What happened to the Boeing 777-200ER and the 239 people on board is unknown but the incident has sparked a wild goose chase for the truth that shows no signs of stopping even seven years on from the tragedy. A total of 33 pieces of debris confirmed and suspected from MH370 have been recovered by 16 different people unrelated to each other in six different countries. He told us: "It was so dangerous, every time we came to a river, where the waterfall would be crossing, it might only be 10 metres the other side but you've got no idea how deep it is, it's about a foot deep and it goes up past your thighs. Former transport minister and deputy prime minister Warren Truss said Australia was looking in the wrong place but added that they had already increased the search area on a number of occasions and had to draw a line somewhere. The hopes of finding the reason behind the missing flight MH370 have increased because of an aerospace expert. The piece apparently measures 31.7ft whereas a tail piece normally measures 30ft. The searches have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and whilst there is demand from family members to find their loved ones, the costs associated are enormous. He warned me that it could have been another plane crash, not MH370s, however Cambodian records and satellite images prove otherwise.". Mr Boyer concluded: From what I have collected in data from the commissioned search team, satellite images and historical records of Cambodian Known crashes, this is 99 percent likely to be an unidentified plane crash site too remote to walk to. On March 24 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that, based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had concluded that the flight crashed in a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia. Given that we now have additional accurate data that as to where the crash site might be, that appears to be entirely credible and consistent with other theories". Passengers included Chinese calligraphers, a couple on their way home to theiryoung sons after a long-delayed honeymoonand a construction worker who hadn't been homein a year. You can unsubscribe at any time. Mechanical malfunction was deemed extremely unlikely, and the change in flight path likely resulted from manual inputs, but the investigators could not determine why flight 370 disappeared. The pilot said that as a senior officer and examiner it would have been easy to divert co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, out of the cockpit and then lock the door. Others have suggested it may be an old warplane, although the Aviation Safety Network told us it does not fit the profile of any crashes. MH370took off fromMalaysias capitalKuala Lumpur for Chinas capitalBeijing with 239 people on board. "If this is indeed a plane crash site as 99 percent chance reported it could only be MH370.". An American company, Ocean Infinity, received permission from the Malaysian government to continue searching until May 2017, when the Malaysian Transport ministry announced that it would call off that search. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Because many researchers believe the plane crashed into sea, the measures include extended battery life on the underwater locator beams as well as extending the recording time of flight data recorders. The vanishing has led to a huge number of theories as to what happened. Email us attips@the-sun.co.ukor call 0207 782 4368 . Boyer's crash site is 10 miles away from Wilson's. In February 2022, a major breakthrough was made discovering the exact point that the plane might have crashed. "Then you're getting brushed away and just thinking, 'I've got to come back this way', then your climbing over fallen rocks, crawling across them in the end. Sign up to the Daily Star's newsletter. More than thirty pieces of aircraft debris have been washed up on the beaches of the African coast and islands in the Indian Ocean. Thus, it was extremely unlikely that anyone on board survived. The claim has been made by fellow pilot and life-long friend of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, who was in command of the Boeing 777 the night it vanished. The Daily Mail reported that engineer Victor Ianello and his team, based in the United States, announced the discovery on aviation news site, AirLive, early . Yeti Airlines Crash In Nepal, Many Feared Dead, Donald Douglas The Giant Of Aerospace in Colour, STUNNING VIDEO OF THE 707 THAT STARTED THE JETSET, IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING. Passengers included Chinese calligraphers, a couple on their way home to theiryoung sons after a long-delayed honeymoonand a construction worker who hadn't been homein a year. Various theories - some more viable than others - emerged to explain what happened to the plane. This is what we know about the mystery that left family and friends wondering what happened to their loved ones. Some researchers note that flight 370 could have struck the water vertically, a possibility in which the results of one modeling study conducted before the flaperons discovery suggests could explain the dearth of physical evidence. I believe that when you compare a Boeing 777 from the satellite view on an airport tarmac and compare it side by side with the crash site, the colour of the wreckage matches perfectly and some larger parts of the crash site are symmetrical to a Boeing 777. 