Retired British engineer claims he can SOLVE the mystery of doomed MH370 with 'one more search' on the 10th anniversary of plane's disappearance

A retired British engineer has claimed that he can solve the mystery of the doomed MH370 with 'one more search' ahead of the ten year anniversary of the plane's disappearance. 

Richard Godfrey, who worked for Boeing and Nasa before retiring, believes that he has traced the route of the plane with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to radio waves.

The Boeing 777 aircraft vanished from radar while carrying 239 people from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014.

Despite extensive multinational searches through the South Indian Ocean, where the aircraft is believed to have crashed, the plane disappeared without a trace and the victims' families remain desperate for answers.

In the following years, debris confirmed or believed to be from the MH370 aircraft was found washed up along the African coast and on islands in the Indian Ocean.

Mr Godfrey, who has made it his life's work to uncover what happened to the flight, said in a new BBC documentary: 'I'm convinced it will only take one more search and we will find MH370.'

Richard Godfrey (pictured) has claimed that he can solve the mystery of the doomed MH370 with 'one more search'

Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion, in the east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015.

What we do know is that MH370 - a Boeing 777 - left Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41am local time and travelled north-east over Malaysia and out over the South China Sea, destined for Beijing Capital International Airport. Pictured: A map showing its route

Mr Godfrey has pinpointed 130 disturbances in WSPR signals over the Southern Indian Ocean on March 8 - which he believes is evidence of the plane's final flight path. The disturbances end just outside of the 7th arc, which has not been included in any underwater search to date.

'I think we have not found MH370 simply because we did not look wide enough from the 7th arc,' he added. 

The retired engineer is working with Simon Maskell, an academic at Liverpool University, to plot the route of the doomed plane using 'weak signal propagation reporter (WSPR). 

'It is more likely than not that WSPR data detected MH370,' Mr Maskell told The Times. 

'I'm on Richard's side of the fence. If I thought it was a dead duck I wouldn't be wasting my time.' 

It comes after the Malaysian government threw its support around a proposed new search for the missing plane after Ocean Infinity announced a 'no find, no fee' proposal for a 15,000-square-kilometre search of the Southern Indian Ocean.

MH370 left Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014 at 12.41am local time and travelled north-east over Malaysia and out over the South China Sea, destined for Beijing Capital International Airport.

The crew last communicated with air traffic control 38 minutes after take-off, around halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam.

Moving from Kuala Lumpur to Ho Chi Minh airspace,  Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was heard saying: 'Goodnight. Malaysian three seven zero.'

Minutes after, it is believed to have suddenly deviated westward from its planned flight path. Military radar tracked MH370 across the Malay Peninsular and over the Andaman Sea, before it left radar range 230 miles northwest of Penang Island.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people on-board took off into the night's sky from Kuala Lumpur, never to be seen or heard from again. Pictured: A CGI rendering of MH370 from a National Geographic documentary that shows an apparent crash

The most persistent theory has centred on the pilot - Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) - and suggestions that it was a deliberate act because he was facing personal problems

Officers carrying pieces of debris from an unidentified aircraft apparently washed ashore in Saint-Andre de la Reunion, eastern La Reunion island, France on July 29, 2015

The last primary radar contact was made at 2.22am, when it vanished, as if into thin air. All 239 people on the aircraft are presumed dead.

An expensive multinational search failed to turn up any clues, although debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands. A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing.

Many theories have formed in the absence of any answers, as has anger in China - where most of the passengers were from - and Malaysia.

Such theories include a mass hypoxia event, a possible hijacking, a murder-suicide plot by the pilot, and even claims the US air force was responsible.

The tragedy, regarded as the biggest aviation mystery of the 21st century, sparked moves to bolster aviation safety.

V.P.R. Nathan, a member of the Voice MH370 next-of-kin group, said Ocean Infinity initially planned a search last year but it was delayed by the delivery of a new fleet. It is now on track to resume the hunt, he said.

Pictured: A Boeing 777 flaperon cut down to match the one from flight MH370 found on Reunion island off the coast of Africa in 2015 (file photo)

Now, ten years later, one of the world's largest aviation disasters still remains one of the great mysteries of our age, with no investigation resulting in a definitive answer to the question of what happened to the plane, its passengers and its crew. Pictured: The missing aircraft MH370 taking off in France in 2011

Ocean Infinity CEO Oliver Punkett told the New Straits Times that the company had improved its technology since 2018.

'We now feel in a position to be able to return to the search for MH370,' he told the English-language daily. 'We've been working with many experts, some outside of Ocean Infinity, to continue analysing the data in the hopes of narrowing the search area down to one in which success becomes potentially achievable.'

Loke declined to reveal the fee proposed by Ocean Infinity if it finds the plane, saying it is subject to negotiation. He said cost is not an issue and that he doesn't foresee any hindrances for the search.

About 500 relatives and their supporters gathered Sunday at a shopping centre near the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a 'remembrance day', with many visibly overcome with grief.

Some of the relatives came from China, where almost two-thirds of the passengers of the doomed plane were from.

'The last 10 years have been a nonstop emotional rollercoaster for me,' Grace Nathan, whose mother Anne Daisy was on the flight, told AFP.