An investigator examining the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has ruled out a new search after accusing the Malaysian government of covering up the disaster.
British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey suggested that Malaysia does not want the cause of its decease exposed.
Over the past four months, two reports have suggested new areas of the southern Indian Ocean which could be searched for the wreck of the plane.
The flight vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 crew and passengers on board.
British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey suggested that Malaysia does not want the cause of its decease exposed
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An overnight service from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from radar 40 minutes after departing, having performed an unexplained U-turn back across peninsular Malaysia before pivoting again towards the Indian Ocean.
A new fleet of unmanned vessels could also be used to locate the Boeing 777 aircraft, according to United States-based marine technology company Ocean Infinity.
However, the Malaysian government has rejected plans for another search to be carried out.
Godfrey claims, government chiefs do not want "to spend any more money" tracking down MH370.
He added that debris found by his colleague Blaine Gibson in Madagascar in 2022 remained on the island as Malaysia did not pay the air cargo fees to have the items transferred over.
"In my view, the Malaysian government does not want another underwater search for the main wreckage of MH370," Godfrey told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"In my view, the Malaysian government does not want the cause of the crash of MH370 to be known. It does not help to speculate what the motives of the Malaysian government might be with regard to MH370."
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Godfrey claims, government chiefs do not want 'to spend any more money' tracking down MH370. Malaysia president Dr Jacob George shows the co-ordinates of where the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is believed to has crashed during a news conference on January 16, 2019
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The fate of MH370 has been the subject several unfounded conspiracy theories, with some suggesting it was hijacked by Russians or that it landed at a US military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia.
Ex-Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad even proposed that the US Central Intelligence Agency knew what happened but was covering it up.
Many believe that the aircraft came down in the southern Indian Ocean.
Godfrey and his team presented new findings as “credible new evidence”, which indicated that the plane could have plummeted into the ocean around 1500 kilometres west of Perth.
He added that only half of this area was covered by earlier underwater searches.
Retired French airline and air force pilot Patrick Blelly and aeronautics expert Jean-Luc Marchand also rallied together and told the Royal Aeronautical Society in London they had found an unexplored area of the sea floor which could be inspected in as few as 10 days.
There were 239 people on board the flight when it disappeared March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
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Another major breakthrough in the search came in December, when an Australian fisherman claimed he had found part of plane in his net.
Kit Olver, 77, alleged that he pulled up a wing off the southeast coast of Australia in September or October 2014.
The latest analysis swings towards the theory that the aircraft was purposely brought down by an experienced pilot, highly-skilled at avoiding detection.
Marchand said while he and Blelly cannot directly accuse MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, he can’t be excluded from responsibility for the “fully piloted, fatal one-way journey”.
According to previously released satellite, fuel and speed data, it appears the flight deliberately ditched rather than falling by freefall and exploded.
Godfrey said the papers his team had published were delivered to the Malaysian government, but he never received a reply.
Ocean Infinity chief executive Oliver Plunkett said: "We remain interested in returning to the search for MH370 and are actively engaged in trying to make this happen.
"At this stage, we are unable to say definitively when a new search will take place as discussions are ongoing and there is still much work to be done. We are hopeful that our experienced team and marine robotics will be instructed in 2024."
