Authorities in the Maldives are examining items washed up on four of their beaches, as the hunt for wreckage from MH370 continues.
An object similar to the two-metre long "flaperon" wing fragment was discovered on the pristine beaches of honeymoon resort Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru, according to a local newspaper. The item was reportedly found in May, and is being analysed.
An official from the Maldives Police Service told Chinese news agency Xinhua that a police team, along with aviation experts, has begun investigating the piece of suspected plane debris, which was found on the beach of the private resort. According to local media reports, the piece is probably a plane part and measures five to seven inches long. It was not clear whether the part was from a Boeing 777 – the plane of MH370.
Debris was also found on three other islands – two in Baa Atoll and one in Noonu Atoll. But Haveeru, the local newspaper, said that those objects were likely to be rubbish from construction sites.
"Aircraft parts are made of carbon fibre composite material," said an aeronautical engineer quoted by the paper. "The debris found in those islands do not appear to be made from such material."
Residents of the Maldives spotted a “low flying jumbo jet” hours after the aircraft disappeared.
Several witnesses in Dhaalu Atoll saw a plane heading south that bore the red stripe and white background of Malaysia Airlines planes.
The sightings, reported by a local news outlet, would have occurred more than seven hours after the plane, carrying 12 crew and 227 mainly Chinese passengers, lost contact with air traffic control and took its sudden westward turn during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early hours of Saturday March 8, 2014.
09/08/15 Harriet Alexander/Telegraph
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An object similar to the two-metre long "flaperon" wing fragment was discovered on the pristine beaches of honeymoon resort Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru, according to a local newspaper. The item was reportedly found in May, and is being analysed.
An official from the Maldives Police Service told Chinese news agency Xinhua that a police team, along with aviation experts, has begun investigating the piece of suspected plane debris, which was found on the beach of the private resort. According to local media reports, the piece is probably a plane part and measures five to seven inches long. It was not clear whether the part was from a Boeing 777 – the plane of MH370.
Debris was also found on three other islands – two in Baa Atoll and one in Noonu Atoll. But Haveeru, the local newspaper, said that those objects were likely to be rubbish from construction sites.
"Aircraft parts are made of carbon fibre composite material," said an aeronautical engineer quoted by the paper. "The debris found in those islands do not appear to be made from such material."
Residents of the Maldives spotted a “low flying jumbo jet” hours after the aircraft disappeared.
Several witnesses in Dhaalu Atoll saw a plane heading south that bore the red stripe and white background of Malaysia Airlines planes.
The sightings, reported by a local news outlet, would have occurred more than seven hours after the plane, carrying 12 crew and 227 mainly Chinese passengers, lost contact with air traffic control and took its sudden westward turn during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early hours of Saturday March 8, 2014.
09/08/15 Harriet Alexander/Telegraph
