A man has said he might have ‘solved’ the decade-long mystery of the missing MH370 plane.

The Malaysia Airlines plane went missing on 8 March, 2014, with 239 people on board all presumed dead.

It ended up prompting the most expensive search in the history of aviation, as so many attempts have been made to find where the plane went down.

Much work has been done to try and narrow down where the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing ended up, and though debris from the plane has been found, it’s possible that the main wreckage will never be recovered.

Now a scientist claims to have ‘solved’ the mystery of MH370 in a study where he argues that analysis of the debris indicates signs of a ‘controlled ditching’.

The MH370 plane has been missing for over a decade. (Supian Ahmad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Vincent Lyne of the University of Tasmania wrote that the damage to the plane’s wings shows similarities to those of a plane that Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed in the Hudson River in 2009.

While there is a theory that MH370 went into an uncontrolled dive after ‘fuel exhaustion’, Lyne’s study argues that instead the aircraft’s descent into the water was more controlled with the pilots deploying gear to help the plane down.

Writing on a LinkedIn post to accompany his study, Lyne said: “This work changes the narrative of MH370’s disappearance from one of no-blame, fuel-starvation at the 7th arc, high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot almost executing an incredible perfect-disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean.

“In fact, it would have worked were it not for MH370 ploughing its right wing through a wave, and the discovery of the regular interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat.”

A new study argues that damage to MH370’s wings, flap and flaperon point towards a ‘controlled ditching’. (Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)

Lyne is by no means the first person who claims they’ve ‘solved’ the mystery of what happened to the plane.

There are a number of theories around what happened to the plane, with many of the search efforts focusing on the sea and trying to trace where the aircraft might have gone down based on debris that has washed up.

One tech expert claims the plane crashed in the Cambodian jungle, with other theories claim MH370 was hijacked or shot down.

Someone else tried to claim that the passenger plane was flown into a black hole (a radar blindspot, not the space thing) with a ‘carefully planned’ move to take it off the grid.

There’s debris, flight logs and clues to comb through as people try to figure out what happened to MH370 but unless or until we find the plane itself it’s going to be hard to prove any one theory.

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A deep sea exploration expert has vowed to join the search for the missing flight MH370 thanks to ‘unbelievable’ technology they have at their disposal.

It’s been over 10 years since the passenger plane disappeared with 239 people on board, all of whom have been presumed dead since the disappearance.

Since then, the search for the plane has been ongoing, with some parts of the aircraft’s wreckage washing up on distant shores, but the main fuselage as yet undiscovered.

Malaysia has backed ‘no find, no fee’ search efforts for MH370, meaning firms which believe they can contribute to the search are allowed to participate as long as they have no expectation of reward or compensation.

One of the companies which has been searching is Texas-based Ocean Infinity, who recently claimed to have found new evidence in the hunt for MH370.

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They had spent six months searching in 2018 without success, but have since said they now think they have the technology to go back, but they might have competition.

That’s because fellow deep sea explorer Tony Romeo, CEO of Deep Sea Vision, recently told 60 Minutes he had the devices that had the best chances of finding MH370.

He explained that they have an underwater drone called the Hugin 6000, which they can send to sweep the ocean floor and deliver data.

He said: “It flies at 50 metres above the seafloor and it just goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

“Big eyes, looking at everything it can see, sucks and stores data, comes back up to the surface, we pluck a thumb drive into it, pull the data out, and we watch it on a computer exactly what it looked at.”

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Deep Sea Vision is the same company that earlier this year claimed to have found evidence of the plane that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan flew in when they went missing attempting to fly around the world.

Now, they are getting ready to submit a proposal to the Malaysian government to be able to search for MH370, and Romeo is confident they will accept as he believes the government ‘wants answers’.

In lieu of a confirmed course of events, there have been a number of theories about what happened to the plane, with a former Boeing pilot claiming Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah crashed the aircraft on purpose.

Other experts have also claimed that the plane’s pilot is the most likely culprit for MH370’s disappearance, though authorities have repeatedly denied claims that the pilot crashed the plane on purpose and there has not been evidence to suggest prior poor mental health.

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