Russian President Vladimir Putin knows the exact location of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after seeing images captured by Russia's spy satellites, according to investigators.Investigator Andre Milne has been working on the case of the mysterious disappearance of the passenger jet ever since it vanished over the Indian Ocean in March 2014.
According to Milne, Putin has evidence that the aircraft made a soft ditch in the Bay of Bengal, in the North-east Indian Ocean, but has held on to the information for political reasons. He told the Daily Star:
"Satellites that were placed by the Russians saw the wreckage... Putin was given that information."
According to the Daily Star, Milne claimed the Russian president kept tight-lipped as he watched search teams looking for years in what he knew was the wrong place.He said this was because the information was captured on a secret spy satellite, so the Russians could not reveal what they knew.
Also, the satellites may have captured what exactly caused the crash, and should the plane have been brought down intentionally, whether, by his allies or his enemies, that information may have more value as political ammunition.
Milne said: “Putin has just had the Olympics, is just making his way onto the world stage, so he was highly sensitive to not wanting to be seen offending anyone.
“The reason President Putin did not raise his hand and march in and say we found it is because technically he would have been admitting committing espionage.”In March, Milne found evidence that the aircraft was hijacked by a mysterious extra passenger not counted on the passenger list.
What happened to the plane has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
Not a single body has been found throughout the long search – just 33 pieces of wreckage.Parts of wings and a tail were located on the shores of Mauritius, the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa.
In the last few days, claims have emerged that Kim Jong-un is hiding the missing flight in North Korea.
