According to Malaysian news publication Bernama, a satellite communication expert Zaaim Redha Abdul Rahman claims that MH370 is lying “largely intact” at the bottom of Indian Ocean.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Friday that most of the debris found in the Maldives is unrelated to the missing flight of Malaysian Airlines MH370.
Voice 370 said that Malaysia is the only party to have conclusively stated that the Reunion wreckage was from MH370.
This is consistent with what other experts have said about the likely fate of the plane after new evidence emerged last month.
A piece of debris that was nearly certainly part of MH370 suggests the aircraft may have glided along after running out of fuel and descended slowly into the water.
Rahman then noted that if the plane “had crashed with a really hard impact”, then immediately after this collision, dozens upon dozens of small pieces of debris would have emerged and then been floating on top of the sea.
“Furthermore the flaperon that was recovered wouldn’t have been in one piece… we would have seen only bits and pieces of it”. After the impact, Zaaim says he believes the plane “floated for a while” before submerging into the deep sea “in one piece”.
Bloomberg quotes former US National Transportation Safety Board investigator Greg Feith saying that since the part was not “crushed” experts will be able to “deduce it was either a low-energy crash or low-energy intentional ditching”.
The Maldives joined a regional search for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after islanders spotted unidentified debris washed up along the northern atolls of the Indian Ocean archipelago.
“They have today officially started investigating the debris found in the Maldives”, Shareef, a minister attached to the president’s office, told AFP by telephone from the capital island Male. The island’s top authority has said in a statement that the search has so far turned up “no significant elements”.
The administrator said search operations will continue until next week.
