A fisherman who found part of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 said he was "snubbed" by authorities who told him they thought it might be a hoax.
Kit Olver, 77, revealed the details of his find nine years after the plane disappeared mysteriously.
Olver claims that he found a wing of a commercial plane in a net, nearly six months after the plane disappeared on March 8, 2014.
However, he said when he reported his find to authorities, he said his suggestion was snubbed.
Fisherman who 'found wing' of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was 'snubbed' by authorities
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Olver claimed that he was ready to give the authorities the exact coordinates of the location where he had discovered the wreckage.
He added the part was so big and heavy that the note of his trawler's engine had deepened and exhausted as they tried to tow it over to the surface.
The fisherman said: "It was a bloody great wing of a big jet airliner.
"I've questioned myself; I've looked for a way out of this. I wish to Christ I'd never seen the thing... but there it is. It was a jet's wing."
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George Currie was accompanying Olver during the alleged uncoveirng.
The now 69-year-old said: "It was incredibly heavy and awkward. 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. It was white, and obviously not from a military jet or a little plane."
Olver estimates the area where he made the discovery is about 55 kilometres west of the South Australian costal town of Robe.
In the time since the incident, the fate of MH370 has become one of the great aviation mysteries of the 21st century,
The flight vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
Malaysian investigators did not rule out the possibility that the aircraft had been deliberately taken off course.
Debris confirmed or believed to be from the aircraft has washed up along the coast of Africa and on islands in the Indian Ocean.