Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice An Indonesian fisherman claims he knows the exact spot where ill-fated flight MH370 crashed. Rusli Khusmin, 42, said his crew witnessed the disaster while on an expedition off the coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. He stated that the stricken plane emitted black smoke as it plunged into the Straight of Malacca in 2014. Speaking at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, he said: "I saw the plane moving from left to right like a broken kite "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. The fate of the Malaysian Airlines plane and its 239 passengers has remained a mystery since it vanished without a trace on the morning of March 8, 2014. (Image: Contributor) (Image: Contributor) Rusli was flown in from Indonesia for the news conference at the Lake View Club in Subang Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur - close to the location where the Malaysian Airline plane departed from to its destination in Beiing. He swore an oath on the Koran and handed over evidence supporting his claims, including a a GPS navigator which he used to record the coordinates of the spot where he believes MH370 went down. The data provided by Rusli was then given to Malaysian NGO CASSA who will now forward the information to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. (Image: Contributor) The Malaysian government has officially halted its investigation into the incident after years of failed attempts to find the elusive crash site. Earlier this year, officials admitted that plane debris washed up on a beach in Madagscar 'most likely' came from doomed flight MH370 Five pieces of wreckage were handed handed over to authorities at the Malaysian Ministry of Transport's headquarters in Putrajaya in late November. (Image: Getty Images) (Image: FAZRY ISMAIL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) A report from the MH370 Safety Investigation Team said most of the new debris recovered was from an aircraft and the panel belonged to a Boeing 777, 'most likely MH370'. Wreckage hunter Blaine Gibson, who discovered much of the debris, said that “locals tell me there are many more pieces of debris washed up but they need Malaysia to offer rewards”.<doc-sep>An Indonesian fisherman claims he saw missing flight MH370 falling into the sea “like a broken kite” while insisting he recorded the exact location of the crash. The Malaysian Airlines flight vanished on March 8, 2014, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur - sparking one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. Rusli Khusmin, 42, says he and his crew witnesses the crash and recorded the co-ordinates of where the doomed jet entered the water on a GPS device. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE SUN Mr Khusmin says the aircraft went down in the Strait of Malacca – a narrow shipping lane, west of Kuala Lumpur, where Malaysia Airlines lost contact with MH370 close to Phuket island, Thailand. The fisherman, who held up a map to show reporters where he claims the plane entered the water, described seeing the aircraft falling without a sound. DEBRIS OFF MADAGASCAR 'MOST LIKELY' FROM MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 370, REPORT SAYS In a news conference in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, he said: “I saw the plane moving from left to right like a broken kite. “There was no noise, just black smoke as a result of fires before it crashed into the water.” MH370 PLANE SPOTTED IN CAMBODIAN JUNGLE ON GOOGLE MAPS, MAN CLAIMS He added that there was a strong smell of acidic fumes in the air before the plane smashed into the sea. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The 42-year-old did not explain why he had waited nearly five years to report his story to authorities. This story originally appeared in The Sun. For more from The Sun, click here.<doc-sep>Almost five years after the aircraft vanished on March 8, 2014, investigators have had little luck in finding the wreckage of the plane that vanished with 227 passengers on-board. No transmissions were received from the aircraft after the first 38 minutes of the flight. The Australian, Malaysian and Chinese governments called off the search in January 2017, almost three-years after MH370 disappeared. 'I FOUND IT ON GOOGLE EARTH' Australian engineer Peter McMahon claimed in mid-March he'd found what appeared to be a plane wreckage on Google Earth, in the MH370 search area. After spending years combing an online map of the Indian Ocean, the amateur crash investigator claimed to have found a plan wreckage 'riddled with bullet holes'. Authorities combing through the Indian Ocean for remains of missing Malaysia Airlines flight discovered two huge structures (pictured) on the sea floor, which they believed may have been the doomed plane Sitting just off the coast of Round Island, north of Mauritius, in an area of ocean that has not been previously searched, Mr McMahon claimed investigators were refusing to dive in the area because they want to 'hide' crucial information. 'They have made sure that all information received has been hidden from the public, even our government, but why?' he said. '... (They) do not want it found as it's full of bullet holes, finding it will only open another inquiry.' WAS MH370 STOLEN? Prior to the plane's disappearance, Captain Zaharie Shah had listed the small island of Diego Garcia - 4700km northwest of Australia - on his flight simulator. Theorists suggested that Capt Shah may have been practicing landing the plane on the island's airstrip, which is controlled by Britain but is home to a US naval base. Suggestions have also been made that the plane may have been stolen by terrorists and hidden in North Pakistan, or even by North Korean dictator Kim Jong un. In a 2014 poll on the MH370 disappearance, five per cent of American respondents said they believed it had been affected by 'alien activities'. Australian engineer Peter McMahon claimed h he'd found what appeared to be a plane wreckage on Google earth (pictured) CYBER HACKERS TAKEOVER: In the wake of September 11, new technology was designed allowing planes to be controlled remotely in the event of a hijacking. British author Norman Davies claims Boeing's 'Honeywell Un-interruptible Autopilot on board computer' - which was featured on MH370 - could have been hacked and the plane flown to a secret location. 'There are reports that the cargo detailed in the manifest didn't add up,' he told The Sunday Times. 'I don't know what it might have been carrying but it may have been carrying something somebody didn't want to get to China.' In his book Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History, Mr Davis suggested one hacker could have 'kidnapped' the plane before another controlled it remotely. 'The first kidnap was by the Americans, who wanted to stop the plane getting to Beijing and planned to divert it to Diego Garcia [a US naval base in the Indian Ocean], and then somebody hacked it to stop it from getting there,' he claimed. DID THE PILOT COMMIT SUICIDE? Some have claimed that one of the pilots may have deliberately crashed the aircraft in a well-planned suicide. According to this theory, captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately chose to plunge the plane into an area of the ocean up to 25,000 feet deep, where it would be almost impossible to find. There have been suggestions Shah circled an area of the Indian Ocean just moments before the crash. Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott is among those to support this theory, saying in the lead up to the third anniversary of the plane's disappearance he found it 'plausible'. 'I have always said the most plausible scenario was murder-suicide and if this guy wanted to create the world's greatest mystery why wouldn't he have piloted the thing to the very end and gone further south?' Mr Abbott said. Just 12 months after the MH370 disaster a Germanwings flight from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf, Germany, crashed into the French Alps. It was later revealed the crash was orchestrated by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been deemed unfit to work by a doctor over 'suicidal tendancies'. HAVE THEY ALREADY FOUND IT? Last year a search vessel involved in searching for MH370 disappeared for just under three days after turning off its tracking system, sparking conspiracy theories. The Boeing 777 aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, headed for Beijing, China After more than 80 hours undetected, the vessel suddenly reappeared on the radar. Keen followers of the mystery have suggested that during this time the search boats may have been involved in a cover up, after coming across the wreckage. A MID-AIR EMERGENCY: According to pilot Chris Goodfellow, a serious possibility is that an emergency - such as a fire - left the pilots unable to land the plane. Writing on his Google Plus account, Mr Goodfellow claimed that in the event of a fire or other incident, pilots would have attempted to make it to their closest runway - a 13,000-foot strip on the Malaysian island of Pulau Langkawi - but never made it. An emergency - such as a fire - could have left the pilots unable to land the plane 'For me the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense if a fire,' Mr Goodfellow wrote. 'In the case of fire the first response is to pull all the main fusses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one. 'What I think happened is that they were overcome by smoke and the plane just continued on the heading probably on (autopilot) until either fuel exhaustion or fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed.' DID A MYSTERY PASSENGER HIJACK IT? The official manifest of MH370 listed 239 people as missing. But Andre Milne, founder of military technology developer Unicorn Aerospace, says the flight actually had 226 passengers (of which four did not board) and 12 crew - totaling 238 people. He told The Express that the unidentified passenger may have gained control of the plane and flown it to a secret location. 'The extra passenger likely acted in conjunction with larger external operational support to take full command and control of the cockpit of MH370,' Mr Milne claims. A Malaysia Airlines spokesman said a discrepancy on the 'load sheet' hours prior to the plan taking off had occurred, with the actual number onboard 227 people - a dozen less than initially listed. 'The actual figures can differ from that transmitted on the load sheet due to last minute changes,' the spokesperson said.<doc-sep>
AN Indonesian fisherman claims he saw missing flight MH370 falling into the sea “like a broken kite” while insisting he recorded the exact location of the crash. The Malaysian Airlines flight vanished on March 8, 2014, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur - sparking one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. 8 The fisherman claims that he and his crew watched the plane crash in the Strait of Malacca Rusli Khusmin, 42, says he and his crew witnesses the crash and recorded the co-ordinates of where the doomed jet entered the water on a GPS device. Mr Khusmin says the aircraft went down in the Strait of Malacca – a narrow shipping lane, west of Kuala Lumpur, where Malaysia Airlines lost contact with MH370 close to Phuket island, Thailand. The fisherman, who held up a map to show reporters where he claims the plane entered the water, described seeing the aircraft falling without a sound. In a news conference in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, he said: “I saw the plane moving from left to right like a broken kite. “There was no noise, just black smoke as a result of fires before it crashed into the water.” I saw the plane moving from left to right like a broken kite He added that there was a strong smell of acidic fumes in the air before the plane smashed into the sea. The 42-year-old did not explain why he had waited nearly five years to report his story to authorities. Mr Khusmin even swore on oath on the Koran before handing over his evidence to CASSA, a Malaysian NGO. The data will now be sent to the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The Malaysian government officially halted their investigation last year after they admitted in a report that they did not know what had happened to the plane. WHAT HAPPENED TO FLIGHT MH370? Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading to Beijing with 239 people on board. But at 12.14am on March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines lost contact with MH370 close to Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca. Before that, Malaysian authorities believe the last words heard from the plane, from either the pilot or co-pilot, was "Good night Malaysian three seven zero". Investigators thought the most likely location for the jet was in the Indian Ocean after analysing information from the British satellite telecommunications company Immarsat. HAS ANY DEBRIS BEEN FOUND? Five pieces, thought to be from the plane, recently washed up in Madagascar. Aviation expert Victor Iannello believes one fragment, which appears to be from the interior floorboard, is consistent with a “high-speed impact". More than 30 bits of aircraft debris have been collected from various places around the world but only three wing fragments that washed up along the Indian Ocean have been confirmed to be from MH370. 8 Rusli Khusmin claims he recorded the crash site of MH370 after he watched the doomed jet plummet into the sea Credit: Getty - Contributor 8 The alleged coordinates of the crash were shown on a map at the news conference Credit: Getty - Contributor 8 The religious fisherman swore an oath on the Koran before handing over the data to the Malaysian authorities Credit: Getty - Contributor 8 The evidence will now be handed over to the Malaysian Prime Minister Credit: Getty - Contributor 8 The search for the missing plane has focused on the Indian Ocean Credit: AFP 8 Pieces thought to be from the wreckage have been found Credit: AFP or licensors 8 Five pieces, said to be from the plane were found on a beach in Madagascar Credit: EPA Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board Credit: Alamy Reconstructed clip of MH370 crash shows jet plunging into Indian Ocean We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 . We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours