MH370: Latest search efforts will deliver answers as search begins off WA coast

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

© Facebook/Blaine Gibson Blaine Gibson has spent much of his spare time over the past three years searching for debris which has helped investigators. Blaine Gibson, the self-styled wreck hunter searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, "firmly" believes the plane will be found — just as a new private search is about to begin in the southern Indian Ocean.

Mr Gibson has spent much of his spare time over the past three years searching for debris from the missing plane, on remote Indian Ocean islands, the east coast of Africa and even in Australia.

What he has found — and indeed not found — may help solve the mystery, almost four years after MH370 disappeared from radar on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Mr Gibson, along with local islanders and fishermen, have together found at least 20 pieces of wreckage confirmed or deemed likely to have come from the missing plane, among them the right wing flaperon, right aft flap and right outboard flap.

It was this debris that helped the CSIRO pinpoint a new search zone around 35 degrees south — just north of the area already searched — by mapping each piece of debris and examining Indian Ocean currents to track where they had come from.

Oceanographers believe that if the plane had crashed further south debris should have come to Australia.

But Mr Gibson, who searched parts of the West Australian coast and in Tasmania, says he never found a thing.

"I looked on the beaches of Western Australia — found nothing," he said.

"I searched for debris in Tasmania. I met people who had searched for debris in Tasmania, and none of us found anything.

"And the fact no debris has in all this time been found in Australia and Tasmania [yet many pieces were found in Africa] prove the crash site is north of 36 degrees south — north of where they were previously looking."

Most of what Mr Gibson has found in Madagascar, Mozambique, and on islands off the east coast of Africa, have been personal items — bags, shoes, bits of clothing — none of which have been confirmed as coming from Flight MH370.

But he says some of them match bags and shoes seen on CCTV footage of people when they boarded the plane in Kuala Lumpur.

"None of them can be positively traced to the plane. There are no luggage tags, passports, ID cards, anything like that. However, some of them match pictures from the CCTV video of passengers getting on the plane," Mr Gibson said.

© Aircrash Support Group Australia/Blaine Gibson A laptop case, recently washed up on Raike beach in Madagascar. The personal effects were long ago handed to Malaysian authorities who have never confirmed any as being from MH370.

But an Australian group representing the families of air crash victims has uploaded photographs of personal belongings found since 2015 in Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius and other islands, in the hope that relatives will recognise them.

© Aircrash Support Group Australia/Blaine Gibson A possible camera case found on Riake Beach. 'A very significant piece of debris'

Mr Blaine says the item that has caused him the most heartbreak was a television monitor he found on Riake Beach in Madagascar, that had clearly come from the back of an airplane seat.

"That is the one that touched me the most. That is the one that brought tears to my eyes and broke my heart. Because that's the case around the TV screen on the back of the seat in front of you … that everyone sees, that everyone recognises."

Mr Blaine says the TV monitor — if it was from MH370 — is a "very significant piece of debris" because it disproves the theory that the plane glided intact into the ocean.

"It proves that the fuselage, the main cabin, shattered on impact. The fuselage is not as some people claim intact under water. It shattered on impact.

"Many pieces of it have been recovered, but the most graphic, the most emotional, is that monitor case from the back of the seat in front."

Despite his years of searching for answers, Mr Gibson says he does not have a personal theory as to why flight MH370 disappeared.

But he says the range and amount of debris recovered disproves the theory that the pilot deliberately crashed the plane in a murder suicide.

"The original theory to explain away Malaysia 370 forever was the 'pilot suicide controlled glide ditching theory' — that somehow the pilot decided that he was going to kill everybody on the plane, ditch the plane, sink it intact and create a big mystery," he said.

"I can say categorically, absolutely, that did not happen. That theory is simply disproven by the evidence: one, we know that the main cabin, the fuselage is not intact under water. It shattered on impact.

"Also, the wing flap … was retracted. It was not deployed. It has been examined by Boeing, examined by the ATSB, and they have concluded that it was in a retracted mid-flight position, not in a landing position.

"So there was no controlled glide, intact ditching. That did not happen."

New search to commence off WA coast

A private Texas based company Ocean Infinity will begin a 90 day search of the proposed new search zone, beginning as early as tomorrow.

It will use eight state-of-the-art underwater drones to scan the ocean floor, which in areas is almost 5km deep

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[The Diplomat]

Hopefully will be found soon and give comfort to the families.

I don't understand one thing; Inmarsat was tracking the plane through pings after the aircraft was lost on primary and secondary radar. To my knowledge these pings were being sent out every fourth or fifth minute, so how come an estimated location was not known after the information from Inmarsat was given to the ATSB. I do understand that several factors will effect the location of the aircraft, such as if the plane ran out of fuel and it was a controlled ditching then the plane would have an extra distance which it could travel through gliding and that could be many miles because satellite did not pick up altitude readings and if the plane is under water then trade winds and water currents could move the debris.

The MAF was tracking the aircraft for a while after it went missing on secondary radar and the MAF declared the plane as a rough aircraft however no MAF fighters were scrambled, isn't that against their SOP, it's probably because they don't expect a 9/11 type attack to happen there however it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Arsalan 345]

I think inmarsat data was a basic assumption that the plane didn't make another turn after it was last seen by military radar.i think entire inmarsat analysis is based on this assumption.also theories related to pilot suicide are absurd and boring.they doesn't make any sense.i don't think that the plane is near Australian coast.they are saying that it is towards north.i don't think so.there is also someone who saw a bright light over maldives.i don't understand this as well.i personally believe that plane hit the ocean and it broke into million pieces.problem is where are those pieces? Some of the stuff found near Madagascar and reunion island shows that plane indeed crashed with full velocity or might be almost vertical but where are those thousand pieces? I think plane ended up somewhere else which we can't even think.i think the place where plane crashed is not used by companies as shipping lanes and there might be no traffic on that particular patch of ocean and this area might be a patch of ocean which is completely ignored in the search area.may be it's not in seventh arc and I don't think that it ended up towards North to the search zone.i think it's somewhere else but we can find it.it is in the ocean.

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

There is a deep trench off the Perth coast so that will make it even more difficult.