As the ninth-anniversary approaches of the loss of MH370 and 239 souls on March 8, 2014, it is time to stop the endless and destructive bickering and nonsense over the aircraft's location.

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MH370: Refined location study

For nine painful years, the relatives and friends of those lost have had to endure ludicrous conspiracy theories and almost endless fighting between rival groups who believe they know where it is.

Some ridiculous theories put its location well beyond the range of a 777 laden with passengers and cargo while others point to a 777, photoshopped in the middle of a jungle, with no destruction path to the aircraft.

Almost 150 books have been written about the loss of MH370 - a bizarre number by any measure and socially irresponsible newspapers keep peddling these books as breakthrough discoveries.

Titles include Someone is Hiding Something, MH370 the Secret Files, Into Oblivion MH370, Life After MH370, MH370 We Know Where You Are and The Plane That Never Was.

So many of the books make claims such as “Mystery Solved”, “The Truth” and even “Eye Witness”.

At least one of the book titles was honest: “A psychic look at MH370”. And one very dishonest: “I survived MH370.”

If this wasn't bad enough for the poor relatives they have to endure endless bickering from rival groups with their theories of where MH370 lies in the Southern Indian Ocean, while wreck-hunter Blaine Gibson, who has found more debris than anyone, is accused of planting the items.

There seems little doubt that the aircraft lies about 1900km west of Perth - most probably slightly north of that point or maybe south and this is where the worst of nastiness centres.

British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey's great work with WSPRnet, supported by this website from the beginning, has gained serious academic traction.

The author has travelled the world and been involved in various global conference calls to discuss the technology and there is no doubt it's real and offers the greatest hope of a more precise location. Not surprisingly the location identified is very close to that identified by Charitha Pattiaratchi, Winthrop Professor of coastal oceanography at the University of Western Australia.

It was Professor Pattiaratchi's modelling that led Blaine Gibson to discover the various pieces of Mh370 debris.

Yet Mr Godfrey's breakthrough work is ridiculed by some, although throughout history great inventors and scientists have been similarly ridiculed.

On the ninth anniversary of the loss of MH370 Mr Godfrey has appealed for "all official and independent investigators to work together to support a new underwater search and help solve the mystery of MH370. I recently had the honour of meeting Blaine Gibson, who has found and reported more items of floating debris from MH370 than anyone else.”

“Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi an Oceanographer from the University of Western Australia (UWA) told Blaine where he should look for physical evidence from MH370 and then Blaine went to those locations in Madagascar and Mozambique to search the beaches with help of local fishermen.”

“Prof. Simon Maskell from Liverpool University reviewed our early WSPR results and said his advice is that we should take these results to [the search company] Ocean Infinity.”

“Pete Foley [Ex ATSB investigator] would like to see each WSPR time slot rated and the key WSPR detections mapped in addition to matching the various Arcs based on the Inmarsat satellite data and the Boeing fuel data.”

“Andy Sherrell from Ocean Infinity suggested using the key WSPR detections to recreate a set of possible MH370 flight paths and using a heat map to show the probability distribution around the possible MH370 endpoints.”

It is high time to end the bickering and ridicule and work constructively together to ensure a new search for MH370 and if detractors can't do that, then say or write nothing.