A fresh analysis of the final moments of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators yesterday, as experts hunting for the aircraft gathered in Australia’s capital to discuss the fading search effort
File photo of a Royal New Zealand Airforce crew member during the search off Perth. Pic/AFP
Sydney: A fresh analysis of the final moments of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators yesterday, as experts hunting for the aircraft gathered in Australia’s capital to discuss the fading search effort.
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A technical report released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which leads the search, seems to support the theory investigators have long favoured: that no one was at the controls of the Boeing 777 when it ran out of fuel and dove into a remote patch of the Indian Ocean off western Australia in 2014.
The report also said that an analysis of a wing flap that washed ashore in Tanzania indicates the flap was likely not deployed when it broke off the plane. A pilot would typically extend the flaps during a controlled ditching.
Peter Foley, the bureau’s director of the search, has previously said if the flap was not deployed, it would rule out the theory that the plane entered the water in a controlled ditch and would validate that searchers are looking in the right place for the wreckage.
The report’s release comes as a team of international and Australian experts begins a three-day summit in Canberra to re-examine the data associated with the hunt.
239
Number of people on board when the plane vanished
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