New Signal Possible Detection Of MH370 Aircraft Debris Location

Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 200ER/PHOTO DOK Via ANTARA

A group of British researchers have reportedly detected a signal likely to show the endpoint of the Malaysian Airlines flight 370 (MH370) lost in the Indian Ocean more than a decade ago.

The Boeing 777-200 ER aircraft carrying 239 passengers and crew is believed to have run out of fuel and crashed at sea after exiting a route on its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

Although the search operation carried out includes an area of waters covering an area of 119,140 square kilometers, only 18 parts of the aircraft have been found so far. The debris was found stranded on land because it was swept away by the ocean currents.

According to a British daily report The Telegraph, the research group from Wales managed to identify a six-second signal with an underwater microphone -- or a hydrophone -- that could pinpoint the final location of the plane.

The hydrophone, which was originally designed to detect banned nuclear tests, was signaled over a timeframe when the plane was lost was expected to crash.

The group of experts carried out their research based on analysis that a Boeing 777 aircraft would generate kinetic energy similar to a small earthquake if it hit the sea surface at a speed of 200 meters per hour.

That hard hit has enough power to record the hydrophone, even though it is thousands of kilometers away.

According to the researcher, the signal was detected in Cape Leeuwin in western Australia and is one of two hydrophone posts located close enough from the last known location of the aircraft.