Why was the Australian fisherman's revelation about the MH370 plane crash ignored?

Calls for an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have increased after a fisherman's claim of finding one of the missing plane's wings resurfaced last month.

Peter Waring, an underwater surveyor and seafloor mapper, heard Kit Olver's claim that he had fished out a broken plane wing, became curious and sparked a desire to reinvestigate the mysterious missing plane, according to The Washington Post .

Fisherman Kit Olver says he has recovered what he believes is a wing from MH370.

Waring, a former Australian Navy officer, served as deputy chief executive of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau during the initial search in 2014.

He also left the team in 2015 when the first piece of debris, part of a wing, was discovered washed up on the shore of the French island of Reunion.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared over the Indian Ocean after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.

"Even at the time of the search, we were discussing this and we certainly did not rule out the possibility of something washing up in Australia. And if it washed up somewhere in Australia, it would most likely be in Tasmania, or if it came back, somewhere off the coast of South Australia," he stressed.

In that case, if the fisherman can pinpoint the exact location of his find, the search can be initiated and completed within a few days.

Australian and Malaysian investigators have found debris on Pempa Island off the coast of Tanzania, believed to be part of MH370.

Luckily for Waring, Olver knew where he had found the plane's wing, about 34 miles west of the South Australian coastal town of Robe and about 5,000 miles east of Reunion.

Olver described his discovery as "the large wing of a large jet," when his deep-sea fishing boat pulled up the white aircraft part between September and October 2014, at a location he called "his secret fish cache."

The initial search covered 1,700,000 square miles of the South Indian Ocean, according to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre — the Australian government set up with Malaysian and Chinese authorities after the plane went missing.

Unfortunately for Olver and his crew, the plane's wings were too large for their ship and they were forced to cut their catch before watching it disappear beneath the water.

The now elderly fisherman said he reported his discovery to authorities when his boat returned to port but was largely ignored.

Three years later, he reported it again but got the same result: Nothing.

Waring blamed officials' failure to detect the plane on relying too heavily on drift model theory, which is an "inexact science."

“Something as large as an airplane wing is going to have a distinctly different drift pattern than smaller pieces of debris,” Waring said.

The Royal Australian Air Force searches for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean in 2014.

Aviation experts say a reopened investigation could be completed in a short time thanks to new technology.

Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and retired pilot Patrick Blelly believe the missing plane was hijacked by an experienced pilot, and have called for the search to be reopened in a recent speech to the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. The pair proposed a new search location that could find MH370 in just 10 days.

Marchand and Blelly also called on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the Malaysian government to cooperate with US-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity in the search, using new undersea search technology.

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