The claims of a Malaysian teenager hunting birds last week in the jungle of Sugbay, the southernmost island of the Philippines, that he found a plane fuselage full of skeletons seems way off reality. His uncle later on reported the sighting to the authorities and insinuated that it could be the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
It would not take a rocket scientist to analyze and dissect the fact and realized right away that it is quite impossible to find skeletons inside the fuselage of an airplane because it has never happened before and can never happen at all.
Despite the absurdity of the report, the Philippine military decided to validate the report by sending troops to the island and investigate.
The armed forces have spoken to the island’s local community who expressed no knowledge at all of such a discovery, cites the International Business Times of UK.
Captain Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, commander of the Philippine Naval Task Force 61, disclosed that a gunboat was deployed to Sugbay Island to check on the claims of a possible plane wreckage but did not found any at all.
According to Bacordo, Sugbay is a big island, about 3.5 miles long. It is located south of Tawi-Tawi, the southernmost island province of the Philippines. They apparently made a deliberate effort to check the report and conducted an initial investigation with the populace too.
He said that even the populace residing in the island for the longest time have no knowledge of the supposed or alleged plane wreckage found on their island. Bacordo said that while they were surprised and a bit skeptical of the report, they still checked it out and can now come to the conclusion that it is false.
Grim discovery
It was actually 46-year-old Jamil Omar of Borneo, which is very near Sugbay Island, who reported the findings to Malaysian authorities when his nephew made the grim discovery late last month.
He said that he did not realize what it was as he has no access to television or the newspapers, reports the New York Post.
Just the same, Malaysian authorities in Sabah, in coordination with the Philippine military, decided to check and investigate the claims just to ensure that it covers all bases.
According to Omar, his nephew found a skeleton still in the pilot’s seat and was still wearing his safety belt. The communication gear is also attached to the pilot’s head and ears.
He later on added that his nephew was with some of his friends during the discovery and they found many skeletons in the fuselage, some still wearing seatbelts, and many more human bones lying around.
Omar also said that his nephew cut a piece of fabric to use as a blanket, but he discovered it later as a Malaysian flag.
Caution against speculation
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, in a press conference in Malaysia, said that he has already told the Department of Civil Aviation to look into the report. He did not say outright that the report is bogus, but he did admit that they don’t know if the report is true, thus the need to verify it on the ground.
The minister also said that people should not speculate on this claim of discovery and give space to the DCA to conduct and complete its investigation.
The latest report on the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 comes just five weeks after French experts confirmed a piece of wing that washed up on Reunion Island near Madagascar in Africa was indeed from the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.
The aircraft debris, technically called as a flaperon, was found on July 29 and had the paint color and maintenance record of the missing Boeing 777 aircraft.