A floating plane wing off the west coast of the Reunion island has led to speculation about the origin of the debris. Photo: Airlive.net

The discovery of a floating plane wing off the west coast of the Reunion island has led to speculation about the origin of the debris. The initial information suggests that the wing may have remained in water for a long time, since it had collected a lot of sea shells. An investigation has begun to find out the origin of the fragment.

Employees of a company responsible for cleaning the shoreline discovered the debris about two metres long on Wednesday. After reviewing the pictures on a news site, Aviation safety expert Xavier Tytelman said the size and shape matches do not match a modern airliner. He however did not rule out completely the track of an Airbus or a Boeing.



Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines went missing in the Indian Ocean in March 2014. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing when it was lost over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff. Later investigators discovered that Plane at flew south towards southern Indian Ocean, instead of north from then on. A multinational search effort that began in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, where the flight's signal was lost, and was extended to the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea. That search goes on.