"Perfect Hiding Place": Australian Scientist Claims He's Found Where Missing MH370 Plane Is

Years after its disappearance, an Australian scientist has claimed he has discovered the "perfect hiding place" for the missing MH370 plane. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished on March 8, 2014, was carrying 239 people when it disappeared from radar shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur Airport. The search for the plane, the largest in aviation history, has yet to locate it. Now, Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne asserts that he has pinpointed the plane's location.

In a LinkedIn post, Mr. Lyne suggested that the plane was intentionally crashed into Broken Ridge, a 20,000-foot-deep trench in the Indian Ocean. He argues that this theory changes the narrative from a high-speed dive caused by fuel exhaustion to a deliberate and sophisticated disappearance.

Mr. Lyne, from the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, notes that the damage to the plane's wings, flaps, and flaperon indicates a "controlled ditching," similar to the emergency landing by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger on the Hudson River in 2009. This analysis supports the earlier claim by ex-Chief Canadian Air-crash Investigator Larry Vance that MH370 had fuel and operational engines when it underwent this controlled ditching.

According to Mr. Lyne, the plane is located where the longitude of Penang Airport intersects with the Pilot-in-Command home simulator track, which was previously dismissed by the FBI as irrelevant. He describes the area as having a deep 6,000-meter hole at the eastern end of Broken Ridge, surrounded by rugged terrain and filled with fine sediments, making it an ideal "hiding" place.

Despite the apparent breakthrough, Mr. Lyne acknowledges that the decision to search this area lies with officials and search companies. He believes that science has now definitively pointed to MH370's location, solving the mystery from a scientific perspective.

Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite an extensive search covering 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, only a few debris pieces have been found, and the search was officially suspended in January 2017.

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