Some have been contested others accepted, then summarily debunked and still more remain open questions for the increasingly frustrated investigators to solve. Since March 8 (or March 7 in the United States), a number of theories have been offered and dismissed as to what possibly could have led the plane to disappear. Unfortunately, the past two weeks give us little reason to believe that the search for MH370 will end any easier. It took nearly two years to find the remains of that flight. Some say it is even more difficult than the hunt for an Air France flight that disappeared en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, the closest thing we have to a precedent for this case. Many are calling the loss of MH370 one of the greatest aviation mysteries ever. More than two dozen countries have joined in the search for the missing aircraft, not to mention the countless amauter investigtors online, and despite the massive region-wide search, spanning across oceans and continents, with watchers on land, sea, air, and even space, there is no trace of the missing aircraft or any answer to the cause of its disappearance. The Boeing 777, and its 239 passengers and crew, have not been seen since.įourteen days later, that is still essentially all we know about what happened to MH370. Roughly one hour after takeoff, the aircraft lost contact with ground control and then disappeared from radar. local time i n Saturday, March 8, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing. In the case the plane was detected, Mr Godfrey said, "the pilot also avoided giving a clear idea where he was heading by using a fight path with a number of changes of direction.This article is from the archive of our partner. "The pilot appears to have had knowledge of the operating hours of Sabang and Lhokseumawe radar and that on a weekend night, in times of little international tension the radar systems would not be up and running." "The flight path follows the coast of Sumatra and flies close to Banda Aceh Airport. "The pilot of MH370 generally avoided official flight routes from 18:00 UTC (2:00am AWST) onwards but used waypoints to navigate on unofficial flight paths in the Malacca Strait, around Sumatra and across the Southern Indian Ocean," he said. The findings are largely consistent with previous analysis of the plane's satellite data and of the location of floating debris from the plane, which also suggest it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.īut Mr Godfrey's research suggests the pilot had changed direction and speed multiple times to avoid giving any clear idea where he was heading. His analysis points to a crash site at 34.5 degrees south, south-west of Western Australia, near the imaginary line known as the "seventh arc" - which shows possible locations of the plane at the time of its seventh satellite "ping". Mr Godfrey - seen as one of the world's leading investigators of the MH 370 disappearance - invented his own aviation tracking system known as GDTAAA (Global Detection and Tracking any Aircraft Anywhere Anytime) to analyse these WSPR signals every two minutes over the specific period that MH370 was in the air, in March 2014. He says these radio signals can be used in conjunction with data sent from the Malaysian Airlines plane to Britain's Inmarsat satellite, to help solve the mystery of MH370. "WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams, but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe," Mr Godfrey says. He says any plane - commercial, private or military - will set off invisible "electronic tripwires" as they cross these signals, which can then be used to trace their location. Instead, the pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had made numerous turns and changed speed to avoid commercial flight routes and leave "false trails" on unofficial routes around the western end of Indonesia and the Indian Ocean.Īerospace engineer Richard Godfrey - a member of the so-called Independent Group of Scientists set up to try to solve the MH370 mystery - says global tracking of aircraft is possible using weak radio signals that cover the globe, known as WSPR, or the "weak signal propagation report" network. The research indicates the Boeing 777 crashed around 34.5 degrees south, which aligns with previous searches for the plane, but that its flight path was "significantly different" from earlier theories based on satellite data.
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