(News.com.au) 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 members on board, with no sign of the missing wreckage despite the most expensive ocean search in history.
Retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver has come forward with claims that he discovered what he believes is a wing of the commercial liner when his deep-sea trawler pulled it up in September or October of 2014, just months after the flight disappeared.
He described it as a “bloody great wing of a big jet airliner” that was bigger than a private plane.
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on searches, there is still no sign of MH370. Picture: Netflix
“I’ve questioned myself; I’ve looked for a way out of this,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing.”
George Currie, the only other surviving member of the trawler crew present on the day of the discovery, said that they went to great trouble to pull up the wing.
“It was incredibly heavy and awkward. It stretched out the net and ripped it. It was too big to get up on the deck,” he said.
“As soon as I saw it I knew what it was. It was obviously a wing, or a big part of it, from a commercial plane. It was white, and obviously not from a military jet or a little plane.”
