Researchers in Australia have been working tirelessly to locate missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and they believe they have located the plane.
Flight MH370 carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers went missing on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China).
Sputnik news agency (Russia) said that many people suspect that MH370 has crashed into the Indian Ocean. However, the search process in the past time cost 180 million USD, so this work has been suspended until scientists can map out more specific areas.
A mural depicting the missing plane MH370 in Shah Alam, Malaysia. (Photo: AFP/VNA).
In April 2017, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia said that based on recent studies, it is possible that the area where MH370 was searched is incorrect.
David Griffin at CSIRO, speaking at a national maritime conference in Darwin, Australia, said: “We think we know quite precisely where MH370 is.”
Griffin said the new study is based on where and when a piece of a suspected MH370 wing fragment washed up on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, as well as another piece discovered in Tanzania.
“There’s a strong current along the 7th arc at the 35th parallel south so we think MH370 has crashed and that current has shifted to the northwest,” Griffin said.
This study took into account ocean currents since the time MH370 is believed to have crashed, as well as satellite images to calculate the depth of the sea at the centimeter level and a map of the sea floor.
However, even when the location was localized, scientists still had to look at an area of up to 25,000 square kilometers.