370-CAPTION website about the search for the plane, called for a new search.
Presenting at the Royal Aeronautical Society recently, the two experts said the new search area could be covered in just 10 days, and called for help.
“This will be a short-term thing. Until the wreckage of MH370 is found, no one knows what happened. But this is a reasonable trajectory,” said Marchand.
Aviation expert Jean-Luc Marchand (right) and pilot Patrick Blelly
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The new theory focuses on human factors as well as technical data to propose a new search area in western Australia. The team believes the plane was deliberately landed several hundred kilometres south of the previous search area.
The two experts called on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the Malaysian government and US-based exploration company Ocean Infinity to begin a new search. Last year, Ocean Infinity expressed interest in restarting the search, after previously searching the Indian Ocean on a find-now-pay basis.
The “quick” search could be a good test for the company’s new unmanned undersea search technology, Mr Marchand said.
The expert said the plane's disappearance was deliberately caused by an experienced pilot: "The cabin was depressurized and that was the way to create the least amount of debris. It was done so the plane wouldn't get stuck or found."
The two experts provided further evidence that the plane’s transponder had been turned off and that the turn could not have been on autopilot. Crucially, they said the abrupt turn occurred while the plane was in the airspace between Thailand, Indonesia, India and Malaysia.
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