MH370 Malaysia Airlines: Moist Towelette Branded With Airline's Logo Found On Western Australian Beach
Could This Be The First Piece Of Debris From MH370?
Sara C Nelson— Huffington Post UK
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A moist towelette bearing the logo of Malaysia Airlines found on a Western Australian beach is being tested to determine if it came from the missing flight MH370.
The unopened package was discovered in July on Cervantes, around 200km north of Perth by retired couple Kingsley and Vicki Miller.
The couple described the fact the package was unopened as “very unusual”.
The pair presented the package to the police who have since passed it to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) in Canberra.
Nine News cites oceanographer Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi of the university of Western Australia as saying debris from the flight could wash up on any beach from Cervantes to Esperance.
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The beach in question is 1850km from the MH370 search area
But it writes: “The JACC has refused to release a photograph of the original find and has withheld comment on the significance of the find.”
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has previously examined items washed up on beaches in western Australia but concluded none have ever shed light on what happened, AFP reports.
The ATSB added: “It is unlikely, however, that such a common item with no unique identifier could be conclusively linked with MH370.”
The Boeing 777 and all 239 souls on board disappeared on 8 March last year.
No wreckage has ever been found, nor have any bodies, and the tragedy has become one of the most enduring mysteries of modern times.
Rumours abounded after it emerged that the tickets for two passengers who used stolen passports to travel on a missing Malaysia Airlines flight were booked by an Iranian man known only as “Mr. Ali", according to the FT.But one of those travelling has been identified as a 19-year-old Iranian, almost definitely headed to Germany to seek asylum, with no links whatsoever to terror networks. Besides, it would be baffling as to why Iran would want to hijack a plane almost entirely compromised of Chinese passengers. China is a key ally of Iran. (credit:Getty Images)
North Korea downed the jet(02 of07)
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It's a theory swirling only in the realm of the Twittersphere and Reddit, but HuffPost UK has had a number of emails asking us to investigate the theory, pointing out the jet did have enough fuel on board to reach the hermit nation (allegedly) and that the North Koreans do have form when it comes to plane hijacking. Again, it seems like an odd scheme when it would alienate Pyongyang's only international ally, China, and mainly hinges on the "but those North Koreans are crazy" school of thought. (credit:AP)
Chinese separatists downed the jet(03 of07)
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This one is kinda understandable, because the 'Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade' claimed they were responsible for the attack in an email to Chinese media. The message read: "You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as pay back.” This is almost certainly a hoax to stir up trouble, in the aftermath of the Kunming train station massacre where 29 people were killed. Chinese officials blamed that on separatists from north-west China's Uighur Muslim minority. (credit:Getty Images)
A single Uighur terrorist downed the jet(04 of07)
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This was touted on Chinese social media, Weibo, with pictures of the air passenger list showing one name scrubbed out, which netizens said was a "Uighur" name. But it's a hoax, the full air passenger list has been posted on Reddit, and it hasn't got a name scrubbed out. Easy one, that. (credit:Getty Images)
Mobile Phones of the victims are still ringing (05 of07)
The plane was hidden by US military technology for unknown nefarious purpose(06 of07)
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This is one touted on Beforeitsnews.com, an "alternative" site big on stuff like UFOs, which reports: "It is conceivable that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is “cloaked,” hiding with hi-tech electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used. In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of [Texas-based company] Freescale, that has 20 employees on board the missing flight”. Again (there's a theme here) it doesn't say why. (credit:Getty Images)
Mossad downed the jet(07 of07)
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Alright, not many people other than complete wack-jobs are posing this theory, but it's always worth an honourable mention. Nothing practical like, say, a motive, is given by those posing this on internet forums, apart from "evil Zionists do this kind of thing". Oh, and that the Israelis once cloned passports, so that's proof enough for The Rebel, who wrote: "The finding of the use on the Malaysian Airlines flight of stolen passports is essentially confirmatory of a Zionist plot." And that's, err, all they've got. (credit:Getty Images)