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 )
More than 500 days have passed, MH370 still remains a mystery. Meanwhile, a satellite communication expert has explained why the missing Malaysia Airlines flight has not been found yet.
According to Malaysian news publication Bernama, a satellite communication expert Zaaim Redha Abdul Rahman claims that MH370 is lying "largely intact" at the bottom of Indian Ocean. He believes that the mission Boeing 777 did not suffer any major breakage when it landed in Indian Ocean. Therefore, the plane was in one piece when it sank into the deep sea.
Rahman suggests that the ill-fated Boeing MH370 submerged in the sea "after probably floating for a while." The aerospace engineer believes that Beijing-bound MH370 ran out of fuel gliding down on the Indian Ocean.
"I believe that when the aircraft went out of fuel, it glided downwards and landed on the water with a soft impact...that's why I believe the plane is still largely intact," said Rahman.
Rahman assisted the researchers from UK's satellite communication company Inmarsat in the search of MH370. He was one of the several engineers who had analysed the satellite data after the Malaysia Airlines flight went missing. He was also a part of a team that developed Inmarsat-P ICO System (Generation 4) for NEC Japan.
MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, few minutes after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia airport. The flight went off the Air Traffic Controller's radar when it was flying over South China Sea. The missing Malaysia Airlines flight was carrying 239 people of 15 different nationalities.
According to Rahman, the suspected MH370's "two-metre-long flaperon" discovered on French island called La Reunion, strengthens his theory. "It (the flaperon) was only slightly damaged and was just encrusted with barnacles. Its appearance indicates that it was not violently torn off from the aircraft's main body...it does seem that it got detached pretty nicely at its edges," Rahman said.
He said that the plane may have been "deep inside the ocean for quite some time" before the flaperon came off. Further, he explained, that the strong water currents may have caused some other parts to detach from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, before surfacing at the shores of the French Island.
On its official website, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed that the examination of the flaperon has indicated that it belongs to MH370.
More debris including seat cushion and window pane was reportedly found. However, officials are yet to confirm if it belongs to MH370 or not.
