A researcher claims they have solved the mystery of what happened to flight MH370 when it disappeared on March 8, 2014.
Vincent Lyne of the University of Tasmania (Australia) has conducted a study and concluded that the plane may have sunk into a pit 6,000 metres deep in the Indian Ocean.
He said that this would be the “perfect hiding place” making the plane and its 239 passengers difficult to locate.
Mr Lyne says the plane is located at the tip of Broken Ridge, an oceanic plateau in the south-east Indian Ocean, in a “very rugged and dangerous marine environment.”
He added that the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, deliberately flew the plane into this location.
Mr Lyne said: “This work changes the narrative of MH370’s disappearance from one of no-blame, fuel-starvation at the 7th arc, high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot almost executing an incredible perfect disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean.
“With narrow steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediments – a perfect hiding place.
“This justifies beyond doubt the original claim, based on brilliant, skilled, and very careful debris-damage analyses, by decorated ex-Chief Canadian Air-crash Investigator Larry Vance, that MH370 had fuel and running engines when it underwent a masterful ‘controlled ditching’ and not a high-speed fuel-starved crash.”
Mr Lyne said the loation of the missing plane was known at the point where the longitude of Penang airport in Malaysia intersected with a flight path the pilot had flown through on his home simulator prior to the plane’s disappearance.
The FBI dismissed the flight path as irrelevant when they investigated the disappearance.
Mr Lyne continued: “That premeditated iconic location harbours a very deep, 6,000m hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a rugged and dangerous ocean environment renowned for its wild fisheries and new deep-water species.
“Whether it will be searched or not is up to officials and search companies, but as far as science is concerned, we know why the previous searches failed and likewise science unmistakably points to where MH370 lies. In short, the MH370 mystery has been comprehensively solved in science!”
More than 30 pieces of suspected debris from MH370 have been collected, but only three wing pieces were confirmed to be from the aircraft.
