An aviation engineer announced the discovery of an important missing piece, which could help decode the "perfect crime" related to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, just as new efforts to find the wreckage of the plane are being resumed.
To date, MH370 remains the biggest mystery in aviation history and the most casualty-causing incident related to a plane that disappeared without a trace.
Mr. Ismail Hamad - chief engineer of Egypt Air - shared with Mirror that, although not excluding the possibility that the MH370 disappearance was a "perfect crime" and the Malaysia Airlines plane landed in a lake or some abandoned runway scattered on the islands of the Philippines, there is still an important factor being overlooked.
According to Mr. Hamad, the Malaysian government should abandon the persistent focus on the offshore area of Perth, Australia, and "do the right thing and be more proactive by taking into account the deviation of the ladder from the plane to re-estimate the expected search area".
According to Mr. Hamad, the position of the aircraft can be predicted by analyzing "the deviation between the north magnetic direction of the aircraft ladder and the actual north direction of the Earth".
This deviation value, formed during 7 hours of continuous flight from the Malacca area to the plane's landing point, will draw a reasonable arc downwards to the southern Indian Ocean, but does not coincide with the area previously searched - which is very deep - off the coast of Perth or the 6,000m deep sea near Broken Ridge" - he said.
Instead, Mr. Hamad believes that the plane will be found in a "gateway located just offshore and near the west coast of Australia, a relatively shallow area where debris may be near the sea surface or may be detected by sonar using existing technology".
He emphasized: "This is not speculation, but technically inevitable if we adhere to the basic principles of aviation.
This MH370 research expert also pointed out that MH370 debris once discovered along the east coast of Africa showed no signs of damage.
This shows that the plane collided with the sea surface in turbulent conditions and then exploded due to fuel tanks saturated with fuel vapor.
On the MH370 debris, there are no dentures, no smoke marks or darkening due to the fuel tank explosion. I believe that combining the drift value of the ladder with fuel consumption equations and data from Inmarsat satellites will narrow the official search area to about 10% compared to the current radius," he said.
The chief engineer of Egypt Air believes that relying solely on Inmarsat satellite signals has confused MH370 investigators for decades.
If we assume the plane flew south just based on a magnetic levitation rod stabilized by a gyroscope, deliberately not using the automatic steering system to avoid being detected, we will find the final resting place of MH370" - he emphasized.
