A newly discovered piece of debris from Flight MH370 suggests the pilot lowered the plane’s landing gear just before it plunged into the ocean, supporting the theory that the plane crashed deliberately.
The Boeing 777 component, also known as a revolving door, was found in the possession of a Madagascar fisherman 25 days ago, becoming the first physical evidence to suggest that one of the pilots purposely tried to destroy and sink the plane. Malaysian Airlines plane with 239 passengers and crew on board.
Now a new report published by British engineer Richard Godfrey and self-described American MH370 wreck hunter Blaine Gibson, suggests that the landing gear door swept away by water was likely penetrated from the inside by the plane’s engines which disintegrated on impact.
This makes it very likely that the landing gear was down when the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014, leaving behind one of the biggest aviation mysteries in recent history.
The floating debris item was found washed ashore on the southern beach of the Antsiraka peninsula in Madagascar.
In their new analysis, Godfrey and Gibson suggest that the plane crashed quickly and deliberately.
“The fact that the damage was from the inboard side to the outboard side…leads to the conclusion that the landing gear was severely extended in the impact, which in turn supports the conclusion that there was an active pilot until the end of flight.” ”, the report says.
It added: “The level of damage with fractures on all sides and the extreme force of the penetration through the debris leads to the conclusion that the end of the flight was in a high-speed dive designed to ensure that the aircraft would split in as many pieces as possible.
“The MH370 crash was anything but a soft landing in the ocean.”
The report states that the combination of the high-velocity impact designed to break the aircraft and the extended landing gear designed to sink the aircraft as quickly as possible show a “clear intent to conceal the evidence of the accident.”
Pilots do not usually lower the landing gear if they have to make an emergency landing on water, as the extended landing gear will dip into the water and break contact with the surface, increasing the chances of a catastrophic breakout. as the aircraft decelerates.
Door puncture damage.
While four pieces of debris believed to belong to the missing plane have been discovered on the same beach, the gate is the first to offer real clues to the 2014 crash.
Nineteen pieces of the wreck have so far washed up on the Madagascar coast and have been handed over to authorities.
The latest find, the damaged landing gear door, was discovered at the home of a fisherman, who discovered the part washed up off the coast of the Antsiraka peninsula in March 2017 in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Fernando.
The fisherman guarded the debris for more than five years, oblivious to its existence. He kept him in his big yard and his wife used him as a washboard, and she admitted she had no idea what he was.
