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Investigators scramble to analyse wreckage for MH370 link

– No physical evidence –

Authorities involved in an Australian-led search believe it diverted for some unknown reason to the southern Indian Ocean, where it went down.

But no physical evidence has ever been found and Malaysian authorities in January declared that all on board were presumed dead.

One witness in La Reunion said the object was “covered in shells”, indicating it had been in the water for a long period of time.

Xavier Tytelman, an expert in aviation security, said local media photos of the object showed “incredible similarities” with a Boeing 777 part called a flaperon.

However, excitement over the discovery was tempered by the fact that planes have gone down in the region before, including a South African Airways Boeing 747 that crashed near the island of Mauritius in 1987, killing all 159 people on board.

Malaysia Airlines issued a statement saying: “At the moment, it would be too premature for the airline to speculate (on) the origin of the flaperon.”

An Australian-led operation has scoured more than 50,000 square kilometres (19,000 square miles) of the seafloor, about 60 percent of a search zone in the Indian Ocean determined via expert analysis of signals from MH370 that were detected by a satellite.

But search vessels towing 10-kilometre (6-mile) cables fitted with sophisticated sonar systems have turned up no sign of MH370.

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La Reunion lies about 4,000 kilometres from the area considered the most likely impact zone, but oceanographers and other experts involved in online discussion over the find said oceanic currents could have carried it there.

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