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Australian Transport Safety Bureau

National transport safety investigator in Australia

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Nov 24, 2025
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Who is Richard Godfrey and what are his MH370 claims?

Richard Godfrey is a retired British aerospace engineer who has published detailed, public-facing analyses claiming he has located MH370’s resting place in the southern Indian Ocean using a radio‑sign...

Dec 9, 2025
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Who is Richard Godfrey and what is his background in aviation or oceanography?

Richard Godfrey is a British researcher best known for independent work trying to locate Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370; he presents himself as a retired aerospace/systems engineer with a background i...

Dec 6, 2025
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Which debris items from MH370 have been officially confirmed and by which authorities?

Official investigations have confirmed a small number of debris items as coming from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370—most prominently the flaperon found on Réunion in July 2015; agencies and national a...

Jan 31, 2026

Which MH370 debris items were officially catalogued and photographed by the ATSB and Malaysian investigators?

The official record compiled by the n Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and the team documents a set of recovered items that were examined, catalogued and in many cases photographed; among these, a small...

Dec 3, 2025

How do Richard Godfrey's MH370 assertions compare to other prominent theories about the flight's disappearance?

Richard Godfrey’s WSPR-based claim narrows MH370’s final resting place to a focused area roughly 1,900–2,000 km west of Perth and proposes that weak radio‑signal anomalies can pinpoint the track and c...

Nov 3, 2025

What did the Australian Transport Safety Bureau report say about MH370's transponder in 2014?

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s final operational‑search report for MH370 states that , and that the aircraft’s automatic position‑reporting systems — explicitly including the transponder and...

Nov 3, 2025

What did official investigations say about MH370 transponder behavior in 2014?

Official investigations in 2014 found that MH370’s , and investigators relied on other data streams — notably Inmarsat’s satellite “ping” data — to reconstruct the aircraft’s later path, producing com...

Feb 2, 2026

Which specific MH370 debris items carry unique part numbers that proved they came from 9M‑MRO?

Two recovered pieces of floating debris carry the clearest unique identifiers tying them to the registered 9M‑MRO: the , which bore stencils and one of three numbers that matched the aircraft's serial...

Dec 3, 2025

How have aviation experts and official investigations responded to Richard Godfrey's MH370 theories?

Independent researcher Richard Godfrey has advanced a WSPR ("ghost radio signals") theory that he says pinpoints MH370 to about 1,200–2,000 km west of Perth and has proposed a narrow search area; Aust...

Nov 28, 2025

What specific claims has Richard Godfrey made about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?

Richard Godfrey, a retired aerospace engineer, has repeatedly claimed he located MH370’s crash site in the southern Indian Ocean using amateur radio “WSPR” signal disturbances and other analyses, pinn...

Oct 23, 2025

Have any wreckage or debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 been found since its disappearance in 2014?

Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) has been on western Indian Ocean shorelines and islands since the aircraft’s disappearance in 2014, but the main wreckage has not been located. Scienti...