Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
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That debris “can also contain vital clues” about the disappearance of MH370, Jansen said in a phone interview.
The search for the missing wreckage of the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to end this year but with the recent revelation about the pilot’s supposed deliberate attempt, it has put the foundation of the search in a shaky situation, notes The Christian Science Monitor.
Malaysian authorities concluded the flight had ended in the Indian Ocean, but no confirmed MH370 debris was found until past year when a right wing flaperon was discovered on Reunion Island, east of Madagascar.
Australian Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester recently stated that the simulator information shows only the possibility of planning and does not reveal the information of the aircraft.
Conspiracy theories have abounded since the aircraft’s disappearance.
Mr Hood also defended the modelling used to define the search area, saying DSTG used extensive satellite and flight data from the plane and sister aircraft to validate its modelling.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading the search for MH370, said Australian and Malaysian investigators are now working to determine if the recovered wing flap was part of MH370. While some of the current underwater search area lies between 32°S and 35°S, it also raises the possibility that the downed airliner could also be further north than where authorities are now searching. It is likely to be found in the wide search area between 28°S and 35°S – an zone that overlaps with the current underwater search, but also includes an area 500 KM further north.
But the actual and the simulated flights were not identical, though, with the simulated endpoint some 900 miles from the remote patch of southern ocean area where officials believe the plane went down. Our study is also important because we realised that with our method we could do a better, quicker job at simulating the movement of debris using all of the now discovered parts of the aircraft.
Other chunks of aircraft will likely wash up near Tanzania and Mozambique, along with the islands of Madagascar, Réunion, Mauritius and the Comoros, according to the study. “We don’t have the evidence, if you have, give it to the investigation team”, he said.
For the first stage of the simulation, the computer calculates the various ways in which the debris could have drifted. This model can be updated in the event that new debris is uncovered. This overlaps with the current underwater search area between 32°S and 35°S, but indicates the airliner could also be further north than where authorities are now searching.
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“The disappearance of flight MH370 is probably one of the most weird events in modern history”, said Jensen. “We hope that we can contribute to this, even if our study is just a small piece of a very complicated puzzle”.
