“I wish I had never found this part”: does a fisherman solve the mystery of flight MH370?

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“It was a bloody big wing of a big jet plane,” Kit Olver, 77, told the Sydney Herald. In 2014, the fisherman went to a special area near the coastal town of Robe for a good catch. The deep-sea fish Alfonsino often frolicked there.

But instead of the animals that day, he suddenly had a piece of wreckage in his net. The hobby pilot immediately recognized it: this belongs to a large machine. Not a small plane. “This thing was much bigger than anything that falls into the private aircraft category.”

The plane suddenly disappeared from radar

Kit Olver is convinced: the wing is from the missing Boeing 777 from flight MH370. To this day, it is unclear what happened on board the plane. Kidnapping, technical problems or even a shooting? A mystery!

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 suddenly disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

An underwater search of an area of ​​120,000 square kilometers found no trace of the wreckage. In early 2017, Australia, Malaysia and China called off the largest search operation in aviation history.

“I wish to God I’d never seen that thing.”

Apart from some wreckage washed up on various shores, there is no trace of the plane. The Boeing is believed to be at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Kit Olver has no evidence to support his story. He could not repair the wing. The fisherman claims the net and motor could not hold the large piece. He and his team worked all day to get the wing up. Without success. Ultimately, he had to reduce the net $20,000. This still irritates him to this day: “I was looking for a way out. I wish to God I’d never seen that thing.”

The authorities were not interested in him

Kit Olver knows that others might now call him a conspiracy theorist or a liar. But what he says is true. It’s not a sailor’s yarn. According to the Sydney Herald, the fisherman went to sea until he was 75 and is considered tough, determined and honest. He’s not the type to make up lies. Certainly not something as special as the discovery of part of the wreckage of flight MH370.

He also informed authorities in Australia about his discovery. Special: he still knows exactly where the wing should be placed. But the Australian Maritime Safety Authority told him that a shipping container had fallen from a Russian ship years ago. Authorities believe he probably had some of it online.

American company was looking for 25,000 square meters

The relatives of the mostly Chinese passengers who were on board flight MH370 have not given up hope.

At the end of November, they said during hearings for damages at a Beijing court that they would reimburse all costs of the search if it turned up nothing. The same method was used in a 2018 deal between Malaysia and private US company Ocean Infinity.

The company then searched for the missing machine in a new area of ​​about 25,000 square meters, but without success. Olver said he also contacted Ocean Infinity. But never got an answer. (jmh/AFP)

Source: Blick