Investigators are shocked as newly analyzed WSPR signals matched with satellite data reveal MH370 may have made deliberate turns in its final hours, suggesting controlled flight rather than a drifting crash—and reigniting emotional calls for a renewed search.

In a revelation shaking the aviation world more than a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished, a new set of technical findings has prompted investigators to re-examine one of the most disputed mysteries in modern aviation.

The breakthrough, announced late Wednesday by a coalition of independent analysts and former aviation officials meeting in Canberra, Australia, stems from a synchronized analysis of WSPR radio scatter data, early radar echoes, and the original Inmarsat satellite logs—three data sources that had never been fully cross-matched until now.

The discovery began earlier this month when telecommunications engineer Dr.Kieran Hale, who has spent six years analyzing weak-signal radio propagation, noticed an unusual pattern in archived WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) logs from the night of March 8, 2014—the night MH370 disappeared from civil radar over the Gulf of Thailand.

These faint signals, generated by thousands of amateur radio stations worldwide and stored in global databases, can capture disruptions caused by large objects moving across long-distance radio paths.

While reviewing these datasets, Dr.Hale detected a sequence of distortions occurring at intervals that aligned almost perfectly with the timeline during which MH370 was missing from conventional radar.

“There was something there—something large, moving, and making changes in direction,” Hale said in a private briefing.

“It wasn’t static, and it wasn’t drifting.

It was behaving like an aircraft making controlled turns.”

Intrigued and unsettled, the research group approached former aviation safety investigator Commander Elise Stoddard, who coordinated the 2015 ocean-floor search segments.

She requested a comparison between the WSPR anomalies and the Inmarsat BTO/BFO satellite handshake pings, which had previously formed the backbone of the official trajectory.

For years, those satellite readings were interpreted to show a largely smooth, southbound path ending in the remote southern Indian Ocean.

But the cross-matched data told a different story.

“Instead of a gradual, unpowered descent,” Stoddard explained, “we saw indications of speed changes, altitude fluctuations, and deliberate course corrections—maneuvers inconsistent with an aircraft running on autopilot after fuel exhaustion.

” In her words, the combined dataset “forces us to consider the possibility of sustained human input during the aircraft’s final hours.”

A particularly striking moment occurred around 02:40 MYT, two hours after MH370’s last radio transmission.

WSPR logs showed disturbances consistent with a sharp deviation to the southwest, followed by a leveling maneuver.

Satellite frequency offset patterns collected at nearly the same minute hinted at a thrust change—something that would require engine power adjustments.

“These signals match,” Hale noted during a video call with investigators in London.

“They shouldn’t match unless the aircraft was moving with intent.”

The team also revisited long-disputed primary radar blips captured by military installations in Malaysia and Thailand.

When re-plotted with the new radio anomalies, the radar traces appeared more coherent than earlier believed, painting a picture of an aircraft making a looping westward turn before heading south in a series of measured adjustments rather than a single uninterrupted arc.

Not everyone is convinced.

A former member of the original MH370 technical investigation team, speaking on condition of anonymity, cautioned, “WSPR data is not designed for aviation tracking.

We have to be extremely careful not to over-interpret.

” Yet even he acknowledged that the timing of several anomalies is “too precise to ignore.”

Families of the missing passengers—who have fought for years to keep the search alive—responded with a mix of hope and caution.

Grace Mukherjee, whose husband was on the flight, said during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, “We have been disappointed before.

But if these findings show MH370 was under control longer than believed, then the search area may have been wrong all along.”

Search strategists agree.

Stoddard revealed that the adjusted flight path intersects one of the sectors flagged—but never fully scanned—during the 2016 seabed expedition.

“If these findings hold, it may justify a targeted new search,” she said.

Aviation analysts worldwide are now calling for an independent technical review involving satellite experts, radio engineers, and oceanographers.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has not yet issued a statement, but several retired officials have expressed interest in examining the evidence.

For now, the new analysis doesn’t answer the fundamental question of why MH370 deviated from its route—but it does suggest the aircraft’s final movements were far more deliberate than previously believed.

And for the first time in years, investigators are openly talking about something once thought impossible: that MH370’s true resting place may finally be within reach.