Missing MH 370: Hyderabad techie finds satellite image of a plane flying low over Andamans
Mangalore Today News Network
New Delhi, March 19, 2014: A Hyderabad techie has found a satellite image of a large aircraft flying low over the Andaman Islands on March 8, the day when the Malaysian airliner disappeared on the flight MH 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
According to a news report in The Hindu, IT analyst Anoop Madhav Yeggina had been scurrying through innumerable images of DigitalGlobe Satellite QB02 over the past few days when he stumbled upon the image of a large aircraft flying very low above the Andaman Islands on March 8 which he believes is the Boeing 777 of Malaysian airlines.
The techie is among the thousands of people from across the globe involved in the ’crowd-sourcing’ to find the missing plane which veered off course towards the Indian Ocean after shutting all communication links as it was flying over the South China Sea.
According to The Hindu report, the 29-year-old uploaded his "discovery" along with a write-up on the CNN website and has received more than 16,000 views and comments from viewers ever since.
However, Yeggina’s "discovery" could not stand scrutiny beyond a few hours when it was debunked by Mapbox, the company providing satellite images for the public to help search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
Referring to Indian techie’s satellite image, Mapbox said the purported sighting of the plane is based on old data, reported New Zealand’s 3news.co.nz. Later, Mapbox chief scientist Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuno also confirmed it on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Daily Mail reported that a Taiwanese university student found a satellite image which appears to show the missing MH370 in the skies above a jungle.
The image was taken from Tomnod, the map search website, and was posted on Reddit on Sunday.
The authenticity of the photo has not yet been verified and the region depicted in the photo is as yet unknown.
However, the sighting of the plane over a jungle corroborates with earlier claims made by Malaysian villagers to have seen the missing Malaysian Airlines jet flying over the north east of the country around the time the aircraft is thought to have made a ’U-turn’.