Australian authorities investigate possible MH370 debris

Blaine Gibson, a Seattle lawyer who previously found possible debris in Mozambique, discovered the piece on Riake beach, on the island of Nosy Boraha.

One of the parts found resembles an aeroplane seat part.

An ATSB spokeswoman said on Thursday that it was investigating whether debris found on Kangaroo Island in south Australia was from the missing Malaysian plane.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center, the agency in charge of coordinating the search for MH370, said in a statement that it “is aware of these reports” that possible debris had been found.

The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

A photo of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing since 2014.

It’s about 9,725 kilometers from the beach in South Africa where the cowling was found to Kangaroo Island, which is closer to Sydney on the eastern seaboard than Australia’s west coast.

Gibson on March found plane debris off the coast of Mozambique.

Blaine Gibson, who has a home on Queen Anne, is now traveling the world.

The pieces however, according to Westcott, are unlikely to tell the story of how the plane got there.

The bureau spokesman said images of the Madagascar debris were being studied.

South Australian police collected the piece of wreckage described as slightly bigger than a shoebox.

The first concrete evidence of MH370, was a two-metre-long (7ft) wing part known as a flaperon washed up in the French overseas territory of La Reunion in July 2015. The search, delayed by bad weather conditions, has so far covered more than 40,540 square miles of the total 46,332 square miles.

Malaysian authorities are leading the investigation and have procedures in place to examine any suspected debris, although Australia will help analyse Mr Gibson’s discovery, if required.

But countries have agreed that in the absence of “credible new information” the search is expected to end in the next two months.

Channel Seven News footage of the debris showed a white fragment with “caution no step” printed on it and honeycomb structured reinforcement, a common feature of planes.