A volunteer researcher who volunteered to assist in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 when it went missing claims to have discovered the plane’s debris years earlier but was never taken seriously.
On March 8, 2014, the plane was flying between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on a typical red-eye journey when it vanished over the South China Sea.
After less than an hour in the air, communication with the jet abruptly stopped, and while it could be watched by a military radar for another hour, it had diverted from its itinerary after completing a U-turn.
The hunt for the missing jet became the most costly in aviation history, yet nine years later there are still no answers.
The lives of all 239 individuals on board are thought to be lost.
MH370: The Aircraft That Disappeared, a new three-part Netflix documentary series, has now probed three of the most disputed ideas regarding what occurred.
It also includes interviews with family members, scientists, journalists, and regular individuals from all around the world who volunteered to help with the hunt.
Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer, reports the jet crashed thousands of miles away from the primary search area.
After analysing satellite photographs, she concluded that the wreckage was not far from where it went missing.
Hendry, who worked for the now-defunct satellite photography business Tomnod, discovered ‘evidence’ of plane debris in the South China Sea mere days after the jet went missing.
She said, however, that her finding was mostly overlooked since the search was centred on a location in the Indian Ocean.
When asked why she got engaged in the first place, Hendry stated the ‘anguish’ on the faces of the family members prompted her to intervene.
‘It just tugged on my heartstrings. My hobby is photography, so I have an eye for detail,’ she said.
‘I thought I could be a great person to help look for this plane from the satellite images.’
Hendry, who resides in Florida, claimed to have discovered the letter ‘M’ on a piece of wreckage while using a satellite to investigate a region off the coast of Vietnam.
She went on to say that the form was a ‘near exact match’ to the letters on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
‘The satellite photographs were devoid of anything. That was simply the darkness of the water. Then you hit the next button to see additional black scans. So much darkness. ‘And suddenly there’s something white,’ she remembered.
‘I pulled the schematics off the internet for a Boeing 777. And I was able to identify a piece as the nose cone.
‘That’s when I started saying, “There’s a piece of debris. There’s the airplane”.
‘And then I started seeing more pieces. Something that looked like the fuselage. Something that looked like the tail. I got goosebumps.’
Nevertheless, Hendry said she was mostly disregarded by government investigators and Malaysia Airlines, but was positive she had ‘evidence in the South China Sea’.
‘The more I searched, the more debris I found,’ she said in the documentary.
‘I feel certain that this is where MH370 ended up, off of Vietnam.
‘At that point, I already had contacted Malaysia Airlines. I tried to reach out to so many people to tell them that this debris exists. Nobody was listening to me.’
Once another business supplied data indicating that the jet had crashed in the Indian Ocean, the search was narrowed down to a region off Australia’s western coast.
In 2015, debris from the plane was discovered on Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean.
Further bits of debris have been retrieved from other islands in the same vicinity in the years following.
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared is streaming on Netflix.
Source My Celebrity Life.
