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The Maldives’ authorities are to any sightings of particles after the invention of a flaperon on the island of Réunion within the Indian Ocean final month.

A Malaysian team have brought back two tiny objects from the Maldives to verify if they are debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 aircraft, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Sunday.

His suggestion that it’s possible for a plane of that size to float for a while before sinking was proved by US Airways Flight 1549 that landed on the Hudson River in 2009, and remained above water for long enough for all 155 passengers and crew aboard to be evacuated.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said that the differences between his country’s firm declaration and France’s less categorical one were “down to a choice of words”.

Investigators in France weren’t so sure quite yet.

But Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), the agency leading the search, said that the ATSB was working on the assumption that the wing part was linked to MH370. Family members in China say they want to be taken to the island of Reunion.

Malaysia, which asked for assistance from France in its search for more debris on Reunion Island, also appealed to the governments of Mauritius, about 140 miles northeast of Reunion, and Madagascar, to help widen the search.

Last week Malaysia said a wing fragment found 2,000 miles away on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was confirmed to be from the Malaysia Airlines flight.

Relatives of passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 argue with police officers after the relatives tried to push through a police line outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing on Friday.

Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft, now believed to be of flight MH370, in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion, in the east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015.

“I am suspicious of Malaysia airlines because they have a track record of going back and forth of what they is true and not true”, said Jiang Hui, whose mother was on Flight 370.

France is adding airplanes, helicopters and ships, including French Marine units, to its search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the government in Paris reported Friday.

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

Air safety investigators, including one from Boeing, have identified the component as a flaperon from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said.

“Malaysia Airlines would like to sincerely convey our deepest sorrow to the families and friends of the passengers onboard Flight MH370 on the news that the flaperon found on Reunion Island on 29 July was indeed from Flight MH370″.