Flight MH370 ‘found’: American pilot ‘identifies wreckage from missing plane’

More than seven weeks after Flight MH370 went missing, an American pilot has stepped forward to claim that he has found wreckage of missing plane

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by Kayleigh Dray |
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After 52 days spent searching for missing Flight MH370, Michael Hoebel, a pilot from New York, has claimed that he has found the wreckage site of missing jet.

The 61-year-old apparently spent hours analysing satellite images made available to the general public by the Web site TomNod.com.

He eventually concluded that the plane was at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, insisting that he has discovered the outline of the jetliner at the bottom of the ocean, off the northeast coast of Malaysia.

The New York pilot informed his hometown news channel WIVB about his discovery.

"I was taken aback because I couldn't believe I would find this," he told WIVB.

Via WIVB
Via WIVB

Michael Heobel said that the debris he has found underneath the ocean matches the dimensions of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

While comparing the satellite image to the photo of the missing plane, the pilot gave his analysis to the reporter.

When asked if it could be a shark, he responded: "That's a 210ft shark."

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board. Missing Boeing 777 was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Seven weeks after continuous search efforts, the authorities have failed to find the missing plane. But it was believed the plane "ended in the southern Indian Ocean."

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