MH370 bombshell as groundbreaking tech 'detects' doomed plane's exact crash site
The search for MH370 has puzzled experts for nearly a decade, but there may have just been a major breakthrough in solving the mystery.
MH370: ‘Key questions’ about missing flight revealed by experts
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of flight MH370 may have experienced one of its biggest breakthroughs yet after experts claimed they are "certain" where the huge plane crashed.
The Malaysian Airlines plane with 239 passengers on board vanished on March 8, 2014, after contact with the Boeing 777 plane was lost close to Phuket Island in the Strait of Malacca.
It disappeared just 39 minutes after it departed Kuala Lumpur Airport for Beijing in China but nearly a decade on from that fateful event, the mystery continues.
However, that might be about to change as a new 229-page report could point to vital clues about its possible whereabouts.
This suggests the wreckage could be located in the Indian Ocean - around 1,560km west of Perth, Australia.
The latest theory is a result of "groundbreaking" amateur radio technology known as a Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR).
Researchers Richard Godfrey, Dr Hannes Coetzee, and Professor Simon Maskell used this to detect the MH370's flight path for six hours after one of its last radio contacts, according to the Daily Mail.
The researchers stated: "This technology has been developed over the past three years and the results represent credible new evidence.
"It aligns with analyses by Boeing ... and drift analyses by University of Western Australia of debris recovered around the Indian Ocean."
DON'T MISS:
Lukashenko refuses to force Wagner out of Belarus after Prigozhin death [LATEST]
China is 'ticking time bomb' as economic crisis threatens to destabilise Xi [COMMENTS]
Putin puts nuke capable of wiping out London in six minutes on 'combat duty' [REPORT]
They added: "Together with (the data), a comprehensive picture of the final hours of flight MH370 can be collated.
"Flight MH370 was diverted into the Indian Ocean where it crashed of fuel exhaustion (...) at some point after the last signal after midnight."
This new crash location of MH370 is some 4,000m deep in the Indian Ocean and just north of [previous estimates by other researchers and investigators.
When an aircraft flies through an amateur radio signal or WSPR link, the signals are disrupted, and the records of these are stored in a global database.
This latest study used 125 of these disruptions to help track MH370's path for more than six hours after one of its last known radio contacts with air traffic control.
The results, combined with data from Boeing, Inmarsat satellites, and drift analysis, present a "significant multidisciplinary outcome" - the same crash site.
Researcher Richard Godfrey explained the technology during an interview in 2021, telling The Times: "Imagine crossing a prairie with invisible trip wires crossing the whole area and going back and forth across the length and breadth.
"Each step you make you tread on particular trip wires and we can locate you at the intersection of the disturbed trip wires. We can track your path as you move across the prairie."
Aviation expert Geoff Thomas told the Today programme on Friday: "There has been some criticism, but this report has been peer-reviewed.
"A scientist from the University of Liverpool and the ocean company who did the search in 2018 will use it as a basis for a new search.
"There is a very high level of confidence. It has been four years in the making, being reviewed over and over again.
"They (the researchers) are certain that they have located where this aircraft is."