MCA President Liow Tiong Lai speaks at a press conference after the party’s 62nd annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur, October 11, 2015.
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The Malaysian Transport Ministry has directed the Department of Civil Aviation to investigate a claim that wreckage of a plane which could be MH370 had been found on an island in the southern Philippines.
He hoped the public would not speculate on the claim.
Jalaluddin was referring to a police report lodged by one Jamil Omar, 46, in Sandakan on Friday and going viral in whatsApp.
Local English daily had reported that a man in Sabah had lodged a police report that the wreckage, with human remains inside, was spotted by his aunt at an island several days ago.
They also reportedly found human bones at the scene and skeletal remains in the pilot’s chair, along with a Malaysian flag found in the wreckage.
Contacted by The Star by telephone on Sunday, Supt Jocson said he was puzzled by claims of aircraft wreckage being discovered at Sugbay Island in Tawi Tawi.
“The Suluk man informed police that the wreckage could be that of a plane that disappeared previous year”.
Tawi Tawi faces the Sulu Sea, which is far from the search area for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that experts believed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared past year en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 237 passengers and crew on board, majority Chinese nationals.
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This new discovery could spark fresh investigations after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had announced on August 6 that the flaperon found on the Reunion island in the Indian Ocean was conclusively confirmed to be from MH370.
