777 Capt: 'MH370 will be found within the next four to eight weeks'

British 777 pilot believes MH370 will be found within weeks.

A British pilot has predicted that Malaysian Airlines flight 370 will be found within the next four to eight weeks, based on his careful recreation of the plane's disappearance. The team searching for the plane is expected to move into the area where a mathematical analysis suggests it will be. The theory surrounding the crash site has one controversial element: the pilot was alive when the plane ditched in the ocean.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Experienced British Airways 777 pilot, Capt. Simon Hardy predicts that the wreckage of flight MH370 will be found within the next several weeks. According to Hardy, who has carefully recreated the flight of the plane using radar data, a flight simulator, and his own experience as a 777 pilot, the plane went down in a controlled landing at a spot that is due to be searched over the next several weeks. He also thinks the wreckage may be reasonably intact.

Searchers are moving further to the southwest as weather improves. The new search area is the next in line for survey, and they deny they are moving to the area on Hardy's advice.

Australian Transportation Safety Bureau chief, Martin Dolan told reporters, "We're aware that we're in the area that Capt. Hardy specifies, but we're in that area because it was next in our search sequence, and we've been moving progressively south because the weather is improving."

Hardy told The Australian, "I am fairly confident that the wreckage will be found within the next four to eight weeks." While searchers think Hardy could be correct, they dispute one essential component of his hypothesis, specifically that the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was alive when the plane struck the water, allowing him to ditch the plane in the ocean. This kind of controlled descent would keep the plane intact and make it harder to find wreckage. The theory is consistent with a very elaborate suicide on the part of Shah.

It is assumed the passengers on the plane were killed by lack of oxygen at altitude.

So far, the only artifact belonging to the plane was a flaperon that washed up on Reunion Island on July 29. Hardy believes if the plane had not been controlled when it hit the water, more wreckage would have been observed.

It is possible however, that the plane did break up and shatter, and that the pieces were simply missed during search efforts. If the plane broke up, it might be difficult to pick out its wreckage on the sea floor because the pieces could be small.

Both Australia and Malaysia have vowed to keep searching for the plane until it is found and both countries are splitting the cost of the search efforts. China has also pledged money to aid in the search.

We will know by the end of January, if Hardy was right.

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