A veteran fisherman claims he found a large piece of missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 off the coast of South Australia before being ignored by authorities.
The plane disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, with no trace of the missing wreckage despite the most expensive ocean search in history.
Retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver has claimed he discovered what he believes is a wing of the commercial liner when his deep-sea fishing vessel stopped it in September or October 2014, just months after the flight disappeared.
He described it as “a large wing of a large airliner” that was larger than a private plane.
Retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver has claimed he discovered what he believes is a wing from missing plane MH370.
“I have questioned myself; I have looked for a way out of this,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“I wish I had never seen that thing… but there it is. “It was the wing of an airplane.”
George Currie, the only surviving member of the trawler’s crew present on the day of the discovery, said that much trouble was taken to raise the wing.
The plane disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, with no trace of the missing remains. National Geographic/Youtube
“It was incredibly heavy and uncomfortable. He spread the net and tore it. It was too big to go on deck,” he said.
“As soon as I saw it I knew what it was. Evidently it was a wing, or a large part of it, of a commercial airplane. “It was white and obviously did not come from a military plane or a small plane.”
The crew was forced to cut the net $20,000 after they were unable to get the plane part to their ship, making the day even more memorable.
Olver says he can give authorities the coordinates of where he discovered the wing more than nine years after he found it.
A joint underwater search by Australia, Malaysia and China worth $200 million over two years ended in January 2017 after they found no search for the plane.
The discovery was made about 55 kilometers west of the South Australian town of Robe, and Olver described the area as his secret trawling area.
The 77-year-old says he contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) as soon as he returned to port, but the authorities were not very interested in his discovery.
It says one official said he had likely found part of a shipping container that had fallen off a Russian ship in the area.
The discovery was made about 55 kilometers west of the South Australian town of Robe, and Olver described the area as his secret trawling area.
Now retired and aging, Olver says he was motivated to tell his story by a desire to help the families of those aboard MH370.
Searches for the missing plane in the southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed, have proven fruitless.
A joint underwater search by Australia, Malaysia and China worth $200 million over two years ended in January 2017 after they found no sign of the plane.
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