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Bailey told Sky News that there could not have been a death dive and believes Captain Zaharie Shah glided the plane as far as possible and landed it on the water outside the search zone. According to wreck hunter, Blaine Gibson the debris was washed ashore in early February in Jeffreys Bay near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. We pay for your stories! Although this idea has been discredited it had some validity at the time due to the course military radar was tracking it on. Some investigators believe the plane crashed into the sea, Covid lifeline as wonderdrug from UK firm crushes 37 Omicron mutations, lost plane was last pinged over the country, MH370: Retired British engineer claims to have 'pinpointed' site, Stephen Hawking theory challenged to crack science's greatest mystery, New technology could discover the last location of the MH370 flight. Flight 370 vanished on March 8, 2014, as it flew from . US Science writer Jeff Wise claimed Putin "spoofed" the plane's navigation data so it could fly unnoticed into Baikonur Cosmodrome so he could "hurt the West". "Two teams were eventually formed by hands down the best covert recon crew I have ever handled who after months of planning went into the Cambodia jungle last Monday and established the crash site is virtually impossible to get to on foot and then sent in a surveillance drone to confirm the state of the crash site which has now become completely grown over with jungle vegetation. [1] The crew of the Boeing 777-200ER registered as 9M-MRO . Mr Milne, however, believes the plane may have crashed over Cambodia, which sits just northeast of Malaysia, in between Thailand and Vietnam. Wednesday, 18th January 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. We have placed cookies on your device to enhance your browsing experience. Capt. Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. If the jet was flying north then possible locations could stretch as fast as the border between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Thailand. Richard believes the pilot stalled above the southern Indian Ocean to call Malaysian authorities, despite the fact that they claim they had no contact for 38 minutes following take-off,as reported by Sky News. This came after authorities first investigated a mystery woman in 2014 who made a two-minute phone call to captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, shortly before the planes take-off, using a pay-as-you-go SIM card. Malaysia's transport minister Anthony Loke says the government is hoping to resume the search as families of passengers marked the fifth anniversary of the jet's disappearance. Rescue workers were shown on local TV being lowered on ropes from a hovering helicopter to retrieve bodies. One allegedly remembered seeing a dragon emblem, similar to that of the Malaysia Airlines logo. Use the slider below to see the different types of cookies you can choose to allow. Bailey, who was a senior Emirates pilot for 15 years, has not pulled punches and has described the location precisely. In February 2021, wreck hunter Blaine Gibson believed that a piece of debris, believed to be from a Malaysian 777, came ashore on a South African beach, near Port Elizabeth. View our online Press Pack. But at 12.14am onMarch 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines lost contact withMH370 close to Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca. Grace Nathan lost her mother, Anne, in the crash. The MH370's last crew communique was recorded over the South China Sea, about 38 minutes after takeoff. READ MORE:Airbus A380 final aircraft delivered. The disappearance of the Boeing 777 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board led to a search effort stretching from the Indian Ocean west of Australia to Central Asia. Malaysian Airways Flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Richard employed the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter, a highly sophisticated analytical tool, to estimate the course of the ill-fated aeroplane and the likely location of its remnants in an area known as the seventh arc by tracing 160 different disturbances detected in its radio frequencies. Capt. The first images of the jet, which vanished on March 8, 2014, were found after video producer Ian Wilsonspent "hours" searching online. IT has been eight years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished without a trace. The unnamed pilot told The Atlantic: All he had to say was Go check something in the cabin, and the guy would have been gone, he said. And their theory comes after extensive satellite analysis. Mr Godfrey said work with a team has been progressing for a year now, and "we've done quite a lot of testing of this new idea and we've came to the confidence to apply it to MH370". Mr Godfrey said it was a "complicated exercise", but previously there was simply a lack of lateral thinking, across multiple disciplines, to bring this together. