MH370 mystery continues: Will the doomed plane ever be found? | 60 Minutes Australia

What did a wing look like? It was the wing of a damn air

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. Is this the big breakthrough? Solve the biggest

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of the 21st century that the world has been waiting for. How much more credible does it have to be? I don't think you can get it. More precisely, appearing on 60 Minutes really seems to tear at the fabric of reality that the entire airline line and New Hope simply disappeared after a decade of despair. I don't know if I can wait another 10 years in the search for MH370. where is the right place if we had known we would have looked there that's next on 60 Minutes it's been 10 years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was lost somewhere in the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean for the families of the 239 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing Tri 7 it has been a decade of despair living with the endless pain of not knowing what happened to their loved ones, many of them also have feelings of anger, much of which is directed at the governments of

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yone who seems reluctant to do more to find the solution.

The truth about this disaster is a frustration that is amplified because, as you

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to be collected. MH370 is a

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that can be solved. I think there's something special about seeing the ocean, it's like an old friend to Kitover. kit how long have you spent here? probably most of the 40 years of all the time the 78-year-old fisherman has spent at sea. There is one catch you

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, not every airplane kid believes it ripped the wing off flight MH370.

The disappearance of the Boeing Tri 7 10 years ago is the world's biggest aviation mystery. The plane was carried by 239 people, including six Australians. when he left quala lumor bound for Beijing, but never arrived. Disappeared somewhere in the Indian Ocean. If Kit was right, he just

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a big piece of the puzzle not far off the coast of South Australia. When did you first think about MH370? As soon as we saw it, we thought. Of course we did and we saw it pretty well. Kit regrets not being able to rescue what could be crucial evidence. He says the wing got stuck in the net of his deep-sea fishing troller, so he had to cut it out. free that was in October 2014 Just 7 months after flight MH370 was lost, Kit says he reported his find to the authorities shortly after returning to ground and again 3 years later they responded saying they thought it might be a container and What I knew It was a container It was the wing of an airplane What do you say to people who might doubt what you saw that day?

Funny people just don't believe me. That's up to them between those criticisms that I didn't take out my phone. have fun, I didn't go on a damn picnic halfway through either I wasn't busy how many wings are there at the bottom of the ocean, big like the wing you

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, I wouldn't have thought that many, um, and that was another part of I think it doesn't come from from the MH3 sign, what is it? Do you think Kit Over's story is plausible? Yes, it is absolutely plausible. Peter Wear was the deputy director of operations on the first search for MH370 which ended in 2017.

It was led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. or atsb and he could not find any trace of the aircraft, another mission by the American company Ocean Infiniti was canceled in 2018 without any success. The underwater explorer beli leaves. The authorities should now take Kit's report seriously, as long as he has an accurate position and believes he is on the bottom. and it's not too deep, it would be relatively cheap to send out a small sonar and scan the sea. Flower and a wing if it were in one piece and lying at the bottom of the sea.

Flower, it would stand out. Being able to get back to it very quickly. We know what the answers would mean to the victims' families, but what would they mean to you? For me. It would feel like we had finally finished something we started so long ago. We have always felt it. I like this book open and something I haven't been able to completely get over, but I would love nothing more than to have it finished and I'm sure that's the case for everyone who worked on the search to find the remains. it would mean even more to Jackie González her husband Patrick Gómez was the chief steward on flight MH370 I thought we would have answers much sooner 10 years I don't know if I can wait another 10 years this doesn't seem fair right?

No, a lot of people miss him, not only us, his friends miss him, but 10 years, of course, he won't come back. You know, we have to accept it, but we still need to know exactly where it is and how it happened. You know, we. I just have to wait this is Patrick going through airport security at quala loo for the last time this is the security manual he has to read normally he will look through it before taking a flight as a refresher you can have it all There are many security manuals in the world , but you could never be prepared for that.

