FOUND? British marine expert Tim Akers believes this is part of the wreckage of doomed flight MH370 [MERCURY] Despite never leaving his home in the town of Wetherby, North Yorkshire, Mr Akers thinks he has spotted the remains of the plane which disappeared with 239 people on board.
Using the same method he used to locate Australia's WWII ship the HMAS Sydney, the 56-year-old believes he has located the the tail of the jet off the coast of Vietnam.
MISSING: MH370 vanished on March 8 with 239 people onboard and has yet to be found [GETTY] 
EXPERT: Tim Akers has used the same technology to find the plane as he did to locate a sunken WWII ship [MERCURY] 
LOCATION: The spot where the wreckage has been spotted is 3,000 miles from the assumed crash site [MERCURY/GOOGLE] The expert has identified sections of the aircraft, which vanished nearly two months ago, close to where oil workers reported seeing a burning plane falling out of the sky.“The problem with the debris field in the Southern Ocean is that it has to be considered - what other material could be mimicking the debris?”Marine archaologist Tim Akers
Mr Akers - who is referenced as an independent researcher with the National Maritime Museum - said the jet having crashed in the South China Sea was far more plausible than it making it to the Southern Ocean.
Images taken by Tim from satellite scans appear to show what he claims are a 'tail', 'wings' and other debris.
RUMOURS: The debris, thought to be a part of the plane's wing, was spotted near an oil wig [MERCURY] "The only material that could be giving off signals randomly and persistently and multi-coloured debris is remnants from the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 which is still trapped in currents.
"The Japanese earthquake was the same magnitude and its debris is still travelling across the Pacific Ocean - it too will have things which are making noise on scans in the sea.
"The very fact that no debris from a crashed aircraft has been seen or found at sea or on land or beach in Australia so far gives good reason to doubt there's any truth in it ever having been there.
COST: The mission to find MH370 is now the costliest search operation in aviation history [AFP/GETTY] 
VOW: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has vowed to continue the search for as long as necessary [AP] The oceanography expert uses a method of combining images from different parts of the light spectrum, using software he developed he said he is able to look underground 75ft under the Earth and 10,000 feet under the sea.
He has also admitted to being puzzled that those leading the huge search operation in the southern Indian Ocean have refused to consider the possibility of the plane crashing elsewhere.
"Logically they should have checked it out by aircraft at low altitude and by a surface warship, but it looks like they chose not to. That in itself is very odd."
The revelations come as authorities leading the search announced plans to release a report about their investigation.
Malaysia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Britain and the US are assisting Australia in what is now the most expensive search in aviation history.
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