Malaysia Airlines Towelette Found On Western Australia Beach

[ColesCountyDem]

Source: ABC News (Yahoo)

An unwrapped moist towelette branded with the Malaysia Airlines logo has been found on a beach in West Australia -- and it's now being tested to see if it is the first confirmed piece of evidence from the airline's missing plane.

The package was found by a couple strolling the beach near the town of Cervantes, Nine News reports.

Kingsley and Vicki Miller found the package on July 2 of last year, nearly four months after the plane vanished, but news of the discovery was not publicly reported until today.

They reported the discovery to the local police who handed it over to the Joint Agency Coordination Center which is handling the investigation into the missing plane....

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/malaysia-airlines-towelette-found-western-australia-beach-202221818--abc-news-topstories.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Unfortunately, with currents the way they are, I doubt it will lead anyone to the main wreckage...

...but this couple is guaranteed HOURS of airtime on CNN.

[ColesCountyDem]

2. Agreed. n/t

[treestar]

3. If Malaysia air flies to Perth

It could be litter of some tourist who came on another flight. Not much in the way of evidence

[KamaAina]

4. They do

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations

As of February 2013, Perth Airport is served by 30 scheduled airlines (and 14 codeshare partners) flying to over 50 destinations. The following carriers operate to the following destinations:[20][21][22][23] A total of 1258 scheduled domestic and regional flights arrive and depart from Perth Airport each week. On the international front, a total of 276 scheduled[citation needed] international flights arrive and depart from Perth Airport each week.

Airlines Destinations...

Malaysia Airlines Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur

[csziggy]

5. "A Malaysia Airlines moist towelette ...unlikely to be linked to the missing plane"

"A Malaysia Airlines moist towelette that washed up on a Western Australian beach four months after MH370 vanished is unlikely to be linked to the missing plane, investigators said Tuesday."

More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11460544/MH370-investigators-look-at-Malaysia-Airlines-towelette-washed-up-in-Australia.html

[SoapBox]

6. I've never understood how there could never have been one

piece of anything found...so weird.

[FLPanhandle]

9. The ocean is a big place

Most parts of the plane will sink right away, some of the remaining pieces will float until so waterlogged they sink too, whatever remains will be small and dispersed.

Not surprising nothing has been found especially since the searchers have no accurate idea where the plane went down.

[Fumesucker]

7. First the story says "unwrapped moist towelette" and then it says "the package was found"..

If it was unwrapped when it was found where did the package come from?

[davidpdx]

8. It's going to be another dead end unfortunately

Now if there had been blood on it or some DNA maybe it could have been matched against the victims. The towelette could have got there several other ways than from that particular flight.

[dembotoz]

10. cleaning out my mothers house who died last sept

amazed the quantity of just stupid craps she(we) accumulated over the years.

being a depression child, this type of thing is something she would have saved for later use.
assume these things were not limited to that flight.

would assume if you did a world wide scavenger hunt you would be able to come up with similar all over the world.

my mom to her credit would not have littered on the beach....