Saint-Denis, Reunion Island: Investigators and volunteers are scouring the shoreline of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean for more debris that could be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Farther out across the ocean, authorities on other islands -- Mauritius and the Seychelles -- say they are on the lookout for items bobbing in the waves that might be from the lost jetliner.
At the root of all the hunting is a wing component of a Boeing 777 that was found last week by beach cleaners on Reunion, a French overseas department. Officials say they believe it's most likely from Flight 370, the only 777 plane known to have gone missing over water.
The wing part, known as a flaperon, is at a French lab, awaiting expert verification that's due to begin Wednesday. The remnants of a suitcase that were found on Reunion the day after the flaperon have been sent to another lab for analysis.
But other than those two items, nothing else found on Reunion is getting serious consideration from investigators as a possible link to MH370.
Since the passenger jet went missing nearly 17 months ago with 239 people aboard, there have been frequent false alarms amid the far-flung efforts to locate it. Objects initially flagged as possible plane debris turned out to be plain old flotsam and jetsam.
05/08/15 Jethro Mullen, Rene Marsh and Erin McLaughlin/CNN
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Farther out across the ocean, authorities on other islands -- Mauritius and the Seychelles -- say they are on the lookout for items bobbing in the waves that might be from the lost jetliner.
At the root of all the hunting is a wing component of a Boeing 777 that was found last week by beach cleaners on Reunion, a French overseas department. Officials say they believe it's most likely from Flight 370, the only 777 plane known to have gone missing over water.
The wing part, known as a flaperon, is at a French lab, awaiting expert verification that's due to begin Wednesday. The remnants of a suitcase that were found on Reunion the day after the flaperon have been sent to another lab for analysis.
But other than those two items, nothing else found on Reunion is getting serious consideration from investigators as a possible link to MH370.
Since the passenger jet went missing nearly 17 months ago with 239 people aboard, there have been frequent false alarms amid the far-flung efforts to locate it. Objects initially flagged as possible plane debris turned out to be plain old flotsam and jetsam.
05/08/15 Jethro Mullen, Rene Marsh and Erin McLaughlin/CNN
