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A short time ago from Reuters via the SMH: 

'Plane debris' found on South Australia's Kangaroo Island examined for MH370 link
Date June 9, 2016 - 9:31PM

Georgina Mitchell

Australian Transport Safety Bureau will investigate if a piece of debris found washed up on the South Australian coast on Thursday afternoon has links to the missing Malaysian aircraft MH370.

A man who was searching the beach for driftwood discovered the debris, which appears to be from a plane, on the coast of Kangaroo Island at around 2.40pm ACST.
South Australian police collected the shoebox-sized piece of wreckage for safekeeping until the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) picks it up to be examined.

A photo of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing since 2014. Photo: AP
A spokeswoman for the ATSB said the agency is waiting for further information.


"We'll examine each component as it comes in. At this stage, there is nothing definitive and we'll follow our normal procedure," the spokeswoman told Reuters.

"All we know is that there is wreckage."

It is understood the Civil Aviation Safety Authority has seen a photograph of the piece of debris and believes it could be from a plane, but referred it on to investigators at the ATSB.

Footage broadcast by Seven News on Thursday night showed a fragment of white wreckage with a honeycomb symbol and printed words saying, "Caution no step".

Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, in what has become one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

A first piece of the Boeing 777, a wing part known as a flaperon, washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion in July 2015. Malaysia and French authorities confirmed it was from the aircraft.

Two pieces of debris discovered later in South Africa and the Mauritian island of Rodrigues were almost certainly from the jetliner, Malaysia's transport ministry said last month.

Investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off the plane's transponder before diverting it thousands of miles off course over the Indian Ocean.
with Reuters


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/plane-debris-found-on-south-australias-kangaroo-island-examined-for-mh370-link-20160609-gpftdf.html#ixzz4B5Emfe8v

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