KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — Australian authorities examined a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) towelette packet found on a beach in the country’s west coast for possible ties to missing Flight MH370, 9News reported today.
According to the Australian website, the discovery was made by a couple who deliberately went searching for MH370 clues in the town of Cervantes back in July.
“We had been saying, ‘let’s look for stuff from MH370’,” Kingsley Miller was quoted as saying by 9News.
Miller, who found the packet with his wife Vicki, said the MAS logo was clearly visible on the wrapper.
The item was later passed on to local police, who forwarded it to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) in Canberra for further assessment.
The JACC declined to comment on the discovery other than to say it is unlikely to be linked to MH370.
MH370 vanished a year ago on March 8 while carrying 239 people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is believed to have gone down in one of the deepest and most remote areas of the Indian Ocean far off the Western Australia coast.
Over 40 per cent of the 60,000 square kilometres of the priority search area in the southern Indian Ocean has been scoured, but no debris or wreckage from MH370 has been found to date in this phase of the undersea search that is to end in May.
