The enigma surrounding the vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 a decade ago remains a perplexing puzzle in the aviation industry. The aircraft, carrying 239 passengers, departed from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing and lost contact less than an hour into the flight. Richard Godfrey, a prominent aerospace engineer, has described the incident as “the greatest mystery of modern aviation.”
Inexplicably, the aircraft deviated from its planned route and its telemetry ceased. Initial signals suggested the plane might be in the southern Indian Ocean, but these eventually faded. Godfrey expressed disbelief at how a technologically advanced aircraft like the Boeing 777 could vanish without leaving any trace.
Following the aircraft’s disappearance, an extensive multi-year search was initiated, encompassing air, sea, and underwater efforts. Despite being one of the most extensive searches in history, the aircraft remains missing, with only a few pieces of debris washing up on distant shores.
Godfrey, who has dedicated a significant portion of the past decade to unraveling the mystery, is confident that one more search could locate MH370. However, another researcher, Vincent Lyne, asserts that the aircraft’s disappearance is not a mystery. Lyne, who has published numerous papers on the subject, claims to know the aircraft’s location.
According to Lyne, MH370 is located in a deep 6000-meter hole approximately 1500 kilometers west of Perth and along the longitude of Penang. He believes this location reconciles all available evidence. Both Godfrey and Lyne maintain that there are crucial clues indicating the aircraft’s location, despite investigators’ inability to locate it during the initial search.
The last communication from the aircraft was with air traffic controllers, indicating it was transitioning into another country’s airspace on its journey to Beijing. Alessandra Bonomolo, director of a documentary on MH370’s disappearance, recently stated in a BBC podcast that the aircraft vanished from civilian radar 40 minutes into the flight. After a brief, customary exchange with Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers, the aircraft moved into Vietnamese airspace, at which point Malaysian controllers were no longer responsible for it.
Researchers now believe they have narrowed down the potential location of the aircraft through a process of elimination. Ocean Infinity, a company specializing in robotic technology, asserts that it now possesses the tools to accurately identify the aircraft’s final resting place.