A decade after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian researcher Vincent Lyne has reignited public interest with a bold new claim.
Intentionally Crashed?
Lyne, an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, believes he has identified the exact location of the missing aircraft's wreckage, according to Digi24.
In a LinkedIn post titled "MH370 Mystery Solved by Science," Lyne argues that the plane's captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, intentionally crashed the aircraft in a remote region of the southeastern Indian Ocean.
The area in question is Broken Ridge, a rugged underwater plateau characterized by steep ridges and deep ravines—an ideal "hiding spot" for the wreckage, according to Lyne.
Controlled and Calculated by Pilot
Lyne's theory challenges the prevailing narrative that the plane's final moments were the result of fuel exhaustion. Instead, he suggests the crash was a controlled and calculated maneuver by the pilot.
His hypothesis is based on the intersection of the longitude of Penang airport with a flight path discovered on the captain's home flight simulator—a path previously dismissed by the FBI and other investigators.
"The location needs urgent verification," Lyne insists, emphasizing that previous search efforts failed because they overlooked this scientifically significant region. Despite extensive searches covering 120,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean, the plane's wreckage remains undiscovered, and the search was officially called off in 2017.
Lyne's revelations come as the 10th anniversary of the plane's disappearance approaches. With 239 passengers and crew members on board, the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight remains one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
Although Lyne's theory is yet to be tested, it has captured widespread attention and could potentially reignite search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean.
