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The flight – carrying 239 people – vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, above the Indian Ocean.

Peter McMahon, an Australian mechanical engineer who claims to have worked in crash investigations for more than 25 years, insists he has discovered the plane.

The 64-year-old has pored through NASA and Google Maps images since MH370 disappeared and points to Round Island, north of Mauritius.

He believes the aircraft is 10 miles south of the islet, unexplored by investigators.

In one snap, the outline of what appears to be a plane is visible below the water’s surface.

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McMahon sent his findings to the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau.

MH370 investigators have since rubbished his supposed research, saying the pictures involved were taken years before the flight went missing.

A spokesperson for the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said: “Mr McMahon contacted ATSB via Facebook and its general enquiries email in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

“At no stage did the ATSB suggest his evidence could be missing flight MH370.

“The images sent to ATSB by Mr McMahon, below, were captured on 6 Nov 2009, more than four years before the flight disappeared.”

Mr McMahon is still convinced the Australian government is concealing information.

He told Daily Star Online: “Four Americans were sent to Australia to oversee the findings of MH370.

“They have made sure that all information received has been hidden from the public, even our government – but why?”

(Image: GOOGLE) (Image: GOOGLE)

Ghyslain Wattrelos, who lost his wife and two children in the tragedy, also believes the plane was shot down.

He argues Vietnam, Malayia and Thailand could be withholding vital information.

Ghyslain said: “All the military from these countries have seen the plane, if we believe that version. Why are they silent?

“I do not know, but there are also other countries that have information like England with Inmarsat, with Rolls-Royce, like the United States with Boeing and like the FBI who went the next day and took the pilot's flight simulator and never said anything to the investigators.

“Why this silence? There is something we do not want to say in this story.”