Possible MH370 debris was thrown out as garbage
A piece of debris found washed ashore in the Maldives and thought to be wreckage from Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was thrown out in as garbage late May. The Maldivian police were only able to recover a fraction of the metal piece.
12 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
A piece of debris found washed ashore in the Maldives and now thought to be wreckage from Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was thrown out in as garbage late May. The Maldivian police were only able to recover a fraction of the metal piece.
The three-foot long object was found in late May washed on shore at the Banyan Tree resort on Vabbinfaru Island, north west of capital Malé. Resort staff took pictures of the object before transporting it to a landfill on May 30.
It gained attention when one staff posted the debris pictures on Facebook, shortly after Malaysian authorities on August 5 confirmed that unidentified objects found on French Reunion Island in the south Indian Ocean was part of the MH370’s flaperon.
Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi, Malaysia’s deputy minister of transport, told Bernama.com last night: “we think the parts which were found about a month ago were parts of the aircraft.”
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