MH370 Perfect Nose Dive: Mathematicians’ Theory Is The Latest Setback In Search That Could Soon Be Over

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have taken a perfect nose dive into the ocean, a new theory that could signal the end of the search for the missing plane.

This week a team of mathematicians studying a range of models of the plane’s crash found that there’s a strong likelihood that it crashed into the water at a 90-degree angle.

The team suggested that the crash angle could explain why there has not been any debris found to this point. Hitting the water at a perfect nose dive meant that MH370 sank to the ocean’s floor largely intact, taking all signs of its resting place with it.

“The true final moments of MH370 are likely to remain a mystery until someday when its black box is finally recovered and decoded,” said Goong Chen, a mathematician leading the team. “But forensics strongly supports that MH370 plunged into the ocean in a nose dive.”

If true, the theory would also mean that the search for the missing plane could be coming to an end soon. Officials appear to be backing out of previous pledges to continue the search on, with new indications that it will come to an end after the current focus area is completed.

Those leading the search may also be losing motivation to put crews in harm’s way for what could be a futile search. One of the ships leading the search was damaged this week by heavy waves, and bad weather has put a strain on the search that is now 40 percent of the way through the focus area in the Indian Ocean.

In an operational update from the Australia Transportation Safety Bureau, officials said the vessel, the GO Phoenix, had to be taken back to Australia for repairs.

“A significant amount of welding is required to rectify the damaged frame,” the ATSB update said.

The update also seemed to place a small time frame on the search going forward.

“Over coming weeks, search operations will be focused in the south to take advantage of the last of the better weather in that area prior to the expected onset of continuous poor weather during winter,” the ATSB added.

“The weather is forecast to be moderate over the next few days, but will worsen on the weekend. Search operations will continue through the winter months, but pauses are anticipated.”

There are other signs that the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is ending soon. Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airlines, told the Sydney Morning Herald this week that the hunt would likely end sometime later this year.

“I think it is only a question of time before the search is abandoned,” he said. “Do we have solutions? Do we have explanations? Cause? Reasons? No. It has sent us down a goose chase. It will be an Amelia Earhart repetition.”

If the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 perfect nose dive theory is true, the likelihood is high that the plane would never be found.

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