Missing Malaysian flight MH370 could be found in ‘days’ with new search, claim experts

Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly called on Australian and Malaysian authorities, and exploration firm Ocean Infinity to begin a new search

On March 8, 2014, the Malaysia Airlines aircraft with 239 people on board left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing but vanished from radar screens 2 hours after departure

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Published: 8:02pm, 25 Dec 2023Updated: 9:37am, 19 Apr 2024

Experts have called for a new search on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 following new leads on the flight.

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

The duo claimed the mystery of the missing flight could be solved in a matter of “days” if there was a new search.

Relatives of missing MH370 passengers look at the name list during the remembrance ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 plane’s disappearance. Photo: EPA-EFE

During a lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, the pair said the new search area could be canvassed in 10 days in an open call for help.

“It could be a quick thing. Until the wreckage of MH370 is found, nobody knows [what happened]. But, this is a plausible trajectory,” Marchand said, according to Australian news site news.com.au.

In that same report by the news website, the pair called on Australia’s Transport Safety Authority, the Malaysian government, and Ocean Infinity – an exploration company – to start a new search.

Marchand said the “swift” search could be a good proving ground for the company’s new unmanned sub-nautical search technology.