Let’s start with the bold assertion: somebody thinks they found MH370. Yup! It’s been over a decade since Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared off the face of the earth, taking 239 people along with it, and creating perhaps the most vexing mystery in modern air travel. Recently, however, a new theory emerged—this one from an Australian scientist who states, “science solved it.”
Who’s That?
Meet Vincent Lyne, a researcher who works at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. This guy isn’t throwing out random buoy reports on Reddit, he just wrote a lengthy explanation on LinkedIn with the title, “Mystery of MH370 Solved by Science.”
So what is his theory?
The Ocean’s Dark Secret: A Hole in the Ocean Indian Ocean
Lyne thinks the plane didn’t crash from fuel exhaustion as most would believe. Rather, he says pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah directed the Boeing 777 into a deep, remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, headed straight toward a hole, which is 20,000 ft. deep near some place called Broken Ridge — an underwater plateau in the ocean.
“It’s the right place because there are cliffs with steep valleys in such an isolated environment, it’s the perfect place to disappear,” says Lyne. His case is based on mainly intersected coordinates, the coordinates of Penang Airport with the pilot’s flight simulator, the FBI and other investigators rejected what he discovered as irrelevant.
“This changes everything,” he says. And he argues that the previous search didn’t take place because the science was just aimed the wrong way.
Still Just a Theory, Though
Let’s be clear: Lyne is not claiming a “discovery”; yet. He believes that his proposed site is an important target for renewed searches, but as for whether the authorities agree… that’s a different story.
As of now, the Malaysian transport ministry is not said to be following up based on Lyne’s theory. It remains out there, and so do many other theories that have come forward since 2014.
Recap. The Official Search Hit Pause… Again
Ocean Infinity on a no-find no-pay basis. If the company found debris, it was entitled to USD$70 million to a dollar value of USD$100 million, depending on the quality of the find.
In early 2025, Ocean Infinity had traversed 15,000 square kilometers, but other than overall PF, MH370—no aircraft and no parts.
It would resume again in late 2025. Hopefully.
This is Not Just another Scientific Problem
I think it is pertinent to bring up the fact that MH370 is not merely lost data or radar traces. It is about 239 individuals who boarded a plane in Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing on March 8, 2014, and were never seen again. Families have waited for eight years. The world has tracked every development in the story and hoped for closure.
So it does not matter whether Vincent Lyne’s theory is correct or not, or if MH370 is buried under Broken Ridge or somewhere else; the ultimate aim is peace— not just proof.
In the end: The Ocean Is Relentless at Keeping it’s Secrets
The Indian Ocean is vast, deep and relentless. The fact that we haven’t found MH370 does not mean we never will. Perhaps Lyne’s bold assertion may prove that we have cracked the mystery, or it may just be another trail of breadcrumbs.
But one thing is clear: the search continues, and we continue to be haunted by the mystery.
