MH370 ‘may have crashed down in a different ocean thousands of miles from key search area’

The downed MH370 flight could have crashed thousands of miles from its main search area, a volunteer satellite investigator has claimed.

Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer for now-defunct satellite imagery company Tomnod, found what appeared to be aircraft debris just days after the plane disappeared in the South China Sea on March 8, 2014.

She said her discovery was ignored at the time it was thought to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.

But nine years later, she claims to have found an “M” on a piece of wreckage that is an “almost perfect match” with the M on the side of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. and Beijing, China.

Speaking on the new Netflix documentary MH370: The Disappeared Plane, she said she knew she had “evidence” of the plane in the South China Sea, but was repeatedly ignored by investigators at the time.

Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer for the now-defunct satellite imaging company Tomnod, found what appeared to be aircraft debris in the South China Sea just days after the plane disappeared on March 8, 2014.

In a new Netflix documentary, she said she knew she had “evidence” in the South China Sea, but was repeatedly ignored by investigators

She said, “When I saw the fear on these family members’ faces, I thought I had to do something.

“It just tugged at my heart. My hobby is photography, so I have an eye for detail.

“I thought I could be a great person to help look for this plane from the satellite imagery.”

Florida’s Miss Hendry joined the crowdsourcing company Tomnod, which randomly assigned satellite images of volunteers to search.

She added: “The satellite images were blank. It was just the blackness of the sea. Then you press next, more black scans. So much black. And then there is finally something white.’

Miss Hendry claimed to have seen what appeared to be a mass of white debris in the South China Sea near Vietnam, close to where the MH370 flight fell from radar screens.

She said, “I got the schematics off the Internet for a Boeing 777. And I was able to identify a piece as the nose cone.

Then I started saying, ‘Holy crap! There is a piece of rubble. There’s the plane.

And then I started seeing more pieces. Something that looked like the hull. Something that looked like the tail. I have goosebumps.’

The search area given to Miss Hendry in 2014 in the South China Sea, now-defunct Tomnad

Miss Hendry claimed to have seen what appeared to be a mass of white debris in the South China Sea near Vietnam, near where the MH370 flight fell from radar screens

She then claimed to have identified the nose of a Boeing 777, the same plane that went missing on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China.

Miss Hendry said she contacted investigators and Malaysia Airlines to share her findings, but claims she was repeatedly ignored.

She said, “I knew what I had. I knew I had evidence in the South China Sea.

“The more I searched, the more rubble I found. I’m sure this is where MH370 ended up, outside of Vietnam.

‘I had already contacted Malaysia Airlines at that time. I tried to reach so many people to tell them that this rubble exists. Nobody listened to me.’

But Malaysian investigators soon abandoned searches in the South China Sea after British company Inmarsat released data suggesting the plane had crashed in the Indian Ocean.

The Boeing 777 plane was on its flight path with 239 passengers from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to Beijing when it disappeared from the grid less than an hour into its journey, never to be heard from again.