MH370 Whispers

In the "everything's possible" era we live in, there are indeed very few surprises, particularly when it comes to technology. With abundant AI, self driving cars, gigabit internet available everywhere, we are about to colonize Mars while James Webb keeps sending us postcards of black holes and galaxies formed at the very beginning of time.

The lost Malaysian MH370 aircraft - it was 10 years ago - is probably one of those things which have been impossible. The worlds largest twin engine aircraft just disappeared and we have not been able to find it.

Now the jaw-dropping surprise is it actually left a trace, which had not been analyzed until last year. The trace is WSPR or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter. WSPR is a protocol designed to probe global propagation paths with low power transmissions, designed by Joe Taylor, an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics. WSPR would probably stay ultra niche, but in May 2021, Richard Godfrey, an aerospace engineer, suggested examining historical WSPR data as a way to define the flight path of MH370.

The effort as well as the underlying story has been greatly documented by Petter Hörnfeldt on his Mentour Pilot YouTube Channel, in a documentary titled MH370 – A New Hope. It is a 1-hour video and includes all the background of MH370 as well as all the links to WSPR and Godfrey's analysis (which is also available at his own https://www.mh370search.com/).

The long story short is - by analyzing the data collected by the amateur radio WSPR system many years ago, a new flight path of MH370 has been established, together with a new crash site (which is just outside the area that was searched). It is an absolutely incredible story - of course to be validated by a new search for the wreckage. But nevertheless it is mind blowing how an amateur low power radio transmission monitoring system is capable at all of tracking objects such as aircraft globally, including areas with no radar nor satellite coverage.