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The cited fact-check examines misleading social-media imagery. An image circulating online is not evidence that the wreckage has been located; a recovery claim requires traceable confirmation by the relevant authorities.

Real News Right Now is a satire/clickbait site with no journalistic standards. The article was entirely fabricated. No such discovery occurred.

The aircraft outline visible in Google imagery dates to January 2004 — ten years before MH370 disappeared. Cambodia's State Secretariat of Civil Aviation officially stated the coverage was false. The same claim has gone viral and been debunked multiple times.

InfinityExplorers.com is an anonymous clickbait site with no verifiable identity, editorial standards, or track record. The claim was not reported by any credible aviation, news, or official source. Ocean Infinity — the active search contractor — made no such announcement. This site does not acknowledge it.

Confirmed hoax by Malaysia's Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT). The video was fabricated. MH370 was in the southern Indian Ocean, not the Atlantic.

A video editing expert confirmed the footage was "likely a graphic creation" made with tools like Blender and After Effects. Skeptical Inquirer published a detailed forensic debunking in its March/April 2024 issue. Newsweek's fact-check also confirmed fabrication. No legitimate satellite operator confirmed any such footage.

Former U.S. DOT Inspector General Mary Schiavo noted that a black hole capable of consuming an aircraft would consume the entire universe. The suggestion was widely ridiculed by physicists and aviation experts.

Satellite arc data from Inmarsat places the aircraft on a southern flight path, away from Diego Garcia. No radar, satellite, or signals intelligence from any nation corroborates a northwest diversion. Physical debris has since washed ashore in Mozambique, Réunion, and Tanzania — consistent with a southern Indian Ocean crash, inconsistent with a diversion north.

Both aircraft had unique, verifiable tail numbers, maintenance records, and serial numbers. Crash investigators and the Dutch Safety Board confirmed MH17's identity through forensic evidence. The theory requires collusion by dozens of independent governments and international investigators.

The patent in question (US 8,650,327) was filed in 2012 and granted to Freescale Semiconductor as a corporate entity, not to individual engineers. Patent ownership does not transfer to another party's shareholder upon an employee's death. Snopes and multiple fact-checkers debunked every element of this claim.

No physical evidence of weapons impact has been found on any confirmed debris piece. A missile strike on a Boeing 777 at altitude would produce a very large, identifiable debris field with specific fragmentation patterns — none of which matches the small, scattered pieces recovered. No credible evidence has been presented.

Wireless networks generate a ringing tone while searching for a device on the network — this continues even if the device has been destroyed or is out of range. The tone is generated by the network, not the handset. Wireless analysts confirmed this behaviour in 2014. It indicates nothing about the state of the device.

The Maldives is 2,200 km from the primary radar positions. At the time of the reported sighting, MH370 would have had to be simultaneously in two locations to fit both the Inmarsat satellite handshake arcs and the Maldives sighting. No primary radar from India, Sri Lanka, or the Maldives detected the aircraft. Investigators concluded the sighting was not attributable to MH370.