MH370 Update: Expert ‘Pinpoints’ Final Resting Place Through New Mapping Technology

An expert claims to have made a breakthrough in one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time – the location of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

According to the British aerospace engineer, the new mapping technology has pinpointed the passenger plane’s crash site. Richard Godfrey, a founding member of the non-government MH370 independent Group, said Wednesday he was very confident the plane was nearly 1,242 miles west of Perth in the southern Indian Ocean.

The aircraft went missing on March 8, 2014, while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Despite a multi-million dollar search effort, the plane's main body has not been found. Now, Godfrey claims the plane should be resting about 2.4 miles under the sea in a mountainous region of the southern Indian Ocean that had been missed by previous search attempts. He made the conclusion using software based on "weak signal propagation" data, according to news.com.au.

Taken together with satellite, weather, ocean current, and airplane performance data, Godfrey said the new technology should trigger a fresh search.

“(The) data supports an overwhelming case for a renewed search in the prime crash location of 33.177°S 95.300°E,” he said, while speaking to Sunrise. “The proposed search area is defined by a circle with a radius of 40 nautical miles centred on the prime crash location.”

The mystery behind the disappearance of Flight MH370 continues even after seven years with several conspiracy theories still emerging as to what may have happened to the plane. Theories over the last few years blamed a potential hijacking, a rogue pilot and a hypoxia event resulting in an unplanned decompression of the cabin. However, none of these claims have been completely verified by authorities.

Godfrey told Sunrise his theory was that the crash was essentially a terrorist attack carried out by one of the pilots. This claim had already been rejected by Australian experts.

“It was a hijacking. It was an act of terrorism in my view,” Godfrey said. “But you know, I'm not a court of law. And I can only say that that’s my current theory. I’m still open if the authorities want to reveal more information that they may have.”

In July 2018, Malaysia released a report stating MH370 deviated from its path "not because of anomalies in the mechanical system. The turn back was made not under autopilot but under manual control.”