The father of three, from Doncaster, said the image appears to show an airliner under the waves.
An Indonesian airliner crashed into the sea on Monday, with the likely loss of all 189 people on board, as it tried to return to Jakarta minutes after take-off.
Some parts of the system were reportedly sucked out of the gaping window, forcing the pilots to fly manually before landing the airliner safely at the south-west Chinese city of Chengdu.
"Since 1997 the average number of airliner accidents has shown a steady and persistent decline, for a great deal thanks to the continuing safety-driven efforts by international aviation organisations such as ICAO, IATA, Flight Safety Foundation and the aviation industry," ASN president Harro Ranter said.
But the threat of airliner fires is not limited to Samsung devices, which the company has offered to replace.
China does not make large commercial jet engines of its own and the country's narrow-body airliner, the C919, is powered by engines from CFM International, a venture between GE of the United States and France's Safran.
Australian officials had indicated that if nothing was found by that stage, then the search operation for the airliner would not be extended.
A fellow pilot flying over the Midwest heard an air-traffic controller trying to contact an airliner for normal frequency change.
An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne, French aviation officials and police have said.
" Finally, there is China's vision of replacing that Hainan Airlines Boeing 777 with a C929 — Beijing's state-funded wide-body airliner project.
On some of these giant machines, a single blade roughly equals the wingspan of the largest airliner in the sky, the Airbus A380.
