Another piece of missing MH370 may have just been found
A piece of debris has been found on the same beach where a wing fragment from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was discovered last July.
The piece, found by the same person that located the flaperon wing piece on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, is currently being analysed before it can be confirmed that it came from the plane.
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Tuesday marks the second anniversary of MH370's disappearance. The flight was enroute from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, with 12 crew members and 227 passengers on board when it lost radar contact over the Indian Ocean.
Johnny Begue, who found the piece last Thursday at nearly the same spot as the first piece, was quoted by AFP saying the new item appears to be made from the same "lightweight honeycomb" material as the wing fragment, and is grey with a blue border.
This follows the discovery of another piece last week in Mozambique, which experts have yet to confirm belong to the plane.
If positively identified, the pieces could help offer new leads to a search that has been fairly fruitless over the past two years, which will estimate to cost about $130 million for Australian and Malaysian authorities -- with about $14.8 million from China -- when it wraps in June.
Australia accepted leading the search because the plane went down in waters that it considers its responsibility. Search-and-rescue ships would have combed about 120,000 sq km of seafloor in the process.
Relatives file suit a day before deadline
In Beijing, about a dozen relatives of the Chinese passengers who were onboard the missing flight filed suits against Malaysia Airlines on Monday, said reports.
This was a day before the deadline to do so would've lapsed, on the case's second anniversary as per international agreements.
Lanpeng law firm's Zhang Qihuai, who's representing them, told the press that the families held out on doing so until now because they were concerned that if they filed for compensation, the case would close and the search for their missing relatives would be forgotten.
They are seeking sums of between 5 million yuan ($766,000) and 8 million yuan ($1.2 million).
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Victoria Ho is Mashable's Asia Editor, based in Singapore. She previously reported on news and tech at The Business Times, TechCrunch and ZDNet. When she isn't writing, she's making music with her band
