MH370 Update: More plane debris washes up on Reunion Island

The search for other possible remnants of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 continues to birth even more questions with the discovery of new debris. One thing's for sure, though, the metal piece recently reported to be part of the Boeing 777 was just an ordinary ladder and not in any way related to the plane. The first piece found in the French island of La Reunion, a flaperon or wing piece, has been confirmed to be of the said plane model; but whether it is of MH370 is still unverified.

"I'm the one leading the investigation in France... I read all over the media that (the new debris) was part of a door. I checked with the Civil Aviation Authority and people on the ground in Reunion and it was just a domestic ladder," Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s director general of civil aviation, said in a USA Today report.

Also washed ashore was a disfigured metal object with a brown handle and Chinese characters engraved, according to Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) . Reports state that it could be a kitchen appliance, although nothing has been verified to date. Netizens searched the characters "xingyi" and images of a stove kettle came out, prompting other readers to question whether it was, indeed, part of the flight.

Antoine Forester, the reporter for the local news agency Antenne Reunion, who tweeted the photos of the kettle, said his office had been fielding calls the entire weekend about other random items suspected to belong to the missing plane. "It's all b*llsh*t, but we do have a lot of rubbish on the beach," Forester said in the SMH report.

The Malaysia Airlines flight went off the radar in March 2014 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. The plane carried 239 passengers, most of whom were Chinese nationals. Various analyses state that the plane may have crashed in the Indian Ocean. So far, only the flaperon washed ashore has provided any significant lead into the investigation. The piece has since been brought to the DGA Techniques Aéronautiques (DGA TA) aeronautical testing site in Toulouse, France for further analysis.

The Australian reports that on Monday, officials from Malaysia Airlines will have a closed door meeting with four Malaysian government officials, an official from France's civil aviation investigation authority in Paris and three French magistrates to settle the matter. However, Warren Truss, Australia’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister warned that even if authorities do confirm that the wing detail is part of MH370, it will not likely clear up the mystery because the black box, which holds the key to what really happened, remains missing.

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