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Topics: China, Travel, World News
Britt Jones
Topics: China, Travel, World News
There could be hope for the families of those onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after a tech expert came out to say he thinks he’s found the wreckage.
After the tragic news broke that the infamous airplane had disappeared off the face of the earth, many have attempted to find it for themselves or theorise what could have happened to it.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was an international passenger flight that disappeared from air traffic control radars on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to Beijing Capital International Airport in China.
It never made it to its planned destination.
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According to air traffic controllers, on the day of its disappearance, the last contact it made with the pilot was 38 minutes after take-off when the flight was flying over the South China Sea.
However, it would then go dark on ATC's secondary surveillance radar screens minutes later. But Malaysian military's primary radar system could see it for another hour, as it veered off its planned flight path.
It was then never seen or heard from again, nor the 239 people on board.
But now, a tech expert has come out to claim that he may have found it on Google Maps.
Even after extensive search operations for the plane by Malaysia, Australia, and China all turned up empty in 2017, this could mean so much to those who lost their loved ones.
But how did this expert find it?
Tech expert Ian Wilson said he thinks he’s found the wreckage of the plane in the Cambodian jungle on Google Maps, telling The Mirror: “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.
“Measuring the Google sighting, you’re looking at around 69 meters, 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.”
If Wilson is correct in where he believes it is, it could mean amazing things for the families of those who went missing.
Earlier this year, the Malaysian transport minister Anthony Loke vowed to renew the search for the missing plane at an event to mark the tragedy’s anniversary.
Loke said: “The Malaysian government is committed to the search, and the search must go on.”
Ocean Infinity, a company who had attempted twice previously to locate the plan had made a new offer on a ‘no find, no fee’ basis to secure the flight.