It is still today “the greatest mystery in the history of aviation” – according to the Malaysian Minister of Transport himself – and a terrible wait for the relatives of the 239 passengers on board flight MH370. Since March 8, 2014, the whole world has been hoping to know the truth about what happened to this Malaysia Airlines plane. Disappearing from the radar in just a few minutes, its wreckage has never been found: only a few pieces of debris have been discovered, off the west coast of Australia or off Reunion Island, completely opposite the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route that the flight was supposed to take. While dozens, if not hundreds, of theories have been put forward about the reasons for this crash, the mystery has still not been solved. But a decade later, a new lead has just emerged: a scientist claims to have discovered the exact location of the wreckage.
Vincent Lyne, a researcher at the University of Tasmania, unveiled a new study at the end of August 2024 on his Linkedin account. Written in fact three years earlier, this report has just been accepted and published by the Journal of Navigation. The Australian scientist explains that he found “the perfect hiding place” where the wreckage of flight MH370 is believed to be: a 6,000-metre-deep hole, located at the end of Broken Ridge, an oceanic plateau in the south-east Indian Ocean. This is a “very rugged and dangerous ocean environment, renowned for its wild fisheries and (…)
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