MH370 wreckage found on Reunion island?

PETALING JAYA: The wreckage of MH370 – the Malaysia Airlines flight which vanished off the coast of Malaysia in March 2014 – may have been found on the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, according to a news report.

A British newspaper, The Telegraph, said a French aviation expert believes the wreckage may have been washed ashore on the island.

Xavier Tytelman, a former military pilot, was contacted yesterday by a man living on the island, who sent him a series of photos showing what looked like the airframe of a Boeing 777.

Tytelman said this could possibly be the missing jet. “I’ve been studying hundreds of photos and speaking to colleagues,” Tytelman told The Telegraph. “And we all think it is likely that the wing is that of a Boeing 777 (the same plane as MH370).”

He said police in Reunion who had examined the wreckage believed it had been in the water for about a year, which would fit with the disappearance of MH370.

Reunion is a territory of France in the Indian Ocean, several thousand miles from the international search zone.

MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board under mysterious circumstances, which have left investigators baffled.

The plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing, China, when it is thought to have come down in the Indian Ocean on March 8 last year.

Malaysia has officially declared the disappearance of the plane an accident and has said all the passengers and crew on board are presumed dead.