A British engineer pointed out the mistakes of the search team for the missing airliner MH370

Exactly 10 years ago, on March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 plane flying from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from radar. Without a trace. All this time, international efforts to find the “dissolved” aircraft have not led to a solution. The families of the victims are demanding answers that, unfortunately, no one has. However, in a new BBC documentary, British engineer Richard Godfrey said it would only take “one more search” to find the missing jet.

A retired British engineer has said he will be able to solve the mystery of the doomed MH370 with “another search” ahead of the ten-year anniversary of the plane’s disappearance.

Richard Godfrey, who worked for Boeing and NASA before retiring, credits radio waves with helping him track the plane’s path with greater precision than ever before.

The Boeing 777 disappeared from radar while carrying 239 people from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

Despite an extensive international search in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed, the plane has not been found and the families of the victims are desperate for answers.

In subsequent years, debris believed to be from MH370 was found scattered in the waves along the African coast and on islands in the Indian Ocean.

Godfrey, who has dedicated his life to uncovering what happened to the flight, said in a new BBC documentary: “I am convinced that all it will take is one more search and we will find MH370.”

Richard Godfrey recorded 130 WSPR signal violations over the southern Indian Ocean on 8 March, which he believes is evidence of the aircraft’s final flight path. The signals end immediately after the 7th arc, which has not yet been included in any underwater search.

“I think we didn’t find MH370 simply because we didn’t look wide enough from Arc 7,” the engineer added.

The retired engineer is working with Simon Maskell, an academic at the University of Liverpool, to plot the doomed plane’s route using “weak signal propagation protocol” (WSPR).

“Most likely, WSPR data detected MH370. I’m on Richard’s side. If I thought it was a dead number, I wouldn’t have wasted my time,” Simon Maskell told The Times.

It comes as the Malaysian government backed a proposed new search for the missing plane after Ocean Infinity announced a “no find, no fee” offer for the search across 15,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean.

MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on 8 March 2014 at 12:41 local time and flew northeast over Malaysia and over the South China Sea, bound for Beijing International Airport.

The last time the crew contacted air traffic control was 38 minutes after takeoff, about halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam.

While flying from Kuala Lumpur into Ho Chi Minh City airspace, Captain Zachary Ahmad Shah was heard saying: “Good night, Malaysia three seven zero.”

It is believed that a few minutes later it suddenly veered west from its planned flight path. Military radar tracked MH370 on the Malay Peninsula and over the Andaman Sea before it left radar coverage 230 miles northwest of Penang island.

The last initial radar contact was made at 2.22 am. All 239 people on the plane are presumed dead.

An expensive international search yielded no clues, although debris washed ashore on the East African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A private search for Ocean Infinity in 2018 also turned up nothing.

Many theories have formed in the absence of any answers. Such theories include mass hypoxia, a possible hijacking, a murder-suicide plot by the pilot, and even claims that the US Air Force was responsible. All this angered the relatives of the plane passengers.

Considered the greatest aviation mystery of the 21st century, the tragedy has prompted action to improve aviation safety.

Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Punkett told the New Straits Times that the company has improved its technology since 2018.

“We now feel we can return to the search for MH370. We are working with many experts to further analyze the data in the hope of narrowing the search to one where success is potentially achievable,” he told the English-language daily.