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Graeme Murray

Aircraft piece from crashed MH370 flight found after being used as ironing board

A piece of mystery Malaysian Airlines debris has been discovered which was being used as an ironing board.

Teams investigating the crash say the missing piece of plane wreckage proves the aircraft was 'deliberately downed'.

Landing gear doors which were damaged and investigators say it show pilots may dropped the wheels on the plane before the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 crashed into the Indian Ocean.

An angler called Tataly from Madagascar, found the panel in 2017, three years after the plane - which had 239 people aboard - disappeared in March 2014.

His wife had used as a washing and ironing board for five years before it was passed on to crash investigators around three weeks ago.

A suspicious object was spotted floating in the ocean by New Zealand military plane (@cctvnews/Twitter)

Their analysis indicates the aircraft's landing gear was opened before a “high-speed” crash into the sea off the east coast of Africa.

Richard Godfrey and Blaine Gibson, experts involved in the investigation, said: “The combination of the highs peed impact designed to break up the aircraft and the extended landing gear designed to sink the aircraft as fast as possible both show a clear intent to hide the evidence of the crash.

“The extreme force of the penetration right through the debris item leads to the conclusion that the end of the flight was in a high-speed dive designed to ensure the aircraft broke up into as many pieces as possible.

Thai satellite images have shown 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean during a search for the missing Malaysian airliner (AFP/Getty Images)

“Tataly did not know what it was, and just said it came from the sea. His wife used it as a washing board.”

The doomed flight was three hours into its journey from Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, when it vanished from radars.

It was still flying seven hours later , satellite tracking shows and is thought to have plunged into the ocean.

Pilot Captain Zaharie Shah, investigators believe, deliberately ditched flight MH370 rather than a fire or fumes on board causing the crash.

Mr Godfrey reckons everyone thought there had been a ghost flight but says there was pilot in place for the whole journey.

He also reckons it was not an easy or soft landing for the pilot or those on board.

On Tuesday, The Mirror reported how the pilot on the flight lowered the aircraft's landing gear in the final moments of flight - suggesting he may have had criminal intent, a new report has found.

The crash has become one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries after the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 went down and killed all 239 people on board on March 8, 2014.

(AFP/Getty Images)

But new evidence from a crucial piece of wreckage, a landing gear door discovered the fisherman which showed one of the pilots may have tried to quickly destroy and sink the jet.

The door, known as a trunnion door, is the first piece of debris to support that supports the theory of foul play.

The wreckage appears to have been penetrated from the inside by the aircraft's exploded engines - indicating the landing gear was in use when the it hit the surface of the Indian Ocean.

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