What happened to Flight MH370?

It has been an enduring mystery - what precisely happened to Malaysian Airways Flight MH370?

I am sure you remember the background;

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China. The cause of its disappearance has not been determined. It remains the single deadliest case of aircraft disappearance in history.

2014 was when it vanished without obvious trace and despite all kinds of theories I don’t believe we have a definitive solution to the mystery. But has that just changed?

I read that a scientist has claimed to have pinpointed the 'perfect hiding place' for Malaysian Airlines MH370, more than a decade after it disappeared.

Vincent Lyne, an adjunct researcher at the University of Tasmania, believes that the evidence available of the flight's disappearance suggests that the plane was deliberately flown into a deep 6,000m (20,000ft) deep 'hole' in the Indian Ocean's Broken Ridge. 

Lyne, who works at the university's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, described Broken Ridge as 'a very rugged and dangerous ocean environment... with narrow steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes'.  'It is filled with fine sediments—a perfect “hiding” place', suggesting the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, deliberately crashed the plane which had 239 people on board at the time. 

Has he any evidence to support his theory? Well…

This work changes the narrative of MH-370's disappearance from one of a no-blame fuel starvation at the 7th arc, high-speed dive, to a mastermind pilot executing an incredible perfect-disappearance in the Southern Indian Ocean.

'In fact, it would have worked were it not for MH-370 ploughing its right wing through a wave and the discovery of the regular interrogation satellite communications by Inmarsat—a brilliant discovery also announced in the Journal of Navigation.' 

So where did the Plane end up?

'Encouragingly, we now know very precisely that MH-370 is where the longitude of Penang airport (the runway no less) intersects the Pilot-in-command home simulator track discovered and discarded by the FBI and officials as "irrelevant,"' Lyne wrote. 

'That premeditated iconic location harbors a very deep, 6,000 meter [6561.68 yard] hole at the eastern end of the Broken Ridge within a rugged and dangerous ocean environment renowned for its wild fisheries and new deep-water species.

'With narrow steep sides, surrounded by massive ridges and other deep holes, it is filled with fine sediments - a perfect "hiding" place.' 

Is this the final resting place for MH370 and all 239 occupants? If so, what does that say to the mindset of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah?