It has been almost a decade since the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. One of the most enduring aviation mysteries of this century, the aircraft vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 people onboard in 2014. Several theories, extensive search operations and widespread speculations have failed over the years and the plane’s location has remained elusive until now. However, an Australian scientist has highlighted a new theory on the age-old disappearance of the aircraft and has claimed the potential “perfect hiding place” of the same.

In a LinkedIn post that has gone viral, Tasmanian researcher Vincent Lyne has come forward claiming that he believes he has found the place where the plane MH370 is hiding. He suggested in his post that the plane had deliberately crashed into the deep Broken Ridge - a 20,000-foot-deep hole in the Indian Ocean.

Researcher Vincent Lyne Claimed the ‘Hiding Place’ of MH370

“This work changes the narrative of MH370’s disappearance from one of no-blame, fuel-starvation at the 7th arc, high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot almost executing an incredible perfect-disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean,” Lyne wrote in his LinkedIn post.

He added, “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.”

Mr Lyne, who works at the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies further suggested that the aircraft’s wings, flaps, and flaperon were involved in a “controlled ditching,” similar to the emergency landing by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger on the Hudson River in 2009. Notably, the controlled manoeuvre, that he mentioned, defied the previous sayings that the plane crashed due to fuel exhaustion and high-speed impact.

“This justifies beyond doubt the original claim, based on brilliant, skilled, and very careful debris-damage analyses, by decorated ex-Chief Canadian Air-crash Investigator Larry Vance, that MH370 had fuel and running engines when it underwent a masterful 'controlled ditching' and not a high-speed fuel-starved crash,” Lyne wrote.

Moreover, Lyne has stated that the plane’s resting location is where the longitude of Penang Airport intersects with the flight path of the Pilot-in-Command's home simulator, a detail that was discarded by the FBI as “irrelevant.” He described the area as “a very deep 6000m hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a very rugged and dangerous ocean environment renowned for its wild fisheries and new deep-water species.”

He further stated that the new location should be the area of “high priority” for search efforts, although the decision to resume the work lay with the officials and search companies. He concluded his post by saying, “In short, the MH370 mystery has been comprehensively solved in science!"

The mysterious disappearance of MH370 has left an indelible mark on aviation history, the recent claim by Vincent Lyne shows a fine torch of light in the unsolved search operation. Although his findings are still subject to further scrutiny, they provide a ray of hope in uncovering the aircraft’s resting place, putting an end to the decade-long aviation mystery.

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