A SLEUTH who claims to have found parts of missing passenger plane MH370 in the Cambodian jungle now says he has seen an engine among the wreckage.
Daniel Boyer previously claimed to have found the cockpit and tail, complete with Malaysia Airlines logo, of the missing aircraft.
Boyer told the Daily Star Online that the measurements of the blurry image matched those of the engine perfectly, being 4.3m wide and 2.7m in length.
Boyer’s discovery built off the work of Brit Ian Wilson, who first found what he thinks is an image of the plane on Google Maps.
MH370 took off from Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur for China’s capital Beijing with 239 people on board.
Boyer’s “crash site” is 10 miles away from Wilson’s.
He previously claimed he could make out the aircraft’s cockpit and tail in the grainy pics.
The photos show several white objects lying on the forest floor north-west of Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh.
In Boyer’s previous interview he told the Daily Star one piece measures 17.8ft – close to the 19ft 3in of a Boeing 777 cockpit, leaving him “convinced” this was the front of the plane.
Previously he insisted he can see the red outline of Malaysia Airlines’ logo on another piece, which he said must be the tail.
The piece apparently measures 31.7ft – whereas a tail piece normally measures 30ft.
Boyer told the website: “I couldn’t believe it when I made the sighting.
“First the cockpit can be seen, and now this.
“The debris definitely needs to be investigated.”
The first images of the jet, which vanished on March 8, 2014, were found after video producer Ian Wilson spent “hours” searching online.
Images from Google Maps showed the outline of a large plane in a remote part of southern Cambodia – which could simply be an aircraft flying directly below the satellite which photographed it.
But Google Earth’s copyright date and imagery date for the picture have been listed as different years in recent weeks, reports The Daily Star.
This has led to speculation the supposed wreckage has been snapped several times in the past by the tech giant’s satellites – ruling out the theory that Wilson’s picture shows a plane in flight.
While the current imagery date is listed as March 2017, last week it was reportedly published as December 2015.
He told the Star: “After much discussion last night, we’re just organising final vaccinations and the hiring of guides.”
But aviation expert Yijun Yu puts the imagery date mystery down to either a system glitch or that Google hasn’t updated its pictures for the spot.
