Experts present new evidence on the whereabouts of flight MH370

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has led the initial search for MH370.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported on January 18 that a team of experts led by British aeronautical engineer Richard Godfrey said their findings were "reliable new evidence" about the whereabouts of flight MH370.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China) went missing on March 8, 2014, 38 minutes after takeoff.

To date, dozens of pieces of debris have been found from many places around the world , but only a few pieces of debris on the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to belong to the missing plane.

Mr. Godfrey said the plane could have crashed in an area in the Indian Ocean, about 1,500 km west of Perth, Australia, while only half of this area has been searched underwater.

The US company Ocean Infinity also wants to dispatch a fleet of unmanned ships to find the answer to one of the biggest mysteries of the aviation industry.

However, this would require the Malaysian government , whose investment fund owns Malaysia Airlines, to give the green light for a new search, six years after the last one was called off.

Mr. Godfrey said that Malaysia seemed reluctant to do so because it "did not want to spend more money" searching for the whereabouts of flight MH370.

According to him, the debris handed over to Madagascar authorities by his colleague Blaine Gibson in 2022 is still on the island off the coast of Africa, because Malaysia did not pay for its return shipping.

The engineer is an independent investigator and co-author of a study using weak signal propagation (WSPR) technology to map the flight path of flight MH370.

Another investigation team, headed by retired French airline and air force pilot Patrick Blelly and aviation expert Jean-Luc Marchand, also called in September 2023 for the search to continue.

The group told the Royal Aeronautical Society they had identified an unexplored area of ​​the seabed that could take just 10 days to search.

According to Mr. Godfrey, the Malaysian government has received many documents published by his group and asked relatives of a passenger on the flight to personally deliver them to transport ministers through the terms, but they have not received any response.

The Malaysian government has previously said it is willing to reopen the search if new information becomes available that is convincing. The Malaysian Transport Ministry declined to comment.

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