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MH370 10 years on: Should the search for the doomed flight continue?
Pressure is mounting on the Australian government to launch a new search for missing plane MH370, as the families of those on board the Boeing 777 prepare to mark 10 years since the doomed flight took off from Kuala Lumpur. 239 passengers and crew were on board the aircraft bound for Beijing when it vanished somewhere in the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014. Waring believes the authorities should investigate the reported discovery of a large wing of an aircraft reportedly found off the coast of South Australia. Kit Olver told 60 Minutes he immediately thought of MH370 when the piece of debris got caught in the net of his fishing trawler seven months after the flight disappeared. Photos, more, >>click to read<< 09:54A trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions
Kit Olver felt his trawling net had snagged something large and unwelcome way in the depths long before he had any physical evidence of it. The note of his deep-sea trawler’s diesel engine deepened, and its exhaust gas temperature rose as it sought the torque to haul against the sudden load. What Olver’s net eventually brought to the surface off South Australia’s south-east coast that day, nine years ago, has bothered him ever since. He hasn’t spoken about it for years. Now, aged 77, with his seagoing years behind him and a couple of heart attacks reminding him that everything, even the chance to unload old secrets, has an expiry date, he wants to air his story. “It was a bloody great wing of a big jet airliner,” he says. He takes a breath, as if confronted by the memory. more, photos, >>click to listen/read<< 06:23
