Man describes finding possible plane debris on island of Reunion

The man who discovered debris on a beach on the French island of Reunion described on Thursday how he noticed the possible airplane part as well as a shredded suitcase. Malaysian investigators are due in Reunion on Friday and the object, identified by numerous aviation experts as part of a wing, is then due to be sent to a French military laboratory near Toulouse for checks, French police sources said. National carrier Malaysia Airlines was operating a Boeing 777 on the ill-fated flight, which disappeared in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history. The debris was found on Wednesday washed up on Reunion, a volcanic island of 850,000 people that is a full part of France known as an "overseas department", located in the Indian Ocean near Africa. It is roughly 3,700 km (2,300 miles) away from the broad expanse of the southern Indian Ocean off Australia, where search efforts for MH370 have focused, but Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said currents could have carried wreckage that way.