MH370: More possible debris found off Madagascar and Australia

Investigators will examine multiple pieces of debris found off Madagascar and Australia to see if they belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Three pieces were found by American lawyer Blaine Gibson on the island of Nosy Boraha, off the east coast of Madagascar.

Blaine Gibson with the some of the pieces of debris newly discovered

Another was found Thursday by Samuel Armstrong amid seaweed and wood on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, CNN affiliate Seven News reported.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center, the agency in charge of coordinating the search for MH370, said in a statement that it “is aware of these reports” that possible debris had been found.

Debris could yield clues

Gibson had been filming with public television channel France 2 when he and the crew came across what appear to be pieces of the Boeing 777 which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

Earlier this year, Gibson found a piece of a plane wreckage off the Mozambique Coast, while on a self-funded hunt for the missing plane. Australian investigators later said it “almost certainly” came from MH370.

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014. As of October 2016, authorities have definitively linked three pieces of debris to the plane, while four other pieces are believed to "almost certainly" come from the missing aircraft. A flaperon from a Boeing 777 was found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean in July 2015. Authorities later confirmed the debris came from MH370.

Two pieces of debris were found in Mozambique, in December 2015 and February 2016. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said both pieces "almost certainly" came from the missing plane.

An examination of stenciling and other identifiable features were used to link the debris to MH370.

Two more pieces of debris, found in March 2016, were also deemed to have "almost certainly" come from MH370, according to the ATSB.

One piece is believed to be from the plane's Rolls Royce engine, while the other matched a Boeing 777 interior closet panel.

A piece of aircraft debris found in Tanzania in June 2016 and transported to Australia. The country's Infrastructure and Transport minister said it was confirmed as coming from MH370 in September 2016.

A left outboard flap trailing edge section found on the island of Mauritius in May 2016. In October, it was confirmed as coming from MH370.

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 debris

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The largest piece of new debris measures approximately 50 centimeters by 77 centimeters. Gibson said it “very much resembles the ‘No Step’ panel I found in Mozambique – same color, same texture on both sides.”

The second piece had the letters “FB” stenciled onto it.

Gibson believes the other, and most significant piece of debris, is a frame of a screen monitor. He said there are three small barnacles on the back of it, which could provide clues to investigators as to the time it’s been in the sea and the route it traveled.

“I have to tell you this that the monitor screen touched me very deeply and brought tears to my eyes because this is what you see as you sit on the plane on the seat in front of you. This is very graphic,” he said.

Two years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, a relative of one of the passengers burns incense in Beijing on March 8, 2016. Flight 370 vanished on March 8, 2014, as it flew from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. There were 239 people on board.

On July 29, police carry a piece of debris on Reunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. A week later, authorities confirmed that the debris was from the missing flight.

Staff members with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau examine a piece of aircraft debris at their laboratory in Canberra, Australia, on July 20. The flap was found in June by residents on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, and officials had said it was highly likely to have come from Flight 370. Experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane, confirmed that the part was indeed from the missing aircraft.

In late February, American tourist Blaine Gibson found a piece of plane debris off Mozambique, a discovery that renewed hope of solving the mystery of the missing flight. The piece measured 35 inches by 22 inches. A U.S. official said it was likely the wreckage came from a Boeing 777, which MH370 was.

Relatives of the flight's passengers console each other outside the Malaysia Airlines office in Subang, Malaysia, on February 12, 2015. Protesters had demanded that the airline withdraw the statement that all 239 people aboard the plane were dead.

A police officer watches a couple cry outside the airline's office building in Beijing after officials refused to meet with them on June 11, 2014. The couple's son was on the plane.

Members of the media scramble to speak with Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department, at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 27, 2014. Data from communications between satellites and the missing flight was released the day before, more than two months after relatives of passengers said they requested it be made public.

Operators aboard the Australian ship Ocean Shield move Bluefin-21, the U.S. Navy's autonomous underwater vehicle, into position to search for the jet on April 14, 2014.

A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force looks out of a window while searching for debris off the coast of western Australia on April 13, 2014.

The HMS Echo, a vessel with the British Roya; Navy, moves through the waters of the southern Indian Ocean on April 12, 2014.

A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, on a mission to drop sonar buoys to assist in the search, flies past the Australian vessel Ocean Shield on April 9, 2014.

A relative of a missing passenger cries at a vigil in Beijing on April 8, 2014.

