Amid 80,000 items of Indian Ocean rubbish NO sign of missing MH370 is found
THE search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been focused on the WRONG area it has been claimed, after a trawl of thousands of pieces of ocean litter found NO sign of the doomed plane.
The effort to find the wreckage of the Boeing 777 has so far focused on the Indian Ocean and volunteers have scoured the coast of Tasmania, off Australia, for debris drifted in from the sea.
Some 80,000 pieces of rubbish have been picked up on the 60-mile stretch of coast but not a single piece of debris appears to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger plane.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation revealed today that 27 people had spent eight nights in a fleet of fishing boats in an annual effort to clean the beach.
Despite this no-one reported finding any debris that could have been from the jet - but discovered items that have drifted in as far as Madagascar and South Africa.
We found a roll of tape from Madagascar that’s from a vanilla bean manufacturer
These pieces of debris have drifted 6,000 miles across the Indian Ocean and would have passed virtually through the official search area for MH370.
Expedition leader Matt Dell said: "We found a roll of tape from Madagascar that’s from a vanilla bean manufacturer.
"We found a bit of stuff from Africa washing around. We found a drift card from Durban [in South Africa] that’s like a fish tag - oh, and a set of dolls’ plastic shoes."
The discovery of debris from Madagascar and South Africa has confirmed that ocean tides will carry debris thousands of miles close to the MH370 search area towards Australia.
Earlier this month it was revealed a Malaysia Airlines-branded towelette washed up onto a beach in Canberra.
But officials said it was "unlikely" the towelette would definitely be linked back to MH370.
The rubbish clean-up of beaches in Tasmania was not conducted to find debris from MH370.
However, the ocean currents have brought in nothing to suggest the Boeing-777 is currently lying at the bottom of the sea to the west of the Australian state.
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared on March 8 last year, midway through a flight between Kuala Lumpur and China.
Despite an extensive search effort not a single trace of the plane has been discovered.
Conspiracy theories have claimed the passenger plane could have been shot out of the sky and then its destruction covered up.
Most recently, an aviation expert claimed that three Russians who were onboard the plane may have hijacked it.
