There have been several instances where flights full of passengers have disappeared, giving rise to some of the most profound mysteries in the world. The MH370 plane crash is one such case. The futile search for the Boeing 777 that went missing in 2014 for more than a decade has involved radar, satellite, air and sonar research.
Researchers from Cardiff University in the UK claim they have detected a signal that might lead them to the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, nearly ten years after its mysterious disappearance. According to a report by the Daily Mail, underwater microphones, known as hydrophones, picked up a signal lasting six seconds around the same time MH370 is believed to have crashed on March 8, 2014.
Researchers from Cardiff University discovered the six-second signal and stated that further tests would be necessary to determine if the sounds recorded by the hydrophones could lead them to the wreckage of the plane believed to be located beneath the Indian Ocean.
The Cardiff researchers started with the hypothesis that a 200-ton aircraft like MH370, crashing at a speed of 720 km/hr, would generate kinetic energy equivalent to a small earthquake. They suggested that this kinetic energy from the crash could potentially be significant enough to be detected by underwater microphones located thousands of miles away.
Flight MH370 was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014. It was flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China.
There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board at the time and its disappearance prompted a search operation from the Indian Ocean, west of Australia to central Asia. Parts of the wreckage have since surfaced, but the plane’s location or what went wrong has never been known.
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