Australian Defense Force divers scan the water for debris in the southern Indian Ocean on April 7, 2014.

A towed pinger locator is readied to be deployed off the deck of the Australian vessel Ocean Shield on April 7, 2014.

A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force looks at a flare in the Indian Ocean during search operations on April 4, 2014.

On March 30, 2014, a woman in Kuala Lumpur prepares for an event in honor of those aboard Flight 370.

The sole representative for the families of Flight 370 passengers leaves a conference at a Beijing hotel on March 28, 2014, after other relatives left en masse to protest the Malaysian government's response to their questions.

A member of the Royal Australian Air Force is silhouetted against the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the missing jet on March 27, 2014.

Flight Lt. Jayson Nichols looks at a map aboard a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft during a search on March 27, 2014.

People in Kuala Lumpur light candles during a ceremony held for the missing flight's passengers on March 27, 2014.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, delivers a statement about the flight on March 24, 2014. Razak's announcement came after the airline sent a text message to relatives saying it "deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH 370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived."

Grieving relatives of missing passengers leave a hotel in Beijing on March 24, 2014.

A passenger views a weather map in the departures terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 22, 2014.

A Chinese satellite captured this image, released on March 22, 2014, of a floating object in the Indian Ocean, according to China's State Administration of Science. It was a possible lead in the search for the missing plane. Surveillance planes were looking for two objects spotted by satellite imagery in remote, treacherous waters more than 1,400 miles from the west coast of Australia.

Satellite imagery provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on March 20, 2014, showed debris in the southern Indian Ocean that could have been from Flight 370. The announcement by Australian officials raised hopes of a breakthrough in the frustrating search.

Another satellite shot provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority shows possible debris from the flight.

A distraught relative of a missing passenger breaks down while talking to reporters at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 19, 2014.

On March 18, 2014, a relative of a missing passenger tells reporters in Beijing about a hunger strike to protest authorities' handling of information about the missing jet.

U.S. Navy crew members assist in search-and-rescue operations in the Indian Ocean on March 16, 2014.

Members of the Chinese navy continue search operations on March 13, 2014. After starting in the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, the plane's last confirmed location, search efforts expanded west into the Indian Ocean.

A Vietnamese military official looks out an aircraft window during search operations March 13, 2014.

Malaysian air force members look for debris near Kuala Lumpur on March 13, 2014.

Relatives of missing passengers wait for the latest news at a hotel in Beijing on March 12, 2014.

A member of the Vietnamese air force checks a map while searching for the missing plane on March 11, 2014.

A Vietnamese air force plane found traces of oil that authorities had suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the Vietnamese government online newspaper reported on March 8, 2014. However, a sample from the slick showed it was bunker oil, typically used to power large cargo ships, Malaysia's state news agency, Bernama, reported on March 10, 2014.

A U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopter lands aboard the USS Pinckney to change crews on March 9, 2014, before returning to search for the missing plane in the Gulf of Thailand.

Buddhist monks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport offer a special prayer for the missing passengers on March 9, 2014.

Members of a Chinese emergency response team board a rescue vessel at the port of Sanya in China's Hainan province on March 9, 2014.

The rescue vessel sets out from Sanya in the South China Sea on March 9, 2014.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, arrives to meet family members of missing passengers at the reception center at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014.

A relative of two missing passengers reacts at their home in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.

Chinese police at the Beijing airport stand beside the arrival board showing delayed Flight 370 in red on March 8, 2014.

Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Ahmad Juahari Yahya, front, speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Sepang on March 8, 2014. "We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts" with the jet, he said.

The search for MH370

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Search to end soon

Flight MH370 disappeared from radar while en route from Malaysia to Beijing. A search in the southern Indian Ocean, thousands of kilometers off the west coast of Australia, has failed to find any trace of the plane.

Search operations have been suspended for the past four weeks because of poor weather conditions, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.

“It may take until around August to complete the 120,000 square kilometers, but this will be influenced by weather conditions over the coming months, which may worsen,” it said.

No more official efforts to find MH370 are planned if the plane does not turn up in that search zone.

Gibson is hopeful that, failing the discovery of the plane in the official search zone, his latest finds will prompt them to extend the search.

The zone has been set off the interpretation of satellite data from Inmarset, he explained. But he suspects it should be farther north or northwest.

“We must solve this mystery and give the families the answers they deserve,” he said.