Debris discovered in Mozambique could come from a part of the tail section of missing plane MH370.
Local council worker Johnny Begue and his wife Marie at their home in Saint-Andre. Mr Begue was the man who last week found the Boeing 777 part washed up on Saint Andre beach on the west coast of Reunion Island. Cameron Richardson
A MAN who found a wing fragment from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has found a second piece of debris in almost the same spot that a flaperon washed up on shore last July.
Johnny Begue found a square-shaped grey piece of debris with a blue border on a beach in the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on Thursday local time, Associated Press reported.
Mr Begue is the same member of a beach clean-up crew who found the first object, a wing piece known as a flaperon last July.
It will be the third piece of debris found in the search for the missing plane.
Last week further debris was found on a Mozambique beach last week and is yet to be confirmed as from MH370.
All the finds came thousands of kilometres from the suspected crash zone and have yielded no clues.
Australian officials still expect to be sent the second potential piece of wreckage from MH370 for testing.
An Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman told AAP they had not received any reports of a third find.
He said the second possible piece of MH370 debris, which has the words “NO STEP” on it and was discovered on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel last week, was still expected to be sent to Australia for testing.
But it could go to Malaysian authorities instead, with the likely involvement of manufacturer Boeing.
A suspected piece of aircraft debris found on the coast of Mozambique. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
American adventurer Blaine Gibson found the suspected piece of MH370 last week. Picture: AP Photo/Joshua PaulSource:AP
MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014 in what has become one of the world’s biggest airline mysteries.
Mr Begue said that unlike the flaperon there were no barnacles on the latest item, which he said was square and measured 40cm by 40cm.
The piece he found on the Saint-Andre beach was thinner and smaller than the flaperon, but the material had the same appearance, with a honeycomb interior although he could not say definitively if it belonged to the missing plane.
The discovery of new debris comes as families of those on board MH370 vowed never to quit fighting for answers and insisted the search for the plane should continue until something is found.
Families gathered for a poignant ceremony in Kuala Lumpur ahead of tomorrow’s second anniversary of the jet’s disappearance and to argue for an expansion of the search if the current area being scoured comes up empty.
“We are fighting to search on because our loved ones are not home yet. So how can we say it’s the end?” said Jacquita Gonzales, wife of flight steward Patrick Gomes.
The unprecedented Australian-led hunt for wreckage from the Boeing 777 is expected to finish its hi-tech scanning of a designated swath of sea floor in the remote Indian Ocean by July.
Australian, Malaysian and Chinese authorities plan to end the search — projected to cost up to $130 million — at that point if no compelling new leads emerge.
‘SEARCH MUST GO ON’
Citing imprecise satellite data, search authorities believe MH370 flew for hours to the remote southern Indian Ocean and went down.
Many relatives remain unconvinced that authorities are searching in the right place.
“If they have exhausted one particular line of inquiry, that doesn’t mean other areas may not come up with something. Just sit down and ask, ‘OK, what next?’” said K.S. Narendran, an Indian national whose wife Chandrika was aboard.
Authorities hope to detect debris far down in the ocean depths and eventually recover and analyse the black boxes for clues.
Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and head of the challenging operation, told AFP last week he remained “very hopeful” something can be found before the 120,000sq km search zone is fully scanned.
Many next-of-kin accuse the airline and Malaysian government of letting the plane slip away through a bungled response and covering up what caused the disappearance.
Some also allege Malaysia wants to stop searching to prevent embarrassing information from emerging, which the airline and government strongly deny.
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