KUALA LUMPUR: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) might be consulted after it has reviewed paperwork produced by a British aeronautical engineer asserting new leads on the placement of MH370, says the Transport Ministry.
The ministry stated the ATSB was reviewing paperwork produced by Richard Godfrey regarding new leads on the plane’s location.
“The ministry will be consulting the ATSB following the conclusion of its review.
“Any further discussions will be held with the governments of China and Australia based on credible evidence that can lead to results in any new search for the missing aircraft,” it stated in an announcement yesterday.
The ministry added that related to the ATSB, it couldn’t at this second touch upon the validity of Godfrey’s assessments with out third get together evaluation and verification.
“The ministry remains sympathetic to the family members of the victims and is also of the view that careful consideration and study should be given to any new credible evidence which may be put forth to identify the location of the aircraft,” it stated.
According to the BBC, Godfrey believed he had managed to discover the airplane’s last location.
In December final yr, he claimed that the airplane crashed into the Indian Ocean 2,000km west of Perth, Australia.
The BBC report stated Godfrey had mixed totally different information units from separate domains.
He instructed the BBC that nobody had the thought earlier than to mix Inmarsat satellite tv for pc information with Boeing efficiency information, oceanographic floating particles drift information, and WSPR web information.
Godfrey claimed that the wreckage may very well be behind a cliff or in a canyon on the ocean ground.
“You need maybe three or four passes before you start to pick things up. The wreckage could lie as far as 4,000m deep,” he had instructed the British broadcaster.
The BBC famous that Godfrey was a founding member of the MH370 Independent Group.
In a separate interview with Australian breakfast present programme Sunrise, Godfrey additionally stated that he was “very confident” he had discovered the airplane.
He additionally alleged that the crashed airplane was an “act of terrorism and hijacking” however was open to different theories if the authorities shared extra data.
In 2014, MH370 was on its means from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 individuals on board when it disappeared from radar.
The seek for the lacking airplane has to this point been futile.
An earlier search led by Australia within the Indian Ocean failed to find the lacking airplane, inflicting it to be known as off in January 2017.
US exploration agency Ocean Infinity additionally resumed the search in 2018 on a “no find, no fee” foundation however was additionally unsuccessful.
