New MH370 report is less a breakthrough and offers more a heartache for families

The latest report of the location of where MH370 does offer some compelling and almost convincing evidence — but it’s missing a lot of pieces.

As a kid, I loved pin the tail on the donkey.

You’d be blindfolded, spun around three times to the left, once to the right then shoved with a degree of force toward the board the find the most likely position of a donkey’s tail.

Looking for MH370 is very similar.

And the latest report doesn’t need to be right, it’s just another play in the game of trying to solve the greatest aviation mystery in history.

A man walking in front of a mural of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane in a back-alley in Shah Alam. Picture: AFP

There have been literally dozens of theories over the years as well as sightings and conspiracies, usually involving a disturbed pilot, a freak accident or Chinese dissidents trying to cover up some unexplained secret.

The suggested flight path of MH370. Sumatra, Indonesia can be seen at the top right of the map. Picture: Supplied

None bring the mystery of MH370 any closer to being solved.

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That said, the latest 229-page report by a team of researchers does offer some compelling and almost convincing evidence.

It has to be said it is not the first time their amateur radio theory had been offered up. And it has previously on at least two occasions indeed been legitimately detailed enough to get the attention of the authorities.

British Aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey.

But alas not enough to convince any government – namely Australian or Malaysian – into spending the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost to actually dispatch a crew and deep ocean vessel with an underwater drone, to go out and check.

The researchers will tell you it is credible new evidence and a breakthrough, but they are the authors and to say anything else would be a waste of everyone’s time.

ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell with empty boxes that were built to house the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from the MH370 aircraft when it is found. Picture: Sky News

The fate of the aircraft could be 1560km west of Perth as they say or it could be closer to Madagascar or indeed in a hangar on the island of Diego Garcia as some have claimed.

In truth, once that aircraft turned over Malaysia and headed south west, no-one really knows for sure.

Constant theories and claims of significant breakthroughs while it may spark public imagination does very little for the families of the 239 passengers and crew whose fate tragically remains unknown. They can no longer bare to read such “breakthroughs”.

In the game of find that plane it is likely to forever remain as elusive as the donkey’s derrière.

Originally published as New MH370 report is less a breakthrough and offers more a heartache for families