Major claim missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could be found in ‘a matter of days’ finally bringing an end to the nine year mystery

The mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could be solved within days if a renewed search resumes, experts have revealed.

Flight MH370 disappeared about 38 minutes after leaving Kuala Lumpur airport in southern Malaysia en route to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014.

Despite a frantic search by governments and private companies, the plane was never found and the fate of the 237 passengers remains unknown.

In September, space expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly called for a new search, based on revelations about the fate of the flight.

Speaking to the Royal Aeronautical Society, the pair said the new search area could be explored in just ten days in an open appeal for help.

'We have done our homework. We have a proposal… the area is small and given the new possibilities it will take ten days,” Mr Marchand said.

'It can happen quickly. Until the wreckage of MH370 is found, no one knows (what happened). But this is a plausible trajectory.'

The pair called on the Australian Transport Safety Authority, the Malaysian government and exploration company Ocean Infinity to begin a new search.

Last year, Ocean Infinity revealed it was interested in restarting the search after exploring parts of the Indian Ocean on a 'no find, no fee' basis.

Mr Marchand said the “rapid” search could be a good testing ground for the company's new unmanned subnautical search technology.

Importantly, the pair told the RAS that the new search area was based on the belief that the aircraft had been deliberately hijacked and shot down in the deep ocean.

Mr Marchad described it as a “horrendous one-way flight”, which he believed was probably carried out by an experienced airline pilot.

“We believe, and the investigation we have done has shown us that the hijacking was probably carried out by an experienced pilot,” Marchad said.

'The cabin was depressurized… and it was an emergency landing on water to produce as little dirt as possible. It was carried out so as not to be trapped or found.

'Certainly, the plane was only visible to military personnel. The man knew that if there was a search and rescue it would be on the flight path.”

The pair provided further evidence that the plane's transponder had been switched off and that the 'U-turn' it made, away from the flight path, could not have been an autopilot.

Crucially, they said the sudden change of direction occurred when the plane was in a 'no man's land' between Thai, Indonesian, Indian and Malaysian airspace.

'What could have been the hijackers' intention? This is a very sensitive area. You have Thai and South Indian radar coverage, but they don't care,” Macrhard said.

'You have reached war range, but also the radar, so this zone here is in no man's land. No control, no vision for Kuala Lumpur. So that man can do whatever he wants.”

The bold claim comes after a separate new report into the missing plane posited a new search area off the Australian coast, sparking new interest in a search.

The 229-page report suggested the missing wreckage could be located about 1,560 kilometers west of Perth and was based on 'groundbreaking' radio technology.

Researchers Richard Godfrey, Dr Hannes Coetzee and Professor Simon Maskell used a weak signal propagation reporter, or WSPR, to track the aircraft.

“This technology has been developed over the past three years and the results represent credible new evidence,” the researchers said.

'It is consistent with analyzes by Boeing (…) and drift analyzes by the University of Western Australia of debris recovered from around the Indian Ocean.'

The disappearance of MH370 is one of aviation's most enduring mysteries and has gripped the fascination of experts and conspiracy theorists alike.

MH370 took off from Malaysia shortly before 5pm with 12 crew members and 227 passengers from 14 countries, including 153 people from China.

At approximately 5:20 p.m., Captain Zahrie Shah responded to Malaysian air traffic control and said, “…contact Ho Chi Minh (…) good night.”

Shockingly, the plane went 'dark' shortly afterwards before returning to Malaysia, in the opposite direction of its intended flight path.

Primary civilian and military radar data reported that the plane flew back over the Straits of Malacca and into the vast Indian Ocean.

After about 7.5 hours, MH370 ran out of fuel and then crashed into the ocean 11 minutes later, never to be found.

Debris from the plane was found as far away as Madagascar in the following years, with a total of 41 pieces recovered.

Speculation about the reason for the strange detour ranges from terrorist hijacking or whether it was somehow captured by the US.

Allegations, heavily disputed by US authorities such as the FBI, claim the plane was flown to a remote island or atoll on assignment.

Other claims circulated around Captain Shah's family and whether the plane was deliberately dumped in the Indian Ocean.

For their part, Marchand and Blelly said they did not formally blame the pilot but also could not exonerate him until the plane was found.

The possibility of a fire, a cyber attack or that the plane was shot down have all been raised, but cannot credibly answer the mystery.

The same year, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by Russian-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, sparking outrage.

Indonesia, near Malaysia, also witnessed a tragedy in 2018 when Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea just 13 minutes after takeoff.