Astonishing new data could finally provide a breakthrough for the whereabouts of missing passenger aircraft, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. No trace of the commercial flight has ever been found for more than a decade ever since the plane vanished from radar on March 8, 2014, along with 239 passengers and crew. 

Various theories as to the fate of those on board the ill-fated flight have swirled for years, including mechanical failure, deliberate pilot actions, and even a mass alien abduction. But for the distraught families missing loved ones there has always been hope for some concrete evidence of the whereabouts of the plane to give some sense of final closure. 

Now new research by Dr Vincent Lyne, a former University of Tasmania researcher, claims acoustic data detected at around 59 minutes past midnight on March 8, 2014, may finally signal where MH370 finally came to rest. 

According to Dr Lyne, the signals, combined with satellite data, pinpoint the precise location of flight MH370 meaning it most likely lies in the Penang Longitude Deep Hole, an undersea 6,000 metre depression around 930 miles west of Perth. 

Dr Lyne cited previous research published by Dr Usama Kadri, from Cardiff University, who found data from hydrophones (underwater microphones) detected aircraft impacts onto water from as far as 1,800 mile away.

The scientist added that MH370 likely came down along the so-called ‘7th Arc’, the curved flight path deemed most likely using satellite pings for the area where the plane ran out of fuel and crashed. 

He said: “MH370 did not vanish without trace, the traces which required the resolution of sound timings to seconds and directions to within a degree, simply could not be fitted to the wrong official locations around the 7th arc.

“The convergence of physics, acoustics, satellite telemetry and debris forensics, together with the resolved riddles hidden in the Pilot-in-Command home simulator track, all point to one small, unsearched trench.

“That is where MH370 is. Searching along the official 7th arc search zone will fail as MH370 is simply not there.”

Dr Lyne, whose research was published on December 8, concluded MH370 was recorded by four Indian Ocean monitoring stations which detected a clear accurate picture of what happened to the plane, which he said was; a controlled descent, attempted water landing, fuselage sinking through the water column and final impact at depth.