Is this where MH370 will be found? Expert calculates ‘final resting place’ where official search team failed to look
Mathematician Mike Chillit claims to have determined the crash location based on an analysis of ocean currents and satellite data available to investigators
THE crash location of the doomed MH370 jet is further north in the Indian Ocean to what was originally believed, according to a mathematician.
Mike Chillit claims to have determined the crash location based on an analysis of ocean currents and satellite data available to investigators.
Mr Chillit told he believed the plane - which vanished in March 2014 with 239 people on board - crashed into the sea between the two major search locations.
He told the paper it was likely in an area off the coast of Australia known as the Perth Basin.
He added: "We know it is there. We've known that now for more than two years.
"I've suspected it was in Perth Basin for a long time, partly because one large piece of debris ended up on Pemba Island, which is Zanzibar, Tanzania.
"All the rest of it ended up south of Madagascar. No searches have been conducted at that location yet, when they do they will find it."
He claims this location is just 67miles from where Australia's Ocean Shields searched for wreckage, and 220miles from the Ocean Infinity search which ended earlier this year.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading to Beijing when it disappeared.
A Malaysian government report into the disappearance found the Boeing 777 made a mysterious turn back while flying over Gulf of Thailand.
Investigators have been able to track its route and approximate location by tracking a series of satellite log-on “handshakes” during its flight.
So far several items of debris have washed ashore in south-eastern Africa and on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion have been confirmed as coming from the doomed plane.
But despite a four-year search the main wreckage has yet to be found and the official investigation itself was unable to provide any answers about the cause of the crash.
The most recent was mounted by a privately funded expedition run by salvage company Ocean Infinity and began in January this year.
But despite searching an enormous area, the expedition found no trace of MH370 and the search was called off in May.
Earlier this year a former United Airlines pilot claimed batteries inside the jet caused an onboard fire, incapacitating the pilots.
And British video producer Ian Wilson believes he has spotted the doomed plane in the Cambodian jungle after spending "hours" searching online.
What are some of the theories about the Malaysia Airlines flight?
Vladimir Putin
Some feared Russian president Vladimir Putin was involved in the hijacking of MH370.
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".
US shootout
French ex-airline director Marc Dugain accused the US military of shooting down the plane because they feared it had been hijacked.
A book called Flight MH370 – The Mystery also suggested that it had been shot down accidentally by US-Thai joint jet fighters during a military exercise and covered it up.
Suicide
Malaysia police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar suggested the disappearance could have been the result of a suicide.
He claimed someone on board could have taken out a large life insurance package before getting on the plane, so they could treat their family or pay back the money they owed.
In hiding?
Historian and writer Norman Davies suggested MH370 could have been remotely hacked and flown to a secret location as a result of sensitive material being carried aboard the jet.
Cracks in the plane
Malaysia Airlines found a 15-inch crack in the fuselage of one of its planes, days before MH370 disappeared.
The Federal Aviation Administration insists it issued a final warning two days before the disappearance.
But the claimed the missing jet "did not have the same antenna as the rest of the Boeing 777s" so it did not receive the warning.
Pilot planned the incident
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unexpectedly said it was “very likely that the captain planned this shocking event”.
He claimed the pilot wanted to "create the world's greatest mystery".
Another theory claimed that he hijacked his own plane in protest of the jailing of then-Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, and as a way to destabilise the corrupt government of Najib Razak.
North Korea took the plane
In the wake of the incident, South Korea noted that North Korea nearly took out a Chinese plane which had 220 passengers on board, on March 5, 2014.
Some fear Pyongyang shot the plane down, but others believe it was hijacked and diverted into the communist nation.
Victims mobile phones ringing
One theory claims that because many relatives were able to hear a ringing tone for up to four days after the crash so the doomed jet could not have smashed into the Indian Ocean.
Nineteen families have all claimed the devices of their loved ones rang for up to four days after the jet went missing.
However, wireless analysts claim that phone firms sometimes use a phantom ringing sound when the device is not active, the reports.
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Crashed in the Cambodian jungle
In September 2018, British video producer Ian Wilson claimed to have found the missing aircraft using Google Maps.
Despite millions being spent on the search to located the wreckage, the Brit sleuth believes he has found the jet in a mountainous area of the Cambodian jungle.
In response, the Chinese government used observation company Space View to focus in on the high-altitude area on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
However, the firm claim there was no sign of any plane, least of all the Malaysian Airlines aircraft which has been missing since March 201.
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