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MH370 – Brit mathematician calculates ‘crash site’ with underwater sound waves but claims key data from US defence facility is ‘missing’
A BRITISH mathematician said he has calculated the MH370 crash site with underwater sound waves but claims key data is "missing" from a US defence facility.
The Malaysian Airlines jet vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 - and has yet to be found.
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Dr Usama Kadri, a professor at Cardiff University, said he has been able to identify two possible locations of where the missing plane crashed into the water.
One is closer to Madagascar and the other is further north in the Indian Ocean than the search has covered so far,
He used data from underwater microphones he says picked up sound waves from the plane's impact in the water - although 25 minutes of recordings has mysteriously gone missing.
Dr Kadri,whose work focuses on physical oceanography and wave power harnessing , explained that when an object hits the water the surface waves get smaller and smaller until they are no longer visible.
The waves do keep travelling through the water and even though they can no longer be seen the “acoustic-gravity waves” can travel for thousands of kilometres without disruption.
He added that these waves are “carrying vital information on the source of the impact, before dissipating.”
When the flight carrying 239 people crashed into the Indian Ocean, three underwater microphones called hydrophones were active.
THE MISSING DATA
One of them, called HA08s, is at US bomber base Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean.
Dr Kadri says there is 25 minutes of missing data from that hydrophone that is unexplained.
He wrote in “The locations of signals found using HA08s data do come with high uncertainty but still require further detailed and careful analysis.
“Unfortunately, on top of the noisy recorded signals, 25 minutes of data from HA08s is missing.
“The signals we have analysed indicate that the there was a 25-minute shutdown that has gone unexplained by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation, which is responsible for the hydrophone stations.”
Some experts have claimed that rogue pilot Zaharie Amad Shah deliberately crashed the jet in a “suicide mission”, killing all 239 people on board.
And now Victor Iannello, who works for the Independent Group (IG) - which is assisting Australian officials search for the missing plane – is supporting this theory.
In a report that has used civilian radar data, he says that Shah may have used a particular flight path to deceive radar operators into believing the plane was planning to land at Penang Airport.
Mr Iannello created a flight simulation in order to better understand the route taken.
But despite experts’ observations, the Malaysian government, which has signed a “no find, no fee” deal with Texas-based company Ocean Infinity to resume the hunt for the plane, remains silent on the question of Zaharie’s possible involvement.
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Ocean Infinity started the search on January 22 this year, following a previous failed £111million search for the plane. At the time, experts said they expected to have answers within a matter of weeks.
The company has 90 search days to look for the plane, which has been spread over several months. Officials said there was roughly an 85 per cent chance of finding traces of the wreckage in a new 15,000 square mile search area.
The investigation is expected to end in mid-June and many people fear MH370 may never be found.
- A version of this story previously appeared on
MH370 - WHAT HAPPENED?
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading to Beijing with 239 people on board.
Passengers included Chinese calligraphers, a couple on their way home to their young sons after a long-delayed honeymoon and a construction worker who hadn't been home in a year.
But at 12.14am on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines lost contact with MH370 close to Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca.
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".
Satellite "pings" from the aircraft suggest it continued flying for around seven hours when the fuel would have run out.
Experts have calculated the most likely crash site around 1,000 miles west of Perth, Australia.
But a huge search of the seabed failed to find any wreckage - and there are a number of alternative theories as to its fate.
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