The missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight 370, could be found using a new method, according to a scientist.
Hydrometeorologist Aron Gingis, head of environmental consultancy firm Australian Management Consolidated, says that it’s possible to locate the missing plane by identifying cloud changes for evidence of vapor trails caused by burning fuel emissions from the aircraft.
Gingis, a former Monash University academic who specializes in cloud microphysics, says that the technology has already been used to locate shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean.
But Gingis, who has 27 years of experience, was rejected by Malaysian, Chinese, and Australian authorities after he offered his expertise to them to aid the search.
“I believe that we have a realistic chance to follow flight path of Malaysian Airline MH370 and follow its flight direction and possibly identifying its landing or crash site,” Mr Gingis wrote to the Malaysian High Commissioner Eldeen Husaini in an email dated April 3, reported News AU.
“I would be required to fly to KL and to have a detailed briefing with Malaysian search and rescue authorities in order to be able to identify and search for specific satellite availability and all satellite data imagery frames that we can analyse using our cloud microphysics algorithms. The traveling to KL and back to Melbourne and 1 day briefing session will be sufficient to explain to your search and rescue authorities as of our ability to identify the flying trails of MH370.
“I believe that we will be able to utilize our expertise and identify the flight pass of MH370 and then to direct the search and rescue authorities to save or recover MH370 passengers.”
The plane vanished on Saturday, March 8 while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
