Days after a wing fragment found on a beach in Reunion was confirmed as debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, employees of Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru have claimed that suspected debris from a plane had washed up on the beach of the North Male Atoll resort about a month ago.
The photographs of the debris shared on social networking sites by the employees appear to be parts of a plane. According to the employees, the debris had been taken away along with the rest of the waste from the resort by expatriate workers.
The discovery in Reunion had apparently made the resort employees make the connection to their find.
A Police team had arrived to gather more information, resort said.
Residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaalu Atoll had reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of flight MH370. However, the Malaysian authorities had denied the reports at the time.
The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared on March 8 last year when it inexplicably veered off course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, and a colossal multinational hunt for the aircraft proved fruitless.
France launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on Friday in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation's biggest mysteries.
The tiny French Indian Ocean territory has been under intense scrutiny since a beach cleaner found a washed-up wing part last week, which Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak later declared was part of the Boeing 777 that mysteriously vanished 17 months ago.
The flaperon is currently being examined by experts in southern France for possible clues as to why the Malaysia Airlines aircraft inexplicably veered off course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and there are hopes that Reunion may yield more washed-up debris.
In nearby Mauritius, authorities are also searching for any possible plane parts that may have landed on their shores.
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