No it does, it's not even in the safety book. Know? What happens if the plane is lost? The most frustrating thing is that we could now be closer than ever to knowing where the plane is. The plane is, but no one is willing to go look for it on top of Kid Over's Discovery. Aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey believes he has identified another location where parts of the wreckage could be. Do you think the Malaysian government is trying to cover up the truth about MH370? They are certainly showing very little interest We have shared our research with them They say thank you very much but we never hear back Four years ago Richard began publishing his analysis of thousands of disturbances in radio signals caused by an airplane on the night of March 8, 2014, says the plane was MH370 and used the data to plot the exact flight path toward the Indian Ocean.

Since then, are you more sure or less sure that you're right? I'm much more sure that I enjoyed it. two eminent scientists, we have also offered our research and our programs to academics around the world, we are in a search area that has a radius of 30 kilometers, so it is something that could be done in just a matter of a couple of weeks Richard has no doubts, but it appears the Malaysian government has reservations and says it will only restart the search if it receives new, credible evidence. So how much more believable do you have to get?

I don't think I can get much. more credible from a scientific point of view. I don't think you can be more precise in knowing the flight route and knowing the location of the accident. Why do you think there have not been more searches if the plane or the pilot or the airline is considered to be somehow to blame for the disappearance then the Malaysian government is the ultimate owner of the airline and MH370 is exposed to compensation claims, in my opinion, they would prefer to bury the problem. The failed searches for MH370 were based on the same assumption that no one was in control of the plane when it crashed into the ocean, but a decade later many experts believe authorities discovered it.

It's bad if there is someone at the controls all the way and the search area is very, very different from the one we actually looked at. That and that scenario, uh, I don't think it was adequately considered, it certainly wasn't by the Australian government. We had drawn this box, this search box, and really, at one point I think we just became able to think outside of it, but the ATSB still maintains its search even after Kit's reported discovery and Richard's investigation into the route. of flight, we are evidence. based organization and at this time we have no new evidence to suggest that what we assessed at the time was incorrect, so what he's saying is for the families of those on board that the original search is as good as it gets.

It was as good as 10 years ago with the evidence available, but tragically and for the families it was not like that, it did not produce results. Angus Mitchell became chief commissioner of the atsb in 2021, 4 years after the organization stopped searching for MH370. These boxes in his office were built to house the flight recorders that ATS is expected to rescue from the rubble, but now they are a daily reminder that his team couldn't find anything. There are only two reasons why the search for him failed: or he missed the plane. or you were looking in the wrong place, which do you think is more likely?

Well, I think it's probably a combination of part of the resolution of that search area with a high degree of precision and we didn't find it there, so it would suggest that part of the place we're searching was not the right place now, where is the right place if we had known we would have searched there, is little comfort to Jackie and her family, who will never accept that the authorities could simply stop searching. Patrick, they have insulted my family and all the other families on board thinking that they are nothing, they are nothing, they are dads, they are moms, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, you know, children, family members, they are not just one thing we lost what you would give for a hug from patrick what i would give for a hug a fight anything you know but it doesn't happen its really worrying in fact not only have we reached this 10 year mark but there is absolutely nothing in the It may have turned into 20 years very quickly for someone who worked at the heart of that initial search, how does that sit with you?

Well, none of that has sat well with me, actually, to be honest, I think it worries me repeatedly. and it seems to really tear at the fabric of reality that an entire plane with 239 people on board just disappeared, one of the largest planes in existence. Australia could have a huge role to play in finally finding MH370, but we ask why our government won. Failing to step forward when 239 people went missing, you'd think authorities would never give up the search to find them, but Fuad Shuji fears that's exactly what happened in the MH370 case. There is no answer, no closure that remains in place in the weeks and months afterward.

The trip of the Boeing 7 disappearing was the most stressful moment in Fuad's career. You must have felt like the weight of the world was on your shoulders. Yes, exactly, absolutely. I felt like everything depends on me. He was in charge of handling the crisis at Malaysia Airlines. If we could refine the watch, there were certain things we could have done differently. Yes, what is the main thing you would do differently? We could have improved intercommunication with the different government agencies instead of being disjointed. The police are doing something. the military are doing something else, the Ministry of Transport was not very effective as many affected by this disaster are desperate to know what went wrong and why but there is a chance they will never accept that it was a deliberate act of murder in mass.

