By Tim Binnall
An English researcher's peculiar quest to find the wreckage of lost flight MH370 in a Cambodian jungle was thwarted when the expedition was deemed too dangerous. Ian Wilson made headlines back in September when he claimed to have found the doomed airliner while scouring images from Google Earth. The fact that the plane appeared to be sitting in a jungle in Cambodia rather than somewhere out at sea led to his potential discovery being largely dismissed by experts as a flight of fancy.
However, Wilson remained resolute that his find was genuine and pledged to put it to the test with an actual on site investigation which he and his brother reportedly launched this week. Journeying to Cambodia, the duo initially planned on going it alone into the jungle, but authorities insisted that they enlist guides for the mission. That declaration apparently proved to be fortuitous as, sadly, Wilson says that the group soon realized that the search would be far more arduous than they had imagined.
According to Wilson, their march into the jungle saw the makeshift search party encountering all manner of perilous predicaments, particularly massive boulders which were difficult to scale. He also claims that the group had to "cross around 20 waterfalls, we fell most of the time and we were lucky to not kill ourselves." Eventually, he says, the guides decided that they could go no further because the trek had simply become too risky. Wilson did not give any indication if he will make another attempt to find the lost plane.