Who is MH370 hunter Blaine Gibson? Meet amateur investigator determined to get to the bottom of missing flight

Meet the Californian-born lawyer determined to solve the mystery of what happened to Malaysian Airlines MH370 at all costs

 

On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 lost contact with air traffic control.
Since then hundreds of experts and official investigators have been trawling through information in a bid to discover how the plane disappeared from radar screens during a transition between Malaysian and Vietnamese  airspace.
While those teams have yet to draw any conclusions - one man has taken it upon himself to try to solve the mystery.
Seattle-based lawyer Blaine Gibson has travelled the world in a bid to find out what happened.

 

Blaine Gibson has launched a one man hunt to find out what happened to MH370

He's visited the Australian search and rescue zone in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives to talk to villagers who claim they spotted the plane and even Réunion Island to chat to the man who found the flaperon from MH370.

Gibson even secured a meeting with Australian deputy prime minister Warren Truss before heading to Mozambique, where he claimed this week to have found a new piece of debris.
He insisted his new findings are absolutely kosher in an interview with New York Magazine.
He said: "I can tell you this about that piece: it is absolutely authentically there.
“There is no way that that was planted there by any shenanigans.
"I rode with those guys on the boat there, and they didn’t carry anything there. It was a completely natural find. It was just freak luck or destiny, whatever you want to call it.”
It's not his first attempt to delve into some of the world's most bizarre conspiracy theories.

 

Gibson is a lawyer with an eye for detail and has gone around the world searching for truth

The 58-year-old who now lives in Seattle, Washington, has certainly got form when it comes to probing some of the world's greatest mysteries.

He once travelled Siberia to investigate the Tunguska meteor - a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River, in Yeniseysk Governorate in the Russian Empire in June 1908.

 

Mission: the Seattle based Californian born lawyer is determined to find answers

Later he went to investigate the collapse of the Maya civilisation, a Central American population who invented the 365 day calendar and whose population topped topped 13 million before they mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth in 950 AD.
He also once travelled to Ethiopia to search for the Ark of the Covenant, the wooden chest clad with gold which holds two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, according to the bible.
And he has no plans to give up his mission on MH370 anytime soon.
He once said: “I do not have a theory.
“I am just looking for evidence that may have been prematurely dismissed.”