MH370 search expert Richard Godfrey recently shared on his personal blog that some MH370 analysts are arguing about the plane being near arcade No. 6 on March 8, 2014 at 00:11:00 UTC (international Coordination Day) and again being near arcade No. 7 at 00:19:21 UTC and 00:19:37 UTC, as reported by Inmarsat satellite data.
"I have been scanning all unusual WSPRnet linkages between 00:10 UTC and 00:30 UTC throughout the entire area around Arcs 6 and 7 from 7.5 degrees South latitude to 42.5 degrees South longitude using my latest fully automatic passive radar system," MH370 search expert emphasized.
MH370 cannot fall further north, so the plane could be found in Java, noted Richard Godfrey. MH370 cannot fall further south, as Boeing says the maximum fuel range is just slightly beyond 40 degrees South latitude."
MH370 search expert Richard Godfrey looks to see if there are any unusual WSPRnet linkages intersecting about 15 km northwest of Rainforest No. 6 in the Indian Ocean from 00:10 UTC as well as between Rainforest No. 6 and Rainforest No. 7 at 00:12 UTC, 00:15 UTC, 00:15 UTC or just outside Rainforest No. 7 at 00:20 UTC as well as the area further from Rainforest No. 7 until 00:30 UTC.
Godfrey then determined whether "millions of unusual WSPRnet linkages matched the ground speed of a Boeing 777 at around 500 knots during that time frame."
The survey results show that there are 7 locations that meet the criteria. Mr. Godfrey pointed out that the location with the highest score is suitable for the WSPRnet-based route from Kuala Lumpur to the Indian Ocean.
According to this data, the plane crash location was 29.178850 degrees South latitude - 99.85352 degrees East longitude, which is 39.3 nautical miles southeast of arc 7, he said.
Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 with 239 passengers and crew members disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China on March 8, 2024.
On March 24, 2014, then- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that flight MH370 may have crashed in the Indian Ocean. In July 2015, a piece of debris was confirmed to be part of MH370 that washed up on the west coast of the Indian Ocean. Several other pieces of the plane have been recovered since then.
Several countries have expanded the search for MH370 for three years, but officially stopped in 2017. A US private company, Ocean Infinity, conducted its own search in 2018.
Recently, with many new evidences on the location of missing MH370, calls for continued search for MH370 have been raised. Malaysia is expected to soon accept Ocean Infinity's call for a new search for MH370 on a non-founded, no-cussion basis, and the search is likely to begin later this year with a fully automated search vehicle.
