...the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of MH370 is approaching...
https://www.airlineratings.com/featured ... -location/
NEW MAP PINPOINTS PROBABLE MH370 LOCATION
December 23, 2023
A new map produced by UK aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, the lead in the refinement of WSPR – Weak Signal Propagation Reporter – breakthrough tracking technology, pinpoints the probable location of MH370.
The map below shows the MH370 location area identified by the University of Western Australia in yellow, the area searched in 2018 by Ocean Infinity in dusky pink and the area identified by Mr Godfrey’s team this year in cyan (top right).
It will be noted that more than half of the WSPR area was not searched by OI in 2018.
...and the Australian fisherman's story earlier:
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/pos ... ght-mh370/
The latest news on the 10-year-old mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 comes out of Australia, this week, where a 77-year-old fisherman claims he likely snagged part of the Boeing 777 wing in his nets, but his reports were ignored by authorities. Kit Olver said that six months after the flight disappeared on March 8, 2014, his trawler’s net snagged a large piece of debris that he said was clearly part of the wing of a large aircraft.
“It was the bloody great wing of a big jet airliner,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald, adding, “I’ve questioned myself; I wish to =censored= I’d never seen the thing.”
His companion on the trawler, now-69-year-old George Currie, backed up the story, telling the paper, “It stretched out the net and ripped it. It was too big to get up on the deck. As soon as I saw it, I knew what it was. It was obviously a wing, or a big part of it, from a commercial plane.”
In his interview with the newspaper, Olver countered any natural skepticism by offering to provide the exact coordinates of where he found the debris to authorities. He said the location is roughly 55 kilometers off the coast of Southern Australia, adjacent to the coastal town of Robe, which is about halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide.
The original story in the SMH:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-trawl ... 5erln.html
Trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions
December 15, 2023 — 11.00am
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.
“I’ve questioned myself; I’ve looked for a way out of this,” he says. “I wish to =censored= I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing.”
Olver dismisses any suggestion the object was the wing of a small plane. He held a pilot’s licence when he was a young man and flew several small planes such as Cessnas.
“This thing was much bigger than anything in the private plane category,” he says.
I contact George Currie, the only person still living among the three crew members who were on Olver’s 24-metre trawler, the Vivienne Jane, on that day in September or October of 2014.
Currie has spent 42 of his 69 years at sea and was the engineer and first mate on several of Olver’s boats over two decades. The two men haven’t been in contact for several years. But when I phone Currie, he knows exactly what I’m asking about.
“You’ve got no idea what trouble we had when we dragged up that wing,” he says.
And there is one of the reasons the story has remained beyond knowing ever since. Having spent a day struggling to free the object from the trawler’s net, Olver ordered his crew to cut the net free.
With evening well advanced, the $20,000 net and whatever it held was cast off and sank into the dark of the Southern Ocean.
It came to rest at a relatively shallow depth on the floor of a sea bank some hundreds of metres beyond the northern lip of a deep underwater volcanic crater.
The area is about 55 kilometres west of the South Australian town of Robe, and about the same distance from shore.
Olver has good reason to remember the spot.
It was his secret trawling area for a fish species called alfonsino – an attractive red fish as prized for its aesthetic value in a fishmonger’s display as for its firm white flesh. He had discovered the fish, among other species, were plentiful in the depths of the volcanic bowl.
All of this leaves Olver worrying that sceptics might classify him as a conspiracy theorist or a “tinfoil hat wearer” for talking about a mysterious jet wing many hundreds of kilometres to the east of the area MH370 is presumed to have crashed.
Anyone who knows him, however – and that’s just about everyone in Australia’s southern trawling industry – recognise him as a hard-nosed, determinedly independent man who has lost and made fortunes on the sea. He does not suffer fools.
It gave him a lasting aversion to journalists which deepened when, still traumatised, he arrived at Hobart to find himself surrounded by reporters demanding to know how he felt.
All of which lends context to his decision now to confide to a journalist his recollection of fishing up what he believes was a jet’s wing.
Olver points to the spot on the plotter where he says he put down the mysterious wing. It is at 37 degrees, 16 minutes south and 139 degrees, 12 minutes east.
“A couple of comments. I have trawled for 35 years and this was not a shipping container. Having over the years trawled up all sorts of objects, including aircraft, I am convinced this was an aircraft wing. Please feel free to contact me. Christopher (Kit) Olver.”
He says he received no reply.
Sydney Morning Herald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald
It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record 
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