The UK expert claimed to have discovered the plane’s hiding spot
A tech expert claimed to have ‘found’ the missing MH370 aircraft after a search on Google Maps.
On 8 March 2014, the Malaysian Airlines flight took off from Kuala Lumpar on route to Beijing.
However, the plane shortly completely disappeared from air traffic control radars – and the 239 passengers and crew on board were never seen or head of again.
It’s arguably one of the biggest ever unsolved aviation mysteries to this day, with Netflix and the BBC among those making documentaries looking into it.
There has been several pieces of wreckage from the MH370 aircraft found since but formal investigations have failed to answer the question of just what happened.
Although, someone has claimed to have ‘solved’ it as they shared the ‘perfect hiding place’ – but this is after tech expert Ian Wilson’s ‘findings’ using Google Maps.
While some experts have suggested that the plane could have been hijacked and others have even suggested the aircraft was shot down by the US Air Force, Wilson has a differing view to many.
It’s been over a decade since the plane disappeared. ( Supian Ahmad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The UK tech expert instead suggested the remains of the plane are lying deep in ‘a jungle in Cambodia’.
He’d previously told the Mirror: “Measuring the Google sighting, you’re looking at around 69 metres, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane. It’s just slightly bigger, but there’s a gap that would probably account for that.
“I was on there [Google Earth], a few hours here, a few hours there. If you added it up I spent hours searching for places a plane could have gone down. And in the end, as you can see the place where the plane is. It is literally the greenest, darkest part you can see.”
Despite a 1,500-page report being released by investigators, it was still decided that they couldn’t be sure what happened to flight MH370.
The mystery officially remains unsolved. (Mat Zain/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
It has previously been speculated in a bit of a conspiracy theory that the whole thing was planned.
The landing gear door of MH370 was found at the home of a Madagascan fisherman in November – some eight-and-a-half years after the plane went missing.
However, Richard Godfrey, a British engineer, and Blaine Gibson, an American MH370 wreckage hunter, believes that the gear proves the plane was crashed deliberately.
The experts think that the damage to the landing gear door – known as a trunnion door – suggests that one of the pilot’s lowered the aircraft’s wheels in the final seconds of the flight, subsequently pointing to criminal intent.
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