Amateur investigators following the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 missing believe they have detected unusual activity from search ships searching the Indian Ocean.
On December 30, 2025, the latest MH370 search was resumed, deployed by marine robot company Ocean Infinity in coordination with the Malaysian Government.
The search teams are expected to spend about 55 days surveying about 15,000km2 off the coast of Australia, deploying specialized equipment including underwater unmanned aerial vehicles and submarines.
To date, both Ocean Infinity and Malaysian officials have not released any official updates on the search progress.
But on January 5, French-language YouTube channel Gilchecksix posted a video highlighting what the creator described as strange search patterns from one of the MH370 search teams' ships.
The owner of the video explained that, in the previous 24 hours, the ship was checking a very specific area within a wider search radius. According to the author, this is "quite unusual" for most search and rescue ships.
The owner of this YouTube channel also believes that the above move may mean that MH370 search teams have found an area they want to investigate further and have returned to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to re-examine that area more carefully.
YouTube channel added that this location is also the area where investigator Jean-Luc Marchand believes MH370 may have crashed into the sea.
However, the MH370 investigator emphasized that these are just speculations based on his findings and no information has been confirmed by Ocean Infinity or the Malaysian Government.
The latest comments on the MH370 search were made after Egypt Air chief engineer Ismail Hamad assessed the potential location where MH370 may have crashed. He believes MH370 is located in "an offshore corridor and near the west coast of Australia".
This is not speculation, but technically inevitable if we adhere to the basic principles of aviation" - Mr. Hamad declared.
Mr. Ismail Hamad also believes that MH370's wreckage can be found by monitoring "the magnetic northward deviation between the plane's ladder and the actual northward direction of the Earth".
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing International Airport, China.
On the missing flight were 239 people, including 227 passengers and 12 crew members, all of whom are believed to have died. The cause of MH370's disappearance has not yet been determined, and the incident is considered the biggest mystery in aviation history.
Many searches for MH370 have been launched in recent years, but investigators have only been able to identify a common area where the plane may have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
