MH370 crashed in a different ocean thousands of miles from the key search area, says a researcher who claims to have found a vital clue in satellite images taken days after the plane went missing.
- Volunteer researcher Cyndi Hendry made the claim in new Netflix documentary
- She claims to have evidence of wreckage in the South China Sea near Vietnam.
Downed flight MH370 could have crashed thousands of miles from the main search area, a volunteer satellite researcher has claimed.
Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer with the now-defunct Tomnod satellite imaging company, found what looked like plane wreckage in the South China Sea just days after the plane went missing on March 8, 2014.
She said her discovery was ignored at the time it was thought to have crashed in the Indian Ocean.
But nine years later, he claims to have found an ‘M’ in wreckage that is a ‘near perfect match’ to the M on the side of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight that went missing on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. and Beijing, China.
Speaking in the new Netflix documentary MH370: The Disappeared Plane, he said he knew he had “evidence” of the plane in the South China Sea, but was repeatedly ignored by investigators at the time.
Nine years later, he claims to have found an ‘M’ in wreckage that is a ‘near perfect match’ to the M on the side of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight.
Cyndi Hendry, a volunteer with the now-defunct Tomnod satellite imaging company, found what looked like plane wreckage in the South China Sea just days after the plane went missing on March 8, 2014.
Speaking in a new Netflix documentary, he said he knew he had ‘evidence’ in the South China Sea, but was repeatedly ignored by investigators.
She said: ‘When I saw the anguish on the faces of these family members, I thought I had to do something.
‘It just tugged at my heartstrings. My hobby is photography, so I have an eye for detail.
“I thought I might be a great person to help find this plane from the satellite images.”
Ms. Hendry, from Florida, teamed up with crowdsourcing company Tomnod, which randomly assigned satellite images to volunteers to conduct the search.
She added: ‘The satellite images were blank. It was just the blackness of the sea. Then hit next, more black scans. So much black. And finally, there is something white.
Ms Hendry claimed to have seen what appeared to be a mass of white debris in the South China Sea near Vietnam, close to where Flight MH370 left the radar screens.
She said: ‘I got the schematics off the internet for a Boeing 777. And I was able to identify one part as the nose cone.
‘That’s when I started saying, ‘Shit! There’s a piece of debris. There’s the plane.’
‘And then I started seeing more pieces. Something that resembled the fuselage. Something that looked like a tail. I have goosebumps.’
The search area Miss Hendry was given in the South China Sea by the now-missing Tomnad in 2014
Ms Hendry claimed to have seen what appeared to be a mass of white debris in the South China Sea near Vietnam, close to where Flight MH370 left the radar screens.
He then claimed to have identified the nose of a Boeing 777, the same plane that went missing on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China.
Ms Hendry said she contacted investigators and Malaysia Airlines to share her findings, but says she was repeatedly ignored.
She said: ‘I knew what I had. He knew that she had evidence in the South China Sea.
‘The more I searched, the more debris I found. I’m sure this is where MH370 ended up, off Vietnam.
‘At that time, I had already contacted Malaysia Airlines. I tried to reach out to so many people to tell them that this debris exists. Nobody listened to me.
But Malaysian investigators soon called off their search operations in the South China Sea after British company Inmarsat released data suggesting the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean.
The Boeing 777 aircraft was on its flight route carrying 239 passengers from Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing when it disappeared from the grid less than an hour into its journey, never to be heard from again.
