An Australian aerospace expert has claimed the new British-led search for missing flight MH370 is looking in the wrong place entirely.
Sergio Cavaiuolo, a research advisor from Adelaide, says Ocean Infinity’s mission to scour the Southern Indian Ocean seabed will “fail to find any trace of the missing jet”.
The robotics firm’s vessel Armada 7806 began searching 1,200 miles off Perth over the weekend. But Cavaiuolo insists the Boeing 777, which vanished in March 2014 with 239 people aboard, never reached that region at all.
“Whilst it is pleasing to see Malaysia’s willingness to search again and, as great as Ocean Infinity’s Armada search capability is, sadly this second search attempt by Ocean Infinity will also fail,” he told GB News.
Sergio Cavaiuolo shared his theory that the researchers for MH370 are looking in the wrong place
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Cavaiuolo’s involvement with the MH370 case began immediately after its disappearance in 2014, sparked by his professional interest in the satellite data used to track the aircraft.
He told GB News: “One of the areas which really grabbed my fascination was just in relation to MH370 was the fact that they used some satellite communication data to initially do some calculations to determine which direction the aircraft had gone.”
He describes his extensive research into the disappearance as a “private research hobby” aimed at helping families find closure.
Cavaiuolo points to multiple eyewitness accounts that challenge the current search location.
“There was almost immediately, in the days following, some stories of a gentleman on an oil rig seeing what was almost certainly MH370 with some flames underneath it.”
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Sergio Cavaiuolo spoke exclusively to GB News
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He highlighted a particularly significant sighting from the Maldives. He added: “A group of islanders over in the Maldives were jumping up and down and essentially saying that they saw this very large white aircraft with red and blue stripes, flying overhead, really low, doing some maneuvers and turns pretty much on the morning that MH370 vanished.”
These Maldivian witnesses reported seeing the aircraft at 6:15am local time, according to Cavaiuolo. “In my mind, you’ve got a whole bunch of different pieces of essentially the puzzle that if they all relate to MH370, somehow they have to fit together,” he told GB News.
Cavaiuolo believes the aircraft wreckage lies in a specific location in the Maldives.
“MH370 did not go the Southern Indian Ocean region at all but instead was flown West across the Northern Indian Ocean and eventually ditched at/around a specific location in the Veymandoo Channel of the Maldives,” he said.
MH370 search hope renewed as Ocean Infinity puts forward new plans to find missing Malaysian Airlines flightWikiCommons/Facebook (MH370 Families)He told GB News: “With all due respect to Ocean Infinity and and the search that’s going on at the moment. I wish them all their very best, but I have almost 100 per cent certainty that this search will also turn up with nothing found where they’re looking.”
The initial search for MH370 was launched in 2014 by Malaysia, Australia and China as a joint operation.
The search covered 120,000 sq km in the southern Indian Ocean but was called off in 2017 without success. Ocean Infinity conducted another search attempt in 2018, which also proved unsuccessful.
The Independent’s travel editor Simon Calder told GB News that researchers from Cardiff University found a signal which could help detect the missing flight.
Asked whether we are “any closer” to solving the mystery, he said: “I think we might be.”
He added: “This is an extraordinary piece of research by a British researcher, which basically realised that if you’ve got a 200-tonne aircraft, which very sadly disappeared in 2014 somewhere over the Indian Ocean, it’s going to make quite a noise.
“There are, unbelievably, these so-called hydrophones, underwater microphones, designed to make sure that people are abiding by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
“He reckons he’s picked up a six second burst of sound, which could be MH370 plunging into the Indian Ocean.”