MH370 found on Google Earth?
PETALING JAYA: An Australian amateur expert in air crash investigations claims to have found missing MH370 on Google Earth four years after its disappearance.
The flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was carrying 239 people when it vanished on March 8, 2014.
Peter McMahon, an Australian mechanical engineer who claims to have worked in crash investigations for more than 25 years, has insisted he has discovered the plane, the Daily Star Online reported today.
No official statements had been issued on this claim.
The 64-year-old McMahon said he went through NASA and Google Maps images since the plane disappeared. He has zeroed in on a location 16km south of Round Island, a small islet north of Mauritius .
"Four Americans were sent to Australia to oversee the findings of MH370," McMahon was reported by the portal as saying. "They have made sure that all information received has been hidden from the public, even our government – but why?"
McMahon also made an astonishing claim. He said the plane is riddled with bullet holes. He said authorities "do not want it found as it's full of bullet holes, finding it will only open another inquiry".
The Daily Mirror also carried the report with screenshots allegedly taken of the plane on Google earth. In one screenshot, the outline of what appears to be an aircraft is visible below the water's surface.
The disappearance of the Boeing 777 passenger jetliner, which has since been dubbed the world's greatest aviation mystery, continues to baffle aviation experts as major search operations to locate it have drawn a blank.
Since early this year, no concrete evidence has been uncovered from the latest search operation, this one conducted by a United States-based seabed exploration company, which was given an official mandate to locate the debris of the missing aircraft, as it scours a search area of over 16,000km².
So far, only three confirmed fragments of MH370 have been found on the western shores of the Indian Ocean, including a two-metre wing component known as a flaperon.
Follow-up to this report
Australian officials slam MH370 Google Maps find claims
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/2018/03/19/australian-officials-slam-mh370-google-maps-find-claims