Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-04-30
Michael Hoebel, a 60-year-old pilot from New York, says he has found Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after searching through thousands of satellite images on the internet, reports the website of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.
The underwater vehicle Bluefin-21 is released into the water to search for the missing flight on April 16. (Photo/Xinhua) |
Michael Hoebel, a 60-year-old pilot from New York, says he has found Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after searching through thousands of satellite images on the internet, reports the website of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.
The pilot
looked through thousands of images on crowd-sourcing website TomNod and found a
white object that he believes could be the missing airliner. Hoebel estimated
that the object is 210 feet long given the scale on TomNod's map, which matches
Boeing's data. He located the object in an area off the coast of Thailand where
the MH370 made its last contact with ground control.
Despite
Hoebel's reported finding, the multinational search for the missing plane
continued in the Indian Ocean. Australia prime minister Toby Abbott said it has
been the most difficult search in human history.
No trace of
the MH370 plane has been found despite two weeks of underwater search efforts.
The underwater vessel Bluefin-21 has searched 400 square kilometers of the
seabed and has found nothing.
The plane
has been missing for 53 days since taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on
March 8. One hundred and fifty-three of the 227 passengers on board were
Chinese nationals.
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