PETALING JAYA: Experts are advocating for a renewed search effort to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, citing new information about the fate of the flight.
Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly are urging for a new search based on recent revelations.
The duo believes that the mystery surrounding missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 could potentially be solved within a matter of “days” if a new search is initiated.
During a lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Marchand and Blelly suggested that the new search area could be thoroughly explored in just 10 days, and they have issued an open call for assistance.
“It could be a quick process. Until the wreckage of MH370 is found, nobody can be certain of what happened. However, this is a plausible trajectory,” Marchand stated, as reported by Australian news site news.com.au.
Marchand also mentioned that the “swift” search could serve as an ideal test for the company’s new unmanned sub-nautical search technology.
Mr. Marchad described the incident as “an atrocious one-way journey” and believes it was likely carried out by an experienced pilot.
“We believe, based on our research, that the hijacking was likely performed by a skilled pilot,” Mr. Marchad said.
“The cabin was depressurized… and it was a soft control ditching to produce minimal debris. It was conducted in a manner to avoid detection or discovery.”
“Certainly, the aircraft was not visible except to the military. The individual knew that if a search and rescue operation were to be launched, it would be along the flight path”.
The pair argued that the plane’s transponder was deliberately turned off and that the “U-turn” it made away from the flight path could not have been executed by autopilot.
On the evening of March 8, 2014, the Malaysia Airlines aircraft with 239 people on board took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing, but disappeared from radar screens approximately two hours after departure.
In the aftermath, extensive search operations involving multiple countries were carried out in the southern Indian Ocean, but neither the plane nor its wreckage were located.
