Facts 10/03/2025 15:00

MH370 mystery finally solved based on satellite communication?

A new study into the disappearance of flight MH370 claims to have solved the 10-year mystery based on the last two recorded satellite communications.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared with all 239 passengers on board during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.

Dr Vincent Lyne of the University of Tasmania, Australia, believes the final messages received from the missing plane could provide a definitive indication of the location of the wreckage, according to the Daily Express.

In a paper to be published in the journal Navigation, researcher Lyne examined MH370's last satellite communications to establish its flight pattern before it disappeared.

The assessment challenges previous claims that the plane went into an "uncontrolled high-speed gravitational dive after running out of fuel".

Instead, Dr Lyne argues, the communications, combined with air crash investigator Larry Vance's assessment of the damage to the wreckage, "support the controlled descent to the east" hypothesis, suggesting premeditation to cause the Malaysia Airlines flight to disappear.

"This theory changes the story of MH370's disappearance from an innocent, fuel-starved disappearance in Arc 7, falling at high speed, to one of a mastermind pilot executing a perfect disappearance in the southern Indian Ocean.

MH370's disappearance would have been a mystery had it not landed right-side up in the ocean and been transmitting regular satellite communications with Inmarsat, which will be revealed in the paper in the journal Navigation," Dr Lyne stressed.

In a recent study, he suggested that the damage to the wings, flaps and flaps of MH370 was similar to Captain Sully's "controlled landing" on the Hudson River, USA, of US Airways Flight 1549, which was struck by a bird on 15 January 2009.

"This strongly supports the original claim, based on excellent and very careful analysis of the debris damage, by former Canadian air accident investigator Larry Vance, that MH370 had fuel and engines running when it underwent a "controlled descent" rather than a high-speed fuel starvation crash.

Dr Lyne also argued that the new study provides a clearer roadmap of where MH370 may have crashed, urging future searches for the wreckage to focus on a specific area in the southern Indian Ocean.

In a LinkedIn post announcing the upcoming publication of his research, he stressed: The MH370 crash site is believed to be a very deep 6,000m hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge in the Indian Ocean with a dangerous environment. With narrow slopes, surrounded by large mountain ranges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediments - a perfect "hideout" for MH370. Based on those observations, he said, the mystery will soon be solved so that the relatives of the victims on the flight will know where they were buried.

"Hopefully this will happen in the near future if officials can accept the alternative explanation that what happened to MH370 was carefully calculated in advance. It is still difficult to accept that someone planned and carried it out like that."