Vincent Lyne, a researcher from the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, claims to have identified the location of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The aircraft vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, and Lyne believes it was intentionally flown into a deep chasm in the Indian Ocean known as Broken Ridge. According to Lyne, the disappearance was not accidental but the result of careful planning.
Lyne's research, shared in a LinkedIn article, places the aircraft near the intersection of Penang airport’s longitude and a flight route found on the pilot’s home simulator. Despite this data being previously dismissed by the FBI and other officials, Lyne has pinpointed a 6,000-meter deep hole at the eastern end of Broken Ridge as the probable crash site. He describes this area as a perilous ocean environment with steep, narrow sides and deep sediment-filled pits.
Contrary to earlier theories of a sudden plunge due to fuel exhaustion, Lyne proposes that MH370 underwent a "controlled ditching," similar to Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's 2009 Hudson River landing. Damage to the plane’s wings, flaps, and flaperons supports this theory, which also aligns with previous findings by former Chief Canadian Air-crash Investigator Larry Vance that suggested a controlled ditching.
Lyne’s research, he claims, validates Vance’s analysis and shifts the narrative of MH370’s disappearance. He believes that without the plane’s right wing hitting a wave and frequent satellite communications detected by Inmarsat, the aircraft’s location might have remained unknown.
Confident in his findings, Lyne asserts that "the MH370 mystery has been fully solved by science." He critiques previous search efforts, attributing their failure to incorrect assumptions about the aircraft's final moments and location.
Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite an extensive search covering 120,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, only a few pieces of debris have been found, and the search was officially suspended in January 2017.
Lyne has called on authorities and search organizations to investigate the area he has identified. However, he notes that the decision to conduct further searches is ultimately up to the relevant authorities.
Experts have acknowledged Lyne’s fresh perspective on the MH370 mystery. While Lyne’s theory remains to be formally validated by the scientific community and aviation authorities, he remains hopeful that his research will resolve the decade-long enigma.
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