Want China Times, Xinhua and Staff Reporter 2015-03-10
Investigators
searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 have been sent an
unwrapped towelette packet that was found on the shores of a beach in Western
Australia.
The packet,
bearing the Malaysian Airlines logo, may hold clues to the whereabouts of the
aircraft which went missing over a year ago and is believed to have crashed
into the southern Indian Ocean.
A retired
couple found the packet and immediately sent it to local police, who on Tuesday
delivered it to the offices of the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) in
Canberra.
The JACC
has refused to release a photo of the package however and is distancing itself
from reports that it may be a significant discovery. Instead, the JACC has
suggested that it is "unlikely" to be linked with the missing
aircraft.
Cervantes
beach in Western Australia, where the packet was found, is around 220
kilometers from Fremantle and 1,850 kilometers from the main search area in the
southern Indian Ocean. However, experts have previously stated that floating
objects from the plane could travel long distances without being damaged.
Last Sunday
represented the one-year anniversary of the plane's disappearance en route from
Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with all 239 passengers on board still unaccounted
for, the majority of them Chinese nationals.
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