Second suspected piece of MH370 wreckage found

It was found on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion and returned to the French mainland.

Flight 370 was en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur in March 2014 when it vanished without a trace.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Nicolas Ferrier, a beach cleaner on the island in the Indian Ocean, described how he has found suitcases whilst fulfilling his cleaning duties in the last few months too.

Malaysian officials said Sunday that they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said Thursday that both the location of the debris and drift analysis of MH370 provided to the Malaysian investigation team are consistent, however he advised the public to wait for actual confirmation. The 8-foot flaperon was escorted to the DGA TA aeronautical testing site near Toulouse, southern France, by police motorcycles and a police vehicle.

At this stage there has been no confirmation that debris found comes from the missing flight, although a part of a wing found washed up has been confirmed to be from a Boeing 777.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said civil aviation authorities have asked their Indian Ocean counterparts to lookout for further debris.

France and the United States identified the flaperon found on a Reunion Island beach as one from that particular type of Boeing, Malaysia’s transportation ministry said.

“In previous accidents, such as the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009, investigators were able to reconstruct from cabin debris how the plane impacted the Atlantic on its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, aiding them in reconstructing what happened.”

“It’s a nice example of the unexpected ways that discovery research can be surprisingly useful in tackling new problems in different contexts”, said professor Angela Moles, evolution and ecology research centre at the University of New South Wales.

“There is a sort of “treasure hunt” mentality that is taking hold and people are calling us for everything”, said a local source close to the investigation.

In what has been described as a “treasure hunt” mentality, eager locals have been handing in “plane debris” only to discover it is nothing more than ocean rubbish.

About two-thirds of those aboard Flight 370 were Chinese. On Sunday, there was a frenzy of speculation over what locals believed to be a plane door but authorities quickly shot down the theory.

However, experts have warned grieving families not to expect startling revelations from a single part.

“It’s not much and I know it will never be enough to ease the pain of those poor people“.

It was earlier thought that the object found was the door of a plane, but Bowden said that did not now appear to be the case.

Ever since a part from a Boeing Co.

Investigators and other officials are still at the Reunion Island to find other debris.