Missing Malaysian Airline MH370 Plane’s Wing Claimed To Have Been Found By Australian Fisherman

An Australian fisherman may have revealed key information about a missing MH370 plane to Malaysia Airlines. 

Kit Olver claims that he found a piece of the missing place near the coast of South Australia nine years ago but was ignored by the authorities. 

The plane originally disappeared back on March 8, 2014, and was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. Since then, there have been no findings of the missing plane despite an ocean search being conducted, which is known as the most expensive search in history. 

Olver believes that what he discovered is the wing of the plane and pulled it out of the water back in 2014. He specifically described it as bigger than a private plane and as a “bloody great wing of a big jet airliner.”

“I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

One of the only surviving members of the trawler crew that helped to discover the wing shared that it was extremely difficult to pull it out of the water.

“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 stated.

He continued, “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.”

When pulling the wing out, the crew had to cut their net, which was worth $20,000. 

Olver also shared that he would give the coordinates of his discovery to the authorities, who were originally uninterested in his findings. Officials believed that Olver had found a part of a shipping container that probably had fallen off of a Russian ship. 

In 2015, a wing flap from MH 370 was believed to have been found on a beach in Reunion Island. Other debris had earlier been found floating in the Indian Ocean.