EXCLUSIVE: MH370 will 'NEVER be found' as 'there's no sensible theory to where it is'
MISSING Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will NEVER be found as there's no sensible theory as to where it might be in the most remote part of the world, an author has claimed.
By DION DASSANAYAKE Published: 19:01, Thu, December 25, 2014
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will never be found, according to an author
The Boeing 777 disappeared in March this year with 239 passengers and crew onboard and, despite extensive searches, not a single trace of the passenger jet has been found.
Nigel Cawthorne, author of Flight MH370: The Mystery, agrees with search teams that the most likely location of the plane's wreckage is the southern Indian Ocean.
However, despite extensively scouring the region for months on end, authorities are no closer to finding a single piece of debris from the plane.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Mr Cawthorne said: "No one knows where on Earth it is and you can't search the whole world.
"There's no sensible theory to where it is.
"The most likely theory is that it is down there in the southern Indian Ocean.
"And if it is there I'm almost certain it will never be found.
"The current there is the worst in the world, the weather there is the worst in the world and the sea floor there is less well-known than the surface of the Moon.
"It is the most remote part of this planet."
Nigel Cawthorne, author of Flight MH370: The Mystery, agrees with search teams that the most likely location of the plane's wreckage is the southern Indian Ocean.
However, despite extensively scouring the region for months on end, authorities are no closer to finding a single piece of debris from the plane.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Mr Cawthorne said: "No one knows where on Earth it is and you can't search the whole world.
"There's no sensible theory to where it is.
"The most likely theory is that it is down there in the southern Indian Ocean.
"And if it is there I'm almost certain it will never be found.
"The current there is the worst in the world, the weather there is the worst in the world and the sea floor there is less well-known than the surface of the Moon.
"It is the most remote part of this planet."
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The 63-year-old author, who lives in London, drew parallels to the Air France disaster of five years ago to underline the enormity of the task search teams face.
In June 2009, all of the 228 people travelling on an Airbus A330 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris died when the passenger jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
The first major piece of debris and two bodies were removed from the scene within just five days of the accident.
However, it took nine months for the total wreckage to be recovered and two years for the plane's black box to be found.
This was in spite of search teams knowing the exact location of where Air France flight 447 crashed.
Describing why, by contrast, the search efforts for the Malaysia Airlines plane have so far proved fruitless, Mr Cawthorne said: "We don't know where to look. That's the real problem.
"If we knew where to look even within 100 miles you might have a bit of a chance.
In June 2009, all of the 228 people travelling on an Airbus A330 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris died when the passenger jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
The first major piece of debris and two bodies were removed from the scene within just five days of the accident.
However, it took nine months for the total wreckage to be recovered and two years for the plane's black box to be found.
This was in spite of search teams knowing the exact location of where Air France flight 447 crashed.
Describing why, by contrast, the search efforts for the Malaysia Airlines plane have so far proved fruitless, Mr Cawthorne said: "We don't know where to look. That's the real problem.
"If we knew where to look even within 100 miles you might have a bit of a chance.
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"With the Air France disaster in 2009 they knew from day one where the plane was and it still took nine months to find the wreckage.
"And two years before they found the black box. So it's that difficult to find things especially if they have crashed into the sea."
Mr Cawthorne's book on flight MH370 was criticised at the time of its publication after it outlined a conspiracy theory that the plane had been shot down.
However, the author denied that he himself believed the jet had been shot out of the sky.
"And two years before they found the black box. So it's that difficult to find things especially if they have crashed into the sea."
Mr Cawthorne's book on flight MH370 was criticised at the time of its publication after it outlined a conspiracy theory that the plane had been shot down.
However, the author denied that he himself believed the jet had been shot out of the sky.
He said: "In my book I simply went through all of the current theories and compared them with the facts that we knew on MH370 and other previous air crashes.
"I couldn't get the facts to fit any of the theories. The one that went viral was the last theory I mentioned in the book.
"And I said 'I do not believe this' but it was the theory that it was shot down by an American warship.
"It would be like in 1999 when a US warship accidentally shot down an Iranian plane in the Gulf.
"And as a response Iranian terrorists blew up the plane over Lockerbie. I said 'I do not believe this' but you can make quite a convincing theory.
"However, if that is what happened you would have to get the American, Vietnamese and Chinese governments all to collude in the cover-up.
"And that's not going to happen."
"I couldn't get the facts to fit any of the theories. The one that went viral was the last theory I mentioned in the book.
"And I said 'I do not believe this' but it was the theory that it was shot down by an American warship.
"It would be like in 1999 when a US warship accidentally shot down an Iranian plane in the Gulf.
"And as a response Iranian terrorists blew up the plane over Lockerbie. I said 'I do not believe this' but you can make quite a convincing theory.
"However, if that is what happened you would have to get the American, Vietnamese and Chinese governments all to collude in the cover-up.
"And that's not going to happen."
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Other theories include that MH370 was downed after a hijacking that went wrong or the pilot crashed the plane as he committed suicide.
The search for flight MH370 resumed in October after being halted for four months as crews mapped the seabed of a new search zone, which measures approximately 23,000 square miles.
The plane lost contact with air traffic controllers on March 8, 2014 while carrying 239 people on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China.
Two weeks after the passenger jet disappeared the Malaysian government said their data showed MH370 had crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said it was believed there were no survivors.
The search for flight MH370 resumed in October after being halted for four months as crews mapped the seabed of a new search zone, which measures approximately 23,000 square miles.
The plane lost contact with air traffic controllers on March 8, 2014 while carrying 239 people on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China.
Two weeks after the passenger jet disappeared the Malaysian government said their data showed MH370 had crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said it was believed there were no survivors.
Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/548547/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-never-found-Indian-Ocean-search
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