A passenger photographs a Malaysia Airlines plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in 2014
Photo: Portal/Damir Sagolj
A former naval officer who spent 12 months searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 believes the plane deliberately crashed in an unexplored area deep in the Indian Ocean.
Peter Waringa specialist in surveying and mapping seabeds, was tasked with surveying an area approximately 56 miles (92 km) wide and 400 miles (644 km) long, identified by experts using satellite data and flight simulations.
For the former officer, MH370 intentionally crashed into an area known as the Geelvinck Fracture Zone, almost a thousand kilometers from the seventh arc.
In an interview with The Sun, Waring said he believes the theory put forward by Simon Hardy, a Boeing 777 expert, who claims this Zaharie Ahad ShahThe pilot of the plane was “suicidal” and steered the plane towards the Geelvinck Fracture Zone.
Shah, who is missing along with all other passengers on the plane and is presumed dead, was accused of plotting murder due to personal problems.
“I think we [a equipe de busca] We may have been wrong to assume that the plane was not under control at the end. If the airship was still under control in the seventh arc, the size of the Indian Ocean they could reach would be so unimaginably large that it would be impossible to search all of it. “It was a lot of wasted time looking in the wrong areas,” Waring told the British portal.
For him, the location where the plane actually crashed would never have been searched by the authorities and, according to Waring, this was proven because there was no chance that the experts would have missed the wreckage during their search.
The search was so detailed that the team found the remains of two Victorian shipwrecks but nothing of MH370. The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people.
According to previous investigation data, the plane changed course less than an hour into the flight and shortly afterwards crashed into the sea near an area known as the seventh arc.
The plane's disappearance remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
Source: Redação Terra