According to Australian Channel Seven News, British aviation engineer Richard Godfrey said in a report released on November 30 that he used a revolutionary tracking technology to spot Malaysia Airlines 370. He stated that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean 1993 kilometers west of Perth and is currently located 4,000 meters below sea level.

According to Godfrey's report, MH370 crashed over the Indian Ocean within about one minute after the last connection with the satellite on the day of the loss. Godfrey believed that the plane landed at the bottom of the broken ridge, an ocean plateau full of canyons and underwater volcanoes. The location was not within the original search area designated by the Australian Transport Safety Authority in 2015, but was located in the northern part of the 120,000 square kilometer search area that was expanded in 2016. In 2018, another search conducted by Ocean Infinity in the United States was only 28 kilometers away from this location.

Godfrey said he was "very confident" to determine the location of MH370. "We have a lot of data from satellites, we have oceanography, drift analysis, Boeing's performance data, and now this new technology." These four indicators all point to this specific location in the Indian Ocean. "

Geoffrey Thomas, the aviation editor of The Western Australia, called the new report a "huge breakthrough" because the speculative crash site is in line with what Charita Patialaki, a professor of oceanography at the University of Western Australia, claimed earlier. The area wher MH370 is located is the same. "We must conduct an in-depth investigation again there." Thomas said that after the report is released, a new round of searches for MH370 may be launched.

On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777-200 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members lost contact after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined.