More Suspected MAS MH370 Debris Found Near Reunion Island

5th Aug 2015

A team of searchers on the Reunion Island has found another wreckage this Tuesday, in addition to what they already located in the week before. They suspect it could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The wreckage, discovered on the northern coast of this French island is, according to one witness, a square, about 30 by 30 cm big, and has round-shaped corners. Reports say that it looks like a porthole frame of an aircraft.

So far, nothing indicates that the wreckage has anything to do with the missing plane.

Found Wreckage Puts Reunion Island “On the Map”

The island of Reunion has found itself in the focus of media coverage and the search for MAS MH370 after a wreckage was found on 29^th July. It was a piece of a suitcase. The suitcase was sent to the French city of Toulouse, where it will be investigated.

Apart from the suitcase, a wreckage, later confirmed to be a flaperon from a Boeing 777, but could not say with certainty if this it was a part of the missing MAS plane or not. The Malaysia Airlines MH370 was also a Boeing 777-200ER.

Last Sunday, another piece of wreckage was discovered near the island. The debris, however, had two Chinese characters engraved on it, and was, after some testing, confirmed that it does not belong to a jet.

Researchers are currently scouring the coastline of the Reunion Island for more clues about the AWOL plane.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was on its way to Beijing airport from Kuala Lumpur on 8^th March last year when it completely disappeared from the radar somewhere above the Indian Ocean. The plane was carrying 239 people.

The Reunion Island is located in the western part of the Indian Ocean, 944 kilometers east of Madagascar and 175 kilometers south-west of Mauritius.