Floating object spotted near MH370 debris found

SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION: An Air France pilot on Tuesday spotted a white object floating in the water during an approach to Reunion island, where a wing part of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was found in July, the airline said.
Local authorities in the overseas French territory said they had ordered a ship to divert to the area where the unidentified object was spotted, some 70 kilometres off the island, and a military plane was due to fly over the zone.
The pilot on the flight from Paris to Reunion island spotted the object early on Tuesday while flying at an altitude of 3,000 metres, Air France said in a statement.
Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 last year, inexplicably veering off course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
The disappearance turned into one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, sparking a colossal hunt in the Indian Ocean based on satellite data suggesting MH370´s possible path -- to no avail.
Then in late July a man on Reunion island found the two-metre (almost seven-foot) wing part, known as a flaperon, washed up on a beach.
It was flown to France for tests by aviation experts, who confirmed it was part of the ill-fated Boeing 777.