In a “coincidence”, Quest had interviewed and been photographed with the co-pilot of the flight, Fariq Abdul Hamid, just two weeks before the disappearance.
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The families of those who were aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have appealed to authorities to continue searching for the plane, which vanished two years ago with 239 people on board.
Speaking to The Associated Press upon his arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Gibson said he hadn’t wanted publicity about his February 27 discovery until after the piece was assessed, but news of the finding leaked.
Tony Manna, who owns a beachfront hotel in the Mozambican town of Vilankulo, said American adventurer Blaine Gibson was a guest at Manna’s lodge, the Varanda, when he discovered debris that could be a piece of tail section from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014 with 239 people aboard.
Everything started on March 8, 2014.
An ongoing search of the southern Indian Ocean has found no trace of the plane, although a wing part from the aircraft washed ashore on Reunion Island previous year.
A Boeing 777 flaperon was found on an island in the western Indian Ocean in July and confirmed by authorities to have come from the ill-fated plane. Australia is leading the search for the jet.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai (pic) said the right to claim damages against Malaysia Airlines would end if action was not taken within two years of when the plane was supposed to land in Beijing. Flight 370 is the only missing 777.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has said that an worldwide search-and-rescue operation to locate the remains of missing Malaysia Airlines plane is narrowing its search area and expected to find the plane by June 2016. “Malawi was number 176, Mozambique was number 177”, he said.
“Our team has arrived in Mozambique already”.
After half an hour of searching the sandbank, Gibson said his tour guide spotted the piece lying on top of the sand. He says he initially thought it was part of a much smaller plane.
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Added Gonzales: “We will fight on to make sure that we get the truth of exactly what happened to all of them”. There is no timetable for when the team will bring the piece back to Malaysia, or whether it will go to Australia first.
