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Sunday, August 2, 2015

MH370: plane door washed up on Reunion Island

A day after it emerged a plane seat thought to belong to missing flight MH370 had washed up on the island of Reunion, an object believed to be a plane door has been found.

An object believed to be a plane door has reportedly washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion - four days after a fragment of a wing was found.
Both are thought by locals to be connected to missing flight MH 370.
The door was found on the island on Sunday. It was not immediately clear who had discovered the object.

A helicopter had been scouring the east of the island, near Saint Andre - where Wednesday's wreckage was found - since early on Sunday morning.

The news about the possible plane door is thought to have come from Freedom Radio - a local call-in radio show. A caller said they had found "a large metal object with foreign writing" in the area close to the capital, Saint Denis.

There has been no official confirmation so far, and the huge interest generated by the discovery of the "wing" has created a whole island of amateur detectives. On Saturday The Telegraph was handed several washed up bottles by beach combers, who thought they could be evidence. And on websites, some expressed scepticism that this week of excitement would solve the puzzle.

"As if by magic, everyone now remembers seeing something," wrote one woman, beneath the story of a woman who saw the wing in May.

Another said: "Warning: these accounts of people who saw something - who want a bit of glory - are only going to multiply. Seriously, she saw all that and said nothing?"

But others were more sympathetic.

"We have to take all the evidence we can find - large and small," said one. "We will succeed in solving this international puzzle through patience and self-sacrifice.

"Reunion is a land of enigma and wisdom."

Meanwhile the object discovered on the island on Wednesday has now arrived in the French city of Toulouse, where it will be analysed. Preliminary results are expected by Wednesday.

Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The discovery of possible wreckage this week raises hopes that at last the mystery could be solved.

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