What happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014 remains one of aviation’s most famous unsolved cases.
The plane was bound for Beijing Capital International Airport in China, but after several unexplained course deviations and apparently deliberate switching off of its transponder, it disappeared along with all passengers and crew, leaving no trace and never resurfacing.
In the aftermath, a global search and rescue mission was launched, one of the largest in history, with teams from numerous countries scouring large swaths of the ocean for any sign of the missing plane. To this day, there is no definitive answer to what happened.
However, Australian researcher Vincent Lyne has proposed a new theory that could shed light on the fate of the plane and why it was never found. He claims that the disappearance of MH370 was orchestrated by “a mastermind pilot who almost pulled off an incredible, perfect disappearance in the southern Indian Ocean.”
Lyne specifically suggests that the pilot, 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah, deliberately crashed the plane at a precise location in the ocean that he knew would remain undiscovered.
This spot – a 6,000-metre-deep depression in the seabed surrounded by high ridges – could be the best area to search for evidence of the plane’s wreckage.
This theory is not the first to suggest that the pilot deliberately crashed the plane, although the motive remains unclear.
“Or [the sea hole] 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 equally the science points unmistakably to where MH370 lies,” said Lyne. said.
