article_snippet.sent: Fresh testimonies from a small island community in the Maldives has reignited reports that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have crashed  over 5000 kilometres away from the official search led by Australian authorities.
article_snippet.sent: reports that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have crashed  over 5000 kilometres away from the official search led by Australian authorities come as acoustic scientists from Curtin University refuse to rule out the possibility that 'distinctive' data acoustic scientists from Curtin University recorded from the current search area at the assumed time of the crash may have come from the impact of the aircraft as the aircraft hit the Indian Ocean.
article_snippet.sent: I don't know if it's the Malaysia plane', said Ahmed Shiyaam, 34, an IT manager.
article_snippet.sent: Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim said Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim saw the passenger plane flying towards Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim over the water, and did not know at the time that the passenger plane could be the missing Malaysian Airlines flight. '
article_snippet.sent: I didn't know that a plane was missing.
article_snippet.sent: I have seen pictures of the missing plane-
article_snippet.sent: The Maldvies National Defence Force released a statement in March last year which denied that there had been any aircrafts in the area at the time of the disappearance, which locals have branded as an attempt to hide the limitations of which locals radar facilities.
article_snippet.sent: the passenger plane dropped off the civilian radar after the passenger plane transponder and other equipment were switched off shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur.
article_snippet.sent: It was then tracked by Malaysia’s military radar heading towards the Indian Ocean.
article_snippet.sent: The location of The search for the missing plane was primarily calculated by sophisticated satellite technology which recorded 'pings' or 'electronic handshakes' sent between MH370 and a satellite for the final hours of it's journey.
article_snippet.sent: The flight made a number of unexplained deviations, and flew for several hours in radio silence after The flight lost contact with Air Traffic Control while flying between Malaysia and Vietnam.
article_snippet.sent: As of early March 40 per cent of the area had been scrutinised, but there have been no sightings of debris on the surface or any clues that the aircraft is lying on the sea bed in region covered so far. '
article_snippet.sent: The reports from Kudahuvadhoo follow information released from Curtin University  that a 'clear acoustic signal' was recorded at a time reasonably consistent with the timeline of the plane's disappearance.
article_snippet.sent: Data from one of the IMOS (Integrated Marine Observing System) recorders showed a clear acoustic signal at a time that was reasonably consistent with other information relating to the disappearance of MH370,' Dr Duncan said in a statement released by Curtin University.