MH370 News: Authorities Shoot Down Claims that Wreckage of Malaysian Plane was Found in a Philippine Jungle

Authorities have dismissed claims that wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had been found in a remote jungle in the southern islands of the Philippines.

According to a report from the New York Post, Philippine authorities have already shot down claims of a teenaged bird-hunter who allegedly stumbled upon the wreckage in thick jungle on the remote island of Sugbai in the southern Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi.

"I sent people to the site where it (the plane wreck) was supposedly seen and the results were negative," Tawi-Tawi island Deputy Police Director Glenn Roy Gabor explained.

This update comes after a report from the Daily Mail UK revealed how the wreckage was found.

"An audio technician, Jamil Omar, contacted police in Malaysia to say his aunt, Siti Kayam, had stumbled upon the wreckage while she and others were hunting for birds," the report read.

Jalaludin Abdul Rahman, a police commissioner based in Borneo, told Daily Mail that the woman narrated how she allegedly climbed into the wrecked fuselage while she was hunting birds.

"Mr Jamil claimed his aunt had entered the aircraft wreckage, which had many human skeletons and bones. She also found a Malaysian flag measuring 70 inches long and 35 inches wide," he explained.

After the report reached the online news community, speculations that the report may be referring to the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing in March 2015 considering how it had 239 passengers on-board prior to the incident.

But since a report from French authorities confirmed that part of the aircraft's wing was found on the island of Reunion on the other side of the planet, the police and other authorities kept information and opinion reserved until an official probe has been made.

This, noted the Daily Mail, is a logical reaction considering how the geographical arrangement of the scenarios makes no sense.

"It would be unlikely that the flaperon had been able to drift from the Philippines to Reunion, given that land -- Borneo, the Malaysian mainland and parts of Indonesia -- would be in the way," the report explained.

Fortunately, the Philippine authorities were able to scour the area where the alleged wreck was and debunked the rumor floating around.

"There was someone who was spreading that story but it has no truth to it and the person spreading it has disappeared," Gabor added, emphasizing the fallacy of the report.

The Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was bound to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia when it went missing on March 8, 2014.