French officials in Réunion say they are anxious the investigation could be flooded with other washed-up items that have no link with Flight MH370 and could slow down the investigation.
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Shortly afterwards, another man went to the police boasting a piece of debris measuring 70 centimetres (27 inches), guessing it was part of a plane door.
However, some time later, the Malaysian director general of civil aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told a news service that the object, with Chinese writing on it was a ladder.
The debris will be analysed at a lab staffed by 600 experts that is operated by the French defence ministry.
A piece of a wing flap recovered has been sent to France for analysis, NBC News reported. Investigators concluded by analyzing satellite signals that the jet turned back over the Indian Ocean and probably plunged into the sea off Australia’s western coast.
The update comes as reports surfaced recently about the new plane debris found on the island.
Since the plane’s disappearance, most authorities have hypothesized that the aircraft veered off course and crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
However Malaysia urged authorities in the Indian Ocean region to be on the lookout for debris washing up on their shores as hope flared a piece of a Boeing 777 wing could help solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. On Monday, an investigating judge will meet with Malaysian authorities and representatives of the French aviation investigative agency, known as the BEA.
The missing Boeing 777 was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 8, 2014 when it vanished.
But the families of 239 people on board MH370 will have to wait days before they are told whether the wreckage is part of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared nearly 17 months ago.
United States National Transportation Safety Board investigators and experts from Boeing will then join French investigators, probably on Wednesday, to begin the examination using sophisticated tools.
“As of today, we have found some debris, but it has yet to be confirmed if it is from MH370″, he said.
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“In the aeronautic community there is no (doubt) on the issue of what the debris belongs to”.
