Tourist who found debris was searching for MH370

March 03, 2016 15:12

The man who found the piece of Boeing 777 wreckage off the Mozambique coast has been traveling around the Indian Ocean for one year in a quest to solve the mystery of missing Malaysia flight MH370.

Blaine Gibson, a US lawyer from Seattle, is spearheading his own self-funded hunt for the missing plane in an exhaustive search that has taken him from the Maldives, to Mauritius and Myanmar.

"I have been very involved in the search for Malaysia 370, just out of personal interest and in a private group -- not in a for-profit way or journalistic way," Gibson tells CNN.

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