‘I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing,’ retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver said, in an interview with Sydney Morning Herald.
Olver has come forward saying that he believes that he found a wing of the commercial plane around October 2014, just months after the flight disappeared.
Olver said that he discovered the part during a deep-sea fishing expedition, when his trawler pulled up what appeared to be a aircraft wing.
‘It was a bloody great wing of a big jet airliner,’ Olver said.
The now-retired fisherman said that he kept mum for nine years, but came forward now to ‘help the families’ of MH370’s passengers.
Another member, part of Olver’s crew said that the discovered part was ‘incredibly heavy and awkward.’
The crew gathered it was ‘obviously a wing’ that came from a commercial plane, when they pulled it up.
The crew was forced to cut through their expensive net to get rid of the part, after they were unable to get the heavy part onboard their vessel.
Olver and his crew had then immediately contacted Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to let them know about the discovery but were told the part may have been a piece of a shipping container that had fallen from a Russian ship in the area.
The fisherman hopes the AMSA can resume a search in the area and provide closure for the families impacted by MH370.