"The pilot appears to have had knowledge of the operating hours of Sabang and Lhokseumawe radar and that on a weekend night, in times of little international tension the radar systems would not be up and running." "The flight path follows the coast of Sumatra and flies close to Banda Aceh Airport. "The pilot of MH370 generally avoided official flight routes from 18:00 UTC (2:00am AWST) onwards but used waypoints to navigate on unofficial flight paths in the Malacca Strait, around Sumatra and across the Southern Indian Ocean," he said. The findings are largely consistent with previous analysis of the plane's satellite data and of the location of floating debris from the plane, which also suggest it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.īut Mr Godfrey's research suggests the pilot had changed direction and speed multiple times to avoid giving any clear idea where he was heading. His analysis points to a crash site at 34.5 degrees south, south-west of Western Australia, near the imaginary line known as the "seventh arc" - which shows possible locations of the plane at the time of its seventh satellite "ping". Mr Godfrey - seen as one of the world's leading investigators of the MH 370 disappearance - invented his own aviation tracking system known as GDTAAA (Global Detection and Tracking any Aircraft Anywhere Anytime) to analyse these WSPR signals every two minutes over the specific period that MH370 was in the air, in March 2014. He says these radio signals can be used in conjunction with data sent from the Malaysian Airlines plane to Britain's Inmarsat satellite, to help solve the mystery of MH370. "WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams, but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe," Mr Godfrey says. He says any plane - commercial, private or military - will set off invisible "electronic tripwires" as they cross these signals, which can then be used to trace their location. Instead, the pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had made numerous turns and changed speed to avoid commercial flight routes and leave "false trails" on unofficial routes around the western end of Indonesia and the Indian Ocean.Īerospace engineer Richard Godfrey - a member of the so-called Independent Group of Scientists set up to try to solve the MH370 mystery - says global tracking of aircraft is possible using weak radio signals that cover the globe, known as WSPR, or the "weak signal propagation report" network. The film also offers the government’s take and even features an interview with Jeff Wise, a science journalist and author of The Plane That Wasn’t There: Why We Haven’t Found MH370.The research indicates the Boeing 777 crashed around 34.5 degrees south, which aligns with previous searches for the plane, but that its flight path was "significantly different" from earlier theories based on satellite data. Image credit: Screenshot/Netflix trailer/MH370: The Plane That Disappeared ‘MH370: The Plane That Disappeared’: Why you should watch it and when will it premiere?Īs mentioned above, perhaps the most important aspect of the documentary has to do with the questions raised by the family members of the victims. The Netflix documentary will talk about these conspiracy theories, ask important questions, give logical interpretations of the sequence of events and, most importantly, offer the valuable perspective of the family members affected by the tragedy. As many questions remain unanswered even nine years after the incident, there have been many controversial conspiracy theories that have popped up. MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, directed by Louise Malkinson, will attempt to answer the biggest questions surrounding the ill-fated flight’s disappearance in 2014. Image credits: Twitter/Netflix What is the story behind the disappearance of Flight MH370? “Someone knows the answer - the question is who”, asserts the hard-hitting trailer of the documentary which also features family members, scientists and investigative journalists trying to unravel the mystery behind the flight’s disappearance. Well, Netflix is trying to answer that difficult question with its new documentary titled ‘ MH370: The Plane That Disappeared‘. So, the question arises: What really happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Even today, nine years after the disappearance, no one can explain how or why the plane disappeared. Despite extensive search and rescue operations involving multiple countries, no signs of wreckage or survivors were found. The flight, which had 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, mysteriously vanished over the South China Sea shortly after takeoff. In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing Capital International Airport in China.
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