MH370 investigators examine towelette found on beach
Tests are being carried out on a Malaysia Airlines moist towelette found on a beach in Western Australia.
It is hoped the towelette, which was unopened, might be connected to the missing flight MH370 which disappeared a year ago.
Australia’s news network Nine News reported it was found on a beach at Cervantes, about 125 miles north of Perth, back in July.
It has now been sent to Canberra for testing.
Although they did not rule out a connection, experts told the Sydney Morning Herald today it was unlikely that an item with no unique identifier could be conclusively linked with the missing aircraft.
Flight MH370 and all its 239 passengers and crew disappeared on March 8 2014.
Despite a massive ongoing search, no trace of the aircraft has been found.
An interim report, released on Sunday, revealed the battery of the locator beacon had expired more than a year before the plane vanished.
The report, which runs to almost 600 pages, showed the battery had expired in December 2012 – more than 14 months before flight.
Apart from the out of date beacon battery, no other concerns were highlighted in terms of the plane’s mechanical features and the disappearance remains a mystery.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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