KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 ― Amid hope that debris found on the Réunion Island may be from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Sarah Bajc said she would find no joy in a confirmation as it would mean the plane failed to land safely.

Despite that, Bajc, whose partner Philip Wood was among the 239 on the missing flight, said the debris could instead bring closure and offer insight into what really happened to the airplane.

“My initial reaction was I wasn't sure whether to believe it because there have been so many false alarms,” the American said in a statement to US outlet NBC News yesterday.

“If it is from the plane, then any hope that I might have had that this plane landed safely somewhere is harder to believe … My thread of hope goes away.”

The 49-year-old, who has become the face of the families who lost loved ones on the ill-fated MH370, however, maintained her criticism against Malaysia that she claimed has not had a “tough enough” response.

“I am still very angry at the country of Malaysia for their lack of efforts to hold anyone responsible for this … They have failed the world,” said Bajc.

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said yesterday Malaysia has sent a team to Réunion Island off the east coast of Africa to determine whether washed-up debris may be from the missing MH370 that is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean last year.

Eric Chesneau, an officer in the air transport police of the French Indian Ocean territory Réunion, told news agency Reuters that it was “more than likely plane debris” that had washed up, but further inspection was needed.

The Australian government, however, said that if the debris was really from MH370, the finding would be “consistent” with analysis and modeling of the missing plane’s trajectory

Flight MH370 went missing with 239 people on board while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 last year.