Search for MH370 comes to KZN

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has brought two South Africans and an American to Kwazulu-Natal - in the hopes of locating more debris. 

Together - Liam Lotter, Blaine Gibson and Neels Kruger have found 12 pieces of the airline which disappeared two years ago during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. 

Teenager Lotter found a piece of the missing plane in March this year, while on holiday with his family in Mozambique.

The group will start their search on the KZN south coast tomorrow. 

They're hoping to create awareness among locals - to keep their eyes open for pieces of the plane, which could provide answers for the 239 families whose loved ones went missing on the ill-fated flight. 

Lawyer-turned-debris hunter Gibson, who traveled from America, will be in the province for four days. 

He says he's become friends with some of the families of those who were on-board the missing plane - which has inspired him to continue with his search.

"Imagine how they must feel. Two-and-a-half years now - no information, nothing from their loved ones; no idea of what happened to them, where or why. I cannot put myself - as much as I try - into their shoes and comprehend how they feel."

Lotter says he's immersed himself in the search.

"We need to do something, the three of us - myself, Blaine and Neels - because not much is being done. People are sort-of like shrugging it off, if I can say that. And we want to just try to help. Something that's so small to me, is everything - it's literally their whole life."

Earlier today, Lotter and Gibson spoke to ECR Newswatch about their search mission.

In August, an Australian air-crash expert claimed the plane had deliberately been crashed into the ocean in an apparent murder-suicide plot by the pilot.

(Video by Khatija Nxedlana)