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They believe the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean near coordinates S34.2342 and E93.7875.
Victor Iannello says that “there is more probability than the probability” that the missing Boeing 777 aircraft is within 100 nautical miles of the potential impact site, AirLive reported.
The plane disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board, flying from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing.
Its final resting place has never been discovered, even after a four-year, $ 200 million search over an area of more than 120,000 square kilometers, which ended in 2018.
One of the biggest theories behind the flight’s disappearance is the murder-suicide of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
The 53-year-old was one of the airline’s top captains.
“Good evening. Malaysia three-seven-zero” were his last words to air traffic control before the plane left the radar at 1.21 am.
Satellite data showed the plane deviating from its course, making a series of unscheduled turns over the Straits of Malacca and then into the southern Indian Ocean.
Two formal investigations led by Australia and Malaysia failed to uncover what happened on the flight.
The Malaysian government report said there was no evidence that the “competent” Zaharie had hijacked his own plane.
In 2016, Christchurch man Paul Weeks, who was traveling on flight MH370, was officially announced dead, an Australian court ruled.
The Perth-based father of two was one of 239 passengers on board the Malaysian Airlines flight. Weeks, a former Christchurch engineer, was traveling to Mongolia for his new job in Transwest Mongolia.
He was one of two New Zealanders on the flight. The other was Ximin Wang, 50, from Auckland.
In February, a former pilot with more than 50 years of experience said he was so sure he knew where the debris was that he would stake his house on it.
Byron Bailey has been saying for years that researchers have been looking in the wrong place and should be looking south of the search site.
To be precise: latitude 39’10 S, 88’18E.
“All the evidence points to the fact that it was discarded,” he said.
“I’m sure the captain was trying to dispose of the aircraft as far south and remote as possible, leaving as little debris as possible that could sink.”
Bailey said the search took place about 30 kilometers from where he thought the remains were.
“If I’m wrong, it probably means that the plane has been taken over by aliens or is in a hangar somewhere in Kazakhstan,” he said.
“I’m so sure. I’d bet my house on that. As far as I’m concerned, it’s game over, we know where it is, we’ve always known where it is.”
