New MH370 data analysis is expected to be released in the coming months, 10 years after a Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared.
The search for MH370 - which vanished around 38 minutes after leaving Kuala Lumpur airport in southern Malaysia in 2014 - has been investigated by Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Captain Patrick Blelly.
Following the disaster, governments and private companies have carried out searches but the plane has never been found and the fate of its 227 passengers and 12 crew members remains unknown.
The results of the analysis of new radar data collected by the retired Programme Manager on Air Traffic Management and the former A330/A340 Captain are set to be published as part of efforts to locate the aircraft.
The search for MH370 - which vanished around 38 minutes after leaving Kuala Lumpur airport in southern Malaysia in 2014 - has been investigated by Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Captain Patrick Blelly
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According to their in-depth investigations, the flight took “a sad journey” to remain as “invisible as possible” and ended in the southeast of the Indian Ocean.
Marchand told GB News: “The aircraft followed the path of a sad journey with an experimented pilot who took over the aircraft and had a well thought plan to stay as much invisible as possible and ending finally in the southeast of the Indian Ocean.
“And the indications, it's most probably with the final ditching, leaving very few debris again not to be found after the hijacking and the re-routing.
“So basically, the study of all the details and the evidences left by the aircraft showed that it followed a very well thought in advanced plan and clearly with a lot of success.”
Blelly added: “We do not accuse anybody. We say only the person in command lead this aircraft into the South Indian Ocean.
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“We do not accuse anybody. We believe it was qualified person on this aircraft, Boeing 777 who lead this aircraft into the ocean.”
Discussing the new data – which is set to be published ahead of the summer - the experts explained that it will “increase the understanding but not change the reconstructed trajectory”.
“So for the time being we have to make sure that the source is OK and that the data is really what it is supposed to be,” Marchand said.
Their latest MH370 study complies both aeronautical, technical and operational perspectives and concludes that the plane’s transponder was turned off and the aircraft made a U-turn away from the flight path.
The team believes it is likely the aircraft was then intentionally ditched.
The experts hope a new search will be carried “this year maybe next year” but Malaysian authorities must approve the investigation.
Blelly said: “We do expect this year, if the Malaysian authorities agree, but we are not sure at this time.
Discussing the new data – which is set to be published ahead of the summer - the experts explained that it will 'increase the understanding but not change the reconstructed trajectory'
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“We're waiting for the 10th anniversary and maybe family associations and maybe some journalists in Malaysia would try to help the Malaysian government to make a decision.”
Ocean Infinity carried out a search for the wreck in 2018.
The said it was interested in a restarting its search on a “no find, no fee” basis.
Marchand added: “It's an interesting question but we are not the best place to answer in the sense that we are not in the decision-making process.
“We are just offering these decision makers the results of our analysis saying, here is a good area to search and we are convinced it's a good area according to our analysis.
“Now to convince the authorities is a very delicate question. There is a converging element which is Ocean Infinity who wants to go there and to make this a windowpane exercise to show their new capabilities, which is positive, but will it be sufficient? That's the question.