The pilot of the MH370 jet plane, which mysteriously disappeared over the Indian Ocean, may have taken the entire plane hostage, a British engineer claimed.

The Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared in 2014 with 239 on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Richard Godfrey, 71, used new tracking technology to solve one of the greatest aviation puzzles in history.

The engineer is said to have located the exact resting place of the Boeing 777 – on the sea floor about 1,200 miles west of Perth, Australia.

But the question remains, why did the flight from Malaysia to China deviate so crazy?

Mr Godfrey, who lives in Germany, believes the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had a political motive, he told the Times.

And he believes that some information is being withheld by the Malaysian government seven years later.

The crucial clue seems to be the 22-minute hold in which the MH370 inexplicably intruded off the coast of Sumatra.

Mr. Godfrey said, “My current view is that the captain hijacked and hijacked his own plane. “

He stated that Zaharie was a supporter of the Malaysian opposition and, in fact, an acquaintance of its leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Just a day before MH370 started, Ibrahim was sentenced to five years in prison for sodomy.

Many of his supporters have claimed that these allegations are false and politically motivated.

Mr. Godfrey speculates that this may be enough to get the pilot to act and try to take his own passengers hostage.

And although he admits that he “has no evidence” and that discussions about the pilots’ motives at this point are “speculations”, he makes a compelling point.

Perhaps this negotiation went wrong and he flew to the most remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.

Richard Godfrey

Mr. Godfrey suggested that the 22-minute circling mystery may have been Zaharie’s attempt to negotiate Ibrahim’s release.

“Maybe this negotiation went wrong and he’s going to the most remote part of the southern Indian Ocean,” he said.

The Malaysian military authorities only fuel such theories because they refuse to disclose military radar data.

Mr. Godfrey said, “I understand that some information is still withheld, mainly by the Malaysian government. “

Zaharie is known to plot his bizarre route on a flight simulator found at his home – which fuels the theory that the disappearance was deliberate.

The world may never know what Zaharie was up to, but thanks to the work of Mr. Godfrey, the plane wrecks can still be found.

Mr. Godfrey used radio signals that acted as “trigger wires” to help him locate the jet, which he believed to be 13,000 feet below the surface of the sea.

He believes it lies at the foot of what is known as the Broken Ridge – an underwater plateau with a volcano and canyons in the southeastern Indian Ocean.

The engineer said the new tracking system called the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) was like a “pile of tripwires running in all directions from the horizon to the other side of the earth”.

Godfrey combined the new technology with data from the aircraft’s satellite communications system.

He said, “Together, the two systems can be used to detect, identify and locate the MH370 during its flight path in the southern Indian Ocean. “

The Briton said he was “very confident” that he had found the missing plane, which he said crashed at 8:19 am.

“We have a lot of satellite data, we have oceanography, we have drift analysis, we have performance data from Boeing and now this new technology,” he added.

“All four line up at a certain point in the Indian Ocean. “

The Broken Ridge location was not in the original 2015 search zone and was reportedly missed by Ocean Infinity by only 45 km in 2018.

However, according to 7News, the area was part of 2016 research.

Since 2014, 33 pieces of debris have been found in six countries – including South Africa and Madagascar – which, according to experts, prove that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean.

The last large-scale search for the MH370 in 2018 by US robotics company Ocean Infinity – using unmanned underwater vehicles – spanned nearly 50,000 square miles, but nothing was recovered.

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