Landing MH370
Jeff Wise · Finding MH370 S1E27 · 28 November 2024 · 45:12
The northern-landing telling: discard or spoof BFO, keep BTO, fly borders, land at a long Central Asian runway (Wise’s 2015 candidate was Yubileyniy / Baikonur). Requires the African debris field to be explained away.
Wise first published the north-to-Kazakhstan reconstruction in New York Magazine in February 2015. The mechanical claim is narrow: Burst Timing Offset still gives range rings; Burst Frequency Offset (the north/south discriminator) is the value he treats as spoofable if someone had control of the SDU. Without BFO, a northern BTO path along national borders is geometrically available. A 777-length runway exists at Yubileyniy. Against it: Inmarsat’s published BFO reduction, the 2018 report’s southern end, serial-confirmed debris on Réunion, Mauritius and Tanzania, and CSIRO drift from a southern 7th-arc origin. A flaperon does not drift from Kazakhstan to Réunion. File this as the most fully argued northern-corridor hypothesis in the public literature, and as currently inconsistent with the debris tables unless those tables are themselves attacked.
Sources
- YouTube 52F7rLpt7xA
- Wise, New York Magazine, 23 Feb 2015
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Right flaperon — Réunion
Found 29 July 2015 · confirmed 3 September 2015 as 9M-MRO
Jeff Wise
Aviation journalist · Finding MH370