Imagine a mystery so baffling that it captivated the world for years, leaving everyone both intrigued and heartbroken. That’s the story of MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014. Since then, the fate of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has remained a haunting enigma.
Despite numerous memorials held for the lost souls on board, the aircraft itself has eluded discovery, with only fragments purportedly linked to the crash being found, leaving doubts and theories swirling about its final moments.
Now, Vincent Lyne, a former researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, claims to have broken new ground in the search for MH370. In a riveting revelation to Express.co.uk, Lyne disclosed that he believes the wreckage rests in a “deep hole about 1,500km west of Perth,” which he intriguingly calls the “PL Hole.”
But why would the plane head south when Beijing was to the north? This question has fueled countless conspiracy theories and speculative stories over the years. Lyne speculates that the aircraft deviated from its planned route right after takeoff.
Lyne explained that previous searches were based on simulations using a Boeing 777-200LR instead of the actual MH370 model, the Boeing 777-200ER, which has different fuel consumption rates. This mistake could have skewed the search efforts, directing them to incorrect locations based on inaccurate fuel exhaustion estimates.
He told the news outlet that his hypothesis “reconciles all evidence” and even brings to light new satellite imagery showing debris trails emanating from his proposed crash site. According to Lyne, the use of incorrect flight simulator data was perhaps a deliberate move to confound the investigation and throw off the scent from the real crash location.
He argued, “The main reason for planning the simulations that way was to calculate fuel loads but make it appear that it was just a simulation for an aircraft that was not part of Malaysia Airlines fleet so as not to draw any suspicion or attention to the simulated track. By adding the decoy track (the simulated one to the Southern Ocean from the PL Hole) this would add further confusion as it would not be possible for MH370 to reach that location as it didn’t have enough fuel to get there.”
This latest twist adds another layer of mystery and intrigue to the ongoing saga of MH370, compelling the world to watch closely as new efforts unfold to resolve one of the greatest aviation mysteries in modern history.