According to a report, the head of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 calls for new research based on new evidence suggesting that the wreckage of the Boeing 777 could be at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
Peter Foley, who led the search for the condemned jet by the Australian government, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, told The Times of London that he agreed with the new investigations produced by oceanographers and aviation experts.
The flight, which took off for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, mysteriously reversed course and had flown south until it ran out of fuel.
Working on behalf of Malaysia, Australia was unable to locate the aircraft during the largest search in aviation history before ending it in 2017. A second search, led by US firm Ocean Infinity, also it came out empty.
But 33 pieces of rubble, confirmed or classified as very prone to jet, have been found in Mauritius, Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa, The Times reported.
In August 2020 a part of a wing spoiler was found in South Africa.
On Monday, a report released by an independent group of experts said the damage indicated that it had taken off from the plane in an uncontrolled, high-speed dive, which contradicts alternative theories that a rogue pilot abandoned the aircraft, according to data intake.
Analysis of ocean shunts and a review of a revised flight path published late last year found that MH370 probably descended about 1,200 miles west of Cape Leeuwin, west of Cape Leeuwin. ‘Australia.
Foley, who oversaw a sonar search that spanned nearly 50,000 square miles of ocean floor, said new research should inspect the seabed 70 nautical miles on either side of the target area.
“Large expanses have not been fully sought,” he told The Times.
Blaine Gibson, 63, an American lawyer who has spent much of the last few years searching for the remains, said the updated modeling of Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, gave a strong argument. for a third search.
Pattiaratchi had predicted where remains would be found a year before the first piece was located.
The Malaysian government has said it would need convincing new evidence before another search can begin.