The goal of a recent experiment being conducted by a private pilot is to ultimately “discover the fate” of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
What was the fate of MH370?
Ten years have passed since the aircraft carrying 239 people on a flight from Malaysia to China entirely vanished from flight radars in March 2024.
Many ideas have been floated concerning the loss of the jet over the past 10 years, but no concrete explanations have ever surfaced despite massive search operations spanning from the ocean to Central Asia to the west of Australia.
Through “The Finding MH370 Project,” US-based science writer and private pilot Jeff Wise hopes to finally solve the riddle.
In addition to penning a book, starting a podcast, and making an appearance in a Netflix documentary about the missing plane, Wise hopes that his project may unearth fresh information about the case.
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In an effort to “solve the mystery once and for all,” he has started a Kickstarter page for the project, which will shed light on “two paradoxical aspects of the plane’s debris.”
Regarding the disappearance of the jet, Wise told FEMAIL, “It is the most baffling case – most are far more straight forward.”
Wise’s experiment: what is it?
Wise’s experiment will concentrate on the flaperon from the plane’s wing, which was the first component of the aircraft to be discovered after it vanished, in the hopes of gathering further information about the case.
The flaperon’s finding gave scientists a chance to speculate as to where it might have traveled after the jet vanished. Studying the barnacles that had developed on the wreckage and contained chemical clues could help with this.
Wise’s experiment will use a separate 777 flaperon that has been trimmed to match the shape of MH370’s and fitted with sensors and data gathering instruments in order to understand more about how the barnacles grow.
On the eleventh anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, the flaperon will subsequently be deployed in the vicinity of the likely crash site of MH370.
A radio transmitter will track the flaperon’s location as it travels, and cameras will be able to track the growth of barnacles on the surface.
The flaperon will be recovered and the barnacle population analyzed after a quarter of a century.
To create a data collection that can be compared to the flaperon of MH370, volunteers working on the project will sample barnacles growing on over 1,000 buoys now in the world’s waters.
What results can be expected from the experiment?
Either the barnacles will grow all over the newly formed flaperon, or they will only develop on the part of the flaperon that is constantly submerged in water, is what Wise anticipates happening from this experiment.
One of two hypotheses regarding what occurred to the plane will be informed by these results.
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A mass murder-suicide by one of MH370’s own pilots would have resulted in the jet landing in the Indian Ocean if barnacles were growing all over the flaperon.
If the barnacles are limited to the area in the water, it may mean that the wreckage was lowered into the ocean later, raising the possibility that a third party hijacking caused the crash.
According to Wise, who expressed confidence in the experiment’s outcome to the Mail Online, “[Authorities] are saying, ‘Oh, we’ve done everything we can.'”
“You haven’t exhausted all of your options,” he countered.
“You haven’t done so. You gave up trying. You have options for what you can do. And I will do it myself if I have to.”
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