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Psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller today revealed he has been asked to help find the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft.

Almost a week after the flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board, the famous psychic has been asked to use his powers by a "substantial figure" in Malaysia.

Mr Geller's assistance was revealed as Malaysian officials said that the search for the Boeing 777 was expanding into the Indian Ocean.

Mr Geller, who was a friend of Michael Jackson, has been using "remote viewing" in a bid to discover the fate of the plane and hopefully end the agony for the families of the missing.

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"Remote viewing has been used by the CIA for decades," said Mr Geller at his home in Sonning, Berkshire, today.

"It works by people sending their mind through space and time. I have been asked by quite a substantial figure in Malaysia what my feelings are about this situation."

Mr Geller also appealed to his followers on Twitter and Facebook, to help him.

He wrote: "I have been asked to help. I believe in remote viewing. Can you help me? Can you please try to 'see' where you believe the plane went down? How and why, what are your own feelings, what does you intuitive sense tell you. Thank you."

He explained how the comments of his followers helped him to come to his own theory that something happened in the cockpit of the aircraft.

"It is my opinion that something happened to the pilot," said Mr Geller.

"The pilot was either pushed into a situation to divert the plane by another force or he did it of his own accord.

"That is my opinion and it is only my opinion. It is what I had derived from my own personal intuitive feeling."

Mr Geller said that he was attacked by a number of people on social media after asking his followers for their intuitive feelings.

However, he insisted that he was not seeking publicity and had posed the question to help him form his own conclusions.

He said many people's comments were "interesting," and that they ranged from the strange and the bizarre to the more logical.

One follower wrote: "I have every confidence in you and your gifts. If you can find oil and diamonds a plane should be easy. I look forward to your results. Come on, these families need your abilities."

Others gave their views, which included that the aircraft could have been abducted by aliens, crash-landed in the jungle, or it may have been shot down by a stray missile.