Luggage Debris Found on Island Days After Possible MH370 Wing Found

The speculation of possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues Thursday after a piece of luggage washed up on the French island of La Reunion, near where a fragment of an aircraft wing washed up days earlier.

Local residents cleaning up a part of beach in La Reunion, which sits in the Indian Ocean, discovered the piece of luggage on the shore this week.

"The piece of luggage was here since yesterday but nobody really paid attention," Johnny Begue, who belongs to a local beach clean-up group, told the AFP.

"It is really weird, it gives me the shivers," said Begue.

The bag was discovered shortly after members of the same beach clean-up team discovered a piece of an airplane wing, covered in shells, that authorities speculate probably came from a Boeing 777, the same model of aircraft belonging to Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that disappeared in 2014 while en route from Malaysia to China.

While authorities have said that the wing piece likely matches that of a Boeing 777, they still need to verify that the debris is from Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

According to CNN, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said in a statement Thursday that finding the debris is "a very significant development" in solving the mystery of the missing MH370 flight.

Truss added that the "piece of debris could've floated a long, long way in 16 months," referencing the amount of time that has passed since the commercial flight vanished mid-route in March 2014.