Missing MH370 search twist as nuclear sensor might have picked up essential sound
Experts searching for the missing MH370 plane claim a long-lost signal from beneath the ocean could reveal the tragic jet’s final resting place.
The Malaysia Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014. Despite extensive search operations, the governments’ conclusion was that “Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean”, but its exact location has remained a mystery since then.
Boffins at Cardiff University have been digging through more than 100 hours of underwater noise recordings from past aviation catastrophes and a submarine disappearance, revealing a possible underwater sound that could signify the doomed plane smacking the waves.
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Expert Dr Usama Kadri, an engineer and mathematician, suggests that a grid of hydrophones designed to pick up changes in sea pressure as part of a nuclear blast detection system could prove vital. Together with his team, they studied data from the moment MH370 vanished over the Southern Indian Ocean.
There seemed to be one unexplained event within an area known as the Seventh Arc which was detected by the Leeuiwn outpost. Dr Kadri said: “A 200-tonne aircraft crashing at a speed of 200 metres per second would release the kinetic energy equivalent to a small earthquake.
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“It would be large enough to be recorded by hydrophones thousands of kilometres away,” reports the Mirror.
“Given the sensitivity of the hydrophones, it’s highly unlikely that a large aircraft impacting the ocean surface wouldn’t leave a detectable pressure signature, particularly on nearby hydrophones. But unfavourable ocean conditions could potentially dampen or obscure such a signal.”
He then suggested that we need to reanalyse the search for other signals from that time that may correlate with MH370.
A series of regulated underwater explosions has been proposed by the research squad to ascertain if they can pinpoint a more exact location of where MH370 might be.
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