According to his friend and colleague of 30 years, pilot Captain Zahari Ahmad Shah, he does not have the ability or character of an assassin, but many have speculated that because he had plotted an almost identical flight path in his home simulator , that shows that there were bad intentions. There were 3,000 flights in his flight simulator. There was only one flight that went to the Indian Ocean. What other reason could Captain Zahari have been planning that flight? I don't know, I mean, it's very common for pilots to practice ditching, landing at sea and taking their own life uh it's not uh you can't understand it I can't understand it at all why do you think no one wanted to consider the idea of that someone was at the controls of the plane when it entered the ocean, it was psychologically very challenging to consider that someone could have cut off oxygen to all the passengers and then blown up the plane for hours and hours afterwards.

I think the psychological profile of someone who would do that is very far away. out of scale that it was very difficult for people to think that the only way to prove that theory is to find the wreckage of the plane that Peter was carrying. He tried in 2015, he worked on the first search for MH37, but surveyor Undeas believes the mission was

doomed

to failure. As soon as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau or atsb was put in charge, the Australian government made a fundamental mistake by assuming that a transport investigation authority could conduct a search and not just any search, but the largest search in the world. history of humanity.

I think that just goes back to the fundamental problem that was at the atsb uh, even though it was full of good caring people, people that I still consider friends, it wasn't the right organization, it wasn't the right agency to do the search, right? do you think the atsb? was the best person for the job, this was certainly not a solo effort by atsb, it was very much a multinational effort to search for the plane which as you know was tragically unsuccessful at the time, 10 years at atsb, Angus Mitchell admits they are no closer to finding the plane - he has examined Richard Godfrey's research and is aware of Kitol's claim to have found the wing of MH370 off the coast of South Australia - but the chief commissioner says which is still not enough, which prevents you from starting asearch.

Well, it's not. A decision by the ATSB to commit government resources to a search initially falls to a state of record which would then reach the Australian Government if there was a request for the Australian Government to assist, who would then decide whether or not it was an ATSP role. Is that something you're pushing for? I'm pushing for the ability to continue researching all those others. There have been 900 investigations in the aviation section in the last 10 years since this incident. Surely this is the most important, although well. I think they are all important so I have over 200 deaths in the last 10 years in aviation but ultimately there are some things that are beyond our capabilities and at this stage that is where MH370 is, that is horrible and it is terrible for families. of those loved ones absolutely and that's something that weighs heavily on our staff as well, what more could the Australian government do?

I think the Australian government needs to potentially co-sponsor a new search and apply some pressure if they can. We Malaysians, um, we started something and I think most Australians would agree that once you start something you should try to finish it, no matter who you talk to about MH370, they all want the same thing, for someone to step up. and resume the search for the missing plane. You would think that the 10th anniversary would be a good time for the Malaysian government to do so, but there is little hope that anyone, from the Prime Minister on down, will speak to us even to acknowledge the endless pain of the families left behind .

I'm angry that they don't recognize what they were supposed to do, they promised that we will find the plane, you know, we will do everything we can, we will not give up a decade after losing her husband Patrick in the Jackie tragedy. González has to accept that his granddaughter will never be able to meet him. The only thing she can hope for is that she will one day put him to rest. If you could say something to Patrick, what would you say? Have fun up there. You know, have a beer. whisper in our ears, talk to your grandchildren, what else can I tell him to do, you know?, except let him rest in peace.

The boy can't stop thinking about how close he could have been to solving the mystery of MH370 and it seems to be him. It worries me more now because I watched a couple of shows about the victims' relatives and you have to feel it now. Can I contribute? Perhaps today the greatest hope lies with Ocean Infinity, the American company you last searched for. For MH370 in 2018, they told us they wanted to try again in a different area of ​​the Indian Ocean later this year, but they need the support of the Malaysian government, without that what we would really need is a generous philanthropist who would be willing to spend. some money on a new quest, so that's really the next question: are you willing to go out and solve the biggest mystery of the 21st century?

I hope the answer is yes. Hi, I'm Emelia Adams, thanks for watching 60 Minutes Australia, please subscribe. Visit our channel now to see our new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss our bonus minute segments and full 60 Minute episodes on .com. Au and the 9 Now app