MH370 skeptics fight it out on Twitter while search is yet to deliver wreckage
His claims are however dismissed by another airplane enthusiast, Simon Gunson (@SimonGunson), a private pilot who declares on Twitter he is passionate about MH370.
Mr Gunson replied to McMahon on his claims The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is looking in the wrong direction calling the ‘debris’ found in satellite photos as ‘sea ice’, calling them fake.
“Fake claims made about sea Ice. #MH370 There is no sea ice at 46 South in March. I live at 45 South. The Bay of Biscay at 46 North does not get sea ice in August either.
“There is no sea ice at 46 South in March. I live at 45 South. The Bay of Biscay at 46 North does not get sea ice in August either,” said Mr Gunson.
Mr McMahon replied yesterday that last year while in New Zealand “we took a helicopter ride out off the coast to a huge iceberg, which broke off after an earthquake in the Indan Ocean in 2016.
“There were patch’s of sea ice all around the polar cap, 2 months ago an iceberg was spotted off the Victoria coast opposite Melbourne,” said McMahon.
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Mr Gunson, however, did not reject only Mr McMahon’s claims.
He also called the supposed satellite images of MH370 debris, which the Australian authorities said were found 690 nautical miles further north, might have been among the parts that drifted towards Reunion Island and the African coast, as part of a ploy to support false claims by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The authorities used drift models to point out that airplane parts may have drifted towards Reunion Island and the African coast, where most of the parts confirmed from MH370 were found.