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| The piece of wreckage found this morning has been seized by police for examination |
ANOTHER piece of suspected plane wreckage from the missing MH370 flight has been found washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
The shocking discovery comes after a supposed wing fragment was found on a beach of the same remote French island on Wednesday.
The latest object was found earlier this morning around 15 miles from the location of the first piece of debris.
The new piece of wreckage was located just south of the capital city of Saint-Denis.
The suspected 'plane door' fragment features Chinese and Malaysian writing.
It has since been seized by local police who have refused to provide further comment on the developing discovery.
It has since been seized by local police who have refused to provide further comment on the developing discovery.
One local resident saw police on the beach with "a small object - maybe a foot long".
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur last March with 239 people on board.
The first piece of wreckage discovered earlier this week has landed in France for further analysis.
Investigators are treating the airplane part as a major lead into the disappearance.
Aviation experts in a Toulouse laboratory will seek to confirm whether it belonged to the missing plane.
The Air France flight carrying the debris landed at Orly airport near Paris yesterday.
It is believed to be the 'flaperon' wing section of a Boeing 777.
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| The suspected 'flaperon' debris has arrived at a military base in Toulouse for analysis |
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur last March with 239 people on board.
The first piece of wreckage discovered earlier this week has landed in France for further analysis.
Investigators are treating the airplane part as a major lead into the disappearance.
Aviation experts in a Toulouse laboratory will seek to confirm whether it belonged to the missing plane.
The Air France flight carrying the debris landed at Orly airport near Paris yesterday.
It is believed to be the 'flaperon' wing section of a Boeing 777.
Aviation experts are "highly certain" that the debris found is part of the missing jet plane.
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak claimed that the plane part is "very likely" that of a Boeing 777.
Aviation security expert Christophe Naudin said there is "no doubt" that the debris "belongs to MH370".
He said only three 777s have crashed since 2013 and the other two were in completely different locations.
The MH370 flight is the only missing Boeing 777 in the world.
A local worker also found a tattered piece of luggage on the same beach.
The fragment of the luggage will be sent to a unit outside Paris that specialises in DNA tests.
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak claimed that the plane part is "very likely" that of a Boeing 777.
Aviation security expert Christophe Naudin said there is "no doubt" that the debris "belongs to MH370".
The MH370 flight is the only missing Boeing 777 in the world.
A local worker also found a tattered piece of luggage on the same beach.
The fragment of the luggage will be sent to a unit outside Paris that specialises in DNA tests.
However, if confirmed, questions will arise over how the debris ended up so far from the original flight path.
Reunion is roughly 2,300 miles from the massive 23,200 square-mile search area for MH370 which is off the western coast of Australia.
A top secret US assessment indicated that the plane likely crashed after someone in the cockpit "deliberately" caused the airplane's unplanned movements.
Investigators believe someone on board the flight may have switched off its transponder, which allows it to be located, before flying it thousands of miles off its intended flight path.
Malaysian prime minister Mr Razak announced last year that the plane had been steered off course from its path to the Indian Ocean.
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| Volunteers are scouring the remote island beaches for more debris |
Reunion is roughly 2,300 miles from the massive 23,200 square-mile search area for MH370 which is off the western coast of Australia.
A top secret US assessment indicated that the plane likely crashed after someone in the cockpit "deliberately" caused the airplane's unplanned movements.
Investigators believe someone on board the flight may have switched off its transponder, which allows it to be located, before flying it thousands of miles off its intended flight path.
Malaysian prime minister Mr Razak announced last year that the plane had been steered off course from its path to the Indian Ocean.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said yesterday that additional Malaysian officials were headed to Reunion to look for more debris.
He said: "If the flaperon does belongs to MH370 it is actually in accordance with the drift pattern seen in the Southern Indian Ocean."
Not a single trace of the plane had been discovered despite the most expensive aviation search in history.
However, if the flaperon is confirmed as belonging to MH370, it will be the first piece of concrete evidence that the Malaysia Airlines flight crashed into the sea around 16 months ago.
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| A tattered piece of luggage found on the same beach has also been linked to the missing flight |
Not a single trace of the plane had been discovered despite the most expensive aviation search in history.
However, if the flaperon is confirmed as belonging to MH370, it will be the first piece of concrete evidence that the Malaysia Airlines flight crashed into the sea around 16 months ago.
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