by Peter Myers,
February 2, 2019
This material is at http://mailstar.net/MH370.html
Copyright Peter Gerard Myers
MH370 is back in the news, with reports that it probably crashed near Madagascar, based on data from underwater microphones: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/mh370-underwater-microphones-suggest-alternate-crash-site/10767550
Such a scenario has occurred to other investigators too, but it does not fit the Inmarsat data, so has usually been discarded.
For the same reason, eyewitness reports, by multiple witnesses, of a plane matching MH370 in the Maldives on the day it disappeared, were dismissed by the official bodies, and the witnesses ridiculed. Investigators chose to spend close to $200 million on undersea searches in the wrong area, rather than spend $20,000 interviewing those witnesses in the Maldives.