MH370 breakthrough as NASA ‘smoking gun’ could show lost plane’s location | World | News
239 people were aboard MH370 when it disappeared (Image: Ryan Fletcher via Getty Images)
A dozen years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, a fresh potential search zone for the missing aircraft has been proposed.
American businessman Randy Rolston, based in Kansas, has published a new examination of the mystery, pinpointing a particular section of the Indian Ocean that may harbour the primary wreckage of the lost Boeing 777.
He suggests that an unexplained surge in carbon monoxide detected by NASA on the morning of March 8, 2014 could serve as a “smoking gun” identifying the precise location where the aircraft descended into the ocean.
Within his comprehensive 19-page analysis, Randy proposes that 52-year-old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had intended to crash his plane into a specific deep region of the Indian Ocean called the Wharton Basin, where any trace of his actions would prove virtually impossible to locate.
The 621-square-mile area lies approximately 683 miles from Western Australia‘s coastline. Many parts of the Indian Ocean exceed 1,000ft in depth, with massive underwater cliffs and submerged volcanoesrendering the ocean floor an exceptionally difficult place to search
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Part of the plane’s engine cowling was found at Mossel Bay, South Africa (Image: ATSB/AFP via Getty Images)
Whilst multiple fragments of debris that washed up on coastlines around the Indian Ocean throughout 2015 and 2016 were confirmed to have come from Flight 370, the whereabouts of the aircraft’s main fuselage – and the remains of the 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard that tragic night – continue to elude discovery.
Randy has called upon the authorities to examine this fresh location – nearly 1,000 miles north of the previously investigated zone – arguing the victims’ families are entitled to answers: “Finding the aircraft would finally provide them with a measure of clarity and closure,” he said.
The disappearance of Flight MH370 continues to stand as one of aviation’s most perplexing enigmas, with the highest number of fatalities. The aircraft had departed Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of March 8, 2014, bound for the Chinese capital Beijing.
Approximately 38 minutes following departure, the crew transmitted a standard radio message to air traffic controllers, after which no further communication was received from the aircraft.
Data recovered from the captain’s own flight simulator suggest he may have planned to crash the plane (Image: Getty Images)
Shortly afterwards, MH370 vanished from air traffic controllers’ radar displays but remained visible on military radar. The aircraft executed a sharp deviation from its intended route – ultimately disappearing beyond the range of Malaysian military radar at approximately 2am, local time.
Satellites kept receiving periodic signals from the aircraft – confirming it remained airborne – until shortly after 8am.
It has been theorised that the passengers and crew had been deliberately deprived of oxygen and would have been unconscious as the aircraft continued over the southern Indian Ocean on autopilot until it eventually ran out of fuel.
The Australian-led international hunt for MH370 already represents aviation’s costliest search operation, but Randy maintains that substantial portions of the designated search zone were overlooked during the initial 2014 investigation.
He maintains that, contrary to the official conclusion reached by the authorities, the aircraft was most probably intentionally brought down into the ocean approximately 680 miles east of Coral Bay in Western Australia.
It’s one of the greatest mysteries in the history of flight (Image: ITV)
It has been theorised that the passengers and crew had been deliberately starved of oxygen and would have been unconscious as the aircraft continued over the southern Indian Ocean on autopilot until it eventually ran out of fuel.
The Australian-led international hunt for MH370 already represents aviation’s costliest search operation, yet Randy maintains that substantial portions of the designated search zone were overlooked during the initial 2014 investigation.
He maintains that, contrary to the official conclusion reached by the authorities, the aircraft was most probably intentionally brought down into the ocean approximately 680 miles east of Coral Bay in Western Australia.
