New efforts to find the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are set to begin, with one engineer sharing his theory on how to pinpoint the location of the missing plane

An aeroplane expert and engineer has revealed exactly how missing flight MH370 would have met its demise

An aeroplane expert and engineer has revealed exactly how missing flight MH370 would have met its demise(Image: Ismail Hammad / Provided)

An aircraft engineer thinks he has discovered a critical clue that has been missed, which could solve the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, as new efforts to locate the plane are about to start. The Boeing 777, with 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers on board, vanished over the Indian Ocean in 2014 after leaving Kuala Lumpur for a routine flight to Beijing.

The plane disappeared from radar while over the Andaman Sea, shortly after deviating from its planned route. Satellites continued to receive hourly signals from the aircraft – indicating it was still in the air – for several hours until it is presumed to have run out of fuel.

The aircraft remains at the center of aviation’s greatest mystery and is the deadliest single incident involving a missing plane. American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, which found Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance in 2022, is gearing up for another attempt to find the wreckage, following an unsuccessful search in 2018.

Ismail Hamad, chief engineer at Egypt Air, said that while he doesn’t rule out the possibility of a ‘perfect crime’ with the Malaysian plane ending up in one of the lakes or abandoned airstrips scattered around the Philippine islands, there is one aspect he believes is being overlooked.

Jiang Hui's mother was a passenger on the flight

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Jiang Hui’s mother was a passenger on the flight(Image: PEDRO PARDO, AFP via Getty Images)

Hamad has called on the Malaysian government to halt their persistent search operations off Perth’s coast and “do the right positive thing by taking into account the deviation of the plane’s magnetic compass to estimate the intended search area first.”, reports the Express.

He believes a hijacker may have touched down the plane on one of the remote airstrips or lakes scattered throughout the sprawling Philippine archipelago, which consists of 7,641 islands.

Malaysia’s Transport Ministry has confirmed that Ocean Infinity has restarted an on-and-off 55-day search mission. An Armada 86 05 search vessel has arrived at a specified search location carrying two autonomous underwater vehicles.

Hamad insists the aircraft’s location can be pinpointed by analyzing “the deviation between the magnetic north of the aircraft compass and the true north of the earth.”

He elaborated: “That deviation value results of a continuous seven flight hours starting from Malacca straight till the fallen point of the aircraft will trace a logical arc southward into the Indian Ocean, but not in the same previously searched and very deep area offshore of Perth or in the depths of 6000m off Broken Ridge.”

The victims' families are still without answers

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The victims’ families are still without answers(Image: GREG BAKER, AFP via Getty Images)

Instead, Hamad believes the aircraft will be located in a “corridor just offshore and near the western Australian coast, a relatively shallow zone where debris could be near the ocean surface or by sonar-detectable with existing technology.”

He added: “This is not guesswork, but it is an engineering inevitability if we follow the aviation fundamentals.”

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Speaking about the wreckage found near the East Coast of Africa, Hamad observed: “We do not find signs of damage, which indicates the crashing of the plane with the turbulent surface of the ocean water and the subsequent explosion of the aircraft due to saturating its tanks with fuel vapour.

“We cannot find on these pieces the damages of dents, sooty appearance or dark discolouration due to the explosion of the tanks. I believe that the compass drift value in combination with the fuel consumption equations and the data of Inmarsat satellite handshakes will narrow the official search arc area to nearly 10 per cent of the current radius.

“Relying solely on Inmarsat satellite Signals has trapped the investigators in a decade of confusion. If we assume the aircraft completed its path to the south relying just on the aircraft’s gyro-stabilised magnetic compass for heading deliberately without an autopilot system to evade detection, we will find its final resting place.”