Steve Wang (left), whose mother was on the ill-fated flight, said that Chinese authorities and investigators did not provide any information about the suspicious debris.
SCMP quoted an anonymous source from the US as saying that investigators are very confident that the oyster-covered debris that washed up on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean is part of a Boeing 777, the same type as the lost plane.
Last night, relatives of passengers in Beijing approached reporters of this newspaper to ask whether the above debris really belonged to MH370 or not.
Steve Wang, whose mother was on the ill-fated flight, said relatives were not provided any information by authorities or investigators about this suspicious debris.
`They do a very bad job,` he said.
Ms. Dai Shuqin’s sister and her husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren were all on the flight that disappeared last year.
`We have been through this many times,` she said.
Sharing the same opinion as Ms. Dai, Xu Jinghong, whose mother was on the flight, also expressed doubt that the debris found was from MH370.
`I find it hard to believe. It contradicts last year’s investigations,` Xu said, referring to efforts to search for the Boeing 777 in the vast waters of the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia.
`They said the plane fell into the sea intact, so why is there debris now? And the location where this debris was found does not correspond to ocean currents,` she added.
Wang said no matter what the debris is, the right thing to do now is to wait for official confirmation from the investigation team, from the aircraft search coordination center or other parties.
Reunion island authorities handed over the wreckage to investigators.
Malaysia Airlines said it was too early to speculate about the origin of the debris found on Reuion Island, about 940 km off the east coast of Madagascar.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said yesterday that the country had sent a team of experts to the island to examine the debris.
The Australian government said that if it is confirmed that the debris in Reunion is from MH370, this discovery is completely consistent with previous searches.
`In the event that the debris on Reunion Island is confirmed to be from MH370, it will match analysis and modeling of where the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean,` Australian authorities announced.
An unnamed US official said the investigation team, including Boeing’s aviation safety investigator, determined that the part found in Reunion was the rear wing of a Boeing 777 aircraft.
Boeing declined to comment.
The flight carrying 239 people disappeared without a trace in March 2014, while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and has become the biggest mystery in aviation history.
China said it was `trying to verify the situation with relevant countries`.
Hannah