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The Hoax Known As MH370 (reprint)

February 11, 2023 by Michael Chillit

Introduction

In late 2016 MH370‘s final resting place was calculated by the author to be at or near what is now colloquially known as the “Zenith Abyss” in the South Indian Ocean 1,200 kilometers west of the small town of Exmouth, Western Australia. The author used publicly available telemetry acquired by Inmarsat’s 3-F1 satellite on March 8, 2014, to calculate the plane’s endpoint.

The analysis initially endeavored to identify the relatively small portion of the plane’s final ping – with a circumference of 30,254 kilometers – that could actually have been flown the day the plane was lost. Specifically, where was the plane when the satellite recorded its final ping at 8:19 AM local? The only thing certain was that the answer — if one could be found — would be unlike anything else in use at the time because it would have nothing whatever to do with fuel reserves, ground speed, or compass heading. Those traditional metrics had become unknowable after the plane’s communication systems were disabled forty minutes after takeoff.

The solution turned out to be surprisingly straightforward. The plane’s location on the circumference of the final ping required nothing more than an accurate measure of the radius of the final ping, which was known to have been 4,815 kilometers. At the moment MH370 entered the South Indian Ocean at Zenith, the illustration below shows the departure airport at Kuala Lumpur, Inmarsat’s 3-F1 satellite, and provides a partial overview of the area spanned by the circumference of the final ping. The latter extended from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in west central Africa to the Malay Archipelago.


Image 1: Above, a Google Earth overview of the South Indian Ocean and parts of Oceania when MH370 collided with the ocean surface seven kilometers above the seafloor of Zenith Abyss, 2,760 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur Airport.

Based entirely on the radius of the final ping, two “geometric reflections” were added to the Indian Ocean tableau: a mirror image of the 3-F1 satellite and a mirror image of the final ping. Mathematical formulas can be easily used in lieu of illustrations, but illustrations alone are used here. Neither of the two additional geometric reflections is real if defined as space junk. Yet both are geometrically and mathematically valid constructions. This technique is ancient and is used in the building trades, engineering, optics, and many other pursuits. It is also taught in primary and secondary schools worldwide.


Image 2: Above, a Google Earth overview of the East Indian Ocean and the Malay Archipelago showing the two geometric reflections used to aid identification of MH370’s location as it crashed into the surface of the South Indian Ocean above Zenith Abyss.

The geometric reflections that pinpointed MH370 created two equally likely crash location possibilities at either end of the green vertical line, sometimes known as a common chord or radical axis. As a rule, additional information is needed to determine which of the two endpoints is the correct endpoint. With MH370, that task was greatly simplified by China when it announced that the plane did not enter its airspace. That left only the southern endpoint at Zenith Abyss, which would be confirmed by Germany three years later.

The following chapters take the reader through each step needed to confirm MH370‘s final flight path from takeoff at Kuala Lumpur Airport on March 8, 2014, to its crash site at Zenith Abyss eight hours later.

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