Malaysia Airlines flight 370: What happened where is it ? (83)

A British marine archaeologist claims to have found the remains of Flight MH370 - more than 3,000 miles from the current search area.

Tim Akers has been studying Australian waters off Perth for year in a search for remains of HMAS Sydney, the country’s lost World War Two warship.

So far international air, sea and satellite searches for the doomed Malaysian Airlines plane have proved fruitless, but Mr Akers, 56, says he’s located the jet’s tail off the coast of Vietnam.

His claims may be more credible than you’d think - in 2006 Mr Akers said he’d found HMAS Sydney, despite 60 years of government and international searches.

His claim was then seemingly verified in March 2008 when the wreck was discovered by American marine scientist David Mearns, near the same location Mr Akers predicted off the coast of Australia.
There are inconsistencies in Mr Akers' sighting however - most notably the large tanker spotted near the supposed plane debris.

But Mr Akers believes boats registered to Vietnam have been in contact with the 'debris' supposedly spotted in the South China Sea. 

He says the boat pictured next to the sighting is a Vietnamese floating storage production ship.

And while the marine researcher claims the mysterious shape is debris from Flight MH370, others have dismissed it simply as an oil flare.

Mr Akers’ search method combines images from different parts of the light spectrum. Using software he developed, he said he’s able to look 10,000 feet under the sea.
By processing data from satellite images from Landsat 7 -  NASA's primary photographic satellite and the basis for Google Earth - he has been scouring the area for missing flight
Akers said he has now identified a section of what he believes is a tail of the jet off the coast of Vietnam - around 1,000 miles from where the plane took off in Kuala Lumpur.

His findings appear to support reports this week from former pilot Michael Hoebel, from New York, who believes he found the wreckage of the flight off the coast of Thailand.