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Blaine Gibson has found several pieces of plane debris, some confirmed from MH370

Gibson is self-funding a search for the plane that mysteriously disappeared two years ago

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The man who has traveled across the Indian Ocean finding potential pieces of debris from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, including a number of personal items, says he won’t stop until the mystery is solved.

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

“I’ve 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 told CNN in March.

MH370’s disappearance is one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries. The plane vanished from radar while en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, with 239 people on board, on March 8, 2014.

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“I went for the one-year commemoration in Kuala Lumpur and met some of the family members and families, and it inspired me to keep on looking.”

He has trawled beaches, spoken to witnesses and interviewed people who have reported debris – all in an effort to discover the truth of what happened to the ill-fated flight.

“Most experts and the official search authorities believe the plane flew south rather than north,” Gibson wrote in a blog on his search. “However one year of searching the Southern Indian ocean has failed to discover any debris.”