A message left on a board of remembrance by Kelly (last name not given), 29, the wife of a passenger aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, at a vigil ahead of the one-year anniversary of its disappearance in Kuala Lumpur, March 6, 2015. Malaysia (Photo : REUTERS/Olivia Harris )
Even after a year of its disappearance, the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 remains missing. Latest claims by Maldives islanders suggest the possibility of the missing Boeing 777 crashing approximately 3000 miles away from the location investigators have been searching from last one year.
According to a report by The Weekend Australian (via Daily Mail), a group of locals from island of Kudahuvadhoo, situated in the Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives, claim that they saw a "low-flying jumbo jet" on the morning MH370 went missing.
The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines aircraft disappeared on March 8, 2014 few minutes after its take off from Kuala Lumpur. The plane was carrying 239 people on board including the crew and the passengers from 15 different nations. Several theories about the plane's whereabouts have emerged. However, the authorities are yet to discover any signs or clues belonging to MH370.
A community of 3500 villagers claims that many of them saw the passenger plane with red and blue markings that was flying unusually low over head. According to the report, these locals even produced signed witness statements to the police after being interviewed by the officers. However, they are stunned to know that their statements are being neglected in the search of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370.
Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim a local from the Maldives Island told that he witnessed a plane flying towards him but he was not aware that it could be the missing MH370. He said that he went home and told his family that he saw this "strange plane."
"This is the biggest plane I have ever seen from this island...I have seen pictures of the missing plane- I believe I saw the plane...," Ibrahim told the abovementioned daily news Australian publication.
The eyewitness claims that the plane was so low that they could see its doors clearly. Ibrahim states that there are many other island inhabitants who moved out of their house to see what was causing the noise.
According to Daily Mail, Maldives National Defence Force released a statement in March 2014 stating that there weren't any airplanes in the area at the time MH370 vanished. The report notes that locals have labelled this as a cover up by the authorities attempting to hide the limitations of their radar system.
Meanwhile, scientists from Curtin University are not ready to rule out a theory based on acoustic signal supposedly received from the area at the time of the crash could possibly be from MH370. Alec Duncan and his colleagues from the University's Marine Science and Technology department studied the sound that was recorded west of Rottnest Island on March 8.
"Data from one of the IMOS (Integrated Marine Observing System) recorders showed a clear acoustic signal at a time that was reasonably consistent with other information relating to the disappearance of MH370," Duncan was quoted as saying in a statement by Curtin University.
"The crash of a large aircraft in the ocean would be a high energy event and expected to generate intense underwater sounds," Ducan continues.
