AN American lawyer’s mission to uncover the truth about lost flight MH370 has been revealed in these haunting pictures of passengers’ luggage.
Blaine Gibson, 58, has earned the nickname ‘Indiana Jones’ through his mission to scour the Indian Ocean for remnants of the doomed Malaysian Airlines jet that disappeared from radar in March 2014.
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Among the items found was an Angry Birds bag. Sleuth Blaine Gibson believes it may originate from flight MH370Credit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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The lawyer, 58, holds a piece of wreckage discovered. It is believed to have come from the wreck of MH370Credit: Facebook
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One laptop case had the logo for intellectual group MENSA embossed on itCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Austr
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Other items found by the American include shoes and pieces of clothingCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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Gibson admits they may not come from passengers on the lost jet and could instead have been washed overboard on a shipCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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But many of the items have been washing up on the same stretches of east African beaches where plane wreckage has been discoveredCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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The objects are believed to have floated thousands of miles west across the Indian Ocean from where the jet is believed to have crashed - west of the Australian city of PerthCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
Gibson, from Seattle, has uncovered several pieces of plane wreckage – but his latest discoveries offer the most heart wrenching insight into the fate of the 239 people on board.
Among dozens of items he has photographed are pieces of luggage including an Angry Birds bag and a laptop case embossed with the logo of intellectual organisation MENSA.
Gibson accepts the items – mainly found on the East coast of Africa – may not originate from the doomed jet, telling the BBC: “They may have just fallen off a ship.
"Still, I found them on the same 18km (11-mile) stretch of beach where I found suspected aircraft parts [of the Malaysia Airlines jet] so it is important that they are investigated properly."
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Lawyer Gibson has devoted the last year to scouring the vast ocean for clues about the jet's passengersCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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And images of the items have now been released by a victim support group in a bid to identify who they belonged toCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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Gibson's journey around the Indian Ocean has taken him from Burma to the Maldives and finally onto Mozambique and Madagascar in south east AfricaCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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The doomed jet disappeared from radar after veering thousands of miles off course with 239 passengers and crew on boardCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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The search for the jet has been ongoing since it disappeared in March 2014, but investigators are no closer to explaining why it flew so far off course.Credit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
Inspired to give up his day job and devote himself to the hunt for MH370 after meeting relatives of missing passengers, Gibson’s investigation has taken him around the Indian Ocean.
From Burma to the Maldives and on to Madagascar and Mozambique, he has recovered dozens of items he believes may have drifted thousands of miles across to the shores of Africa.
Aircrash Support Group Australia has now posted the images in a bid to have the items identified by relatives of the flight’s passengers.
Group chairwoman Sheryl Keen said: “The nature of aviation investigations [means] usually people don't get to see the nitty gritty of it.
“But because these have been found by members of the public we're able to take this opportunity to display the objects.”
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Gibson was inspired to take up the hunt after meeting devastated relatives of those on board the Malaysian Airlines planeCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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It has earned him the nickname 'Indiana Jones' after his globetrotting bid for clues as to the fate of the jetCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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He told investigators it was important the items were properly checked as part of the hunt for the planeCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
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Crews scouring the ocean are believed to have covered more than 90 per cent of the area in which the plane could have crashed. There are currently no plans to extend the Australian-led operationCredit: Blaine Alan Gibson / Air Crash Support Group Australia
The jet’s disappearance remains a mystery after it veered thousands of miles from its Kuala Lumpur to Beijing route and is believed to have crashed in the ocean 1,000 miles west of Perth, Australia.
It comes as pieces of wreckage wash up with creasing regularity, beginning with a flaperon that came ashore on Reunion Island in July last year.
Gibson's bid to solve the mystery of MH370 is catalogued on .
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