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MALDIVES: Floating debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have washed up on an island in the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, according to local newspaper reports.

The Daily Mail Online reported that local police had yet to confirm the reports, but plane debris is said to have been found in Baa Atoll Fehendhoo and Fulhahdhoo, both in the Southern Maalhosmadulhu Atoll.

The island of Noonu Atoll, in Miladhunmadulu Atoll, is also said to have yielded a discovery, according to the news website Haveeru.

Maldives resident Mohamed Wafir, who posted the original photographs to Facebook, claimed that they were found on May 31.

One airline employee, James Hardy, insisted that the potential find is more significant than the wreckage found in Reunion Island, and “changes everything” about the investigation.

“My friends and I, who also work in aviation, who have seen these photos all believe they appear to be aircraft parts, due to the honeycomb construction,” Hardy told the Before It’s News website.

Hardy is reported to have added that the location of the debris matches the calculations that he and Quantas pilots had done in relation to fuel endurance.

“If flown low and slow there was more than enough fuel to reach the Maldives.”

One of the pieces carried, in red, the letters “IC”. The rest of the letters or numbers have been eroded.

Police are reported to have removed the parts for further analysis, said the Daily Mail Online report.

Further plane debris was reported to have washed up on a beach on the North Male Atoll resort a month ago.

Meanwhile, AFP reported from Saint-Denis in Reunion Island that the hunt for more wreckage from the missing MH370 resumed in the Indian Ocean yesterday after being suspended since last Friday, local officials said.

A search plane circled overhead and foot patrols combed the eastern coastline of the island, resuming a hunt that had been suspended last Friday evening.

Searches are also being carried out on the nearby island of Mauritius. 

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This article first appeared in digitaledge Daily, on August 10, 2015.

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