PLANE RIDDLE
Fresh hope to solve the Malaysia Airlines MH370 mystery after underwater search expert vows to find wreckage
It comes after a Brit pilot claimed that the flight was plunged into a trench in the ocean
A DEEP sea exploration company has promised to send a state-of-the-art underwater drone to the bottom of the sea to finally solve the MH370 mystery.
Over a decade ago, the Malaysian Airlines flight with 239 passengers bound for Beijing disappeared from flight radar over the South China Sea and has never been found.
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Several companies have led searches for the wreckage in the years since, although none have been successful.
But Tony Romeo, CEO of Deep Sea Vision, now believes his company has all the gear to carry out the groundbreaking mission.
The expert and his team claimed to have discovered the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's lost plane on the sea floor earlier this year.
It made headlines around the world when underwater scans appeared to show a blurry plane-like shape halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
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Romeo told 60 Minutes that his company now plans to send one of its most high-tech underwater drones to search the ocean floor for MH370.
The drone, dubbed Hugin 6000, has a scan rate of 1500m and is thought to be unparalleled in terms of wreck-hunting.
Deep Sea Vision has modified its drones to such an extent their blind spots are virtually non-existent, claiming that the Hugin 6000 only needs to be sent down once to reach a conclusion.
Romeo said: "It flies at 50 metres above the seafloor and it just goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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"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."
In response to questions regarding whether Deep Sea Vision's new technology could find MH370, Romeo insisted that they could.
The CEO claimed that the company's drones have the capability of scouring four times the ground covered in the search attempts that have been carried out so far.
Romeo also said that new tech used by the drones is "unbelievable" - and is strong enough to capture the most minuscule details from the seafloor.
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He said: "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.
"And I believe that the Malaysian government wants answers.
"I refuse to believe that they do not want a huge accident, a huge crash like this to go unresolved. It just isn't fair, it wouldn't be fair to the families."
Romeo added that Deep Sea Visions is preparing a proposal for the Malaysian government.
It comes after The Sun revealed bombshell docs that put the final resting place for the plane just outside of the official areas previously searched.
Brit Boeing 777 pilot Simon Hardy believes that the addition of extra fuel and oxygen, as detailed in the docs, could be proof that the plane's disappearance was premeditated.
Hardy suggested that the plane's pilot would have been in control the whole time - able to neatly plunge the plane into the ocean in a spot known as the Geelvinck Fracture Zone.
The "Fracture Zone" is essentially a trench plagued by earthquakes that is hundreds of miles long, meaning the vanished jet could be buried beneath rocks under the waves of the Southern Indian Ocean.
Only a few pieces of debris were ever found - with Hardy suggesting that this was meticulously planned.
The MH370's operational flight plan shows that an extra 3,000kg of fuel was added to the plan, the maximum amount of extra fuel that can be added to a Boeing 777 passenger flight.
The added fuel would have given the pilot an additional 30 minutes of flying time or as Simon explains more time to ditch the plane in the ocean in daylight.
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Why MH370 is still missing a decade on?
By Rebecca Husselbee, Assistant Foreign Editor at The Sun
When an entire plane with 239 passengers mysteriously disappeared from the sky it left the world in utter disbelief - myself included.
How could an entire jet vanish into oblivion in a modern world when every move on land, sea and air is tracked? and how it could remain lost for a decade.
Having spent the last few years exploring the many theories on what MH370's final moments might look like, from the bizarre to the complex, there is one hypothesis that answers every question for me.
Pilot Simon Hardy has left no stone unturned in his search for answers and having been at the helm of passenger flights for over 20 years he knows every inch of a Boeing 777 cockpit.
What makes his "technique, not a theory" even more compelling is his ability to access the world's best flight simulators and sit in Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's seat as he commandeered the Malaysia Airlines plane and flew into the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean.
While others believe WSPR technology holds the key to finally discovering the wreckage, it's never been proven and many in the MH370 community have questioned its reliability.
Many experts agree that the "suicidal" MH370 pilot was behind the plane's demise - what we'll never know is what his mindset was on that night and what motive he had to carry out such a chilling plan.
Passenger safety in the aviation industry is rigorous and the likelihood of travellers being involved in a plane crash is 1 in 11 million.
But are airlines considering a pilot's mental state when they sit at the controls of a jet that could be turned into a 300-ton death machine?
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