Professor Goong Chen at Texas A&M University in Qatarhave said team have proposed that the lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have entered the water at an angle of close to 90 degrees.

In the new study, the team proposed that the plane may have nosedived causing heavy portions of the plane including its wings to break off on impact. The theory suggests that the plane might have sunk belly up with its fuselage intact and limiting the creation and spread of debris. The heavier portions of the planer are said to have sunk directly into the bottom of the ocean and leaving little to no evidence behind. This explains why the plane did not leave any debris or an oil patch that are usually signs of an airplane crash.

The team used supercomputers in Texas and Qatar and ran five different landing scenarios including the one likeHudson landing in 2009.Chen and his team ruled out a flat landing as it would have caused the plane to bounce, breaking up the fuselage and creating large debris and oil patches, which were not found

The theory into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are presented in the April 2015 edition of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.