‘This is where MH370 crashed’: Fisherman claims he SAW plane go down and recorded the EXACT location on GPS, saying: ‘It moved like a broken kite… no noise, just smoke’
- Rusli Khusmin, 42, says he and his crew witnessed the March 2014 air disaster
- He swore an oath of truth on the Koran this morning and handed over evidence
- The co-ordinates in the Sumatra Indonesian Sea will be given to investigators
An Indonesian fisherman who claims to know the exact spot where the ill-fated MH370 plane crashed into the Sumatra sea has sworn an oath of truth over the Koran.
Rusli Khusmin, 42, says he and his crew members witnessed the disaster, in which a Beijing-bound Malaysian Airlines flight carrying 239 people disappeared, on the morning of March 8, 2014.
Rusli recorded the co-ordinates of the site where he says the plane entered the water on a GPS device and held up a map to show reporters.
Rusli Khusmin, 42, a fisherman from Indonesia, shows his GPS navigator which he used to record the co-ordinates of the spot where he believes MH370 went down
Rusli says this spot in the Sumatra Sea between Malaysia and Indonesia is the final resting place of MH370
CASSA Malaysia president Dr Jacob George shows the co-ordinates of where the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is believed to has crashed during a news conference on January 16, 2019
Rusli Khusmin (second right), swears on the Koran, as he claims to have witnessed the what he believes to have been the MH370 crash into the Sumatra Indonesia Sea
At a news conference today in Subang Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur where MH370 took off, he recalled a seeing a damaged aircraft and thick black smoke.
‘I saw the plane moving from left to right like a broken kite,’ he said. ‘There was no noise, just black smoke as a result of fires before it crashed into the water.’
There was a strong smell of acidic fumes in the air before the plane went down, he added.
Rusli was flown in from Indonesia for the news conference at the Lake View Club in Subang Jaya.
According to local news reports, after years of attempts to find the crash site, the Malaysian government halted the investigation
Rusli spoke to the media during a news conference on January 16, 2019 in Subang Jaya outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
He has handed over his data containing evidence of the site of impact to CASSA, a Malaysian NGO.
Dr Jacob George, president of CASSA, said he would now officially send the evidence to the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
After years of attempts to find the crash site, the Malaysian government halted the investigation, having admitted that they still do not know what happened to the airplane.
Rusli and his crew members, who claim that they were in the vicinity of the crash on the morning of March 8th, 2014, handed over their GPS tracker to a Malaysian NGO
The fishermen say they witnessed a damaged aircraft, black smoke and the smell of acidic fumes before the aircraft crashed