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. EXCLUSIVE: Brit sleuth Ian Wilson told Daily Star Online he is adamant the wreckage from MH370 is visible on Google Earth three years after he claimed to have spotted it on the app, Don't miss a thing! Wilson's theory is also disputed by how debris investigators say is from MH370 has washed up at islands including Reunion Island and Mauritius since it vanished. There were 122 Chinese nationals on board MH370, which departed from Kuala Lumpur but never reached its destination, Beijing. The 2018 report did not rule out "unlawful interference by third party". Radar data indicates the plane wildly deviated from its planned route and vanished some 200 nautical miles northwest of Penang Island, Malaysia. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? Early theories focused on the idea that the plane had flown north into central Asia. In Boyer's previous interview he told the Daily Star one piece measures 17.8ft close to the 19ft 3in of a Boeing 777 cockpit, leaving him convinced this was the front of the plane. Secret lair holding clues was uncovered in case linked to JonBent, Author's husband wanted her to stop writing before 'faking her death for years', Putin readying 700k troops for new offensive in weeks to cut off Ukraine', Baby among 6 festival-goers sliced to death by glass-encrusted kite strings, 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from the radars with 239 passengers on board. Flight 370disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people on board. Relatives, some seen here protesting in 2017, still have many unanswered questions about the disaster. Locals 'CONFIRM' seeing plane go down in Cambodia, MH370 MYSTERY: Ghost black box pings were detected but NO wreckage, MH370 experts dubbed the Bletchley Park of aeronautical sleuthing', Investigator makes plea for new MH370 search - gives EXACT coordinates. An amateur MH370 investigator claims the wreckage of the missing plane can still be seen on Google Maps years after he first spotted it. But Wilson still plans to visit the spot in Cambodia, despite last year's mission almost killing him and his brother, Jack. We have asked Google if this is the date of the latest captured image or if it simply refers to the year the information is being shown. He claimed the pilot wanted to "create the world's greatest mystery". Other than the Cambodian jungle theory, these include the "suicidal" pilot deliberately crashing into the sea, the aircraft being shot down by North Korea and a conspiracy to bring down the Malaysian government. This theory speculates there was some sort of accident or malfunction before the plane crashed, causing the plane to change direction in an attempt to find somewhere to land. February 17, 2021. In this case it is based on tangible evidence. AN ex-pilot with over 50 years in the cockpit says he would bet his house that he knows where the wreckage of MH370 is and that search teams are all way off the mark. His family said he "loved life" and had an unblemished flying record. New new investigative seriesMH370: The Untold Story claimed a "mystery woman" could unlock the secrets of the missing flight. However, Mr Boyer believes he found the plane wreckage in Cambodia via satellite images and sent an expedition team to his proposed coordinates earlier this year. New MH370 debris washed up in South Africa? Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people on board. The debris definitely needs to be investigated.. Before that,Malaysian authorities believe the last words heard from the plane, from either the pilot or co-pilot, was "Good night Malaysian three seven zero". He told Express.co.uk he cross-referenced the images with his contacts in the US Pentagon and White House, and intends to launch a helicopter recon mission early in 2022. "We should have been badly injured, but the guides were good, they would go across first, and pull us up. The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. So quite when the search will be, it may start again in 12 months, because you can't get the assets together and on site in a short period of time. That flight never reached its destination and was lost in the Atlantic. There are numerous variations on this rather wild conspiracy theory but most centre on Captain Zaharie deliberately crashing the plane, or as part of some bizarre murder-suicide idea. "We've been hoping for the longest time for something new - a new breakthrough, something new that would warrant the search starting again and at least there being a more precise location for the search being conducted at and to increase the odds of finding the plane" she told the BBC. The US firm Ocean Infinity mounted a "no cure, no fee" search for the plane in the southern Indian Ocean in January 2018 that ended in May without any clues. Godfrey agreed with the theory of Captain Shah crashing the plane on purpose. She said: "We welcome all new findings, especially if it's based on tangible evidence. The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. The aircraft, which was piloted by Zaharie Ahmad Shah, made some 360-degree turns, indicating that the pilot was fully engaged and altering course deliberately rather than automatically, as previously stated. Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? But a British aeronautical engineer, who has spent more than a . Three of the 27 pieces were positively identified as coming from flight 370, and 17 were thought to have likely come from the plane. He said: "I've done a lot of work on information systems and handling lots of data and that's important on this analysis. 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