Mathematicians claim they have finally solved the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370. The researchers used mathematical modelling to come up with an explanation as to why no wreckage or debris was found from the crash up to this time.
In their report published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, the team has simulated five different scenarios for the water entry when the plane crashed. According to their calculations, the plane took a vertical nosedive into the South Indian Ocean.
Aviation experts agree that the way the airliner entered the water determines the way it would have been broken down. This would then lead to multiple clues and directions that would help the search operations. This is also the main reason why the search team has had no luck so far.
The team leader, applied mathematician Goong Chen from the Texas A&M University at Qatar, joined a team of engineers, mathematicians and computational scientists, to calculate the most probable way MH 370 crashed. The five scenarios they have devised include one that is similar to the “Miracle on the Hudson” landing in 2009 where every passenger survived. Based on the physics of how the aircraft could have disintegrated, the researchers concluded their theory to be speculative but forensic.
Chen said in a press release that the real moments of the MH370 will likely remain a mystery until someday the black box gets recovered and decoded. So far, he stands on their theory that the airplane plunged into the ocean in a nosedive dismissing all possibilities of it being recovered.
The authors of the paper noted that even though the event was a tragic one, this gives way to opening an avenue of creating and computing a modelling type that can make air travel safer so that they can eliminate real-life dangers. They added that they have showed the world in their research that computational mathematics and mechanics can help everyone understand the physical nature of an aircraft emergency. Therefore, modelling and computing safety measures will become an important requirement for aircraft manufacturers.
They concluded that with the hundreds of thousands of aircraft passengers, numerical simulations can help improve passenger survival in emergency water landings.
Malaysia continues the search
Moreover, Malaysia insisted on completing the hunt for the plane and its remains. The nation already discontinued its contract with one of the three search vessels going over the Indian Ocean seabed. The Australian-led operation announced that they will no longer renew its contract with GO Phoenix, a high-tech ship, after the hiatus on the southern hemisphere winter.
Families of the passengers of the flight were disappointed to hear that Malaysia is pulling back its efforts in finding the plane. The situation could have not been more hopeless but without any proof that the passengers are dead, the families they left behind would be in an agony of not knowing where their family members are.
How can mathematical modeling eliminate real-life dangers and make air travel safer when their model does not even identify where to find MH370, much less explain the cause of MH370’s loss?
What a load of self justifying mumbo jumbo. Let the “EXPERTS” locate this sad tragic aircraft before the obscenity of “EXPERTS” taking their bows.
The truth is they ignored over 400 floating objects spotted by satellite 425nm south of the seabed search area, two of which were the size of wings from a Boeing 777, simply because they did not match the mathematical modeling.
Should it ever emerge that these debris 425nm further south were from MH370, then far from taking a bow, I hope these experts will all be just as keen to line up and take the blame for misdirecting the search?