Professor Martin Kristensen, an engineer at Aarhaus University in Denmark, has revealed the plane is likely to have crashed near Christmas Island, outside the search zone to the west of Australia. Prof Kristensen insisted the chances of finding the wreckage there were “above 90 percent”.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, after losing contact less than 30 minutes after take-off.
But a desperate four-year search failed to locate the plane, sparking intense speculation over what really happened to the flight.
In his new paper, prof Kristensen said the flight path calculated by investigators was not correct and that the plane’s likely crash site was off Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, south of Java, Indonesia.
The professor explained that the plane’s course shows “intelligent planning”, adding that the operation was deliberate.
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According to prof Kristensen, those responsible would have parachuted from the plane before it crashed into the sea.
Prof Kristensen said: “The only plausible explanations are that they wanted to land in Banda Aceh or abort the flight by parachute.
“Since the aeroplane did not land, the only option is parachuting.
“In order to do this they had to fly low and slow to open a hatch and get out.
“They programmed a return to normal flying-height into the autopilot before jumping.
“Therefore the plane returned to 11km height after Bandar Aceh without a pressurised cabin (due to the leak through the open hatch) causing death for everybody on board who might still have been alive.”
Prof Kristiansen used mathematic calculations to determine the plane’s location.
The professor concluded: “We propose instead a new, focused search zone of 3500 km2 centred at (13.279˚ South, 106.964˚ East) with slightly elliptical shape along the 7th arc and a total length of 140km and width of 30km.
“The probability of finding the plane there is above 90 percent.”
In January 2017 Australia, Malaysia and China announced they were ending the official search for the plane.
Malaysia went on to launch a private search which ended in May 2018.