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Suitcase found early Thursday near possible MH 370 debris on Reunion Island: reports

Xinhua, July 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

A "closed" suitcase "in very bad condition" was found early in the day in the same place where a plane debris washed up on French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, local media reported Thursday.

The plane wreckage found on the island on Wednesday was not identified, announced the Island prefecture on Thursday, saying it's early to draw conclusion.

"An aircraft debris was found yesterday morning on the coast near the town of Saint-Andre in Reunion. At this stage, the origin of the debris is not identified. No hypothesis can not be excluded, including being from of a Boeing 777," it said in a statement.

France's BEA air crash investigation agency was studying the wreckage, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian experts, it added.

An aviation expert, speaking to IPR agency, said the circulated pictures of the debris which seemed to be a part of the plane wing, had "incredible similarities between a B777 flaperon (of the missing Boeing)."

The report added gendarmerie officers recovered it for "the purposes of the investigation" on the mysterious missing of the MH370 flight.

The flight, a Boeing 777-200, was reported missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them Chinese.

So far, the place has been found despite a massive surface and underwater hunt, in what has become one of the biggest mysteries in the aviation history. Enditem