'IT WILL NEVER BE FOUND'
MH370 will NEVER be found because search teams assume plane spiralled out of control instead of suicidal pilot planning to hide it forever, expert says
A BRITISH aviation expert says teams searching for flight MH370 will NEVER find the wreckage - as they are looking in the wrong place
His claims come as the Australian authorities admit they have only focused their search on the place where they "think" the debris is.
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However pilot and instructor Simon Hardy insists they are concentrating the massive multi-million pound search in the wrong area.
Hardy thinks "suicidal" Zaharie Ahmad Shah piloted the jet far out into the Indian Ocean, much further than previously thought.
He believes Shah wanted to “hide” the aircraft "forever" and flew more than 50 miles south-west of the current search zone.
The flaps on the wing were also extended which indicates they were being controlled by the Malaysia Airlines pilot until the end.
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The pilot said his splashdown site was "an obvious place to search" when he joined a panel of aviation experts on Australian TV's 60 Minutes show.
Mr Hardy said the pilot's actions were clearly deliberate which proves he WAS at the controls when it went down about 1,500 miles off the west coast of Australia.
“If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing,” he said.
However the search teams are working on the theory the plane wasn't being controlled and instead spiralled straight down.
The claims came as the experts concluded the 239 passengers and crew was a "suicidal" act carried out by twisted Shah on March 8, 2014 .
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He is even believed to have performed a bizarre U-turn so he could fly over his home town to say an "emotional goodbye."
The biggest undersea search in human history was sparked 10 days after MH370 was officially reported missing.
An international alliance of ships and planes scoured several million squares miles of the southern Indian Ocean.
However, where there should have been a massive debris field created by the jet's impact with the water not a was found.
If the plane had hit the water at high speed the experts say there would have been "millions" of pieces of wreckage.
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Martyn Dolan, of the Australian Transportation Safety Board, says he still believes MH370 "for whatever reason" spiralled into the water.
He says satellite data has narrowed down 80,000 square miles of the ocean floor either side of the so-called 7th arc - the central search line.
However, he admitted there was possibility the plane was piloted right up until the last minute and could be elsewhere.
US firm Ocean Infinity started the search on January 22 this year, following a failed £140m search for the plane.
At the time, experts said they expected to have answers within a matter of weeks.
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The company has 90 search days to look for the plane, which has been spread over several months.
Officials recently said there was roughly an 85 per cent chance of finding traces of the wreckage in a new search area.
The investigation is expected to end in mid-June.
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