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Bombshell in The Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 as Veteran Fisherman Reveals Shocking Discovery in The Sea South of Australia
Kit Olver, 77, has claimed he pulled up what appeared to be the wing of the missing jet off the southeast coast of Australia in September or October of 2014. Olver said he told officials at the time but they said it was a shipping container
Daily Mail 22 DEC 2023
A reconstruction broadcast on National Geographic depicted the jet crashing into the sea
The final resting place of the downed plane - which disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard - remains unknown
An Australian fishermans broken net could be the clue that finally unravels the mystery of what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The final resting place of the downed plane - which disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard - remains elusive despite the most extensive search at sea in world history.
Now, nine years after the planes' disappearance, retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver, 77, has come forward to reveal his deep-sea trawler pulled up what appeared to be the wing of a commercial airliner around 55km off the south-east coast of South Australia, in the Southern Ocean, in September or October of 2014.
Most authorities believe MH370 came down in the southern Indian Ocean.
Mr Olver told the Sydney Morning Herald that he was trawling in his secret spot for the prized fish species alfonsino when his net snagged on something large, which it struggled to bring to the surface.
'It was a bloody great wing of a big jet airliner,' he told the paper.
'I've questioned myself; I've looked for a way out of this.
'I wish to Christ I'd never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet's wing.'
Because he had held a pilot's licence he was confident the wing was larger than any on a typical private plane.
The only other surviving member of the trawler Vivienne Jane's crew George Currie also corroborated Mr Olver's claim to the newspaper.
'It was incredibly heavy and awkward. It stretched out the net and ripped it. It was too big to get up on the deck,' Mr Currie 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.'
After struggling all day to free the object Mr Olver ordered his crew to cut the $20,000 net free and let it drift back into the comparatively shallow depths of that part of the Southern Ocean.
Mr Olver told the Sydney Morning Herald's Tony Wright he could locate the spot, which was about 55km west of the South Australian town of Robe, and shared its GPS coordinates.
He says he tried to tell authorities of his find soon after returning to port by phoning the Australian Maritime Safety Authority(AMSA).
A few hours after making the call he was contacted by an official who told him the find was likely a shipping container that had fallen from a Russian ship in the area off Robe.
The AMSA told the Sydney Morning Herald they had no record of Mr Olver's call....
Mr Olver believed it was right thing to go public with his find if it can help the families of those aboard the MH370 finally know the fate of their loved ones. He told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday he had cleared his conscience and was not prepared to answer any more questions from journalists.
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