Ian Wilson said he has spotted the doomed plane deep in the Cambodian jungle thanks to the popular mapping service from the internet search engine giant. The plane vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board but its whereabouts has been shrouded in mystery amid several conspiracy theories that have been put forward. Pixelated images from Google Maps appear to show the outline of a large aircraft, but this could simply be one that had been flying below the satellite that pictured it. Mr Wilson told the Daily Star Online that the measurements are close to that of a Boeing 777-200, although there appears to be a mysterious gap between the tail and the main body.
But this could be where the two parts of the plane broke upon landing in the intense jungle terrain. He said: ”The Boeing 777-200 is 63.7m in length. "Measuring the Google sighting you're looking at around 69 metres, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane. "It's just slightly bigger, but there's a gap that would probably account for that." He said he had been watching a documentary on the MH370 mystery that he had been sceptical of and felt the need to search the area online.
MH370 news: A British film producer claims to have spotted the plane on Google Maps
Mr Wilson added: "I just thought I'd have a wander through. I work in digital video so I'm on Google Earth all the time. "So I was on there, a few hours here, a few hours there. If you added it up I spent hours searching for places a plane could have gone down. "And in the end, as you can see the place where the plane is. It is literally the greenest, darkest part you can see." Mr Wilson’s discovery could prove to be a huge breakthrough in the mystery that has dominated the global aviation industry for the past four years. In another dramatic twist, the Aviation Safety Network also told the Daily Star Online that this latest sighting does not fit the profile of any crashes in the area.
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The missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpar headed to Beijing on March 8, 2014, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew. The last words from the cockpit to Malaysian air traffic controllers, “Good Night Malaysia Three Seven Zero",were heard at 1.19am by either Captain Zahaire Ahmed Shah or his co-pilot. But the plane then suddenly disappeared from radar during a handover between air traffic controllers in Malaysia and Vietnam. According to the MH370 Safety Investigation Report, radar and satellite analysis showed it flew back across the Malaysian peninsula and then onto the Indian Ocean. It concluded that MH370 eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into sea west of Australia but despite the extensive investigation, officials still don’t know what happened to the plane.
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A man has sensationally claimed to have found the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Google Maps.
Ian Wilson believes a blurry outline of an aircraft spotted in the Cambodian jungle is in fact the same plane that went missing four and a half years ago.
The missing MH370 is one of the biggest aviation mysteries and has dumbfounded investigators ever since it vanished.
Ian Wilson spotted this blurry outline of a plane on Google Maps (Picture: Google)
But Mr Wilson reckons his image could be a significant step in finding the plane and the 239 people on board.
He told the Daily Star: ‘Measuring the Google sighting, you’re looking at around 69 metres, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane.
‘It’s just slightly bigger, but there’s a gap that would probably account for that.’
The video producer is now determined to travel to the high-altitude location, deep within a jungle in Southeast Asia, after spending ‘hours’ trawling through Google.
A Boeing 777 flaperon cut down to match the one from flight MH370 found on Reunion island off the coast of Africa in 2015 (Picture: Reuters)
French gendarmes and police inspect a large piece of plane debris which was found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion (Picture: Reuters)
He said: ‘I was on there (Google), a few hours here, a few hours there. If you added it up I spent hours searching for places a plane could have gone down.
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‘And in the end, as you can see the place where the plane is. It is literally the greenest, darkest part you can see.’
The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.
The Malaysian government called of the search for the flight earlier this year and admitted they had no idea what happened to all those people on board.
The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. (Picture: Reuters)
US-based Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to survey a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean.
But after the search found nothing, Malaysia said it had no plans to begin any new searches.
The original search focused on the South China Sea before analysis revealed the plane had made an unexpected turn west and then south.
Australia coordinated an official search on Malaysia’s behalf which scoured 46,000 square miles and cost 200 million Australian dollars (£113m) before it ended in 2017.
The missing aircraft takes off at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France on December 26, 2011
(Picture: Laurent Errera/Wikimedia)
In May, Australia said it remains hopeful MH370 will one day be found despite the last privately funded seabed search coming to an end.
Malaysia signed a ‘no cure, no fee’ deal with Texas-based Ocean Infinity in January to resume the hunt for the plane, a year after the official search in the southern Indian Ocean by Australia, Malaysia and China was called off.
No other search is scheduled.
Australia, Malaysia and China agreed in 2016 that an official search would only resume if the three countries had credible evidence for a specific wreckage location.
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A British tech sleuth believes he has found the wreckage of the missing MH370 plane on Google Maps.
Ian Wilson claims he has spotted the doomed jet, which vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, lying in a high altitude area of the Cambodian jungle.
Images from Google Maps show the outline of a large plane – which could simply be an aircraft flying directly below the satellite which photographed it.
But video producer Ian is convinced of his findings and says he intends to visit the sight to solve one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
He told the Daily Star: "Measuring the Google sighting, you're looking at around 69 meters, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane.
"It's just slightly bigger, but there's a gap that would probably account for that."
MH370 went missing people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
In July this year, the Malaysian government released the findings of their investigation admitting they still do not know what happened to the passenger jet.
Despite millions of pounds being spent to find the plane, Ian believes he has uncovered the wreckage by spending “hours” searching online.
He said: “I was on there (Google Earth), a few hours here, a few hours there. If you added it up I spent hours searching for places a plane could have gone down.
"And in the end, as you can see the place where the plane is. It is literally the greenest, darkest part you can see."
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