Richard Collins: Irish expert could help solve mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Barnacle research may help reveal location of lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

An international team of researchers are studying goose barnacle growth to help create a new method that can reconstruct the drift path and origin of debris from flight MH370.

Research on goose barnacles, by zoologists at the University of Florida and the University of Galway, offers a glimmer of hope that one of aviation’s greatest mysteries may yet be solved.

On March 8, 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with 239 passengers and crew on board, left Kuala Lumpur airport bound for Beijing. One of the pilots spoke to air traffic control 38 minutes later when the plane was over the South China Sea. All seemed well.