Mystery Solved? MH370 Wreckage With Skeletons Found In The Philippines

A woman in the Philippines claims to have found the wreckage of a plane “containing many skeletons and painted with the Malaysian flag” prompting speculation it could be missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board. The discovery was made in the midst of thick jungle on a remote island of Sugbai in the Tawi-Tawi province.

A police report lodged by Jamil Omar in Sandakan on October 10, claimed that his aunt, Siti Kayam, had informed him on October 8 that a nephew and his friends, hunting birds in the forest off Pulau Sugbay, had in early September stumbled across the wreckage of a Malaysian plane with skeletal remains in the forest and recovered a 70 inches long x 35 wide Malaysian flag.

Jamil claimed that the nephew and friends entered the wreckage of the plane and found many human skeletons and bones. “There was a skeleton still in the pilot’s seat. The pilot had his safety belt on and the communication gear attached to his head and ears. They were not able to communicate the information earlier since there are no facilities on the island. So, my aunt came to see me.”

Sugbai lies more than 4,500 miles east of Reunion Island, where French officials believe part of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was found in July 2014. A senior French prosecutor confirmed in September 2015 that a series of numbers found inside the barnacle-crusted jet wing part, matched records held by a Spanish manufacturer as being part of the Boeing 777.

“Consequently, it is possible today to affirm with certainty that the flaperon discovered at the Reunion Island on July 29, 2015, is that of MH370,” the office of Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins had said.

Is it then possible that debris could drift from the remote Philippines Island to the other side of the Indian Ocean, especially as Borneo, mainland Malaysia and parts of Indonesia lie in the way?

Captain Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, the commander of Naval Task Force 61 in the Philippines, rejected claims that possible wreckage from MH370 had been sighted on a remote island.”We deployed a gunboat there because of the news. We interviewed the people at the Sugbay Island, the fishermen, but they have no knowledge about it. Even the people residing in the island for the longest time have no knowledge of this,” he told Malaysia’s The Star Online.

A senior Philippines police official told The Straits Times that there had been no reports of any aircraft crashing on any of their islands. “We will check it out but if there is any aircraft that has gone down in our area there would have been alerts from civil aviation authorities. To date, there has been none,” said Maguindanao-based Regional Chief Directorial Staff Senior Supt Rodoleo Jocson, whose jurisdiction includes the southernmost Tawi Tawi province.

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