The investigation in the Maldives began as a result of photos of suspected plane debris being uploaded to the social networking website Facebook. Some of the debris is reported to have washed ashore as early as May 31 and was found on a beach owned by the Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru resort, located on . In recent days, several other pieces of debris were recovered on at least three other islands, most of which was ruled out as belonging to a plane. In late July, a piece of a wing, a , reported to be from MH370 washed up on the French island of in the southwest Indian Ocean . MH370, while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014. All 239 passengers and crew are believed to be dead. On the day the plane went missing, residents on the small Maldive island of claimed to have seen a very "low flying jumbo jet" crash into the  . Some also noted the colors appeared to resemble that of a Malaysia Airlines plane. "I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly", one resident was quoted as saying to the newspaper Haveeru Daily. Some claim the plane appeared to be headed in the direction of , but Malaysian authorities have discounted those claims.
The investigation in the Maldives began as a result of photos of suspected plane debris being uploaded to the social networking website Facebook. Some of the debris is reported to have washed ashore as early as May 31 and was found on a beach owned by the Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru resort, located on . In recent days, several other pieces of debris were recovered on at least three other islands, most of which was ruled out as belonging to a plane. In late July, a piece of a wing, a , reported to be from MH370 washed up on the French island of in the southwest . MH370, while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014. All 239 passengers and crew are believed to be dead. On the day the plane went missing, residents on the small Maldive island of claimed to have seen a very "low flying jumbo jet" crash into the Indian Ocean . Some also noted the colors appeared to resemble that of a Malaysia Airlines plane. "I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly", one resident was quoted as saying to the newspaper Haveeru Daily. Some claim the plane appeared to be headed in the direction of , but Malaysian authorities have discounted those claims.
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Indian Ocean