Debris found on Australian island does not belong to MH 370: Search officials

Debris that was found earlier this month in an Australian island does not belong to the missing MH370 plane, investigators said on Wednesday. A piece of debris had washed up on a remote island off Australia’s coast, resembled part of a plane which raised the hopes of it belonging to the missing flight MH370.

But Australian Transport Safety Bureau which is running the search for the ill-fated flight MH 370 after examining the debris reported that it did not belong to the plane that had vanished on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people after flying off course from Kuala Lumpur to Malaysia.

“Information received from the manufacturer indicates the item is not consistent with the manufacturing specifications of a Boeing commercial aircraft,” the bureau said in a statement.

Authorities say that the plane crashed in Indian ocean but despite extensive search nothing substantial came out. So far 105,000 square kilometres of the designated 120,000-square-kilometre seafloor search zone has been covered without success.

Though China, Malaysia and Australia have jointly said that the search will be abandoned if nothing come out of it. These are the countries that most of the passengers came from.