Two aviation experts hypothesize a new search area where MH370 may have crashed (Photo: News.com.au).
The mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could be solved in "a few days" if a new search is launched based on the two men's hypothesis, experts said.
Flight MH370 disappeared about 38 minutes after leaving Kuala Lumpur airport in southern Malaysia en route to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014.
Despite intensive searches by the government and private companies, the plane has never been found and the fate of nearly 240 missing people remains a big question mark.
Aviation experts Jean-Luc Marchand and Patrick Blelly have called for a new search based on their theory of where the plane might have crashed.
The area the two experts suggested had not been searched before and they estimated it would take about 10 days to scan the sea. They also did not reveal details about the exact location of the area where they suspect MH370 may have gone down.
"We have proposed that the area is small and the search will take 10 days. It could be a quick search. Until the wreckage of MH370 is found, no one knows (what happened). However, this is a reasonable trajectory," said Mr Marchand.
The two men have called on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the Malaysian government and seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity to begin a new search.
Last year, Ocean Infinity expressed its desire to restart the search for MH370 and if it was not found, it would not charge a fee.
Mr Marchand suggested that Ocean Infinity could use the company's new unmanned underwater search technology to find clues about MH370.
They said the plane's transponder was turned off and the change in its planned flight path suggested the plane was not on autopilot when it went missing, suggesting the pilot had interfered with MH370's flight path.
Crucially, they believe the plane veered off course in a remote area between the airspaces of Thailand, Indonesia, India and Malaysia, leading the two experts to believe the pilot was behind the disappearance.
Simulation image of the hypothesis that MH370 may have crashed into the Indian Ocean (Photo: Nat Geo).
The disappearance of the plane carrying 239 people has become one of the most mysterious disappearances in the history of the world aviation industry. A series of hypotheses have been put forward surrounding the incident, as well as many searches have been conducted but have not achieved results.
Last year, former commercial pilot Mike Glynn detailed that MH370 may have been placed on “hold” mode for 22 minutes before it disappeared, which involves a plane staying in a certain area of airspace for a period of time and not leaving.
Mr Glynn said this detail could be the "key factor that could reveal the fate of MH370".
"There is no reason to do that. My theory is that the captain was behind it," said Mr Glynn, who suspected that the 22 minutes the plane was in "hold mode" could have been a negotiation between the flight's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and someone else.
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