MH370 victims’ families have retrieved what they believe are new pieces of debris from the aircraft – reigniting hopes of solving the mystery.
They will demand a fresh inquiry as they present their new findings to the Malaysian government this week.
The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board – sparking one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
Malaysian and international investigators believe the jet veered thousands of miles off course from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean.
In all, 27 pieces of aircraft debris have been collected from various places around the world but only three wing fragments that washed up along the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to be from MH370.
The next of kin said in a brief statement on Wednesday they would meet Malaysia’s transport minister on Friday “to hand over newly recovered debris”.
The most recent discovery was in August, he said.
In May, Malaysia called off a three-month search by U.S. firm Ocean Infinity, which spanned 112,000 sq km (43,243 sq miles) in the southern Indian Ocean and ended with no significant findings.
It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200 million ($144.80 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq miles) last year.
But this week mathematician Mike Chillit claimed to have determined the crash location to be further north in the Indian Ocean than originally believed.
Earlier this month a plane crash hunter pieced together satellite image “clues” he believes show the wreckage of missing jet MH370 in the heart of the Cambodian jungle.
Another recent theory is ‘hackers’ could have ‘unlocked cockpit door and suffocated everyone to hijack missing Malaysian Airlines plane’ according to aviation expert Jeff Wise.
There have been many theories surrounding the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 including ones that blame Vladimir Putin and North Korea.
Some theorists believe the pilot, Captain Zaharie Amhad Shah, planned the incident.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unexpectedly said it was “very likely that the captain planned this shocking event”.
He claimed the pilot wanted to “create the world’s greatest mystery”.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had said in May that the country would consider resuming the search only if new clues come to light.
In July, investigators released a 495-page report, saying the plane’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible.
