Missing Flight MH370 ‘Could Be Intact On Sea Bed’

His suggestion that it’s possible for a plane of that size to float for a while before sinking was proved by US Airways Flight 1549 that landed on the Hudson River in 2009, and remained above water for long enough for all 155 passengers and crew aboard to be evacuated.

Zaaim Redha Abdul Rahman, who previously worked as part of the team that tried to locate the stricken plane in the days after it disappeared, created this theory after gathering information using the satellite data from Inmarsat.

Three Malaysian aviation experts today began examining debris found in the Maldives to determine if it could be wreckage from Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet, a minister said. “They are not related to MH370 and not even plane material”, he said.

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. “If MH370 had crashed with a really hard impact, we would have seen small pieces of debris floating on the sea immediately after that”.

The report raises the possibility that one or more of the 239 people on board were still alive when the Boeing 777 ditched into the ocean after flying for more than seven hours off course.

A piece of the airplane wing was discovered on the Reunion Island coast on July 29 and was sent to France for further analysis. Therefore, the plane was in one piece when it sank into the deep sea. The Réunion debris was the first confirmed piece of MH370 wreckage.

Authorities in Reunion, the island nation of Mauritius, and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean also have announced stepped-up vigilance for possible debris.

The search operation’s headquarters said in a statement yesterday that it was “in all probability” from MH370.