
Scientist Vincent Lyne claims to have discovered the "perfect hiding place" of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
According to Vincent Lyne, a researcher at the University of Tasmania, the plane was deliberately plunged by the pilot into a 6,000-metre-deep hole in the Indian Ocean Rift Belt, making it a "pretty perfect disappearance".
Lyne describes the Broken Ridge as a very rugged and dangerous oceanic environment with narrow and steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and deep holes."
He claims the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, deliberately crashed the plane in the area, which he calls "a perfect hiding place", with 239 people on board, including 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
In a LinkedIn post, Lyne wrote that his study changes the narrative of the disappearance of MH370 from an accident due to fuel exhaustion to a deliberate act by a brilliant pilot.
He notes that the damage to the plane's wings resembles that of the plane successfully landed by Captain Chesley Sullenberger in the Hudson River in 2009.
Lyne's claim is consistent with earlier theories that the pilot was responsible for the deliberate downing of the plane, calling it a "murder-suicide of shocking proportions" due to personal issues.
The pilot was said to have separated from his wife and was said to be enraged shortly before boarding the plane for the flight to Beijing after a relative was sentenced to five years in prison for sodomy.
However, his wife and family have strongly denied the claims, insisting that Zaharie was a dedicated family man who loved his job.
Lyne concludes that the mystery of MH370 has been "completely solved by science" and urges future research to focus on a specific part of the Southern Indian Ocean. He points out that the evidence awaits verification and may reveal the truth about those who lost loved ones on that fatal flight.
The disappearance of flight MH370
The plane disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying as scheduled, from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to Beijing International Airport in China. The plane was carrying 227 passengers from 15 countries, as well as 12 crew members.
The crew's last contact with Air Traffic Control (ATC) was approximately 38 minutes after takeoff, when the aircraft was over the South China Sea. The aircraft disappeared from EEK radar screens a few minutes later, but was tracked by military radars for an hour as it deviated west from its planned flight path, crossing the Malaysian Peninsula and the Andaman Sea.
It went out of radar range 200 nautical miles (370 km) northwest of Penang Island in northwest Malaysia and disappeared.