MH370: New major breakthrough hope as new technology can help pinpoint location of missing Malaysia Airlines plane

MH370: New major breakthrough hope as new technology can help pinpoint location of missing Malaysia Airlines plane

'New evidence' uncovered boosts bid to resume search for MH370

GB NEWS
Jack Walters

By Jack Walters


Published: 19/03/2024

- 08:48

Updated: 19/03/2024

- 08:58

The mystery surrounding the MH370 is ongoing as the flight carrying 239 passengers disappeared a decade-ago in March 2014

An American-based deep sea exploration company believes it can help bring about a major breakthrough in the search for the missing MH370.

Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo claimed his company could reveal some important information as it is planning to send an underwater drone to search the sea floor.


He told CBS: “It flies at 50 metres above the seafloor and it just goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

“Big eyes, looking at everything it can see, sucks and stores data, comes back up to the surface, we pluck a thumb drive into it, pull the data out, and we watch it on a computer exactly what it looked at.”

The search for the missing MH370 aircraft continues

The search for the missing MH370 aircraft continues

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Deap Sea Vision made a separate breakthrough earlier this year after Romeo claimed the company found Amelia Earhart’s plane on the Pacific Ocean floor.

The American aviator disappeared in 1937 at the age of 39 during her flight for New Guinea to Howard Island.

Romeo labelled his company’s technology as “unbelievable”, adding it is just short of being able to read a credit card number on the seafloor.

Directly addressing whether it could help solve the MH370 mystery, he added: “I think we can.

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“I feel like we've proved our credibility, we've proved our competence.

“We've proved our ability to take equipment and use novel techniques.”

Deap Sea Visions will soon submit a search proposal to the Malaysian Government to assist the search.

There were 239 people onboard the flight when it disappeared on March 8 in 2014.

The international passenger flight disappeared from radar en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Police officers inspect metallic debris found on a beach in the search for MH370Police officers inspect metallic debris found on a beach in the search for MH370GETTY

None of the 227 passengers or 12 crew members on board have ever been found.

The disappearance has led to a number of theories about what actually happened to the aircraft.

Ocean Infinity led a separate search in 2018 but were unable to trace the aircraft on the floor of the Indian Ocean.

Australia has also played a leading role in the search for the MH370, with 21 aircraft and 19 ships.

The search was conducted across a 12,000-square-mile corridor of water known as the seventh arc and cost £120million by the time it was called off by Canberra, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.

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