Scientist claims breakthrough in MH370 mystery, awaits confirmation

Flight MH370 went missing on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board. All were presumed dead.

This event led to the most expensive search in aviation history, with multiple efforts to determine the location of the crash. Although pieces of the wreckage were found, the central part of the plane has not yet been located.

According to research by Vincent Lyne, a scientist from the University of Tasmania, the damage to the plane’s wings is similar to that which occurred during Captain Chesley Sullenberger's emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009.

While one popular theory suggests that MH370 went into an uncontrolled descent after running out of fuel, Lyne suggests that the plane’s descent into the water was controlled, and the pilots took action to mitigate the landing.

This work changes the narrative of MH370’s disappearance. In fact, it would have worked were it not for MH370 ploughing its right wing through a wave, and the discovery of the regular interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat — a brilliant discovery also announced in the Journal of Navigation - the scientist wrote on LinkedIn.

However, Lyne is not the first to claim to have "solved" the mystery of the missing plane. Over the past decade, many hypotheses suggesting different scenarios have appeared.

One expert claimed that the plane crashed in the Cambodian jungle; others suggested that MH370 was hijacked or shot down. Another more controversial theory indicated that the aircraft was deliberately directed into a so-called dead zone to disappear from radars.

Despite many years of searches and analyses, the mystery of MH370 remains unsolved. Although new theories shed a glimmer of hope for uncovering the truth, a full explanation of what happened to flight MH370 will be possible only when the main wreckage of the plane is found.