MH370 signal gives hope to find the plane again

KUALA LUMPUR: Claims of receiving a new signal from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reported 10 years ago give hope to the people in this country that it will be found again.

Sinar Harian reports, however, the news still does not have complete information or further comments from the party that detected the signal.

Sinar Harian on Wednesday reported, British researchers revealed that the signal was detected at Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia, one of two hydrophone stations that were within tens of minutes of the reception period of the travel time signal from the last contact with the aircraft’s radar.

Researchers from Wales reportedly picked up a six-second signal using an underwater microphone or hydrophone that could potentially lead to the plane’s final location.

These hydrophones, originally designed to detect banned nuclear tests, picked up signals around the time the plane was believed to have crashed.

Based on researchers’ studies, a Boeing 777 aircraft such as MH370 would generate kinetic energy equivalent to a small earthquake if it crashed at a speed of 200 meters per second.

Such effects are large enough to be recorded by hydrophones thousands of miles away.

‘Good Night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero’ was the last radio message sent through the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines MH370, precisely at 1.09am on 8 March 2014.

A decade later, the sentence became the last ‘testament’ of the Boeing 777 plane that disappeared without a trace after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, at exactly 12.42 midnight, carrying 239 passengers and 12 crew members.

No ‘mayday’ calls or distress signals were sent after it was reported missing from the control tower’s radar while in the airspace between Vietnam and Malaysia at about 1.30am.

The incident indirectly left a thousand question marks to the world community until now.

Considered to be the worst tragedy in the country’s aviation history, the mysterious disappearance required the ‘high-level thinking skills’ of various parties including the aviation investigation body and aviation experts.