They want new information which will faciliate the continued search for the missing plane.
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Gibson’s find may help convince Australia, China and Malaysia’s governments not to suspend their search in December.
The debris have been sent to investigators at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
Mr Gibson attended the meeting at the ATSB headquarters with the relatives from Malaysia, China, Australia and Indonesia and handed the five pieces over. American wreckage hunter Blaine Gibson was present as well.
“I hope that the search will go on and in my amateur opinion this constitutes new, credible evidence that justifies continuing the search”, Gibson told reporters of his unconfirmed debris find. Once the origin is confirmed, then the two-year long search may come to an end bringing relief to insurance companies to settle the claims. Two of the pieces were burnt, which could indicate a disastrous fire on board, he said.
While debris and pieces of wreckage have been found across the Indian Ocean, a sense of uncertainty is in the air.
Earlier, the relatives visited the Dutch Fugro Equator search vessel when it docked at Fremantle. Soon after the plane vanished, it was revealed that the bay could have been physically accessed via an unsecured hatch by a passenger or crew member with specialist knowledge.
The possibility of a botched remote hack of the plane’s electronic and engineering bay (known as the E/E Bay) has also been discussed.
The flight disappeared without a trace after veering wildly off course, and it is presumed to have crash landed somewhere in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean after running out of fuel.
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Speculation of a fire on board was rife in the days and weeks after the plane’s disappearance on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. It was tracked by military radar across the Malay Peninsula and over Pulau Perak in the Straits of Malacca before making its way to the northern tip of Sumatra.
