An amateur MH370 sleuth has released photographs of 20 personal items he says may belong to passengers who were aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Blaine Gibson, a US lawyer dubbed a "real life Indiana Jones", recently set up camp in Madagascar as part of a self-funded search for the Boeing 777.
Mr Gibson found the items, which include several distinctive bags, at least one mobile phone case, and a prayer hat, on Riake Beach in north east Madagascar, earlier this month.
He has posted more than 50 photographs of them on an Australia-based aircraft crash victims support group website in a bid to see if anyone recognises them.
"They may have just fallen off a ship," Mr Gibson told the BBC's Richard Westcott.
"Still, I found them on the same 18km stretch of beach where I found suspected (MH370) aircraft parts so it is important that they are investigated properly."
The adventurer was referring to his two most recent aircraft debris finds, items that have yet to be verified by Australian and Malaysian authorities.
Mr Gibson found a tail part that came to be known as the "No Step" piece in Mozambique in March. It was later confirmed by the Australian Bureau of Safety and Transport (ATSB) to have come from MH370 - in Mozambique.
20/06/16 Arnie O’Neill/NZ Herald
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Blaine Gibson, a US lawyer dubbed a "real life Indiana Jones", recently set up camp in Madagascar as part of a self-funded search for the Boeing 777.
Mr Gibson found the items, which include several distinctive bags, at least one mobile phone case, and a prayer hat, on Riake Beach in north east Madagascar, earlier this month.
He has posted more than 50 photographs of them on an Australia-based aircraft crash victims support group website in a bid to see if anyone recognises them.
"They may have just fallen off a ship," Mr Gibson told the BBC's Richard Westcott.
"Still, I found them on the same 18km stretch of beach where I found suspected (MH370) aircraft parts so it is important that they are investigated properly."
The adventurer was referring to his two most recent aircraft debris finds, items that have yet to be verified by Australian and Malaysian authorities.
Mr Gibson found a tail part that came to be known as the "No Step" piece in Mozambique in March. It was later confirmed by the Australian Bureau of Safety and Transport (ATSB) to have come from MH370 - in Mozambique.
20/06/16 Arnie O’Neill/NZ Herald
