MH370 BREAKTHROUGH: Plane DEBRIS unveiled in bombshell news conference

Five aircraft parts said from the missing passenger plane was presented to Malaysian Transport minister Anthony Loke in front of the world’s media on Friday morning after they were discovered in Madagascar in three different locations – with one of the pieces found as recently as August. Families of the missing passengers handed over the pieces of potential debris to Mr Loke in the hope that it would uncover new information on the passenger jet, which went missing in March 2014. A spokeswoman for the families of the victims, lawyer Grace Subathrai Nathan, whose mother Anne Daisy was on the plane, described the discovery as a “massive breakthrough”. 

The Malaysian lawyer told Daily Star Online: “Five new pieces have been recovered. One of them has part of a label still readable.”

Mrs Grace also said: “The fact that debris is still washing up now means that the investigation should still be live. It shouldn’t be closed.”

The doomed flight went missing on March 8, 2014, during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpar to Beijing with 239 passengers on board. But a four year search for the missing aircraft has filched to yield any results, with many cyber experts and aviation experts left bemused. 

Mr Loke, who met the next of kim, said the Malaysian Government would consider a search if provided with credible leads.

Mr Loke said: “We are open to proposals, but we must have some credible leads before we decide.”

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in May that the country would consider resuming the search only if new clues come to light.

Investigators believe the Boeing 777 veered thousands of miles off its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean with 239 passengers and crew on board.

the new evidence, presented on Friday, does not mark the first time that debris believed to be from MH370 has washed up in the Indian Ocean.

A total of 27 pieces of aircraft debris have been retrieved from various places around the world but only three wing fragments found washed up along the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to be from MH370.

On Wendesday, families issued a statement confirming they would meet Malaysia’s transport minister on Friday “to hand over newly recovered debris”.

The presss release issued by Voice370 read: “The MH370 Family Association said: “It is four months since the Annex 13 Safety Investigation team submitted its report.

“At the time of release of the Annex 13 team’s report, potential aircraft debris remained uncollected in .

“There has been no word on further efforts/developments from Malaysia since the release of the aforementioned report.

“Family members wish to discuss and seek assurances that the Government will continue the efforts to find a satisfactory resolution to the mystery of ’s disappearance.”

The discovery of the new debris will renew hope for the families affected by the aircraft’s disappearance.

In July, investigators released a 495-page report, saying the plane’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible.

Mike Exner and Don Thompson, both members of the  (IG) of investigators, claimed the official investigation into Mh370  was “heavily politically influenced, and delayed”.

US-based colleague Victor Iannello had previously claimed the report was edited before publication.

Crash hunter Blaine Gibson, who presented the findings along with the missing assengers group, said the new debris proved that the flight “met a violwent and destructive end”.

Mr Gibson said: “The debris proves two things. MH370 crashed violently and it almost certainly is in the Southern Indian Ocean.”

One piece of debris discovered at Sandravinany, south Madagascar, was identified using a fragment of a label still attached as part of a floor panel from a Boeing 777.

Mr Gibson said, according to Airline Ratings: “Don Thompson, one of the Independent Group investigating MH370’s disappearance, found the actual identification label for the Boeing 777.

More than 30 bits of suspected debris have collected from various places around the world but only three wing fragments – which washed up along the Indian Ocean coast – have been confirmed to be from MH370.

In May, Malaysia called off a three-month search by U.S. firm Ocean Infinity, which spanned 112,000 sq km (43,243 sq miles) in the southern Indian Ocean and ended with no significant findings.

It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200 million ($144.80 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq miles) last year.