A LEADING expert in the hunt for MH370, which disappeared in 2014 with 239 people on board, claims to have found more credible evidence of the plane’s location, Airlines Ratings reports.

Richard Godfrey, in his latest study, used the Weak Signal Propagation (WSPR) – a digital radio communication protocol – to confirm the location of the missing aircraft.

Godfrey said MH370 tripped off a series of radio transmission detections, confirming it is in the location satellite studies and drift modelling have suggested.

“WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams, but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe.

“JORN or any Over-The-Horizon-Radar is similar to WSPR, it also uses high-frequency radio waves that bounce off the ionosphere and is effectively a very sophisticated tripwire detection system,” he said.

Godfrey said in his report MH370 crossed eight anomalous WSPR DX links during its transit of the Indian Ocean.

These, he said, mirrored the returns of the flight path analysis based on Inmarsat satellite data.

Godfrey is now analysing the WSPR links MH370 crossed in Malaysia and Indonesia, which is considerably harder due to more air traffic.

“This is a lot of needles, in a lot of haystacks,” he added.

The Boeing 777-200ER en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early hours of March 8, 2014, vanished from radar screens, with 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard.

This then sparked one of the largest search efforts in aviation history.

However, in January 2017, Malaysia, Australia, and China jointly called off a two-year underwater search for the aircraft.

Malaysia then accepted a “no-cure, no-fee” offer from US exploration firm Ocean Infinity in 2018.

The three-month search covered 112,000 sq km north of the original target area, without any new discovery when it was called off in May 2018. – April 8, 2021.