KUALA LUMPUR – A retired British aerospace engineer who has joined the search for the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 believes he has pinpointed the final resting place of the missing aircraft.
On December 1, Richard Godfrey told Australian Channel 7 morning show Sunrise that he is very confident of the Boeing 777 plane’s current location based on data by the Inmarsat satellite, oceanography drift analysis, and performance data from Boeing.
Godfrey noted a specific point in the Indian Ocean, some 1,933km west of the city of Perth, where the wreckage of the plane is believed to be lying at a depth of 4,000m.
“With new technology, we have the Whispernet data, and all four (sources of information) align with a particular point in the Southern Indian Ocean,” he said.
Flight MH370 disappeared while enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014.
Its disappearance continues to baffle experts and is regarded as one of the aviation industry’s greatest mysteries.
The last operation to find the aircraft ended in May 2018, when United States-based exploration company Ocean Infinity failed to locate it after searching more than 112,000sq km of the ocean floor over three months.
Godfrey said he believes the wreckage can be retrieved and that he is in contact with companies such as Ocean Infinity, which have the capability to go into depths beyond 4,000m.
“It’s very dark down there, very cold, and there’s intense pressure, but they (Ocean Infinity) have autonomous underwater vehicles that they can send down. They can find it, that’s for sure.” – The Vibes, December 5, 2021
One of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time may have been solved, with aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey telling us he's "very confident" he has found where missing plane MH370 is located. pic.twitter.com/kajsK1TuG8
— Sunrise (@sunriseon7) November 30, 2021
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