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'I know Russia hijacked MH370 and planted evidence I have new evidence to prove it'

American journalist Jeff Wise says Mad Vlad Putin authorised the hijacking of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 to wipe Russia's annexation of Crimea off the news cycle

[Mysterious flight MH370 vanished in 2014]

Mysterious flight MH370 vanished in 2014(Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Missing plane MH370 was hijacked by Russia who planted its flaperon on a remote island to cover up their involvement, an aviation expert has claimed. Jeff Wise says that Russian leader Vladimir Putin authorised the hijacking to wipe his country's annexation of Crimea off the news cycle.

And he says new evidence backs up his theory as to what really happened to the Beijing-bound Malaysian Airlines flight that vanished after it departed Kuala Lumpur in March 2014. He has long argued hijackers flew the Boeing 777 to a military base in Kazakhstan.

The plane has never been found but the right wing flaperon was discovered on a beach in Reunion Island, a French island in the Indian Ocean, in July 2015.

[Malaysia's Minister of Defence and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein ]

Malaysian politician Hishammuddin Hussein answers journalists questions after the flight disappeared(Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Jeff said new analysis of barnacle growth on the flaperon suggests Putin planted it in the ocean as a cover-up, because their size shows it may not have been in the sea in the 15 months between the disappearance and discovery.

He said: If you dont think Putin is capable of doing something like this, then you havent been paying attention. This story was very thin and didnt add up. So around that time, this is when that stuff started to wash up. It looks like they sensed their whole project was falling apart.

"So Russia thought to bolster it, to make it look like this thing really did go south, lets take some pieces, put it in the water for a couple of months and let some stuff grow on it so it looks like it really was in the ocean and then make sure it was found. They planted it in La Reunion Island. We dont know the details but it seems they planted it there.

[One theory suggests the plane's pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah may have even crashed the jet]

One theory suggests the plane's pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah may have even crashed the jet(Image: Mirror Screen Grab)

American journalist Jeff, author of Taking of MH370, used the help of volunteers in Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, to analyse a buoy covered in barnacles that drifted ashore. He says the buoy, which had been at sea for 10 months, showed the biggest barnacle measuring 46mm with lots more between 30mm and 40mm.

According to the Ministry of Transport Malaysia, the largest barnacle found on the flaperon was 36mm, which suggests it was at sea for 15 to 16 months. But others range between one to 10mm and 20mm to 30mm, which would take less time to grow, the 2015 report adds.

Jeff, who also used data from the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, claims this suggests foul play.

[Grieving relatives react after hearing the news the doomed jet had crashed in the Indian Ocean]

Grieving relatives react after hearing the news the doomed jet had crashed in the Indian Ocean(Image: AFP/Getty Images)

He added: Its hard to collect data from things that are floating in the ocean. But I did it and lo and behold it confirms what some of the evidence has been pointing at: it looks like these pieces didnt go into the water until about a year after the plane disappeared.

There was a massive effort to look from the air and nothing was seen. Time and time again when you look at events expecting it to be there, its not. People say absence of evidence isnt evidence, it kind of is actually.

As time has gone by, all the evidence you expect to see, if it went into the Indian Ocean, isnt there, including the wreckage of the plane itself. The vast majority of people think it went into the Indian Ocean. Its only if you look closely you find actually the evidence keeps piling up the other way."

[The jet's disappearance has sparked dozens of theories]

The jet's disappearance has sparked dozens of theories(Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Jeff's findings were put to Jason Hall-Spencer, a Professor of Marine Biology at University of Plymouth but he said he doesnt believe barnacle growth on the flaperon, or the buoy Wise studied, shows anything unusual.

The plane went missing on March 8 when its communications systems ceased to operate 38 minutes into the flight, with 227 passengers on board with 12 crew. The MH370 Safety Investigation Report said it took a mysterious left-turn and flew back across the Malaysian peninsula, according to radar and satellite analysis.

They then conclude it ran out of fuel and crashed into the water west of Australia. The conventional theory is that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah crashed the plane in a suicide mission. But as communications were turned off and no plane has been found, the mystery continues to rumble on.

[ Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion]

Debris found on la Reunion proves Putin was behind the pane's disappearance, Jeff claims(Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Jeff added: "If you look at the evidence it becomes compelling. The smoking gun would be if the regime fell and the archives were opened and we could see it.

Or if someone defected. Thats how they figured out the Russians had been doping. One of the guys who ran that system defected, and said I did this, this is how we did it. Thats the ultimate smoking gun but apart from that you just tirelessly present the evidence."

An official report from Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said the flaperon had significant marine growth attached to it, the majority being Lepas barnacles. But they said tests to determine where it came from were inconclusive.

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