MH370: The Plane at Batavia

By Michael Chillit

MH370 disappeared from radar screens suddenly, without warning on March 8, 2014. The first formal search for the plane ended in failure early in 2017. In an unprecedented two-year underwater search, no sign of the plane was found on a small strip of South Indian Ocean seafloor near the edge of Antarctica's Circumpolar Current. Yet we know the plane is in the South Indian Ocean. Nearly 30 pieces of debris have been recovered from the Mascarene Island area, as well as Madagascar, and from various places along the East African coast. Two of the items are large wing sections, but most are only a meter or so in length. South Indian Ocean currents tend to move counterclockwise. Debris drifts from the southeast to the northwest, then south again toward the tip of South Africa. Drifting debris almost never crosses the equator in either direction.Searchers have known the plane could be almost anywhere along a 4,000 kilometer "Arc" that extends from just south of balmy Jakarta, Indonesia to the frigid ?les Saint Paul, halfway to Antarctica. Were they careless to spend all of their time and resources searching such a small portion of the Arc?Now for the first time, there is compelling evidence that the plane is near the center of that Arc, close to an underwater mountain region west of Australia known as Batavia Seamount. What happened to 239 passengers and crew aboard the plane? Come along as researcher and author Michael Chillit explains how we know where the plane is almost certainly lying. Be part of the effort to photograph the fuselage before it is raised, and help bring closure to its victim's next of kin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521267855
• ISBN13: 9781521267851
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"